If you wish to know true hatred then buy this machine. If you want to reach the point of smashing your £350 pile of expensive crap to pieces, then go ahead buy this machine. But if you just want to have a nice cup of coffee, forget it. It was designed by a some sub-normal deviant on day release.
(1) Fitting the coffee holder to the frame is a tricky task right? So you need to hold the machine right? So you grab the machine with your left hand while your're fitting the coffee holder right? WRONG! Because then you'll trigger the touch control and send hot water all over yourself, your carefully prepared coffee and the floor.
(2) The main maintenance defect of espresso machines is water scaling right? So you need to have a water filter in your top-of-the-range machine right? WRONG! Gaggia couldn't be bothered fitting one, unlike other companies. So you'll just have to keep de-scaling it yourself all the time.
(3) It breaks down right? So send it to Gaggia right? WRONG! It will just disappear into a black hole for 1 or 2 months so you may as well throw the bloody thing away and buy a new one.
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Nov 3rd, 2008
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