The Gaggia Platinum Vogue coffee machine makes an ideal home use machine. The Gaggia ... more
Platinum Bean To Cup Coffee Machines Incorporates a traditional Frothing Nozzle for heating or frothing milk, so you can choose from a perfect espresso, latt or cappuc...
Gaggia Platinum Vogue The Gaggia Platinum Vogue like all the Gaggia Platinum range ... more
of coffee makers allows you to adjust the cup size and strenght of each coffee via Gaggias E-plus system. Operating the Platinum Vogue is simplicity itself. By tur...
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Advantages: Looks good and makes superb coffee. Disadvantages: Frustrating to use and occasionally verging on the dangerous.
I'm a difficult person to buy presents for, so when I mentioned to my husband last summer that I liked the idea of an espresso machine it was inevitable that one would appear on my birthday. He went for what seemed to him to be the best of the domestic machines - the Gaggia Classic - as it's a well-built basic machine with none of the frills which rarely get used and have the potential to cause problems. It will also make a cappuccino, but not a filter coffee. The Classic is also one of the most powerful domestic machines - water is forced through the ground coffee with 17.5 bar of pressure. To give you some idea of how powerful this is, my central heating operates at 1.5 bar.
An espresso coffee is so-called because it comes from the Italian for express. It's meant to be brewed and drunk within a matter of seconds - minutes ...
SueMagee 05.07.2005
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Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful Review of Gaggia Classic
Advantages: Pure perfection Disadvantages: A lot of work for a small cup of coffee....
Ive had my Gaggia for a good while now...when I first got it it was in constant use...these days it usually doesnt get used much during the week...reason being that there is a lot to clean up after and not much time to do it....easier to make a cup of instant....thought of course its not any where near the same...just a matter of lifestyle...But at the weekends it comes into its own...and is in constant use...
Once you get over the initial 'how to' it comes as second nature, like anything else new...when you start to use them they seem pretty daunting to say the least...but once youve mastered it, away you go....
Now I have no idea what it would cost these days...(mine was aroung the £140 mark if memory serves me correctly) and more often than not some of these things tend to get cheaper...since there are very many more makes ...
