Advantages: Looks nice and makes superb coffee in a timely manner. Very nice product. Disadvantages: For the first few times we used it, it seemed to small somewhat of plastic.
...This is a great little machine - it looks fab, which is important if you want a stylish kitchen, and fits in well with any colour scheme! It is sleek and smooth and very up to date.
The 'new' small if plastic took a fair while to go - destracting from the lofwly fresh coffee aroma which pre-empts a great coffee experience. This was despite a good old soaking in the washing up bowl!
The coffee stays hot for a long time, and keeps its freshness, and once finished, the machine is so easy to clean, it goes in the dishwasher, and retains its sparkly newness!
For the money, its a superb machine! It took me a long time to find a reliable machine which looks well in my kitchen....
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Advantages: Ease of use, perfect coffee, great for frothing milk. Disadvantages: Hard to use a mug for coffee
...Was looking for a "normal" coffee machine (can't spell capucinno) - see,
and checked out the Nespresso macines - quite by accident.
Easy to use, great coffee and great choice !! No mess either.
At first I was not impressed by the cost of the capsules (64c each) but after talking about other machines / grinders / clean up / bar pressure / timing and practice I was dubious I could produce the "great coffee I enjoyed at my local shops.
I knew the Nespresso tasted great and I knew I could do it myself - everytime!!! THAT WAS WORTH 64c each time.
Come to think of it - at my friends houses with coffee machines - none of them are really THAT nice a cup of coffee.
After a little thought over a nice skinny latte I realised it is all about the taste - Nespresso had it !!! Simple.
There were several machines BUT the Krups 897 had the "normal...
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Advantages: aesthetically pleasing, makes great coffee Disadvantages: can be leaky if not carefully used
...I've had my Krups coffeemaker for 4 years, and have had no problems with deterioration.
It makes delicious coffee (as long as I start out with a decent bean).
The thermos keeps it nice and hot for a couple of hours without changing the consistency--definitely an advantage over the glass pots where quality diminishes over time.
It's a nice machine; I like the way it looks on my kitchen counter.
A few times I have had trouble with it leaking, and the coffee goes all over the counter instead of into its urn. Because it happens so rarely, I am virtually certain that these episodes can be traced to my imperfect set-up of the system--still it's happened more with this machine than with others before it.
I do recommend this machine. I would be likely to purchase another Krups product in the future....
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There is nothing better than a hot cup of coffee as soon as I step into work. We are all coffee addicts so we formed a coffee club whereby we all clubbed together to buy a cofee machine and we try new and exciting blends on a weekly basis. After spending more
This is another high quality Espresso and Cappuccino maker from one of the world's leading manufacturers of espresso coffee machines.
This ultra-compact and extremely easy to use machine can be operated, literally, at the touch of a button to produce... more