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...
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Advantages: great coffee whenever you want it Disadvantages: not the most modern
...This coffee machine will give you great tasting coffee with minimal effort, the machine itself is more box-like than newer krups versions which i see are more robot-like.
But that doesn't change the taste of course just the outside design, to get an easy and tasty coffee all you have to do is load your coffee capsle into the loading arm(making sure you have put some water into the tank of course) then select whether you want a large or small cup press the appropriate button for either of these and then the start button and after a bit of rumbling hey-presto there's your coffee, in any 12 different flavours-nine Espresso blends and three Lungo blends.
The coffee capsules are easily ordered over the phone or the web www.nespresso.com and usually arrive the next day, it also has a cappuccino facility to make frothy milk simply by moving...
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Advantages: Amazing coffee; that you can make yourself, with ease. Disadvantages: None.
...of the overall flavours: the strength, the smoothness or bitterness etc.
This means you can pick the coffee to your own specific personal taste.
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The capsules are approximately 12p each and are sold in packs of ten. There is a very small delivery charge, if you order before 2pm, generally you will receive your coffee the very next day (next day delivery can be guaranteed by a small charge).
The Machines Performance
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I had seen the Coben Alessi Nespresso Machine in my local Alessi retailers shop previously to the day I bought it: longing for the day I had the money to buy it. The lady in the shop was too an Alessi enthusiast; and was able to tell me all about the machine and all about Nespresso. The display machine had been used daily in the store for 8 years, this gave me huge confidence in...
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After many years of scalding my hand on my little Italian espresso pot and generally being a bit disappointed at the results. I mean the coffee was disappointing - the burns were really quite impressive! I decided it was time to get a bit more technical... more