Morphy Richards 47003 CAFE RICO

Advantages: Cheap, Simple to use, Easy to Clean
Disadvantages: Quite limited on variety of drinks

This gadget is really easy to use. It is perhaps a little bigger than I expected but sits quite nicely alongside a coffee grinder. It comes with a small booklet that informs you on how to produce various drinks such as lattes, cappucinos and of course espressos. The main water tank is only small so it has to be filled with the correct amount of water (ie use the glass coffee jug to fill exact water required). It does need freshly ground coffee to ...
...really simple to use... just fill with water, add coffee to filter, select "strong" or "weak" brew, press the "on" switch and it does the rest for you. All you have to worry about now is how frothy you want your milk to be. The machine takes up about a 10" square on the work surface and sits 8" high. It is black and chrome and al surfaces are very easy to clean down. The machine is really easy to take apart to clean the appropriate pieces and goes ... Read review

Advantages: cheap and cheerful, reliable, noyhing to go wrong
Disadvantages: lack of steam jet, but I can live with that

If you are looking for an inexpensive , easy to use, inobtrusive,practical expresso coffee maker with a stylish appearance by a well known manufacturer, then you could do a lot worse than me. I originally only bought this one because it was one of the cheapest ones instore (asda). When I got it home, to be quite honest, I was a little bit on the disappointed side because what looked to be a steam jet for heating the milk shown on the box, turned ...
...I started to use it I think it is the bestest gadget in the kitchen. My wife can't believe her luck because I never used to make the coffee and now she never does. The machine took about thirty seconds to figure out and I had the best cup of coffee I have ever tasted within 10 minutes. And there is no need for a steam jet because as long as you remember to put the milk on to heat first, by the time the coffee percolates, the milk temperature is ... Read review

Advantages: cheap, easy to use, easy to clean
Disadvantages: none i can think of

we bought one of these a few months back, and it has made some of the best coffee and milk-based hot drinks we have had (we've stopped going to starbucks now as we make them the same if not better with this machine! lol) for the price, you really cant grumble at the qualite if the coffee or the way it works (even i can use it and im a complete dunce with things like that :p) I recomended this machine to many people when i was working for comet, ... Read review