I have owned 2 cappuccino makers in the past, and both have made a lovely cup of coffee with a good depth of flavour, but the frother has eventually stopped working on both and I have had to make do with a tasty, but not frothy, cup of coffee. As I really missed the froth, I asked for a coffee maker for christmas, and I got this one, the Morpy Richards Mister Cappuccino coffee maker. It is just a regular filter coffee maker with a frother which just works by pressing a button, rather than using steam, which I think gives exactly the same result, and is much less likely to break down. This really isn't a cappuccino maker though, so the description is a bit misleading. Filter coffee is very nice, but it doesn't have the same depth of flavour as coffee made from a proper cappuccino machine, and if you know your coffees, I think you will be a bit disappointed by this. Also in my old machine, you needed 2 scoops to get 2 decent coffees, whereas with this you really need a minimum of 4 scoops to get any depth of flavour. It can make a maximum of 10 cups, and is useful to have on the go when we drink a lot of coffee, usually on a saturday morning. The milk heats up seperately which is also useful, and makes for a lovely hot cup of coffee. There are some drawbacks, it is very awkward to fill up as the reservoir is at the back and the lid doesn't go far enough back to accommodate pouring water into it. The top gets very hot and you could quite easily burn yourself on it. The buttons to switch it on are a bit clumsy, and you have to press them quite hard. It is hard to avoid milk dripping onto the hotplate, so it is difficult to keep it clean. On the plus side, there is a reuseable filter which is very well designed and easy to remove and wash, and the coffee is always hot, even if you put cold milk into it. Also it is very quick. I would definitely reccommend this, but if I was buying it myself I would have paid an extra £5 and gone for the espresso maker.
Just wanted to add, I have had this machine for 4 months and already the anti-drip device has broken, but it's just as well, as it didn't really stop any drips in the first place!
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