Philips Senseo Coffee Maker - a coffee lovers heaven

Advantages: Perfect coffee at the press of a button
Disadvantages: Pods can be hard to find at times

...I am a complete coffee addict, I admit it. I can't function until I have had my caffine fix of the day. I drink my coffee stong,black and unweetened - because of this I like good coffee and it is one product that I will not economise on. Over my married life ( 38 years of it) I have had all sorts of coffee machines in my quest for a good cup of coffee, not just one that smells good when you walk in the kitchen but also tastes as good as it smells. I have had caffetieres, traditional expressom makers that you heat on the hob, an all singing and dancing cappuchino and espresso maker and umpteen different filter coffee machines. But I never did find the Holy Grail of coffee machines - the tatse wasn't quite right, or they were very difficult to clean or I ended up with a jug of stewed, bitter coffee. That was until six years ago...

oldchem 30.05.2009 · Read review
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Senseo Coffee Maker

Advantages: Quick, easy to use, price
Disadvantages: None

...My husband bought me the Senseo coffee maker for a Christmas present 2006, I must say it was one of the best things he has ever bought me.I love my coffee and have used it most days and more than once a day since. It is still going strong! The Senseo doesn't have all the fancy bits to it that other coffee machines do, but it makes a nice cup of coffee and is very easy to use. The coffee comes out hot, but not boiling (my mum was never impressed with it when she came over as she likes her coffees scolding). I have occasionally had trouble with leaks, but not very often. All in all, I like it. Its a good price and makes nice coffee, itt is also easy to clean, which is another bonus for me. You can buy the pods easily in supermarkets or online, where you get quite a wide selection. Although, the pods can be quite expensive in...

ashton08 08.08.2008 · Read review
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Elevation Coffee maker by Woolworths.

Advantages: Price and reliability.
Disadvantages: None

...The Elevation Coffee machine from Woolworths, is one of the best presents I have ever had. I was so impressed with it, that after having it for three months, I bought another in case the first one broke down. Over three years later I am still using the original one. It is used every day, producing fantastic coffee, espresso, capuccino and latte. My Wife and I used to have regular fund raising coffee mornings and that machine would be going non stop for 3 or more hours, no problems. It needs descaling every two to three months, depending on usage. The milk frothing ability deteriorates as the scale builds up inside. Descaling with Citric Acid crystals is the method I use. Care has to be taken with cleaning the drip tray daily and the frother head but otherwise very low maintenance. Drawbacks, the only slight niggle I have is that it...

Grandad357 03.06.2008 · Read review
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Review of Elevation Espresso Maker

Getting steamed up about good coffee!

Advantages: A very eye-catching, modern design producing great coffee
Disadvantages: Annoying technical problems

...When the little coffee maker my husband had had for many years finally died on us, we experienced unexpected difficulties in finding a suitable replacement. One machine, bought at the local supermarket, was so badly put together that the panel containing the controls was coming off before we even got to use it. Having returned this, we then proceeded to buy another from our local Woolworth's, their own brand. Well, that one was cheap... Cheap in price and unfortunately quality and the jug, made of very thin glass, smashed the first time we washed it. After this run of bad luck, when our new Hinari machine arrived (mail order), we were delighted when we took it out of the box. It looked great! This being an espresso/cappuccino and filter coffee maker, it was bigger than what we had previously (about 22cmx43cm). As worktop...

weetoon 04.01.2006 (10.05.2006) · Read review
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Review of Hinari CC905 Cafe Continental 2 in 1 Espresso/Cappuccino and Filter Coffee Maker Black

THE coffee maker

Advantages: high quality, reliable, easy to use, easy to keep it clean
Disadvantages: makes two coffees at a time

...on packing it was a simple box. The content is important. ¤¤¤ How to make a perfect espresso? ¤¤¤ After you have a Saeco Vienna coffee maker, choose a 100% arabica coffee. I recommend you to buy medium roasted beans that is called French roast (Italian is the well roasted which makes you feel your coffee stronger and Viennese is the light roasted coffee). My favourite is the coffee of Kenya, but you should try coffee beans from other countries to find your favourite. So put a cup off coffee beans into the grinder (on the right), then fresh water in the container on the left. There is a special button you can turn around, you can set there the quantity of water your coffee maker will use to prepare your coffee. As you can see on the photo of my review there is a grey thing above the cups the coffee is coming from. I don't know its name, but...

D_i_a_n_e 17.08.2009 · Read review
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Great Coffee Maker

Advantages: Good Coffee, Stylish, Very Easy to Use
Disadvantages: Very little

...We won tickets to the BBC Good Homes exhibition at the NEC in May, we ended up buying a Staffordshire Garden Furniture Pagoda and a Phillips Senseo Coffee Maker. Unlike the Pagoda we took the coffee maker home! My wife is the coffee lover - I personally do not like coffee at all. We got it for the show price with free coffee pods and mugs for £40. It is blue and stylish and just over 1 foot high. It uses coffee pods rather than granuals, these if you like are coffee bags. Usage is very easy, the pods go in a holder under the lid, the reservoir at the back holds enough water for 5 or 6 cups. Normal usage is wait to boil with the correct pods, put the cups under the spout and press the correct button for the number of pods (one pod button and a two pod button) To make a mug of coffee my wife uses 1 decaf. pod...

MartinImber 23.08.2004 · Read review
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COFFEE STAINED WORKTOPS.

Advantages: It was the right colour for my kitchen.
Disadvantages: Spills everywhere.

...?Coffee anyone?, I asked like the real hostess, proud of my new acquisition. It smelt really nice, freshly brewed and I was out to impress. No peasants instant coffee here. This was the real thing made with real coffee grains in my new Bright yellow coffee maker that blended in with my bright yellow and dark blue colour scheme. I thought it was a pretty cool gadget. It had a makers name that I trusted and I thought that I could not go far wrong with a purchase at £12.00 equivalent. Coffee makers tend to be on the cheap side in France, as they play an essential role in entertaining where instant coffee is not really an option. I took this little beastie out of its box, glanced at the instructions briefly (which were full and complete although idiots like me think they know what they are doing and tend to throw them away the first...

thingywhatsit 13.06.2004 · Read review
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Review of Moulinex Solea Coffee Maker

Say Goodbye to Coffee Shops!

Advantages: Tastes brilliant, you'll never need to leave the house for great coffee!
Disadvantages: A little overpriced

...Some basic information first: -PRICE = £4.55 (Tesco UK) -QUANTITY per PRICE = 250g -MORE INFORMATION: Pure arabica beans Made in Italy Certified Quiality System Approx 100mg Caffiene per 7g of coffee in water Phew, the boring stuff is over... Lets get on with the review! Value For Money: You many think it's expensive, but you know what they say! You get what you pay for! And you certainly get excellent coffee for that £5 note and 45p change! Also, you get more in quantity. Most packages of espresso ground coffee are 227g, but in this it's 250g. Which is approximately 3 more shots of espresso. SO it's approximately 35 shots of espresso for the money. But think of it like this. In starbucks, an espresso shot is £1.40. Times that by 35, and see the total. The total is actually £49. WOuld you rather pay les than a tenth...

Necormancer 16.02.2008 · Read review
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Review of Illy Espresso Medium Roasted Ground Coffee

Delicious Coffee - in 30 Seconds!

Advantages: Quick, easy and a breeze to clean
Disadvantages: Cups of coffee made are rather small

..., gaining my very own Coffee Master mug. Once I left the company, I went in search of wonderful coffees. From supermarkets to speciality stores, I tried many. Whether made in my espresso machine, cafetiere or drip coffee maker, I would savour each sip as my taste buds travelled the globe of fine coffees. Therefore, I am very well acquainted with coffee?s wonderful ability to keep you alert in times of sluggishness. Now you are aware of my love of good coffee, I can proceed to tell you about the wonders of the Philips Senseo. WHAT IS IT The Senseo is a beautiful machine, which is quite compact. It does not use messy loose ground coffee, but instead it utilises the ingenious coffee pods. These are fantastic inventions, which are like tea bags of coffee. You simply place them in the machine, and water is pushed through, providing...

skeet263 22.01.2005 · Read review
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Review of Philips Senseo Coffee maker

Short dark delight

Advantages: Instant, no messy machines
Disadvantages: Not to be drunk near bed time

...I stumbled upon this product purely by accident while looking for espresso coffee beans or ground to make a delicious drink that I had on an evening partaking of food and drink at an Italian restaurant in a local hotel. I am not a coffee connoisseur, in fact I hardly ever have anymore than 2 cups a day. I do however love my alcoholic coffee fixes and usually tend to stick to Irish or Gaelic Coffee, not so anymore, reason will evolve later. Unsure as to which category to do this review in I decided to do some research on the three main ingredients which make up the drink. I only got as far as researching the coffee angle and thought this could be interesting as I found out a lot of information and facts that I never knew, the first being the origins of coffee itself. Well they don't really know where it originated from but can...

Sunshine22 26.09.2004 (15.06.2005) · Read review
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