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

...when my dear husband walked in with a little present for me ( bless him!!) - a Phillips Senseo coffee maker. It didn't take long for me to realise that my search was over and I had found the coffee machine of my dreams. A coffee machine that looks good, is incredibly easy to use, very easy to clean and most important makes a perfect cup of coffee every time at the touch of a button. Six years on my senseo is still going strong ( and believe me it is VERY well used), my only problem was when I dropped the water reservoir on the stone floor and broke it. I was able to get a replacement from Phillips for £10 and I just about managed to get through the week it took to arrive without my Senseo coffee. The Senseo coffee machine is made by Phillips with an input from the coffee makers, Douwe Egberts. There are four varieties...

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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Makes Senseo

Advantages: Speedy cup of delicious coffee
Disadvantages: Not cheap

...does its stuff. Philips also have their own website www.philips.com which I should imagine features all their products but am sure will have a spot for their coffee maker should you feel the need to explore further. If I?ve missed out anything you need to know, drop me a line in my guestbook and I?ll edit if I can find out anything else. Happy coffee drinking!...

patriciat 21.06.2004 · Read review
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You know it makes Senseo.

Advantages: Great tasting coffee in 90 seconds !
Disadvantages: A little bit on the expensive side.

...When I recently received a phone call stating that I'd won a prize in a raffle I'd entered, I was fairly excited. When I found out that I'd won a coffee machine, I was a bit disappointed. (We already have a coffee maker that we rarely use, due to the effort of getting it out the cupboard, setting it up and cleaning it afterwards !). What I wasn't expecting, however, was the "Phillips Senseo" - the most up to date coffee machine available. The Senseo hit the shelves in the beginning of July, and is a joint product between electronic manufacturers Phillips and Douwe Egberts, who produce coffee. Their aim is to provide great tasting coffee in a quick and convenient way. Upon opening the box, you are presented with the coffee machine, a few loose parts and a bag of coffee pods. The machine itself measures approximately 13" x 12" x...

SRowlands 02.08.2004 · Read review
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Delicious Coffee - in 30 Seconds!

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

...PHILIPS SENSEO COFFEE MAKER Being a student guarantees one thing: late nights. When the time comes to write those impossible essays and reports, you had better have a jug of coffee handy. I used to use the drip coffee maker downstairs, and fill up the jug to the top to do me for the night. Now, the problem there is cold coffee (since the hotplate is downstairs), and stale coffee. It was drinkable, but certainly not enjoyable. I should firstly give a brief history of my love of coffee. Five years ago Starbucks opened up in my town. I was probably one of its first customers, buying up new bags of coffee each week to sample. Each visit, I would listen closely to the staff there as they discussed each blend. After much coffee drinking, I ended up working there for two years, and my love of coffee grew, as I became a coffee master...

skeet263 22.01.2005 · Read review
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A COMMON SENSE(O) COFFEE MACHINE

Advantages: Super fast coffee delivery, Lovely fresh flavour, Compact design
Disadvantages: Pod's can be expensive if you do not shop around; Water tank needs to be filled with hot water

...with damp coffee and soggy filter papers hither and dither. I?d heard plenty of positive talk about the newer kind of machines available, those that delivered the steaming elixir I craved by way of a pod, carton or cartridge. A quick browse on the internet threw up a smattering of such machines; I quickly ruled out the Braun Tassimo (too expensive) and the Nescafe Dolce Gusto (too expensive and looks like a squatting duck), before I stumbled upon an appliance that would not leave too big a dent to my wallet, or offend my sensibilities by looking like an ugly behemoth on the kitchen counter. The coffee machine I eventually decided upon was the Philips Senseo - a fine looking pod based machine that sounded easy to use, simple to clean and the pods were not overly expensive but were readily available. A little price comparison work and I found one...

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Review of Philips HD 7810/60/61/69 Senseo Black

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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Sensational Senseo

Advantages: Easy to use, great coffee
Disadvantages: Pods quite pricey

...We got one of the Senseo coffeee makers for Christmas which didn't excite me as I'm a little sceptical of machines like this ever since I had a sodastream many years ago. Anyway, my wife unpacked it and made the first cup of coffee which looked too frothy but tasted absolutely fantastic. I was hooked from that moment. It's so easy to use, just fill the removable water reservoir, pop in a coffee pod, switch on and pour. There is a small or large cup option but I find that we need to use the large cup option to fill a normal mug. Senseo recommend that you use 2 pods for the large cup but we don't and the strength is just right. You can buy either medium or dark roast Senseo pods which costa round £2.20 for 18 pods - quite pricey but only if you drink loads of the stuff. The problem is that the coffee tastes so good that you end up...

nigeofnewbury 24.03.2005 · Read review
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Senseo Coffee Machine

Advantages: Easy to use, nice coffee.
Disadvantages: Only one kind of drink can be made.

...I don't have one of these myself, but my mum and dad have one, and I use it alot when I'm there. They love this machine and I must say I love it too. Its so easy to use, and makes gorgeous coffee, the only bad thing I have to say about it is that you can only make plain coffee with it, unlike machines such as Tassimo and Dolche Gusto which you can make espresso, latte, mocha, hot chocolate etc, with this you can only make filter coffee. But, if thats all you want from your coffee machine then this is brilliant. The pods you use are relitively cheap, and you can get cheaper varieties of them rather than the Senseo ones which fit perfectly. Its fully automatic, meaning you just press a button and it dispenses the rigth amount of water for the cups, and you can make either one or two cups at a time unlike some other machines meaning it...

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Review of Philips HD7816/50 Senseo Silver

The Alpha and Omega of All Coffee-Makers

Advantages: Great lattes and easy automatic cleaning function. Adjusts to almost any cup height.
Disadvantages: Expensive and parts get stuck sometimes.

...The Philips HD 7850/60/61 Senseo Latte Select B is a good addition to the kitchen, provided you really love lattes. It is quite stylish and black, which is a plus in my opinion, and it's also pretty small, so it fits in my tiny kitchen. It's by far the most chic coffee-maker I've ever come across and it has a few add-ons which make it very easy to operate. It filters coffee very quickly ( 30 seconds) and it has and automatic turn off, both of which are handy if you need to run out the door. Actually, in my opinion, quick is the only way to go when you want coffee, because you are usually drinking it in the mornings before work. It makes a wonderful latte in my opinion, but I've found the capuccinos and latte machiato to be tasty as well/ It will also make cafe lattes and just plain old coffee. The add-ons I mentioned...

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