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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Coffee with my Tea!

Advantages: delicious, quite cheap
Disadvantages: coffee doesn't appeal to as much

...long and reasonably thick and tall too! Okay, it was a rare treat for me to have something like this, so I decided to buy it. I took the cake home and boiled the kettle. With a cup of tea at the ready, I opened the clear plastic wrapper and held the knife in my hand. Carefully I sliced off a little chunk of the cake, the knife passing through all three layers smoothly. It sat on my plate, looking quite attractive indeed! The sponge was a pale golden shade, with a thin layer of pale coffee cream through the middle. On the top there ws a thicker layer of coffee icing, which was a rich brown shade. From it drifted an amazinly strong coffee aroma, filling the air around me. It was definitely a little slice of delight, but would the taste be as satisfing? I took a bite (via fork!) and pondered. Yes, it had an amazing texture combination that...

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Give me Caffine :-) A coffee from the tea makers

Advantages: Good taste. Competative Price
Disadvantages: None

...I've only recently started to enjoy coffee and have now started to sample as many different types of instant and filtered coffees as I can, so I was keen to try the newly release Twinings Coffee as they are a company normally associated with high quality teas. There are 4 different blends / strenghts 1) Intense - A strong full bodied coffee made from a combination of Brazilian, Zambian and Kenyan coffee beans 2) Rich - A medium strength coffee which is made with Sumatran Lintung beans, Kenyan Highlands and Brazilian beans 3) Mellow - A softer cofee made with Colombian, Kenyan and Costa Rican beans 4) Decaf - Another medium strength coffee made with Ethiopian Sidamo, Brazilian and Colombian beans I opted for the 'Rich' blend (number 2 above), which like all of the other can be used in a cafetiere or filter and comes in...

CarlG 17.01.2008 · 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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THE coffee maker

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

...I love good coffee. I don't drink any kind of coffee just to get my daily caffeine dose. A good coffee can be made of good raw material which for me is 100% arabica coffee beans (I prefer freshly ground coffee) and the other important factor is the coffee maker. I don't like coffee makers that work with filter. Coffee is not a kind of tee, it needs special machine. At Saeco engineers know how a good coffee is. I have this kind of coffee maker at my work place (ours at home is very similar, but other brand for financial reasons). I use it to prepare coffee for my bosses and their guests. I receive so many compliments for my coffee, you can't imagine. I could make a decision on what coffee maker to buy. I didn't hesitated much as I heard a lot about Saeco's premium coffee makers. So I choose Saeco Vienna. I won't waste your time...

D_i_a_n_e 17.08.2009 · Read review
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Review of Saeco Vienna

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

Perfection to a tea

Advantages: Excellent cup of tea, economic
Disadvantages: None

..., without stewing the drink. The Tefal Perfect Teamaker is also very versatile, as the unit is quite capable of being used for making filter coffee, however, I do recommend that the unit be thoroughly washed in between making teas and coffees. In theory the unit is perfectly safe for older children to fill, however, for safety reasons I would never recommend that a child pour the hot tea from the unit to the cups. A main advantage of the unit is that once you have found exactly how you like you tea, it can be made time and time again with no deterioration in flavour or strength. I have recommended this unit to several members of my family and all of my friends, many of whom have followed our example and bought their own Perfect Tea makers. In my experience Tefals claim that this unit is the perfect tea maker is no only a fair claim, but it...

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Review of Tefal Tea Maker

Tasty Turkish Alternative To Tea And Coffee

Advantages: No caffeine, great flavour
Disadvantages: Not available locally. Contains a lot of sugar.

...Turkish Apple Tea is an excellent alternative to black tea, or coffee, and it contains no caffeine. Although it is called tea, it does not contain any form of tea at all and is really a kind of fruit cordial made from granulated fruit and sugar. Hazer Baba is well known for fruit teas and makes several others including black cherry, pomegranate, orange and lemon. This product comes in an attractive green and red box with apples on the front. It is tall but quite slim and the actual packaging material is strong which means that you can keep the tea in its box and you don't have to put it into a jar. I paid £2.27 for a box containing 250g but I had to order over the internet because I was not able to buy this locally. I bought from worldwideshoppingmall.com which is in Humberside. To make apple tea place two teaspoons of powder in...

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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

..., 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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