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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Review of Philips Senseo Coffee maker

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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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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Review of Philips Senseo Coffee maker

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

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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Comet's cheap n cheerful coffee pot

Advantages: Makes your house smell wonderful
Disadvantages: Does nothing for your waistline

...My friend was loosing weight and I was curious how she was doing it. I asked her what the secret was and she told me it was her coffee pot. She claims that when she?s hungry, instead of eating, she grabs a coffee, as it?s always on hand and always hot. This stops her reaching for cakes and crisps as it fills her up and gives her an energy spurt. As I am always on a diet and constantly loosing the battle, I thought I would invest in one and see if its helps. I went to Comet and purchased the Proline Filter Coffee Maker. It was a bargain at £7.99. It?s nothing special; nothing flash, it doesn?t come with whistles and bells. There are two colour options, black and white but the best bit is that the filter never needs replacing. All you do is wash it between uses, couldn?t be easier. Six scoops of medium roast are enough to...

debbie_marway 06.05.2004 · Read review
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Review of Filter Coffee Maker

A must for all coffee addicts

Advantages: Lovely coffee
Disadvantages: Messy!

...Oooh fantastic!! A caffeine junkie's dream come true! I don't own this particular model but an older, very similar model. Personally I love a nice frothy capuccino but with one of these you can make expresso too. It's easy to use but can get very messy and admittedly it's not a quick way to prepare your caffeine fix. There is a steam nozzle for frothing milk to make capuccino and this can get in quite a state with regular use! However the machine makes wonderful coffee and is worth the money compared to what you pay for a capuccino or expresso in a bar or restaurant. Mine can only make one large mugful of capuccino at a time or about 3 or 4 of the smaller expresso cups. Your pour water into the main chamber, fill a little funnel with freshly ground coffee to your taste and wait about 5 minutes for it to produce it's magical...

blurbubble 11.03.2001 · Read review
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Review of Russell Hobbs Classic Coffee Maker

Coffee, Anyone?

Advantages: A perpetual high on caffiene.
Disadvantages: A perpetual high on caffiene.

...After themadcabbie, I am possibly Ciao?s biggest caffeine addict. (This may come as a surprise to petersmyth1 and one or two others, who believe I am permanently inebriated.) In the long, dark winter evenings, I appear more regularly on here than I do at present (in these balmy (!) summer days). And on those dreich nights I always load up the coffee maker before I log on. It takes less time to brew than I take to establish a reliable connection. Which of course is saying very little, given my well-documented love-hate relationship with BT Surftime. Whatever. A couple of years ago, some very lovely friends of mine gave me a Philips Cafe Delice coffee maker as a birthday pressie. I?m not saying which birthday. They, like you, were well aware of my penchant for coffee, and as pressies go, they got it just right...

Aspen 13.08.2002 (05.11.2003) · Read review
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Review of Philips Café Delice HD7612 Coffee Maker

Fresh Coffee

Advantages: doesn't take up much space, heats up quickly
Disadvantages: Only makes one cup at a time

...If your like me and love coffee from a coffee shop then you'll be wanting to buy a perculator to make your own fresh coffee in the mornings. This coffee machine brews a fresh, hot cup of coffee in literally minutes! It is just perfect machine for one person so if you're always making coffee for more than yourself, this machine won't be for you. It comes with a insulated thermal cup which holds enough coffee for one person. It will keep the coffee hot for about 4 hours. It has been designed to drink out of this cup but can be tricky. It has produced for me good tasting coffee. But I only purchase high quality coffee in the first place so this may have something to do with it! There is an indicator light on the appliance that goes off when the coffee is done. The coffee maker turns itself off when it has finnished making...

redballoon 29.03.2004 · Read review
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