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What recommendations are there out there for a bean to cup coffee maker please?
I don't want to spend more than £200 and I want it have the ability to make a batch into a pot for a couple of mugs at a time
Lakeland and Wayfair have a couple around £150 but real world ( if stw can be described as that!) recommendations are always the best
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I'd be interested in this. Would like a capsule machine but would consider beam to cup if they are reliable as there is less waste.
De Longhi Magnifica - periodically reduced to about £200
We have a Krups EA8150 in the house, which makes excellent coffee (better than the 4k automatic machine we have in our shop). It doesn't however froth milk very well any more, we have had it 3yrs though.
I'd stay away from nesspresso style machines, the coffee isn't as nice and the environment impact is larger.
I will second the Delonghi Magnifica, just make sure you take time to read instructions.
3rd on the Magnifica - I have to read the instructions for descaling...every...single....time!
That probably means I'm doing something/everything wrong 🙂
Delonghi cafe corso is same internals as the magnifica but a bit cheaper, about 240 on Amazon but get reduced every so often.
another +1 for Delonghi
Got the one without the milk carafe for Xmas back in 2014 and it's been used several times a day every day since then.
And another one for the Magnifica. Picked an absolutely mint condition one off our local Facebook for £60.
We live in a very hard water are, so it's always telling me to descale.
Bought it with 200 coffees on the counter. Within a month that was over 600.
We're not wired at all, no really.
how do you access the counter?
I remember our Jura one at work was over 100k cups after a couple of years. £1k domestic machine used in a Uni research facility.
It's hidden somewhere in the menus. I'll have a look when I get home.
The Delonghi recommendation is a good one, and I know this adds to the budget but I find the milk temp of some bean to cup machines to be poor and/or a faf to heat milk so I invested in a separate milk heater / frother from severin.
adjustable heat and foam volumes and easy to clean.
Obviously the wrong answer but frankly it's unacceptable behavior that no-one has ignored the OP and given the standard answer yet.
You need a bialetti moka pot, preferably heated atop of your wood burning stove.
+1 the Bialetti Moka, but I'm ashamed to admit I have no wood burning stove. I do have an Iberital bean grinder though, but then further sin is I don't roast my own beans!
What level of noise do these Delonghi's make while in use? Gentle enough buzz? Vibrate the whole worktop?
Don't fancy waking everyone up at 4am...
EDIT: This would be to replace a Nespresso machine, and that makes a fair racket.
About as much noise as you'd expect from a combination of grinding beans and slurping/heating water and/or frothing milk if you like the fancy dancey coffee rather than just "black and hot".
Doesn't wake my missus while she sleeps in the bedroom directly above the kitchen, but she'd sleep through a chuffin' bomb strike.
Don’t fancy waking everyone up at 4am…
Depends on the household, I'd be very cross but in the other hand my wife would sleep through, even then at 4am I'd be using a cafetiere and fretting over the noise of the kettle personally.
Got this 6 months back, makes really nice coffee but one hell of a racket,
They drop to closer to the £200 mark every now and again
I got a gaggia brera from the outlet shop I've given it some hammer in the last year great machine
I've had a Delonghi Magnifica (ESAM 4200) for a couple of years and can't speak highly enough of it. It is loud enough to wake the whole house though if I forget to shut the kitchen door....
Tried a moka pot type thing and wasn't impressed tbh but then again I haven't got an aga
the delonghi job looks like a single cup machine I wanted something that would make a jug full ideally
I got a delonghi magnifica off here early this year to try instead of our Nespresso machine which gets a bit spendy when you have 6 coffees a day!
Got to say I bloody love it and it's now moved into my office so gets plenty of use. Got to buy another one for the house now!
A little noisy but nothing too serious.
Costco currently selling 1kg bags of lavazza Rosso beans for £7
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we've has a delonghi magnifier for about 7 yrs now. esam 4200. its made 000's of coffees and just keeps going. consistent every time. we didn't pay much over £200 for it on amazon at the time. best £200 we've ever spent. would pay double or more for a new one straight away if it broke. I think the newer ones are smaller and nicer looking but have the same internals.
I got my Esam 2600 from Ao.com for £179 , they did £20 cash back and Quidco. Much less waste than the Nespresso/Aerocino. I live in a hard water area so have had to descale a couple of times and I too have to consult the manual every time! It's not that difficult however!
While it doesn't fill a jug with coffee, the largest dose can be done as a double into the same mug so it wouldn't be too onerous. Besides, who wants a jug going cold/stale when you can have freshly ground on demand?! 🙂
Now that swmbo has got over the size of it, the noise isn't too bad.....apart from when it shuts itself down in eco mode and someone unsuspecting is in the kitchen and is ambushed!
Yet another DeLonghi Magnifica Esam here.
For a mug of coffee, I find on the setup it standard coffee size (the water dose), extra strong taste (the coffee dose). I need to press the two cups button on this setting, twice per mug - meaning, I suppose, that two full hoppers of coffee get used per mug.
the resultant cakes are pretty big in the waste tray, so I think it’s a decent injection of caffeine. Small grind, setting 2, works for me
Filling a pot would take a while, but the machine would do it as the spout goes very high to get something tall underneath. You can definitely hear it in every room in the house when it’s warming up and doing it’s thing. It’s not a problem for us though.
That's a strong shot of coffee!
I'm on standard water dose, strong setting for a latte, standard strength for an Americano seems about right. Double dose button both times.
Never use the 'long' buttons, seems more bitter.
It's noisy, be fine on a house but I'm in a bungalow so shut the doors before firing it up early in the morning 🙂
My only gripes are it being hard to see when the beans are low (nothing more annoying than hearing the grinder humming away) and the drip tray is fiddly to clean, lots of nooks and crannies to slime up.
Our Delonghi Magnifica is in its third year. Had it serviced once as there was an offer on. Descaled it about six times. Played about with it a bit when we had it, not touched the settings since. It’s been absolutely brilliant at making repeatable awesome coffee day after day.
It’s a bit noisy. And bits of it are a chore to fully clean but totally recommended.
We do have a great bean roaster in town tho. I could happily live in there. Mmm coffee……..
OK Magnifica esam 3000b ordered- on your collective heads be it!
Debenhams have them at £250 at the moment which looks a good price
Will report back when it lands
Late to the thread here and it’s not at all useful but they were selling a Krups bean to cup on Ideal Home last night, special Christmas offer at £900, down from £1400.
Had a fancy telescopic steam wand that frothed the milk that is poured into the cup, not the machine, which I thought was clever.
Big money that tho....