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Bean to cup without the artistry
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20-04-2012 7:23pm#1For years my wife and I have contended ourselves with Nestle's finest simply because it was quick & simple to get a cup of "coffee" that way without fuss. No messing with filters, levers, adjusting screws etc ...yes, we're lazy.:o
But after our last holiday where we celebrated a bit of real barista made coffe culture we simply couldn't stomach Nescafe any longer, Gold or otherwise.
So the decision was made to get some machine to provide us with proper coffe. We still didn't fancy doing any work though
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So it had to be a fully automated machine ...no adjustment levers, no messing with foam lances, no grinding, no tamping ...just a few buttons please, the less the better.
Some intensive internet research has lead us to this thing (on Amazon.de):
The Melitta Caffeo CI
It's bloody brilliant, so it is.
Fill in your beans & water, connect milk tube, place cup under spout, press coffe of choice (Espresso, Crema, Cappuchino, Latte Machiato) and off you go. No fuss, no mess, just great tasting coffe.
It even makes two cups at the same time if you want.
The best thing is though ...once you've found the perfect settings for your favourite cup and your personal taste, you can programme the machine (for up to four people) with your settings for the different types of coffe & milk (amount, strength, temperature, mix of coffe/milk) and from then on your perfect cup of coffe really is only the press of two buttons away (1. your name and 2. your coffe)
Cleaning is perfectly simple also. Most of it is automated and the rest is perfectly accessible and easily cleaned, even the brewing unit itself.
Oh and the coffe (made from Cubita beans) tastes great as well 1
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i have something similar a miele barista cm5100. it may not be as good as hand made coffee but its better than 99% of places that sell coffee. works well for convenience/price/quality trade off. only problem is we drink a lot more coffee since getting it
i recommend u get hasbean coffee, its great quality and gives great results.0 -
For years my wife and I have contended ourselves with Nestle's finest simply because it was quick & simple to get a cup of "coffee" that way without fuss. No messing with filters, levers, adjusting screws etc ...yes, we're lazy.:o
But after our last holiday where we celebrated a bit of real barista made coffe culture we simply couldn't stomach Nescafe any longer, Gold or otherwise.
So the decision was made to get some machine to provide us with proper coffe. We still didn't fancy doing any work though.
So it had to be a fully automated machine ...no adjustment levers, no messing with foam lances, no grinding, no tamping ...just a few buttons please, the less the better.
Some intensive internet research has lead us to this thing (on Amazon.de):
The Melitta Caffeo CI
It's bloody brilliant, so it is.
Fill in your beans & water, connect milk tube, place cup under spout, press coffe of choice (Espresso, Crema, Cappuchino, Latte Machiato) and off you go. No fuss, no mess, just great tasting coffe.
It even makes two cups at the same time if you want.
The best thing is though ...once you've found the perfect settings for your favourite cup and your personal taste, you can programme the machine (for up to four people) with your settings for the different types of coffe & milk (amount, strength, temperature, mix of coffe/milk) and from then on your perfect cup of coffe really is only the press of two buttons away (1. your name and 2. your coffe)
Cleaning is perfectly simple also. Most of it is automated and the rest is perfectly accessible and easily cleaned, even the brewing unit itself.
Oh and the coffe (made from Cubita beans) tastes great as well
how much is it and what costs to ship to dublin or can you buy it in dublin0 -
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I'm with Magicmarker on this one. An Aeropress, bought from Badger and Dodo.
I also have a Moca machine.
I use a hand birr grinder for the beans. When the electricity fails, I can still make myself a decent cup of coffee. (gas cooker to boil the water if necessary)
The hand grinder makes sure I get a bit of a work-out too.
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I've just ordered one of these myself.
I think you'll be happy with it.
In just under 4 months ours now has dispensed close to 2000 portions :eek:
Ok ..that includes a lot of hot water (the simplest way to pre-heat the cup) and quite a few doubles (I loves my big mug) bit still ...that's an awful lot of coffee between two people in four months and should speak for the quality of the coffee and the ease of use of the machine 0 -
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I think you'll be happy with it.
In just under 4 months ours now has dispensed close to 2000 portions :eek:
Ok ..that includes a lot of hot water (the simplest way to pre-heat the cup) and quite a few doubles (I loves my big mug) bit still ...that's an awful lot of coffee between two people in four months and should speak for the quality of the coffee and the ease of use of the machine
Melitta machine arrived this morning. Have tried all the different coffees that it can make and I must say I'm very impressed with it. Well worth the money!0 -
Almost one year on ...time for an update:
Units dispensed ...5017; complaints ...none *
Once we had a bit of a scare when I tried to remove the brewing unit for cleaning while the machine was powering up. I pulled it off its axle while it was still moving with the end result that the machine would neither work nor could I get the damn thing out ...a clearcut case of user error
Had to dismantle the brewing unit in situ to peel it out of the machine and order a replacement off the internet as the dismantling had to be rather brutal
Other than that, the machine brews cup after cup of great tasting coffee, gets a thorough clean of the brewing unit and its insides once a week and other cleaning (descaling, cleaning of the milk unit, cleaning with solvent tablet) when it asks for it ...which isn't actually all that often, certainly not excessive.
The fact that it rinses so often (as complained about before) actually helps in ensuring that you always get fresh water and that the remains of the last brew are removed which ultimately improves the coffee experience as every cup is really fresh.
* my only complaint is the built in clock (which isn't really needed anyway as there is no timer function) which doesn't seem able to keep the correct time for love nor money and has given me a few scares in the morning in my pre-coffee drowsy state 0 -
Once we had a bit of a scare when I tried to remove the brewing unit for cleaning while the machine was powering up. I pulled it off its axle while it was still moving with the end result that the machine would neither work nor could I get the damn thing out ...a clearcut case of user error
Had to dismantle the brewing unit in situ to peel it out of the machine and order a replacement off the internet as the dismantling had to be rather brutal
i had a similar issue with mine. I checked the manual and found i could simply reset the brew unit motor by pressing a couple of buttons. It was scary and i just did it and it reset everything back into position and worked grand since.0 -
Yes, I tried the reset too ...but somehow I had managed to jam the brewing unit mid cycle. It would not engage with the gearbox again, never mind reset ...but also it wouldn't come out because it was in a different shape than the opening.
Thankfully some of the screws of the brewing unit were accessible so I could undo them and dismantle the brewing unit in the machine and then (with the help of brute force and ignorance) pull it out in pieces.0 -
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