Whether you start the day with a skinny latte or like to end meals with a strong single shot, these are the tools for the job. 1. DeLonghi Icona £179 Wake up and smell the coffee with vintage-look Icona. It's simple, with just three buttons, and uses ground beans to produce an espresso with exceptional oomph. Unlike most machines of its size, it has a large water reservoir, so you aren't forever filling it up. 2. Gaggia Grangaggia £179.99 Gaggia has been making machines since its founder Achille Gaggia created the first pressure-driven one for his Milanese coffee house back in 1938 – so it has had time to perfect its formula, and it shows. The Grangaggia not only looks sleek as space rocket, it's also flexible, running on pods and grounds. 3. Magimix M100 £89.95 Simplicity, speed and consistency are the watchwords. The two-button M100 runs on Nespresso pods and pumps out your drink in a spritely 25 seconds. If you want hassle-free coffee at the touch of a button, it's hard to better. 4. Lavazza A Modo Mio Favola Plus £179 The Favola plus is a clever-old machine. It allows you to programme it to give you exactly the amount of coffee you require to kick-start your day. Just tap the button and your espresso (or espresso lungo) is ready in under a minute. Comes with a milk frother for macchiatos too. 5. DeLonghi EC 250.B £120 The crema on the espresso this three-button DeLonghi produces is coffee-shop quality and it only takes 30 seconds about it. Taste-wise it excels, too, leaving none of the bitterness often found in espresso produced by machines in this price range. Runs on pods or grounds. 6. Morphy Richards Meno espresso £72 Inexpensive it might be, but the Meno's crema-crowned espressos don't lack punch. It's pretty, too, with a pleasing curved front and shiny finish. Remarkably easy to clean at that – just run hot water through the innards. 7. Francis Francis x7 £139.99 You can tell a Francis Francis at 50 paces, the retro styling always giving it away. This one runs exclusively on pods and produces 30ml of decent coffee in less than 30 seconds 8. Rocket Evoluzione Giotto Body £1,350 For those who feel espresso is a serious business, the Milanese-made Rocket is a dream. It has a rotary pump, meaning it's exceptionally quiet, and an insulated boiler, so it's always ready to go. As much a work of art as a coffee machine. 9. Jura Ena Micro 1 £595 Want the convenience of a capsule machine but the taste of machine running on grounds? Check out the Ena Micro. Just pop your beans in the back and it does the rest, producing some top-notch espresso in 25 seconds flat. And it's slim enough for the smallest kitchens. 10. Krups Espresso Piano Black £149.95 No need to tamp down your coffee grounds with this machine – it does it for you. It produces one or two cups of great-tasting espresso and even has a cup warmer to make sure you get your cup o' Joe at the perfect temperature. Source:- http://www.independent.co.uk/life-s...es/the-10-best-espresso-machines-8579244.html
As an inveterate coffee drinker, and having tried coffee made by different machines in many parts of the world ,I can confidently state that of the latest offerings on the market, only your n.2 and 4 make the grade for me. If you do own either one of those two, well, I will take my hat off to you and compliment you on your fine taste. And as long as Lavazza coffee is used, then you won't be going wrong..........
We have something in the office unfortunately I have no idea what it is, I don't use it the boss does. I will take a look on Monday and report back, I have been given the odd coffee from it and it is very good but in global terms, well I wouldn't know I would much rather have one from the machine in the office, rather than have any of the instant coffee's in the office.
We have a fancy coffee gismo in our office. I cant recall the make but I know there is a shop in the Trafford Centre, Manchester that sells heaps of them. I don't use it as I rarely drink coffee these days. These machines look like the dogs bowlocks and possibly the coffee taste like them. I dont know. The capsules look great too. Just googled it. Nespresso. http://www.nespresso.com/uk/en/page...|15585272367&gclid=CJa_o6_N2bYCFVDMtAodwhoAmg http://www.nespresso.com/uk/en/pages/buy-coffee-maker
Don't go that route.................Trust me.............. They are playing catch up......... And as it is a bit late in the day, they flood the market with such asinine coffee machines in the hope of looking trendy. Pound for pound, no.2 nd 4 are light years ahead.
Not my gismo. But I know what you mean, they might look good but do they produce a good cup of coffee, at the end of the day? Or even at the beginning of the day. But....I am no connoiseur.
