OT: Lidl Espresso machine £39

moonio
moonio Posts: 802
edited December 2009 in Commuting chat
Is anyone getting one of these on Thurs?
http://www.lidl.co.uk/uk/home.nsf/pages ... achine.ar1

Do you think it will be any good?

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  • TheBrogueadier
    TheBrogueadier Posts: 89
    Get a stove-top one - Less messing about and a lot less to go wrong.

    http://www.amazon.co.uk/Bialetti-Moka-E ... 746&sr=1-2

    Just don't dishwash it (if you really must dishwash one, ensure you get the more expensive steel version)
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  • UndercoverElephant
    UndercoverElephant Posts: 5,796
    +1, Stove tops make the best coffee IMO, and will outlast the Lidl machine by a country mile.
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  • El Diego
    El Diego Posts: 440
    Stove top is definitely the way to go. Ideally with freshly whizzed up beans.
  • lost_in_thought
    lost_in_thought Posts: 10,563
    But for the stove-top ones you need a stove...
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  • Wallace1492
    Wallace1492 Posts: 3,707
    lost_in_thought wrote:
    But for the stove-top ones you need a stove...

    Or a fire, cooker, camp stove. Mine has been all over Europe three times and never a problem using a small backpacking stove.
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  • TheBrogueadier
    TheBrogueadier Posts: 89
    http://www.amazon.co.uk/Single-Boiling- ... d_sim_kh_1

    Then, after heating your coffee you can cook yourself a nice omlette.
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  • oscarbudgie
    oscarbudgie Posts: 850
    I have a bit of a 'thing' for coffee makers old and new - my favourite - although I don't use it much - is one of these beauties

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  • mickbrown
    mickbrown Posts: 100
    One word - Aeropress

    It's all you need people.
  • mikeeye
    mikeeye Posts: 162
    TheBrogueadier wrote:
    Get a stove-top one - Less messing about and a lot less to go wrong.

    http://www.amazon.co.uk/Bialetti-Moka-E ... 746&sr=1-2

    Just don't dishwash it (if you really must dishwash one, ensure you get the more expensive steel version)
    I would advise against the stainless steel version. I have one and the coffee it produces is not as good as the coffee from the original aluminium version. The thinner steel body tends to overheat the water and the coffee therefore gets scalded.

    If you're serious about your coffee though, there's always the Alex Duetto. A bargain at only £1600 - unfortunately they're out of stock at the moment :-(

    Having said all that, if anyone wants a stainless steel moka pot, PM me with your offer :) It's a fantastic bit of kit that anyone would be very happy with*.

    Mike

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  • mikeeye
    mikeeye Posts: 162
    oscarbudgie wrote:
    I have a bit of a 'thing' for coffee makers old and new - my favourite - although I don't use it much - is one of these beauties

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    Fabulous! What is it?
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  • amaferanga
    amaferanga Posts: 6,789
    mickbrown wrote:
    One word - Aeropress

    It's all you need people.

    Unless you want to make an expresso....
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  • oscarbudgie
    oscarbudgie Posts: 850
    MikeEye wrote:
    oscarbudgie wrote:
    I have a bit of a 'thing' for coffee makers old and new - my favourite - although I don't use it much - is one of these beauties

    atomic-1.png
    Fabulous! What is it?

    Its an 'Atomic' designed by Giordano Robbiati in the 1940s. They have a bit of a cult following amongst retro loving types and quite a few websites devoted to them. My own one is a late 40s British (Sassoon) labelled one.

    Some others - Salton 'Rocket' (Vesuviana) - this came as a stove top as well as electric
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    Cona Rex - 'Britain Can Make It'!

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    I'll stop - I could bore for England on stuff like this.
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  • TheBrogueadier
    TheBrogueadier Posts: 89
    edited December 2009
    Aero press?

    Why would you want to make coffee in something that looks like a cheap plastic penis pump?

    A pump that can't even do expresso! Heresy!

    That Cona Rex coffee machine is lovely, whatever happened to nice kitchen item design?
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  • mickbrown
    mickbrown Posts: 100
    It does make espresso

    And penis pump? Bonus
  • Clever Pun
    Clever Pun Posts: 6,778
    got a Gagia Classic, it's great, much better than the stove top I had (I should bloody well hope so :lol: )

    Nothing wrong with the stove top though
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  • the_hundredth_idiot
    the_hundredth_idiot Posts: 813
    Nespresso!

    I railed against it when my wife first bought it - it felt like a cop out compared with other machines.

    But the coffee tastes great and because it's so little faff to use, I end up drinking more coffee. :lol: (But the marketing is a bit OTT which bugs a little.)
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  • oscarbudgie
    oscarbudgie Posts: 850
    The Hundredth Idiot wrote:
    Nespresso!

    I railed against it when my wife first bought it - it felt like a cop out compared with other machines.

    But the coffee tastes great and because it's so little faff to use, I end up drinking more coffee. :lol: (But the marketing is a bit OTT which bugs a little.)

    Got one of those too but need to get a new water tank after I dropped the original one. Damn fine coffee.
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  • amaferanga
    amaferanga Posts: 6,789
    The Hundredth Idiot wrote:
    Nespresso!

    I railed against it when my wife first bought it - it felt like a cop out compared with other machines.

    But the coffee tastes great and because it's so little faff to use, I end up drinking more coffee. :lol: (But the marketing is a bit OTT which bugs a little.)

    Don't you think the amount of packaging for these types of machines is a little excessive?
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  • lost_in_thought
    lost_in_thought Posts: 10,563
    The Hundredth Idiot wrote:
    Nespresso!

    I railed against it when my wife first bought it - it felt like a cop out compared with other machines.

    But the coffee tastes great and because it's so little faff to use, I end up drinking more coffee. :lol: (But the marketing is a bit OTT which bugs a little.)

    +1 to all of that!
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  • giner1961
    giner1961 Posts: 135
    Mmm i have a been to cup machine made by Saceo best part of £500 always experimenting with different beans

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