OT: Lidl Espresso machine £39
moonio
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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?
http://www.lidl.co.uk/uk/home.nsf/pages ... achine.ar1
Do you think it will be any good?
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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)FCN: 50 -
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Stove top is definitely the way to go. Ideally with freshly whizzed up beans.0
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But for the stove-top ones you need a stove...0
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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."Encyclopaedia is a fetish for very small bicycles"0 -
Just got a Gaggia baby off Ebay for £100 new RRP £289 to replace my Gaggia Synchrony Compact. Now that's a real bargain.0
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http://www.amazon.co.uk/Single-Boiling- ... d_sim_kh_1
Then, after heating your coffee you can cook yourself a nice omlette.FCN: 50 -
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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One word - Aeropress
It's all you need people.0 -
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)
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
*this may be a lie.If you still don't know what recursion is, read this sentence.0 -
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 beautiesIf you still don't know what recursion is, read this sentence.0
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mickbrown wrote:One word - Aeropress
It's all you need people.
Unless you want to make an expresso....More problems but still living....0 -
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
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
Cona Rex - 'Britain Can Make It'!
I'll stop - I could bore for England on stuff like this.Cannondale Supersix / CAAD9 / Boardman 9.0 / Benotto 30000 -
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?FCN: 50 -
It does make espresso
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got a Gagia Classic, it's great, much better than the stove top I had (I should bloody well hope so )
Nothing wrong with the stove top thoughPurveyor of sonic doom
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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. (But the marketing is a bit OTT which bugs a little.)Never be tempted to race against a Barclays Cycle Hire bike. If you do, there are only two outcomes. Of these, by far the better is that you now have the scalp of a Boris Bike.0 -
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. (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.Cannondale Supersix / CAAD9 / Boardman 9.0 / Benotto 30000 -
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. (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?More problems but still living....0 -
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. (But the marketing is a bit OTT which bugs a little.)
+1 to all of that!0 -
Mmm i have a been to cup machine made by Saceo best part of £500 always experimenting with different beans0