My coffee machine is broken.

rick_chasey
rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
edited August 2011 in The bottom bracket
Sucks.

Got it for christmas.

The button that turns the pump on won't work.

Grr.

I'm sad enough to feel the need to share online.
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  • Bobbinogs
    Bobbinogs Posts: 4,841
    Might be covered under warranty? Worth finding out before you are tempted to fix yourself.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Bobbinogs wrote:
    Might be covered under warranty? Worth finding out before you are tempted to fix yourself.

    I'm sure it is.

    I'd never attempt to fix it.

    I'm just lacking coffee after dinner which makes me sad :(.
    _
  • de_sisti
    de_sisti Posts: 1,283
    Or get yourself one of these. You probably won't reget it.
  • Stewie Griffin
    Stewie Griffin Posts: 4,330
    Buy a "small machine" to get you through.
  • verylonglegs
    verylonglegs Posts: 4,023
    Call No 10 Downing street. If Dave can mend a whole country then he should be able to fix your coffee machine without even blinking.
  • rogz
    rogz Posts: 14
    De Sisti wrote:
    Or get yourself one of these. You probably won't reget it.

    Rushed out to get one when the electricity went out one morning and now it's my only coffeemaker.
  • daviesee
    daviesee Posts: 6,386
    Wot De Sisti said.......

    Cheap enough and good enough to keep as an emergency back up even if you get the machine fixed/replaced.
    None of the above should be taken seriously, and certainly not personally.
  • bompington
    bompington Posts: 7,674
    It's not espresso, but it's cheap and quick: tbh since I got one I can't be bothered to clean out the espresso pot very often.
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  • Gazzaputt
    Gazzaputt Posts: 3,227
    I keep a spare machine for just such events.

    With owning a Gaggia unfortunately this has come in useful to many times.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    An update:

    Handed it back to the 'rents who bought it for me (since I couldn't find any warranty stuff).

    They've exchanged my faulty machine with a brand new one (on proof of some debit card statement)

    Could be worse.

    I now need to get it back from the 'rents.
    _
  • Yossie
    Yossie Posts: 2,600
    De Sisti wrote:
    Or get yourself one of these. You probably won't reget it.

    Errr - is there any other way to make coffee?

    Never really understood today's fascination with those coffee/capsule things.

    But that's just Yossie.
  • Sirius631
    Sirius631 Posts: 991
    Sounds like a good excuse to get on the bike and take a ride down to Costa. :wink:
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  • Ben6899
    Ben6899 Posts: 9,686
    Sirius631 wrote:
    Sounds like a good excuse to get on the bike and take a ride down to Costa. :wink:

    Good coffee, but questionable ethics.

    Glad to hear you got the machine fixed, Rick... how will you get it back from your parents'? Might be a nightmare on the tube!
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  • freehub
    freehub Posts: 4,257
    When in term time, I get a LARGE, not masimo, LARGE Mocha, and it's huge and only £2, still expensive but cheap compared to most Costa.
  • Ben6899
    Ben6899 Posts: 9,686
    Cheap does not necessarily mean ethical, Will. But I'm in danger of hijacking the thread!
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Ben6899 wrote:
    Sirius631 wrote:
    Sounds like a good excuse to get on the bike and take a ride down to Costa. :wink:

    Good coffee, but questionable ethics.

    Glad to hear you got the machine fixed, Rick... how will you get it back from your parents'? Might be a nightmare on the tube!

    They came over from the 'bridge for lunch on Sunday and took it away, I guess they'll have to come back for another lunch.

    It's not that big.

    It's one of these delonghi-eco310~1477937.jpg

    So worst case I could carry it on the tube.
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  • Ben6899
    Ben6899 Posts: 9,686
    Manageable. Just make sure you don't put it in a backpack and run between platforms.
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Problem I have with Costa is not the coffee, but the place.

    Who wants to sit in Costa? Or any of the chains for that matter?

    And before anyone recommends a take out - I can't tell you how awful drinking out of a paper cup is to me.
    _
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    As an aside, any techniques to good foam (especially with that model?)

    My foam is always questionable.

    Either the bubbles are too big, or only about 10% is foamed properly, followed by 90% of hot, unfoamed milk.
    _
  • Ben6899
    Ben6899 Posts: 9,686
    The coffee source has improved just lately - they're using Fairtrade products - but the company as a whole (owned by Whitbread) is questionable with its cheap rate hotels etc and no doubt low wages.

    But you're right; these "restaurants" are depressing and full of folk with ipads.
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  • RDW
    RDW Posts: 1,900
    Yossie wrote:
    De Sisti wrote:
    Or get yourself one of these. You probably won't reget it.

    Errr - is there any other way to make coffee?

    There's the 'Super Record' version ('Brikka'):

    http://www.gallacoffee.co.uk/acatalog/B ... e-top.html

    Runs at higher pressure with a weighted valve. Works really well (used it this morning), but double the price.

    Of course if price is no object and you need a machine to match the pink scarf:

    http://www.rapha.cc/rocket-espresso-for-rapha
  • pedylan
    pedylan Posts: 768
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    As an aside, any techniques to good foam (especially with that model?)

    My foam is always questionable.

    Either the bubbles are too big, or only about 10% is foamed properly, followed by 90% of hot, unfoamed milk.

    Have you tried skimmed milk? I get the result you describe in my gaggia if I use anything else except skimmed.

    And +1 for the Bialetti stove top. Start every day with this one.
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  • MattC59
    MattC59 Posts: 5,408
    Tried this ? :wink:
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  • Yossie
    Yossie Posts: 2,600
    MattC59 wrote:
    Tried this ? :wink:
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    Nooo! What is that sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet? "Coffee" coloured liquid for peasants.

    Begone Matt - drinking that stuff you no longer have the right to use the C59.

    Lavazza or Segafreddo. End of.
  • Yossie
    Yossie Posts: 2,600
    freehub wrote:
    When in term time, I get a LARGE, not masimo, LARGE Mocha, and it's huge and only £2, still expensive but cheap compared to most Costa.

    For risk of entering into another argument, you'll shop around for the cheapest food that you can get but still spend £2 on slop from Costascum?
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    pedylan wrote:
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    As an aside, any techniques to good foam (especially with that model?)

    My foam is always questionable.

    Either the bubbles are too big, or only about 10% is foamed properly, followed by 90% of hot, unfoamed milk.

    Have you tried skimmed milk? I get the result you describe in my gaggia if I use anything else except skimmed.

    And +1 for the Bialetti stove top. Start every day with this one.

    Skimmed milk? Blasphemy! (no I haven't. I can't bring myself to buy white water).
    _
  • pedylan
    pedylan Posts: 768
    MattC59 wrote:
    Tried this ? :wink:
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    No I haven't. Could you give me a clue what I might use it for?
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  • redjeepǃ
    redjeepǃ Posts: 531
    RDW wrote:
    Yossie wrote:
    De Sisti wrote:
    Or get yourself one of these. You probably won't reget it.

    Errr - is there any other way to make coffee?

    There's the 'Super Record' version ('Brikka'):

    http://www.gallacoffee.co.uk/acatalog/B ... e-top.html

    Runs at higher pressure with a weighted valve. Works really well (used it this morning), but double the price.

    I like the look of that handpumped expresso machine on the gallacoffee webpage.
  • the_spooks
    the_spooks Posts: 190
    Kinda OT but are these machines capable of Latte art, I know it's pretentious but would love to use mine for this but seem to be incapable of it, might just be me. Another thing, sources of good beans online, any views?
  • leech
    leech Posts: 77
    It has to be illy.
    Trouble is it works out no cheaper to buy the giant cans on the net than the small cans in tesco.

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