Is an integrated fully automatic coffee machine recommended?

  • Erstellt am 2020-07-29 19:01:49

Pinky0301

2020-07-30 12:41:45
  • #1
That's the most annoying thing. The message always appears when you can least use it. It would be practical, for example, before making coffee, but no, it comes afterwards, when you just want to turn it off to enjoy the coffee. Little trick: pull it out and push it back in fully.
 

Curly

2020-07-30 13:23:57
  • #2
It also depends on the drinking habits. A good espresso certainly tastes best from a portafilter, provided that grind size, temperature, etc. are right. We like a "normal" coffee from the fully automatic machine best, although we also have a portafilter and grinder, they are not used.

Best regards
Sabine
 

pagoni2020

2020-07-30 13:28:28
  • #3
I have a portafilter machine that takes max. 1 minute to do so. A simple but long-tested model. I believe that with coffee it will be similar to wine or all the other things, that you just find your way. For example, I never liked integrated grinders in fully automatic machines because they were usually of mediocre quality.
 

Shiny86

2020-07-30 14:37:48
  • #4


Will you still have an integrated bean-to-cup coffee machine in the new kitchen in the house?
 

pagoni2020

2020-07-30 14:54:05
  • #5
If simplicity is paramount and it does not bring you joy, you might better look for a simpler solution. I have heard/read the passage about beans costing 20-30€ and more several times now, and I simply contradict the statement that you "need" these. You can have them like the wine for €20, the olive oil for €30, or the mineral water for €5 per bottle. Not only through Stiftung Warentest, Ökotest, etc., it is known that price does not always guarantee better quality; often it is even the opposite; supermarket products regularly become test winners and expensive brands fail miserably. I understand that people do it that way for themselves, but I have drunk enough coffee/espresso and especially cappuccino to know that the coffee bean represents only ONE part of the coffee enjoyment, just like the cheap machine compared to the luxury machine. The likelihood of quality increases with the price, but with the rising price, the likelihood also increases that I merely pay the high margin without quality improvement. Therefore, I would always recommend trying both cheap and expensive products and best deciding for yourself without knowing the brand/price. CEOs of various companies (mineral water, wine, coffee, etc.) have already been proven wrong when they chose the "cheap product" as number 1 and their own further down. It is probably like with the French country wine, which tastes best on vacation locally.
 

Curly

2020-07-30 14:59:37
  • #6
well, if I ever buy beans other than our usual [„Malabar-Bohnen“], there is immediately complaining, I don’t even need to buy beans from the discount store, no one likes the taste.

Best regards
Sabine
 
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