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The residual water container is half so small as the fresh water container, so you need to pay attention not to let it overflow. I did that too. Result: a lovely creamy hot shot. I bought this wonderful machine couple of weeks ago. I feel that the money was well spend.Ricardo Sinclair, Panama Some reviewers have stressed that the coffee is not hot enough, and it did happen to me also, but if you pre-warm your machine until the upper plate is hot, you will get a hot coffee, no doubt. It makes a great espresso. The manual recommends to discharge one shot without coffee to warm up the inner parts of the machine.
When I'm lazy I'll pull out the store ground coffee but either way, I get a very good coffee. Coffee is too hot to drink and I like to let it set for a couple minutes.It took me a few months to figure out how to use it though, whether its how much pressure to use to tamp the coffee, what grind to use and what brands of coffee. I also was alittle slow on the uptake on frothing the milk to a fine bubbly foam.This is my daily coffee maker and I use the best beans I can afford and use a hand grinder to grind them. I've used this daily for 18 months and I've never had the reservoir slide out onto the tray. I think it has to do with the grind of coffee I use. In fact its never budged once it was slid in place.Coffee puck is sometimes wet, sometimes bone dry. I don't think it affects the flavor one way or the other.Heating element creates hot coffee, and hot steamy milk.
With that your puck will be dry, and your filter won't clog. This product is all that it's cracked up to be. I'm enjoying it everyday. Also, the enhanced frothing attachment is unnecessary for the most part. Some of the concerns expressed by others about problems with the filter and the lack of a so called "dry puck"are easily avoided with proper handling. Make sure you use the right grind, and fill the filter up to the rim and press hard.
LOVE IT. Excellent pressure, easy milk foaming. Great product for an espresso lover. Easy to use, easy to clean.
When the machine vibrates as it extracts water through the heating element, the box will tend to wander out onto the tray where the espresso drips into the cup. I'm going to experiment with objects placed under the machine to tilt it slightly back, to see if gravity can cancel the tendency of the reservoir to vibrate forward, but this kind of "kluge" is more appropriate to the cheaper machines I could have selected to do the same task. If you follow the instructions, this machine will make a good espresso. I've figured out that if I put the cup on its saucer and push, the reservoir will stay in place long enough to complete the operation. I'm afraid that someone cutting costs on production of this machine cut a bit too deeply, a shame since the rest of the machine is well suited to its task and market. If you sweat the details of your technique, you can eventually make as good an espresso as you like with it.The machine has an annoying problem with its water reservoir, which consists of a burnished metal front attached to a cheap plastic box. The plastic box cannot form good traction with its location within the overall machine.
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