Espresso Coffee Machine

This little machine makes a lovely cup of coffee. I have tested different types of ESE coffee paper pods and they have all worked (even those that looked slightly too big). I am very happy with this machine, it even tells me when to descale it. A*

First time iv bought a coffee maker, did a fair bit of research before buying one and was pretty pleased with this.
Takes a little getting used to but once you know what you are doing it definitely makes beautiful coffee, with the 3 coffee choices, latte, cappuccino, and espresso are great, you can also just have frothed milk for hot chocolate etc. i think this is much better than the machines that use pods! Less waste, less cost!
Would recommend.

Very happy with this coffee machine. It makes great coffees that are as good as most coffee shops. Its fairly simple to use although adding coffee to the handle is obviously more of a faff then capsules, which we have used before, but this is less plastic waste and better coffee. We have the one with the milk tank and it froths the milk really well. We keep the milk tank in the fridge when not using, so don’t need to clean every day. Easy to clean when you do though.

Being a coffee snob with newly limited counter space, I've come to this 'compact' purchase from the large-heavy-expensive espresso maker side rather than from the pod-machine side. Compared to a full-sized machine this one seems light and flimsy. It shakes when it makes, and you have to put a finger on it so the vibrations don't send a small mug rattling off the tray. It also splashes a lot outside the machine because its surface area is smaller than normal machines. Sometimes it makes fine coffee (although, as others have said, lacking crema) and sometimes the pressure seems a bit low: if you press the two-cup button, one or the other side occasionally seems to be clogged or moving the water through in a drip-drip-drip rather than a flow. It also seems to think I need to descale it after ca 10 uses rather than 500, as it says in the manual (I do have hard water, but probably not that hard). After resetting the descaling sensor as detailed in the manual it seems to be working fine again, so we'll see - looks like this has been a problem for at least one other reviewe

Great tasting coffee, but be warned if you use skimmed milk, even on the lowest setting the froth overflows every mug that you can physically fit under neath it. With semi skimmed you can just about get away with it. Full fat milk is perfect for this machine if you are able to drink it. Easy to use, easy to clean and overall pretty good for the money