What,s the best home Coffee Machine?

[silky fox]

I NEED YOUR HELP! I want to buy my Son a Home Coffee Machine for Xmas that is a good alround one...Up to £100 mark? must make an excellent Coffee!!

[treequip]

I NEED YOUR HELP! I want to buy my Son a Home Coffee Machine for Xmas that is a good alround one...Up to £100 mark? must make an excellent Coffee!!

 

 

Machines don’t make good coffee, good beans makes good coffee

[Taupotreeman]

Fresh beans, fresh grind and a good barista. Personally I don't think those cheaper coffee makers make a better coffee than either a plunger or a stove top espresso maker.

[gensetsteve]

I am addicted to expresso coffee. Clean machine fresh filtered water and quality beans + good machine makes good coffee. I use a Gaggia but I think things have moved on. Which did a test a month or so ago will try and find it. One of the delongi machines for around £100 did very well.

[Peter]

The trouble with the cheaper espresso machines is they use a boiler rather than a pump to create pressure. Making coffee with steam rather than water means a bitter flavour, I prefer to buy espresso from someone with a very expensive machine that they know how to use, and make it at home in a plunger.

[sloth]

Don't get a 'pod' machine that limits coffee choice, or strength. Tried and tested...

Leaving about £90 for http://www.whittard.co.uk/m/coffee/coffee-beans/blue_mountain_jamaican.htm, or http://www.campusgifts.co.uk/gifts-by-brand/edward-monkton/mugs.html & £80 worth of nice coffee; should keep him happy and alert, if a little twitchy, for months!

 

 

edit: ?double picture?

[silky fox]

So maybe if i look at buying a Nice selection of beans from a suitable deli in London and a good grinder plus Plunger and some nice coffee cups would be the best option?

[treequip]

So maybe if i look at buying a Nice selection of beans from a suitable deli in London and a good grinder plus Plunger and some nice coffee cups would be the best option?

 

Sounds like a plan to me

[sloth]

So maybe if i look at buying a Nice selection of beans from a suitable deli in London and a good grinder plus Plunger and some nice coffee cups would be the best option?

 

That's where my money would go supporting local business then too, double :thumbup:!

[Peter]

I have one of these, that way I can make 2 cups worth at once and the second one is still hot when I'v drunk the first.