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You should be able to get a bean to cop machine for around that price (maybe a bit more).

With a bean to cup machine you will want to buy whole beans - probably from a specialist roaster. Store them somewhere cool and they will keep for a month or so - only put as much as you need for a day or two into the machine.

Good roasters include:

Rave (My personal favourite)
Ozone
Pact

Most of them will do subscriptions that will delivery different beans every month allowing you to work out what you prefer. A good starting point is working out whether you prefer darker or lighter roast coffees (darker = Italian / Starbucks - more bitter roasted notes, lighter = more fruity, nutty, less bitter).

Definitely get a bean to cup for ease. Coffee beans - I get mine from Rave and they’re freshly roasted to order but honestly supermarket whole coffee beans are pretty decent too

@longapple second vote for finding a hipster. They know their coffee 😂

De'Longhi La Specialista Arte, it’s brilliant use it every day instead of buying coffee out.

I’ve got this one as well. It’s brilliant and the coffe is just as good as a coffee shop.

Yep - we have a cheap stovetop espresso maker. Decent coffee and a milk frother gets you a good cappuccino.

Sage bean to cup, read up on YouTube videos for it and you should be fine. Different machines have different coffee inputs. However I wouldn’t buy anything but bean to cup now I’ve had it for years.

Get a DeLonghi from 'delongji refurbished' on EBay. They are returns and products with minor cosmetic defects. They are MUCH cheaper than elsewhere.

I have tried coffee pod machine, manual espresso machine ( Gaggio) but just bought a Ninja bean to cup machine and very happy with the results. It’s not fully automatic but you can make expresso and filter coffee with it. You can change the strength and heat of the water but it’s very simple to use.
I use a water filter jug because we have hard water. With my Gaggia machine I spent more time descaling and cleaning it than making coffee, the new one has a filter with the jug filter hopefully I will have less problems.
Also freshly ground beans produce much better coffee. Pod and simpler machines just don’t compare flavour wise.
You need to do a bit of research to see what the machine does. I narrowed it down to sage and ninja. The Ninja has compartments to store all the gadgets you need.
I would also buy a knock box for used coffee grains. It makes emptying the coffee grain carrier, portafilter, easier.

Delonghi are the best and you can use ground coffee which is much quicker. Melitta also have a good reputation but I think they are all bean-to-cup. I don't like tge pod ones.

I've got a Sage nespresso machine that uses pods and has a steam wand for that professional touch. Think it's a Creatista plus.

Got £100 off in the sale and I'm so obsessed with it I even take it on holiday!

De Longhi Magnifica, bean to cup machine. If my house was on fire I would carry this out ( with the cat and my camera).
if it dies tomorrow I will buy a new one straight away. I luff it.

Sage Creatista Plus, which is on special at Amazon at the moment. Super easy to use and clean, lovely coffee. Nice looking little machine too.

www.amazon.co.uk/Nespresso-Creatista-Brushed-Stainless-Steel/dp/B01NGTI2JU?ref=dlx_prime_dg_dcl_B01NGTI2JU_mw_sl7_32_pi&pf_rd_r=Z6Z325101X7NDAQZ3A4V&pf_rd_p=3678bb51-5fa1-4a78-99dc-88ab4e1e4432

Do you have a coffee nerd shop local to you?
look for somewhere that sells various types of coffee maker and roasts their own beans and is full of hipsters, they'll be able to help you!

There's no such thing as 'best' where it comes to coffee, it's personal taste. Different beans and roasts taste different, how it's ground makes a difference, how the maker works makes a difference (to do with how the oils are extracted I believe, so something that drips through tastes different to something that forces the water through).

Don’t get a tassimo OP they are crap and the coffee quality is rubbish

I have a Nespresso creatista and also a Sage barista express impress

It depends on your budget and how much effort you want to put in to learning how to make good coffee. If you go for a barista machine, the quality of the coffee you get out of it (with decent beans) is much better than coffee shop standard (apart from the odd independent one that gets it right)

LaPavoni lever machine. Had ours over thirty years - still going strong. Makes brilliant espressos / cappuccinos (and looks great too 😀).
Expensive but incredibly durable.

I have an automatic Siemens bean to cup machine with a milk container that makes cappuccinos, lattes etc. I absolutely bloody love it but it was not cheap!

another vote for aeropress! I've got one at home and one at work and I take it on holiday with me so I know I can have nice coffee there!

Tassimo has a proprietary pod system so no one can copy them as it reads a bar code on the pod, sorry T disc.

The Nespresso one accepts alternative branded ones, so Wonky coffee etc is a good shout for trying out new coffees.

We have a bean to cup Delonghi with a milk carafe so it makes cappuccino without having to froth the milk yourself, you just select a cappuccino. It is also self cleaning pretty much, you just empty the coffee ground pucks and occasionally when prompted run a descale cycle. We have had it 11 years and replaced an O ring ourselves via Youtube. It wasn't cheap but the coffee and crema is very good and in every cup.

DH bought me a Tassimo My Way and I love it, use it every day with the Costa or Jacobs pods

We’ve just bought one of these after our Bosch My Way (pods of latte / cappuccino etc) which was easy to use, died.
Lovely proper creamy or frothy coffee from the De Longhi (ground beans), but it might just be me but am finding it takes a little bit of practice to get just right.

We have a delonghi bean to cup at home, use it everyday, the coffee is delicious. Ours was a mid level one and has lasted 7yrs so far.

We take a pod machine when we go camping, a mini dolce gusto one. The pods are expensive but Lidl do their own versions which are cheaper and you can pick some branded ones up from B&M.

I have a l'or machine and a milk frother. And a subscription to wonky coffee, so get pods cheaper than average.

I had a bean to cup, I've had a ninja coffee bar, a Tassimo and dolce gusto. My current combi works perfectly for me, re amount of faff etc.

I also have syrups and make gorgeous coffees 😆

Sage Impress Express bean to cup - expensive, and a slight effort to master, but worth it. I always make a flask of coffee for any journey now instead of spending £3/4 on a takeaway, and although freshly ground beans are the nicest, in reality you can use any coffee beans from the supermarket and just adjust the grind setting.