Bean to cup coffee machine

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DH is a pain to buy presents for and with Xmas on its way I’d better make an effort.
He grinds his own beans every day, part of the ritual he says 🙄 and I’ve heard of these machines but never seen one. And I’m hopeful that it will stop the coffee grains all over the kitchen ?
We’ve got one of those pod machines but I assume, as a coffee lover, that he will use one of these as well ?
So any recommendations please ?

We have a bean to cup and would never go back to making coffee any other way. The pods are better than instant coffee, but nowhere as good as 'proper' coffee and I don't like all the plastic waste.

Serious coffee people avoid bean to cup preferring more sophisticated grinders and less automation, but for us, they're perfect. Fill with cold water, add beans to hopper and, once you've set the strength and amount, just put your mug under and press a button when you want coffee.

We have a DeLonghi Magnifico (or similar name) - bought on an Amazon deal. Very happy with it.

Sage bean to cup machine - game changer.

I have a delonghi one as well. Bean to cup. I love the smell. My only issue with it is that you have to heat the cup with boiling hot water or the coffee is not hot enough.

It's a ''cafe corso''. Don't know if they stil make that model. it's 3 years old and still working luckily.

Actually, I don't know if mine is '''bean to cup''. It does take beans though. You can adjust the strength of your coffee.

Quite often, I still end up just putting a scoop of ground coffee in a jug and letting it sit for a minute and then pouring it through a filter in to the cup. That jug and filter were about 20 euro! I spent about 380 euro on the coffee machine. I can't believe I did that now. I do surprise myself.

I love my Delonghi bean to cup! It's about 7 years old now and it's been faultless. Easy to maintain and I even take it away with me to France every year.
Prior to my divorce, I had a Jura BTC, but it was one of the few things my ex-husband asked to keep. The Jura looks nicer but is £££££££

It's worth the effort! But I get you about coffee grounds.

I have used everything over the years, I still rate a stove top mokka pot but then splashed out on a Gaggia Brera.

We have a Sage Oracle Touch - it's ££££ and I was very reluctant to splash out, but nice coffee is definitely a 'thing' for us, and we were spending £8 a day getting 2 nice coffees to take away from our local independent coffee shop.

This one we love it

Delonghi bean to cup here and it is fantastic. It has saved locked down for us.

Which model @lambouddica?

I have a Melitta caffe solo - it's my third bean to cup machine, had two Phillips Saeco ones which dies on me, I use them an awful lot..... chose the Melitta as it for the space better and only did coffee, didn't need a fancy cappuccino or latte function. Jura machines are probably top of the tree if you have €€€ to spend, but I'm happy with my current one.

@Runningdownthathill It’s the Dinamica. The milk frothed isn’t great ( but we drink our coffee black).

DP is a coffee lover and umm if I got him a pod machine he'd never buy more pods "I'm not going spend 15 quid a month on crappy coffee"

For a true coffee lover I'd agree with above the a machine probably isnt their ideal, certainly not something relatively affordable

I bought DP a Chemex 6 cup which is a classic coffee thing, often seen on tv and I got him a variable voltage, swan neck kettle (brewista, fancy kettle you can set the exact temperature of water for). He has a very nice grinder (lido 2)and he doesn't make mess with it. He could do with a new aeropress as he lost his.

Wouldn't by him beans unless he asked for specific ones, a voucher for a roaster he likes would go down well. A random bean subscription ended up going in DDs sensory table.

James Hoffmann talks coffee and reviews kit on YouTube, I don't even like coffee but enjoy the videos.

What kind of coffee does he drink? We have a brilliant Cuisinart grind and brew machine which is perfect for a filter coffee drinker but no good if he wants espresso-based drinks.

I think if he considers grinding the beans part of the ritual, he will not be happy with a bean to cup machine.

Maybe a subscription to test out different types of beans or something instead? (I don't know of any but am sure they exist!).

Does he drink it as espresso, or with milk in some version? Various milk frothing accessories could be a present if he does that, depending on what he's already got.

Or new cups/mugs - some of the Boden double layer glass ones look quite cool if you do milky coffees as you can see the layers. Or long spoons, again if you do milky coffees.

@PamDemic

you know? I also have a magnifica, but I just don't rate the coffee as much as a stove top coffee maker or an aeropress. It doesn't taste as strong or as rich to me. (It is easier, but I really like good coffee!)

@PamDemic have you adjusted the grind to make the coffee stronger?

We have a Delonghi ECAM which we have had 5 years. You can tailor the coffee volume to the cups you use and the bean grind to adjust the strength. It makes cappuccino very easily, cleans the milk spout itself, requires very little effort to maintain and clean.

It is used several times a day by Dh who likes a lot of varieties of coffee. It does "short" coffees ie espresso or long coffees. We just numbered the buttons 1, 2, 3, and 4 that way the children can make it easily for their Dad he will often have a "23" in a taller cup, so 2 lots of coffee in one cup. The coffee grounds are compressed into pucks that you empty when it tells you to empty them. So easy.

www.argos.co.uk/product/7453777 for £399.99

Obviously you can get cheaper. There are videos on YouTube of the machine making a cappuccino, literally attach milk carafe, turn dial to choose froth setting, press cappuccino, does the milk then the coffee, then change out the cup and turn the dial so it steam cleans the milk spout. Done. You can set the amount of milk and coffee or change it whilst you are doing it.