Recommendations for a decent coffee maker needed please

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I haven't got a clue where to start!

Budget is a few hundred quid

for domestic or other?

what sort of coffee do you want at the end?

latte, filter, expresso?

expresso

this makes a good expresso

and if you don't use it often it doesn't make for an expensive cuboard

good coffee

excellent for a good cup of coffee

frother

milk frother for latte + the expresso

We have the Gaggia Cubika and love it. It's the real thing. It is easily as good as real barrista-made coffee, very well engineered, and looks brilliant on the work top. I was amazed to see that Currys are advertising it this week for £99 as we paid a lot more several years ago. I would jump at that.

Second for gaggia, but I also have a filter machine with a timer, so it wakes up 10 minutes before I do. Heavenliness...

Wouldn't bother with cafetiere/french press - v hard not to burn the oils in the coffee, and only about 2 minutes between weak and stewed. Yuk.

have a look here

we bought via this site and they were very efficient.

Nespresso machines are lovely although you have to buy capsules (about 23p each). Makes fab coffee - espresso, latte, cappuccino.

Should add that Gaggia UK has gone bankrupt.

We got the old version of this as a wedding present, it's nice as it grinds the beans up so the coffee always tastes fresh and it's quite exciting

I want a hand-crank now

I've got this one. Have had it over six years now and it gets used every day.

Am a bit gobsmacked to see that JL sell a coffee machine that costs nearly £1400!!

Make that £1,600 . Who on earth would spend that on a coffee machine?

Think the combination of plastic capsules and Nestle would rule that one out for me Mollie!

They are metal and can be recycled.

My Dad..... best coffee maker ever.

All of it metal?

Just seems so wasteful...

We grind our beans every morning and use a cafetiere, so want something that does similar

Just having a look at the Cuisinart now

costco hane got the delonghi bean to cup machine that even auto froths your milk for cappuccino, its around £600 i know they were retailing for over a grand in JL. its a good machine,but you can get a reasonable bean to cup machine for around £300.

if your going to get through 2 or 3 cups a day then its worth spending the money on a bean to cup machine, weve had one for 5 years, a very basic one. it does the job and has procuded on average 5 cups a day.

Sorry PerAdua yes all of it metal. Of course doesn't get over the Nestle issue.

I like the sound of a bean to cup machine, preferably operated by the lovely man at our local station coffee shop .

i think it depends on how much coffee you drink. the pod machines are great for 1 or 2 cups a day, but then it starts to get epensive. in the long run over a couple of years, a bean to cup machine pays for itself in the cost per cup over a pod machine. you can buy a really nice espresso blend of beans online for as little as £5 a kilo which is less than 5p a cup.

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a cafetiere

My sister has one of those Nespresso's and really says it is the best coffee maker she has ever had. I've had a few coffees from it and they are really good!

We have the Gaggia Classic-fantastic!

Another vote for the Gaggia Classic - we have one of these and it is used daily. DH is a real coffee snob. We bought one a few years ago in the HoF Jan Sale so hold off for a few weeks.