Great Coffee Machine
Quick to set up and easy to use, and a really decent cup of coffee at the end. Thats all you really need to know.

If you want to enjoy milk based coffees and choosing your own beans this is for you
Just to provide some insight to people like myself when I was doing my own research. First of all think about which coffee drinker type are you and what you value the most.
A) you really need convinience and want a decent coffee fast – this would be mostly a nespresso drinker. And if you were worried about capsule waste or just the high cost per capsule now averaging 40 cents there is another option which is a reusable capsule. You need to check which ones would work for your machine.
B) If you would like to drink coffee from fresh beans and your main drink type is coffee with milk (latte, capuccino, etc) then a bean to cup is definitely for you. This machine is a really good bean to cup. Its pretty easy to use (not as easy as a nespresso one) and gives you good coffee. To get a good coffee will be trial and error until you get the right grind for your beans. We are still trying to learn. With lavazza beans we are around 15 cents per capsule excluding the cost of the milk, so much lower than what we were spending in capsules. Also as some reviews here said, this machine uses a lot of water, when turning on and off but if this is to ensure the inside mechanism is clean I dont see any harm on it. You can save the water and water the plants.
C) Coffee for you is a hobby and you like to enjoy the full experience from the perfect grind to the pressure, quantity etc then something like a sage oracle would be perfect. It does require more work and more maintenance. But probably thats part of the experience too.

Myself: we drink around 3 coffees in the morning between me and husband. I drink decaff affer lunch. We both have a nespresso for the last 13 years and we were mainly drinking espresso. For us coffee means short ristretto size full of cream and body. In the morning I do like my capuccino. Whereas I love coffee since I can remember the reality is I dont have a lot of time to learn all the settings and clean the machine to keep it spot on. With this in mind Ill summarize below

Pros:
1) really easy to use (but worth reading the instructions to setup). Once youve adjusted your settings it will be pretty easy to use on a daily basis. Would recommend a dirty coffee mug when turning on and off the machine.
2) For those that drink decaf you can use ground coffee for it so you dont have to swap the beans. I normally do a rinsing after I do a decaf to ensure its all clean and ready for the next espresso.
3) You can do milk based drinks at the touch of a finger. Im still using my aeroccino as I can make the capuccino foam for a single drink without leaving anything in the container and its easier to clean I find.
4) You get the chance to use fresh beans and find the coffee that suits your taste buds.
5) The grind settings for this type of machine are not bad at all. We are still trying to learn the best combo between coffee strenght and grind.
6) pretty straightforward to clean so far and would definitely recommend a water filter to avoid a lot of descaling. I have the delonghi filters but thinking of trying the charcoal stick which I use on my water bottle to see if the machine would cope with it just to avoid plastic waste.

Cons:
1) The body / cream levels are more ‘watery’ than a nespresso. To reach this conclusion weve used the same beans on the nespresso (reusable capsule) by using the manual grinder and the eletta and even though they both look really creame the body of the nespresso was better. Theres something quite powerful of using the capsule and all that pressure inside. If only there was a machine that had a really good and compatible reusable capsule it would be fab.
2) coffee waste – here nothing wrong with the eletta as such as all of the non capsule machines suffer from the same sin. The amount of coffee needed for an espresso is almost 3 times higher than the nespresso even though its a lot cheaper than if you buy the capsules. I just wish this machines could be more efficient with coffee usage. Maybe one day.
3) Lack of cup warmer – it looks like its there but does nothing. The model above comes with the menu setting which allows to turn this feature on and off. Some people complain about coffee temperature so this would help. What I use instead is the water from turning on the machine and throw it away before taking my coffee. You can also warm your cup in the microwave.

Ill be honest here, if there were really good reusable capsules out there I would have kept the nespresso longer as the espresso has more body. But overall for the coffee user I’m happy (my husband is not as he drinks more espresso than me).

So hope this review is helpful to you.

Must have device
How did I survive without this wanted one for a while but very expensive. Then black Friday comes along, bingo

Excellent machine
Had this model for about 8 years. It started to give a bit of trouble and I decided to replace it with the same model, after all the old one made over sixteen thousand cups of coffee.
Took about 30 minutes to set up, perfect coffee

Best purchase yet.
I can’t go to the coffee shop, so I brought the coffee shop home.
From delivery, out of the box and making stellar Lattes in 10 minutes. What a marvelous machine this is! Everything from Espresso to Latte done lickety split with next to no effort from the user.

Love this coffee machine
I think it is really fabulous looking machine. It makes incredible coffee bean to cup. No issues at all. I look forward every morning to a lovely fresh coffee.

Wonderful coffee, goodbye pods
This machine is wonderful, makes a very tasty and creamy coffee, and a very frothy cappuccino. It is very easy to use and to clean. It’s all you need to say bye bye to the expensive pods, saving the environment while saving money in the long run.
It is also very easy to costumize, which allows you to set your own ratio of milk to coffee on your drinks, or set how large your “long coffee” is.

For those who say the drink is not hot enough, follow the manual and increase temperature on the menu, it comes from factory set to 2/4. Don’t warm up the milk as it makes it your drink less frothy and less tasty, and you won’t be able to store it again on the fridge.
As good as this machine is, if you feel it’s still not quite like the coffee from your favourite coffee shop, there’s a reason those machines cost 15 grand. Get real because this is a very good quality domestic machine and makes excellent coffee.

Great coffee and easy to use
As good as if not better than many coffee shops. Have set up all my favourite drinks as I want them. Very easy to keep clean also.

Good choice but things could be improved
This is my first professional coffee maker and I feel that this was a good choice. However, there is few things which I feel could been improved in this machine.

Pros/Features:
– Does excellent coffee and fluffs milk well
– Burr grinder allows to choose fineness level of your coffee
– You can use pre-grounded coffee too, and machine remembers this setting
– You can set water temperature
– You can crudely customize levels of water and milk in your favourite coffees (more on that later)
– You can create your own coffee recipe (only one)
– It can give you just coffee/water/milk so you can get rid of your old kettle

Cons/Useful usage tips:
– Grinding adjustment (little dial inside coffee beans container) can be adjusted ONLY when mill is in operation! Meaning, when coffee is about to be grinded, be ready, have a lid open and adjust quickly when mill starts to operate. I feel that this has not been emphasized enough and explained in the manual. Do not force the dial, it won’t move when mill is not in use, you may break it!

– There is few coffee types available in this machine: Cappuccino (Max. milk froth setting), Macchiatto/Flat White (Min. froth setting) and Caffelatte (No froth). You have to adjust froth level manually before making coffee. Make sure you remember these settings, otherwise you are not making coffee as designed. Manual should have these settings explained in some more prominent place.

– You can customize and adjust amounts of water and milk in your favourite coffees by doing “live” example, which machine will remember: Press button for milk to start, when done press again to stop, then water with coffee will go and you press button again to stop water. This is very unreliable and not precise, because it solely relies on your measurement each time. Also, you can’t customize coffee beans amount at all, just water and milk. Temperature cannot be set per coffee also, setting is for all coffees. For example, you feel that you want to remove 20ml of milk or add 20ml of water to your favourite coffee? No chance, you have to make a coffee from the scratch and machine will remember what you did again. By doing it again “live”, you changing both milk and coffee values and each time you destroy that perfect amount of ingredient you may have achieved previously.

Good produc
Good product. Had it for 3 months. Works better than my old Delonghi machine that lasted me 10 years.

Very efficient machine
I absolutely love my new coffee maker. It is very easy to use and makes the perfect cup of coffee every time. It looks very stylish.
The only disappointment is the fact that some of the lettering is missing from the display (see attached photo)

Well worth the money.
Wow, I love it, saving a fortune making lattes at home
instead of going in the coffee shops.
Easy to operate and clean.
Looks fantastic in the kitchen too.

Very satisfied
Easy to use and clean. Works well with non-dairy milk alternatives too. Plenty of options to choose from and strength according to your taste. I’m extremely happy with this product.

Great coffee & options
I’m glad I spent a bit more than originally planned when looking for a Bean to Cup.
I read reviews saying it’s hard to setup and it’s not hot enough but I disagree. It was fairly self explanatory to setup as is the digital menu. The coffee is hot and you can adjust it up or down to suit your liking. You can also change the coffee strength and volumes to suit your taste and cup sizes. Water tank is a fair size, the front loading makes life easier too as this machine is on a worktop underneath wall units. The Cup warming plate is another good feature But you need to set the auto on timer if you want warm cups in the morning. I use the same Lavazza beans I use in my machine at my office (which was almost twice the price!) and I find the result even better with this DeLonghi!

Excellent product.
This is an excellent product with not many faults. The only issue we got is to try and make the fine beans set a level one where the machine does not cry and any beans but left to level three or above then it works perfectly fine.

Incredible machine with a couple of minor faults
Everything about this machine is amazing bar a couple of things which I’ve not been able to rectify myself – these may be user error but I don’t think so. Dont let the below stop you from buying, it is a top quality machine.
Firstly, the bean container doesn’t tell when it needs to be refilled, but will still attempt to make a coffee even if empty or almost empty. Its not the end of the world but means you have to throw out a coffee once in 50 maybe.
Secondly, the drip tray being full doesn’t trigger a notification to empty the drip tray – I’ve had this a few months now and it has never told me when to empty – more often than not it ends up overflowing and moving it to the sink while full inevitably leads to water all over the floor. The fix is just to empty it more frequently but its not something I think about and I feel a machine of this caliber should give fair warning. Everything else about this machine is perfect, it makes a flawless cup every single time – needs to be descaled about once per month, and filter change (hard water area) about once every 2 months.

Now that’s an upgraded coffee!! but also brews a perfect tea.
Our old delonghi bean to cup died after 4 and a half years of heavy use so it was time for an upgrade. This is superb perfect choice of bean strength a great selection of coffees and I no longer have to mess about failing at frothing my milk. One thing I didn’t realise is this brews a perfect cup of tea with the hot water tea tap so for my wife that was an absolute winner as the tap comes out at the core edge speed to brew a proper cuppa. All in all very happy and something that is defo worth the purchase in these strange times of working from home. Top work delinghi.

Thoroughly recommended machine!
Outstanding machine! Nearly 100 cups made and a brilliant machine, researched these more than I should have and I haven’t been disappointed! Depends on which coffee bean you use though and my flavour of choice at the moment is Kimbo coffee, we moved recently leaving behind an integrated Seimens coffee mach which was good and considerably more expensive than the Delonghi, however the coffee I’m enjoying now is far better than in the previous machine, no hesitation in recommending this machine to others!

Fantastic
This is our second bean to cup machine and we are very happy with it. Really easy to use and maintain. Makes a great cup of coffee!

Loving i
It’s a very good coffee machine. So pleased with it. My baby

Love this!!!!
O absolutely love this coffee machine. It looks amazing on my kitchen counted, it allows you to customise your drinks to the size an amount of milk and coffee you desire.
It tells you whenever you need to fill up the tank, empty the coffee container and it self cleanse every time you use it.

The only downside is the instructions are so long and you really need to read them all in order to make the most out of it.

Other than that, best purchase ever!!!!

The coffee comes out as promised - creamy and tasty
I got it last month and it working perfect – very essay to use (user friendly)
The coffee comes out exactly as promised. Creamy and tasty with great aroma .
you see no different from the coffee you get in a coffee-shop

One year on and still dishing out perfect coffee
First a big thank you to everyone who posted reviews before mine which helped me a lot in making the decision to buy this as last year’s Christmas present for my mother in law.

No regrets and I’ll tell you why:

– 45% discount on the RRP
– I personally like hot coffee and as long as you prewarm the coffee cup using the hot plate on top (I prefer just to pour in some hot water from the kettle as it’s quicker), you can get a perfectly hot cup of coffee every time.
The quality of the milk foam is really a special feature of this machine and I love the fact that the amount of foam is adjustable. I use the middle amount for my cappuccinos.
– Cleaning is not too problematic
– The ease of maintenance. The self rinsing feature for both the coffee and milk spouts. Everything is easily accessible and easy to clean.
– It can be setup as to the amount and flavour strength of coffee, milk, total beverage amount so that it is a true one button machine for your favourite coffee and mug. It’s so satisfying to see the machine fill up your favourite mug right to the top with one button press.

The cons:
-For best results you have to keep stocked up on the filters which are special Delonghi ones.
-Some say this machine doesn’t make a proper flat white. None of us drink this type of coffee really so we wouldn’t have noticed but I’d still imagine people who want a strong two shot coffee would still enjoy this option.
– The coffee machine we bought off amazon uk did not have Polish as a language option but my mother in law has been able to cope fine with that.

Good machine!
Got it as my mum’s christmas gift and she’s over the moon with it – kept asking everyone if they’d like a coffee, and already made herself some in her fancy travel mug I got her not long ago to take for a drive 🙂 It’s easy to use, easy to clean, bought filters and a cleaner when ordering and had no problem figuring it out. Definitely recommend!

A couple of tips for other users...
We got a bit confused at the beginning with all the rinsing and cleaning this machine does. Don’t get me wrong it’s great, but the manual could do with a complete rewrite.

Ultimately though, the ease with which one presses a button and gets a marvellous cup of coffee is amazing. I’ve had flawless cappuccinos and lattes and am a pretty happy customer.

Tips for others:
– even with low fat milk, a bit of cream will get stuck in the milk carafe pipe and upper mechanism. A gentle dunk in warm water usually sorts this out (never any detergent!).
– if you find steam instead of milk froth coming out of the carafe insert the steam spout and draw a cup of hot water. This usually sorts out the air block.

Only been using for about 10 days, but pretty happy so far.

They should drop Black Friday .rather than causing a mad rush for one day.
Love this machine. Wish I waited a month as it reduced90 for Black Friday.The only gripe I have is the drip tray scratches with the cups and the milk container. After a month it is looking well used. Otherwise brilliant lovely coffee easy to use and clea