Matt J Taylor says:

Hitherto, I sparsley drank coffee. With any incipiency, I become eccentric about the endeavor for a fortnight. I have bought a motley of distinctive blends from kenya to sumatra, a grinder, a press pot, and now an expresso maker. Since coffee quality isn’t of the utmost importance to me I decided to buy a meretricious espresso maker. This coffee maker even though it cost about $140 can not make expresso. This is a gawdy piece of trash. This contraption can’t make any better expresso than a chintzy $30 expresso maker. I don’t call this expresso I call it just coffee. This can’t produce anything close to the expresso quality you would buy at a coffee bar. That pungent acidic and full body taste of expresso is missing. The crema this machine produces is so sparse compared to a coffee shop. I like my expresso to be strong and taste heavy in the mouth, this tastes like regular coffee. The only coffee that remotely came close to expresso was the coffee grounds that came with this maker, but even that was too weak and not full enough. I prefer drip coffee over this maker, cleaning this appliance is toilsome. Every time I make a cup of coffee I have to arduously clean out the metal filter. Why can’t this come with discardable paper filters that drip coffee makers use, that is so much easier. Coffee connoiseurs claim the paper filter somehow ruins the flavor, but the paper filter is a lot more convenient. Even though this is suppose to be an automatic maker, It takes way too much of a nisus to brew coffee. I find myself chiefly using my old drip coffee maker since it is more convenient and takes only a lilliputain of time. The instruction manual this gadget is furnished with I found terse and the manufacturer could of expatiated and elucidated more. Although I was not satisfied with the quality of the enchiridion’s written explanations, I found the pictures aptly explained how to employ the gismo. To aggregate my quibbles, if you only desire middling coffee this is the appliance for you, otherwise be willing to fork over at least $500.
Rating: 2 / 5

A. L. Coyner says:

I have to point out that this review is not of the product itself (as we never got to use it!) but of the packaging of it, and Amazon’s or DeLonghi’s attention to detail. This was a main Christmas gift for my husband and we were so excited to have espresso with our Christmas morning brunch. He unpacks the machine out of its original packaging and the main part that holds all the water is completely missing. There is no other way to use or run the machine without water in it and it’s also a rather large piece on the back-side. We had to send it back and needless to say, I was extremely disappointed. The box looked fine and I did not assume that I should need to dismantle the entire thing prior to wrapping to make sure that essential parts were all there. There would not have been time to send it back and receive a new one, anyway, in time for the holiday. I really feel this level of service is unacceptable and we returned the item and did not get a replacement — and are still waiting for our money to be re-credited to my card. Extremely bad experience!
Rating: 1 / 5

Totally Honest says:

I recently purchased this model and cannot recommend this to anyone who like’s latte. This unit only puts out two shots of week espresso. I have tried all types of coffee including Starbucks and Caribou. I even had them grind it, to make sure my mill was working properly. I had a Mr. Coffee that put out better Latte. It does give you that creamy foam on top but lacks the dark carmel flavor you get at the big boy shops. I am looking to replace this with something else, I have been making my own for 16 years so, I think I know how to make a good cup. I just can’t do it with this model.
Rating: 1 / 5