DeLonghi ECP31.21 Italian Traditional Espresso Coffee Maker, Black (Renewed)

Very good little machine. Easy to use,easy to clean,makes great coffee.

Bought this to replace my old Delonghi machine that had died!Makes good coffee, not complicated or difficult to use.Recommend.

My old expresso machine took ages to make a drink, this however makes an expresso or lattee in the same time as you can make an instant coffee. It is nice and compact and feels very well made. I got a refurbished model for £65 in a warehouse deal and it came in the box (which was crushed in the corner hence the discount) and a years guarantee. The steamer for milk is extremely fast and can be moved to several different position sand is nice and high so you can remove your jug without spillage. The only cons with the machine are a small water tank and I would have liked a longer arm on the steamer. But these are minor gripes on what is an excellent machine and it is worth the full price of £139.99 in my opinion so if you can get any kind of deal on it I would grab it it.

Good product easy to use

For the house

Good machine Makes good espresso apart from the steam wand which a has a wired plastic bit that’s one annoying to clean and two makes it impossible to steam milk for latte art. But what do you expect from a £100 machine

The product looks good and was well packaged - it was a Black Friday Deal.The instructions assume that you are born knowing how to make cappuccino: there is a set of drawings followed by random instructions for this machine and the ".31" that has slight but important differences. You are told to flush through with the full tank (1.1 litres) of water. I did this and it was really successful.I then did the first run with espresso ground coffee: This went through fairly quickly but was vile - apparently I should have used a bigger container/basket, i.e. more coffee.I noticed that you have to judge when to stop the water coming through as the easy-fill water container will keep churning it out whilst it still has water in it.Emptying the used coffee was not simple - despite a layer of water/grounds mud on top, the rest seemed to have stuck.Prying the container/basket off to change it for the bigger one required a kitchen knife and fingernails that will never be the same again. You don't want to be doing this more than once a year.The second attempt with the bigger container was abandoned after 12 minutes - the pump was working full blast all the time but nothing was coming through.Suspecting that I had pressed down the coffee too hard, I repeated the process without actually pressing the coffee. This was its last chance and, after waiting 24 minutes and having a puddle of cold coffee in the bottom of a cup, I gave up and took it back. I suspect the pump had died.I am sure that there really is someone in the UK who has actually drunk a cup of coffee from this machine. Perhaps they could tell me what it was like and then recommend another coffee maker.All I want is a cappuccino maker that does the job - I don't want it to look like something that will do 200mph down an autostrada. Is there any reason why these coffee machines are so expensive? Basically, they employ a technology made famous by James Watt in 1776.