Sunday 9th December

Far be it for me to endorse a product; that was never what this blog was about.  For years I have wanted a decent coffee machine, and indeed I have bought a few along the way, from a pour-over filter, through Caffetieres and even a proper espresso machine, but none, especially the last were satisfactory.  Part of the problem is the coffee itself; if you buy beans you have to grind them (and I enjoy a good grind as well as the next man) and grinding then correctly is not easy.  Then there is all the paraphernalia, the filter papers, the tamping down of the coffee, the screwing it into the machine, the whamming the grounds out, and the worst of all – the milk frothing.  No machine I ever had could froth milk correctly. It is all in the bar or barometric pressure and most domestic machines just aren’t strong enough.  So I gave up, but kept eyeing new machines as they came on the market.

At last we gave in and decided to buy a DeLonghi Nespresso Latissimo, all of £230 worth, although you do get £40 worth of coffee pods free.  The pods cost about 30p each so it had  better  be worth it. Well I only have to say that the result is outstanding; beautifully frothed great tasting coffee, so easy to use – just drop the pod in and a one touch operation, easy to fill with water and milk, easy to clean and a very cool to look at.  But best of all it makes a perfect cup of coffee.

Nothing else to say really except every home should have one, so as we have two other homes we need to buy two more.  Cheap at the price.