Brown stuff

[suityou01]

No, I used the manufacturers descaler (despite it rather disturbingly having "baby cleaner" written on the packet) but after 4 years or so it stopped working, when I dismantled it I found theinside of the boiler / heating element (which didn't seem to be brass but aluminium) was quite badly corroded.

Don't you have some software to not install properly? Have you tried angry birds? I've heard that's really tricky to get working.

Like it

[doodab]

That's a truly terrible argument for spending a lot on home items. By that logic I should spend £2000 on a fridge because it is saving me money compared to the pub. The fact a £400 fridge would do the same job is apparently not a factor.

It's not an argument for spending a lot, and it's nothing to do with saving money. It's an argument that £1000 isn't actually a lot to spend on a coffee machine relative to the other costs involved in drinking lots of coffee.

If I could find one with a brass boiler, heat exchanger, heated brass group head and rotary pump for £400 I would certainly check it out. As it is they seem to start around £7-800.

Anyway, it turns out that the modern gaggia home machines are known for corroding because they have a mixed brass / aluminium boiler. So I suspect if I bought another it would die in 4-5 years or so just as the last one did.

[Mich the Tester]

That's a truly terrible argument for spending a lot on home items. By that logic I should spend £2000 on a fridge because it is saving me money compared to the pub. The fact a £400 fridge would do the same job is apparently not a factor.

I put it to you that if people stop spending large amounts of money on expensive gadgets and appliances controlled by software, we're all fooked.

[d000hg]

Cheap gadgets can still use embedded software
Anyway, those with more money than sense can buy them and keep us in work. Luckily, no matter how deep we sink into recession, or how horrific the austerity we have to adopt, the proportion of the population with more money than sense is something to be optimistic about.

[v8gaz]

Waste of time poncing about with quality machines when you fill it with crappy London water. Your tea sucks big dog's as well.

Scottish water, on the other hand, makes a great cuppa.

[Troll]

Wot about the Nespresso jobbies - not a huge coffee fan but do like an occasional cup?

stick to instant or worth a go?