I have this unit now very happy for several weeks and am generally. The coffee tastes good, the build quality is right and the follow-up costs are low, because you do not depend on a particular pad or capsule system. A small drawback is the somewhat low capacity of the machine. Who like to drink a larger cup of milk coffee or making coffee for several people, comes quickly reach the limits of the relatively small water tank and the coffee grounds container. In addition, the machine is quite common in the state 'Descaling', which you can then manually skip though, but it annoying then something. In the soft water here in my area certainly larger maintenance intervals would be enough. When milk foam with the foam nozzle disturbs something that quite a long warm-up time, so that you'll have for a while with the milk jug in his hand on the nozzle until it finally "goes off". The coffee beans stock, however, is of sufficient size for my taste. The "swamp" (or "bilge", or how to do that with such a machine ever known) also needs to be emptied regularly as once in every on and off, a rinsing process is carried out, the additional costs of water. So you are completely busy, if you even want to cook more than 2 cups of coffee: Fill the water, empty coffee grounds, Bilge empty and wash out, waiting for milk nozzle heater, possibly skip decalcification (Full decalcification takes about 20min). The milk nozzle must then afterwards yes also be washed. It is clear that a device of this size and price range is intended for household use and not for an office kitchen or even gastronomy. In this respect I am personally satisfied with the device. But anyway, I find that the term "fully automatic" is somewhat misleading, considering the many handles that are necessary due to the low capacity. In short Positives: + Good price / performance ratio + Good coffee + Amount of water per cup and adjustable grinding fineness + Milk frother not of course in this price range + No proprietary consumables (filters, pads, capsules etc.) + Standby mode with auto-shutoff
Negatives: - Water tank too small - Coffee grounds container too small - Flushing the power cycle require frequent topping and empty the "swamp". - Long warm-up time of the milk foamer - Milk frother bit weak (low amount of steam and / or temperature) - Short time interval between descaling