After I had bought myself a good coffee grinder, I also wanted to replace the old coffee. The choice was between the Phillips HD 5405/60 Café Gourmet and the Krups T8. When Philips me the many negative reviews regarding deterred. Susceptibility to defects from. I had the opportunity to test the Phillips machine - and was not impressed. While the coffee was stronger than from my old machine, but that was about it. So I ordered the Krups - and am really more than thrilled. The machine really wonderful brews coffee, which is very complex in flavor. I had not realized that coffee can taste so good and complex! However, I do not find that it tastes like a mocha, or as prepared by the press pot. It's the flavor of a perfect filter coffee. Point. The handling is really easy, and the preparation succeed even in the morning quickly if one does not have much time for breakfast. The Melitta circular filter which is used is a little too big, but this does not matter because you have these moisten Insert after. And then the seat is optimal. With the amount of coffee and the degree of grinding you have to experiment a bit until you meet his or her personal taste. From three available grinding stages for filter coffee at my mill, I use the second finest stage. For breakfast we are preparing two large cups of coffee, which corresponds to the marking of the glass carafe 4 large cups. When preparing trickles in this volume also anything previously in the pot before the optimum pressure is built up. This happens only after a 3/4 filled. What, however, does not even bother me, and which also has no influence on the taste. Whether 2, 4 or 8 cups - the result is always perfect. In a coffee forum I read that the machine only provides satisfactory results if you cooked a whole pot. That would have dissuaded me almost of a department. And it is in fact utter nonsense! The coffee arrives very hot in the pot and at the right temperature when I mix it in a cup with a little milk. And the taste is really sensational! A small tip for choosing the coffee bean: the big brands are not always the best. There are many small roasters that offer excellent products that are substantially tastier than those of large companies. Just search the internet!
