The Cafe Gourmet Philips is by building as compared to other, more compact coffee machines quite large, but Philips has this apparent disadvantage compensated with a very nice design again. The high structure is justified by the fact that the machine operates by the direct-brew principle where the boiling water flows directly into the filter, without passing through detours, where a slight cooling takes place again. The coffee is thus truly outstanding aromatic and tastes much better than the regular coffee machine. I must criticize however 2 points: 1. The filling of the water with the pitcher's really not that easy and without dripping, it does not go unfortunately. I think this should have been noted when testing the machine in the house Philips actually. 2. When removing the cover, there is also a Tropferei, ie the water that collects in the bottom of the lid and drips from running course as good as ever on the stand of the machine, if you are not careful 100%. A cloth so you have to always have at hand. In such a product, at the price, you should expect not happen such trifles. The fold-out filter container and the reclosing flap works very well, the filter can not buckling because it dramatic climax deep enough in the filter holder. The Reiigung is quite simple, of course, one should also advance stidieren the manual, so that one wrong does not matter, what example can quite easily happen in the sealing ring. Conclusion: The Cafe Gourmet is a beautiful machine that optically hermacht what, a great-tasting coffee conjures up, but a few small blemishes has, which would have been easy to avoid, otherwise the machine would have earned 5 stars. So I am sorry to deduct a star.