My girlfriend and I were now so looking forward to the first results. After the obligatory first flush, a good Senseo pad inserted, Lights Camera "normal coffee, a cup of" pressed. The result was something that looked like coffee externally, with a thin, light-brown, large pores, quickly evaporating Crema above. I gave the full cup of my girlfriend, and she said spontaneously: Very weak, but now just right for me and my heart. I said, you said weak, or because I am being interrogated. No, weak, she replied with a smile.
I put a new pad one, tapped for me a cup and could feel my girlfriend confirm: only partial, quickly vanishing, Crema and including a brown, thin, watery dishwater that reminded removed on coffee and so smelled.
Now I took the organic milk from the fridge, put the hose into the machine, clicked on the "cappuccino" button and behold, it came in the high glass now much milk in good foam quality.
When my friend saw this, she waved off the same and said - too much milk, something I do not drink. I drank it and then taste: hot, frothy milk with a little coffee flavor in the background. Also I coveted it not for a second such milk foam cappuccino.
The latte was even worse, almost as the Caffe Latte If I want to drink mainly hot, frothy milk, I need to no 160 Euro machine, and for the pure enjoyment of coffee may make you even forget, as their running every discounter Machine from the rank. You can tell this just abundantly clear that there is no pressure behind it. Well not even 2 bar ...
So after our failed coffee sample I wanted to clean the HD7857 / 20 - according to the instructions in the manual. Accordingly, I flushed tubing and cappuccino maker at your fingertips Once through with water. That was fast.
But then the actual Hammer: I should, - was written there - to pull off and disassembled to thoroughly clean it the cappuccino maker by unit. That turned me now but before a gigantic task. This part consistently refused to move away from the machine. It looked like festgesaugt, sessile, screwed. Only after nine times trying, and I (87 years) was almost at the end of my rope, there was to last. Dismantling I then saved me.
And: Cleaning should nevertheless actually be fully automated in such a demanding device without such a fitze calloused hand-assembly work.
Something like this is a very unique design flaws and may not occur in a so expensive machine. Consider: This would Mammutaufgäbe yes after each use, so every day to me!
The second serious mistake for me is the non-existent ability to program the amount of milk foam, - the third, the aqueous, thin, almost crema loose consistency of pure Normal-coffee drink, the fourth, that of the out flowing quantity imperfectly and quality losses can adjust each cup.
So: Just alone the matter of the incredibly difficult, nearly impossible, removing the froth unit would have led me to return mail to return the device. Would that be a discounter cheap product, because I would make allowances, but not at a precious machine for 160 Euros. There were also further described herein, imperfections: Thus, into the box and back to Amazon.
