When coffee machines, everything is well made. All parts are manufactured precisely, nothing is off, on, or wobbles. The machine looks chic and classy with his black plastic surface and the polygonal shape. With a weight of 7.5 kg I feel the device to be relatively easy. The included, richly illustrated manual is quite enough for the first steps - a more detailed version can be found on the Internet on the pages of the manufacturer.
The coffee machine should be set up so that in any direction about 150 mm square. Right and left are the vents should be free, since at least the right escaping steam -, behind the main switch and the socket for the power plug and are located above the water tank and the coffee bean container.
The water tank takes from front to back, the whole left side. For filling it can be removed, but what I can be wobbly and also the insertion of the full water tank is too critical, which is why I befülle the water tank in the unit. The coffee bean container occupies the right side, in the vessel's vicinity is the compartment for pre-ground coffee - for any coffee or espresso to be brewed with pre-ground coffee, you have to fill these new specialist. Also in the coffee bean container finds the knob for adjusting the grind.
After the first time you turn the coffee machine you have first time doing some things that no longer are needed later. How all this makes is well described and detailed in the Quick Start Guide. One can by the so-called demo mode to make a small tour of the menu, I found personally not particularly helpful. The first time to make coffee, the machine has squeaked, so I already dachtet, but that it is already broken the next time coffee has hardly even heard of it more. Today, she runs up to the milling - which of course is a little louder naturally calm and steady. After the first few coffees was the coffee grounds container quite a lot of water but that has now been recorded and the coffee grounds is dry.
After switching on the machine, the machine automatically flushes leads first time by just turning off. After that you can then already preparing his specialty coffee. Is operated the machine over 7 keys that you have to press firmly until they respond. The following buttons are available:
- On / Off switch
- Espresso button for double or single espresso (same stop button)
- Coffee key for double or single coffee
- Aroma button to select a desired flavor
- Cappuccino button for milk froth
- Water for hot water
- Menu button
on the espresso and coffee buttons can also be its desired coffee or espresso amount programmed say you always get after programming the same amount of coffee or espresso.
Generating milk foam is very easy. Press the Cappuccino key, the automatic milk frother attached and the suction hose you can easily prepare milk froth. Simply the hose in a vessel hang me milk and press the button. The appliance heats up and then produces a good solid foam for cappuccino - you just have to remember to stop again this operation. The milk frother and pipe will be cleaned simply by allowing water to foam up and down and takes apart the milk frother and cleans. For milk foam is then added simply to taste coffee or espresso you have also the possibility to prepare a double coffee or espresso. If you remove the cappuccino maker has one the possibility of hot water to get through the steam nozzle.
You have the chance to try different settings for flavoring their coffee / espresso to choose. You can select the About button flavor between beans 1 (extra mild flavor) to 5 beans (extra strong aroma) also has the possibility to choose the setting pre-ground coffee. Furthermore you can change the grind in the coffee bean hopper. You can choose between 5 grind settings. Something suboptimal at changing the grinding stage is that one looks bad that grinding stage you just set everything is kept in the same color but otherwise adjusting the attached bowl / scoop is pretty easy these simply press during grinding something down and a grinding step Continue to turn. If you change something in the flavor or the grinding step you realize this then clearly the flavor of the coffee.
Messages are not only marked by corresponding symbols but also match the display. There are green all operational -, yellow, the machine usually makes something such as run a cleaning cycle and red here has to be emptied eg what grounds container or water to be refilled.
The coffee or espresso tastes very good and is hot nice you can adjust the temperature in the menu individually. You can tell from the taste clearly the difference between espresso and coffee. If you prepared a specialty coffee with milk, then even this is beautiful and the milk foam is stable and fluffy as it should be. Under the sink you can make cups in the maximum height of 152 mm, which I think is perfectly adequate - my latte macchiato glasses fit well underneath. The spout is also height-adjustable, so even small espresso cups can be filled squirt free.
It is recommended daily coffee grounds container to empty the drip tray and the water tank and clean. Weekly should be the brewing unit, which let be easily removed, cleaned and purified. And a monthly cleaning of the automatic milk frother this Saeco Milk Circuit Cleaner is recommended -, the frother and the coffee bean container. The brewing unit should be cleaned and lubricated monthly using coffee grease remover tablets. In regular cycles also Entkaltung applies. Those who want to can have a water filter INTENZA + began, which should also be changed regularly.
What I like about this coffee machine that he almost intuitively and the drip is relatively large because I already had machines with lots of smaller dishes. The coffee or espresso tastes very good with this coffee car. In addition, you still have the opportunity easy to prepare coffee specialties with milk.
Not so good, I like that you have to press pretty hard the keys to react but you get used to fast - and the display of the grind is not clear. Need to remove the drip tray, which occupies almost the entire bottom of your device to remove the cappuccino maker - which is not a big effort but a bit annoying. The on / off button is flashing red when the engine is off, what's the point is not clear to me and the Geblinke is also not so appealing. Even the rather shaky water tank could have been handled better. In addition, I would have wished that the machine came with a detailed user guide and not just a quick start guide.
The coffee car Minuto Saeco I like except for the above-mentioned small things very well. Everyone can choose which flavor or strength to have his own specialty coffee. Also the preparation of cappuccino or latte macchiato is no problem using the automatic milk frother. The machine is easy to clean and maintain. And the best part is that you get so really good coffee / espresso.
