The Philips HD5407 / 60 coffee machine does exactly what did our grandmothers hand: ground coffee with boiling water brew. I like neither the conventional Kaffemaschienen, where the coffee is usually prepared with only 80 degrees of hot water and, accordingly, tastes, even the yuppie Express Omas rails that I feel exaggerated. And the machines, working with tabs and Kabseln, make high coffee consumption far too expensive in the long run. The principle of the Philips HD5407 / 60 tells me too much, it is the modern version of the old school method. I find the Maschiene visually very appealing, it just looks chic and I like it, boil the water to see and experience the brewing process virtually. And most important: The coffee tastes really good !!!! It takes a little longer until the coffee is ready, but that was at my grandma and so and I feel that in our fast-paced rather than relaxing, but that should not see any so. For the coffee tastes much better than the Standartmaschienen. The weaknesses criticized here struck me as not serious, fill the water requires a little care, but I was already used by our old coffee machine, when it was rather more difficult. A little incomprehensible but this is already explained by the developers solve the not better .... That Maschiene be shut off after 30, does not bother me, because I always umfülle the finished coffee immediately in a thermos. That is why also the continuous heating of the water tank is not a problem for me. But the sense is not natural. The amount of the Philips HD5407 / 60 coffee maker made it impossible for us to put them at the usual place because of the closet, but it is now an eye-catcher. Cleaning presents itself as unproblematic, the parts that you can lose weight, are spülmaschienenfest. Small weaknesses it has, but all in all I was able to convince the Philips HD5407 / 60 coffee maker.