Supplied with a pH test strip is, with which you can check their own water hardness. As in many regions of Germany the water hardness is relatively high, I would filter out anyway, still very useful!
After unpacking the setup goes very quickly and self-explanatory vonstatten. The menu operation is intuitive from the start and makes thanks to the illuminated touchscreen also fun. The holistic lighting remains on until the machine switches off automatically after the set interval or pressing themselves on the off button. Then a red light will flash. Due to toggle back but you can also eliminate that, but I personally let stand.
The default setting for each type of coffee is relatively strong, it can be but of course individually readjust. First, one can select on the touch screen "The Bean" and set there, but wants to save long term for each drink, you have the menu, otherwise it always jumps back to factory settings. In the menu you can even create your own profiles for each family member, but I have enough of.
The setting for milk-based coffees in my opinion, not so easy, because the milk froth is not calculated in milliliters, but by seconds. Since some tinkering was necessary to find the right because their own balance, but after 2-3 cappuccinos you have it out. The milk foam is both the cappuccino and latte macchiato at the perfect daily cleaning afterwards is very simple, in the filling of water in the milk carafe and by the machine "froth" calls - everything is flushed. Unfortunately, the lid of the milk carafe with weight loss is very stiff - this should have been able to regulate better.
After a week you should wash all parts of the carafe thoroughly and conveniently in the dishwasher. Once a month, a milk system cleaning is required - just a complete flushing and descaling. This major cleaning should attend to, because you have to throw away from and adjust to something or Accrued water. This is something time-consuming (about 1.5 hours completely), but run with me during the washing day in passing by. Still it requires an already rather sparse manual not really, because each additional step is explained on the machine display and described.
The milk-based coffees are but by the carafe very, very comfortable, you have to watch, really pull out the supply tap until it engages only - missing since a millimeter, comes out no milk and carafe simmers internally to himself. As a small acoustic signal would be useful in order to know whether all "sitting".
But I have put the carafe in autumn / winter the day completely on the machine, in the summer I would the carafe in between in the refrigerator. In the evening I sink as I said everything through completely, and then lie down again the day after "the drip" to - is simply delicious! ;-)
Incidentally, I have indeed the "Medium" setting when temperature, but things seem to come straight from hell with all the coffee! This stuff is so hot that I burned my tongue initially after the issue! THE Burner! ;-)
Law frantic I was looking at the beginning and the "escape button" when I have given times more water than can fit in the cup - just press again here on the selected type of coffee and you hear the reference to.
Conclusion: Delicious coffee, cappuccino with milk foam as in the restaurant and low-maintenance machine!
