Why pay more?

The BEEM i-Joy Cafe Ultimate beats all so far have come in my household used coffee machines. I think he's the best current machines on the market. For this was anticipated that our family primarily drinks frothed coffees. A pure espresso runs rarely out of the machine. As a portafilter the BEEM is quite unviversell. Ground Coffee and Espresso, Coffee / Espresso pods and the so-called ESE pads are used. Not function Nespresso capsules and Senseo pads. We only use ESE pads, which are available in large variety and all price ranges. Illy is divine and expensive, but there are (at Amazon) also very good drinkable 100 pads bag at a bargain price. The pads offer the advantage of less dirt and uniformly good coffee. Another advantage is the individual choice of coffee for each cup.

The machine is quite fast to operating temperature as soon as the pulsing blue LEDs change to steady light. There are only three buttons, each of which has three functions in addition to the right side-mounted on / off switch to operate. From top to bottom: espresso small, large and lungo, cappuccino small, large or foamed milk latte and small, large and clean the milk nozzle. The respective third function is obtained with a slightly longer pressing the corresponding button, selecting "big or small" is performed by gently tapping. The selection made will be displayed each of the LED indicator. Something I call a clear and self-explanatory. After some time of inactivity the BEEM schlatet automatically.

A shining example the milk foam preparation is solved, a big (mostly unsolved) problem of all machines. In BEEM can disassemble the entire upper part of the milk jug and clean even in the dishwasher. Each tube passes in the milk is thus cleaned perfectly. At last the sour smell of the milk potty thing of the past! Even accidentally overnight in milk jug remaining was still usable in the morning. The managed our five times as expensive luxury Saeco never!

The taste is the coffee products from coffee machines by Saeco not, if he does even hotter and thus is complementary to my idea of ​​a latte macchiato or cappuccino. The experience of many years of use of about 15 different Kaffeevoll- and semi-automatic machines shows that the taste is almost the same result. Really wanted one in the whole higher echelons of Espresso board, (eg ECM) would have to be sought in the field of professional machines. There, however, will cost only the coffee grinder by 1000 EUR. For us it does this part Milchpantscher 220 EUR (as of 12/04/15) and all well.

I'm really impressed by the price / performance ratio. Even if the machine should kick the bucket with end of two years Gewährleistunsgsfrist, the acquisition would be worth. We had the same two high-priced (900 EUR and 1,200 EUR) machines that are constantly prepared ourselves anger, so that usually only one worked ("After all," you have to say in hindsight). The electronics played often crazy, repeatedly had to control board and water heater to be replaced, virtually the classic standard repair: costs typically each approximately 250 EUR. And leaking both machines were often: Given the purchase price a fiasco and I think, embarrassing for the manufacturer! Never again will I buy fully automatic, as well as the other two major manufacturers of fully automatic machine according to the findings of our friends are not really better. And everyone else perhaps bear great names, but are almost always one of the three dominant company. No Thanks!

After many years great frustrations with coffee machines, I can recommend buying this machine from honest conviction, because you can not go wrong especially when buying through Amazon.