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Originally Posted by SneakySnake
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Good to know I can get a Silvia locally, just have to justify the $$. A friend in Buderim has a Sunbeam and makes great coffee (she is a pro though). I will take more notice of the model next time I am there.
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I would only buy the Sunbeam "Cafe Series" E6910 (and possibly the grinder). I think these might be "loss-leader" products for Sunbeam (a good quality product sold at a loss - well, not likely a loss, but you get the drift - to sell all their other products). On the basis of our experience with them, we bought other Sunbeam "Cafe Series" products. They were all...well, let's just say they were
adequate consumer appliances.
Saying that, if our machine had experienced an unrecoverable failure (FUBAR), we'd be starting again by looking at something like the Sylvia. I know that The Loved One wants the Rocky grinder, for starters.
Incidentally, that Di Bella coffee...if you go for a new machine, check out the prices of their coffee beans. We buy 3kg at a time, and the price, delivered, for fresh-roasted beans, is not what you'd necessarily expect. We're tightarses here, so we wouldn't be buying them if they weren't reasonably priced.
(Sorry, I
did read that you used to run a cafe at Mooloolaba, and know that you'd know more than me 'bout all this - I'm just letting my enthusiasm run off at the mouth.
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Cheers,
Marc