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Originally Posted by montsnmags
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.  )
Cheers,
Marc |
I don't know anything about home espresso machines. WE have a stove top espresso that has not seen the light of day for ages (too lazy) Don't even have proper coffee in the house at the moment.
The cafe thing was 10 years ago and it was an Auto Rancilio (bluddy good coffee - we used Vittoria back then it was one of the few roasted in Oz).
I saw the DiBella thing on the TV a few months ago. Another good tip
Cheers Snake
