So cheap for this particular pod machine. Makes the best tasting espresso out of all pod machines (I've had this and Tasimo, Lavazza and Nespresso machine) but the pods are expensive (~50p each but sometimes down to ~35p on offer / bulk buy).

best pod coffee I have ever had, these are the capsules espressocrazy.com/cof…es/


unfortunately I have had 3 of these machines in 4 months and finally gave up, water chamber not registering and leaking problems all 3.

Cold for me. Hotpoint is a toxic brand with a terrible record of appliances catching fire.

These machines are approaching inkjet printers in terms of the "razor and blades model" - sell the appliance at a loss and make your profit on the consumables.

If you want decent coffee, buy a cafetiere and get freshly ground coffee. Cheaper, easier to clean, results just as good, plus you have a huge range of coffees to choose from, not just what the pod people want to sell you.

Wikipedia on the "razor and blades model"

Worth pointing out with pods you can’t recycle them - with cafetière you can recycle the packaging (if you buy starbucks ground coffee... and you get a free latte)

Still a good deal thou, just pointing out a lot of people think most pods are recyclable when they aren’t.

It's back again, the machine that looks like robocop!

Got one on Groupon for £24.99 a few months ago. They come with at least 20 pods probably about as much worth as the machine cost. It's under the sink now, the refillable pods on eBay are garbage and the pods you get with them are impossible to reuse. Total white elephant and the original very very very expensive pods are nothing to write home about.

Video: 0:53 is something not right there, as normally you wouldn't have 2 pipes connected to 1 point.

This looks like robocops backside has malfunctioned

I own this, AMAZING coffee... but you can buy the reusable pods on AliExpress. You can then use your own coffee.

The Pods are worth it. I buy the Black ones as they taste amazing.

Well worth it!

Nice.

I have a coffee maker, it is called a kettle!

Weirdest looking gaming PC I've ever seen.

better investment would be an aeropress

We used to have a pod machine (Tassimo, in our case; but they're all much of a muchness). Got sick of the waste in packaging and mediocre coffee. Saved up for a while and bought the bottom end DeLonghi bean-to-cup machine instead. They're frequently around £250 on sale and the cheap ones have the same guts as the expensive ones. The cheap ones are just a bit less pretty, and don't froth your milk automagically. It's then your choice whether to spend a similar amount to the pods for *really excellent* coffee (Red Brick from Square Mile is beyond heaven, but something like £30/kg), or save a whole lot of cash and still buy coffee that's better than what's in the pods in the £10/kg range.

If you plan on having a coffee machine for a few years then a bean to cup machine has to make sense financially. Capsule machines make decent coffee but not as good as fresh ground imho.

Working on an approximate cost of 8p a shot for a £250 budget btc machine it would pay for itself after less than a thousand cups, about 18 months use at two cups a day compared to this machine. And you get better coffee !

Looks really cool and very cheap!! Good work OP

I love the anti-pod brigade. If you're happy to go bean to cup and you use those coffee beans up before they go stale (which doesn't take long at all!) then fair enough.

I've owned a bean to cup from delonghi. I've owned a Gaggia Classic with a dosing burr grinder. I've owned a Rancilio Sylvia. None of them gave the results I was getting with a 3 group Rancilio machine at work.

Every one had the disadvantage of the beans going stale before I'd finished them. So many people seem happy to drink stale coffee.

I was was utterly sceptical about pod machines (especially after trying wretched Tassimo and Dolce Gusto coffees) but I'm so glad I gave Nespresso a chance.

The drawback is that Nespresso's coffees aren't that interesting. They're all a bit safe However they're consistent and the coffee stays fresh for much longer. I'm happy to pay the price for a coffee that I don't have to use up in a week or two before it goes stale.

If I want better, more distinctive coffees, I buy pods from Colonna.

Any wannabe coffee snobs would do well to read Maxwell Colonna Dashwood's thoughts on pod coffee. He's a true coffee expert and he doesn't have to snort at pod machines to try and prove it..!

Worth a punt at this price, voted hot. Main machine is a bean to cup but this might be handy for the man cave.

I didn't saw there wasn't a flaw in their machines that contributed to the problem - clearly enough to warrant the expense they are undertaking, there's more recalls/retro-active modifications than fear of litigation - but the fact is it ONLY becomes an issue when the machine aren't cleaned as often as stated.

No, you're not knowledgeable, so perhaps you should keep your mouth shut.

@SlightlyFoxed you said there was only a problem when the machines were 'seriously neglected' which is either an ill-informed opinion or absolute nonsense. Whilst I'm sure you're not one of those service engineers who appear on Watchdog you clearly are the type who blame consumers. Hotpoint have a terrible attitude to consumer safety and that isnt up for debate.

Hmm "isn't up for debate" and ad hominem attacks.

It's funny, every time I hear that kind of crap, it's usually an attempt to defend a weak argument. Right up there with "End of!" and "Period!"

Good day.

Let's be honest you have a vested interested in people buying rubbish appliances that require servicing. You offer no substantive information, you just offer personal insults. You try to peddle this rubbish that Hotpoint machines it's just the customers seriously neglect them. Of course that's completely false and is a contradiction of the evidence. Hotpoint aren't sending letters to people saying please don't neglect your machine - they are sending engineers to modify them.

Your point about Grenfell supposes that you know facts when you very clearly don't.

Would be suprised if this wont burd down a building or two