Anyone got a lower end price (<£400) bean to cup machine they might wish to provide feedback on?
I'm no longer enjoying my venerable moka stove top coffee.
Or are coffee pod machines at all worth considering?
Requirements are ~2 cups of strong espresso coffee per day, one at least being larger than single shot cup (~150ml) with ~equal quantity of added hot milk, don't mind heating milk separately.
I found myself asking the same question during the first lockdown, and mostly all I found was coffee porn requiring vast sums of cash or ages spent dialing machines in to give a reasonable cup of coffee.
I bought a refurbished delongi machine for about 160 quid, beans from a local roaster and dialled it up so the 2 shot button makes an americano.
I put a cup under it, stab a button hot coffee comes out I drink it... repeat.
Unless of course what you want is to be a coffee nerd, I just wanted something to help with the conversion of caffeine into profit for my corporate overlords and the cafeteria wasn't cutting it.