Coffee, anyone?

[Ranchi]

We’ve a coffee maker (De Longhi Icona) which provided sterling service for a good few years (5 or 6) but is now staring to leak a bit & I guess it’s coming to the end of its usefulness. I’ve descaled it but it’s still not great. We’ve had a Nespresso machine before but would prefer to stick with beans. We might just go for a same again replacement but we’re wondering if any of you have any suggestions for an alternative.

[Mervyn and Trish]

We have a Bosch Tassimo but of course that's pods.

[Stephen]

Sounds a bit like me.

[Onelife]

Nescafe for us but we do use ground coffee in or four cup cafetiere.

[Stephen]

Nescafe for us but we do use ground coffee in or four cup cafetiere.

Four cup…….Oooooow, aren’t we posh

[Manoverboard]

We used to have a DeLonghi ISAM 4200 ish Bean to Cup machine but after many years of loyal service it gave up the ghost. The problem with these machines is that they are impossible to clean properly in spite of using every trick in the book to try.

As a replacement I decided to buy a machine that uses pods rather than beans albeit pods containing high quality coffee from Italy. My choice was a De'Longhi EC685BK and my pods are' Borbone '. It will also allow me to make coffee using ground coffee but unlike the pods that is also a messy business.

I must have purchased a couple of thousand pods by now and the machine still makes excellent coffee without any problem although the descaling process was a bit of a pain in the begining.

[david63]

Oooooow, aren’t we posh

Now you already know that he only drinks £10 bottles of wine so what else would you be expecting?

[oldbluefox]

We've had a SAGE machine for a few years and still gives sterling service. It wasn't cheap but it does the job if you're into ground coffee. We had a Delonghi before which didn't last long until it started leaking. I couldn't recommend those.

[Ranchi]

OBF, our machine is leaking quite a bit. Might look at a Sage machine.

[Mervyn and Trish]

Nescafe for us but we do use ground coffee in or four cup cafetiere.

Four cup…….Oooooow, aren’t we posh

He must have friends! Shocker...

[screwy]

Got a kettle a jar of instant decaf,does that count.?

[david63]

Anyone remember the days before instant coffee and all these new fangled devices and you had Camp coffee?

[oldbluefox]

Not sure they'd be allowed to call coffee Camp nowadays.

[david63]

Not sure they'd be allowed to call coffee Camp nowadays.

it does https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/p ... /254889872

Cheaper than a £10 bottle of wine!!!

[Mervyn and Trish]

We had that as kids

[Manoverboard]

Sage machines are made by Breville ... just saying in case there is a price advantage

[Onelife]

Nescafe for us but we do use ground coffee in or four cup cafetiere.

Four cup…….Oooooow, aren’t we posh

He must have friends! Shocker...

A bet you and Stephen were both school bullies, seeing how you pick on the sweet and innocent

[Stephen]

Anyone remember the days before instant coffee and all these new fangled devices and you had Camp coffee?

Onelife will confirm any minute

[Stephen]

Four cup…….Oooooow, aren’t we posh

He must have friends! Shocker...

A bet you and Stephen were both school bullies, seeing how you pick on the sweet and innocent

Survival of the fittest at our school. We knew what sex WE were in them thar days.

[Ray B]

I have loose tea, a kettle, tea pot an a strainer.
Just thought I'd mention it.

[screwy]

Anyone remember the days before instant coffee and all these new fangled devices and you had Camp coffee?

That and steralised milk. Yuk.

Oh and condensed milk to glue the Hearth tiles down.

[Mervyn and Trish]

Four cup…….Oooooow, aren’t we posh

He must have friends! Shocker...

A bet you and Stephen were both school bullies, seeing how you pick on the sweet and innocent

I was lovely

[Stephen]

Anyone remember the days before instant coffee and all these new fangled devices and you had Camp coffee?

That and steralised milk. Yuk.

Oh and condensed milk to glue the Hearth tiles down.

Remember it well. Foul tasting stuff

[CaroleF]

I have a bottle of Camp Coffee in my pantry, not much difference from the past apart from it's no longer in a glass bottle. I don't use it for a cup of coffee - although it does make excellent iced coffee = but for flavouring it's great. I particularly use it for flavouring the whipped cream on top of a Banoffee pie, which incidentally for those chefs among you I make using a tin of condensed milk that I've put in a saucepan of boiling water for three hours, remembering to top up the water occasionally. I know you can buy tins of caramel but there's nothing like the taste of the caramel that you've made yourself by boiling the can of condensed milk. So it's pastry blind baked, none of this crushed biscuits nonsense, the caramel spooned out into the flan case, a layer of sliced bananas, then whipped double cream with camp coffee added to tase on top then grated chocolate to decorate. Best use of Camp Coffee I know!
As far as coffee machines I have a De Longhi Nespresso machine which I've had for ages and fingers crossed will last a while yet. No problems with it, great coffee and I'm recycling the pods.

Carole

[allatc]

Taylors Italian blend in a cafetiere does it for me