Brett H wrote:
... in fact, If you can get great coffee and great service from a machine a fraction of the cost of others then I take my hat off to you!!
Like Wine, (not that I can speak from experience), Coffee is subjective. We have a commercial machine in our Restaurant/Lounge area at work and I am fortunate enough to be able to make the occasional Cappuccino on it and it has allowed me to make some comparisons with very interesting results. I have yet to make one that is of an equal taste (subjective as it is) to that which I can make on my EM7000 at home. Assuming it was the different Beans that they use, I even ground some of my own at home and brought it to work to try on their machine. Although this obviously meant that they weren't ground and then immediately used for making coffee...it was still within a couple of hours of grinding. Again, the result was uninspiring...and surprising. Could be the way the Machine is set up...who knows ? Just to put it into perspective, I am more than happy with most Cappuccinos that are made for me in various Coffee Lounges...so this is not a case of "only my Sunbeam can produce a good coffee". (I'm a man that is easily pleased with a 'Michel's" Coffee...but Starbucks should be avoided)
