Cuir Beluga wrote:
...La Pavoni Europiccola and/or Professional. Yay, nay or indifference?...
Hi Sue, afraid that would be your call not ours 🙂 Others have made some good points for you to consider. If its important to you, I dont think you will be entertaining with one, and it has a *finite* capacity ie, you fill the boiler, warm up, make coffee, and if you make enough successive coffees that you run the boiler capacity down to minimum, you switch off, bleed steam, open the boiler (do not burn yourself), refill, warm up again, and go again... Whereas "semi commercial" machines such as the ones you have also been looking at can be run continuously and used to entertain groups, family gatherings and dinner parties etc. They have a water reservoir that feeds water into the boiler. You keep filling the reservoir with water, and you can keep making coffee ad infinitum. It is an entirely different way of managing your coffee making operation. The coffee is also different, because the size of the coffee filters ("filter baskets") on semi commercial machines is as per commercial size, while those on the europiccola as with many home use machines, have a smaller capacity of grinds. Horses for courses really, depends on what you like 😉 Hope that helps.
