Like the name says, Primadonna it is and behaves like one.
The problem is sometimes, for no apparent reason, it refuses to deliver coffee and issues "less coffee" error message instead (after disposing of the perfecly good grounded coffee dose.
Web was not helpful, service either (after general "advice" like "try this or that", they say basically "buy a new one" as it is the case recently with almost everything these days).
Does anybody knows about the solution to this problem? I am desperate
Sorry to hear of your woes. You can try Brighton Coffee Machines either for service work or perhaps some advice over the phone. They fix all manner of machines. On the corner of North Road and Hawthorn Road in Brighton, VIC.
Sorry to hear of your woes. You can try Brighton Coffee Machines either for service work or perhaps some advice over the phone. They fix all manner of machines. On the corner of North Road and Hawthorn Road in Brighton, VIC.
Not that it will help, but we have had a Bezzera Mitica machine for several years now (our second Bezzera machine...the first lasted some 14 years)
which is still working flawlessly....if you are in the market for a new machine: fully manual operation (nothing can fail) a rotary pump and twin boiler design is essential IMHO.
I do have another one actually - it is $50 from Aldi ~10 y ago, similar (and simpler) to the one on picture. It is completely manual, uses ground coffee (not capsules!), but the coffee from it simply can't compare with automatic ones - it is way, way better.
No way I am buying a new one.. I want to repair PrimaDonna, it was given to me and it is a challenge.. and it is easier to dispose off used coffee pellets..
Mate, your doing my head in. A coffee machine that refuses to deliver coffee...
Unheard of, despicable, a shameful state of affairs.
All the best with getting that ‘thing’ fixed.
But, if it dam well refuses to deliver coffee again, get a real manual machine, I mean a real MANUAL machine, that has never refused to deliver me a coffee for the last 10 years.
I just use a simple electric coffee percolator, so why are these coffee machines better?
It's not a matter of better coffee, but of one's preference in coffee extraction method, and variations within that method as to what one likes.
Some people prefer espresso - extracted under high pressure, usually with a good crema on top.
In most of Italy, people prefer coffee extracted at a much lower pressure in a stove-top Moka machine.
Percolators, drip machines, plungers and aeropress machines extract through either immersion or infusion without pressure, and some people like those best.
And some people don't like any of the above, preferring instead their favourite instant coffee.
In our house, we have all the methods except for a percolator.
Regards,
Renato
P.S. I forgot Robert Timms coffee bags - quick and nice smooth coffee.
My parents had a percolator for decades... I absolutely loathed the coffee they made with it - you could apply it for an artificial suntan and I’m certain it would have stripped paint. Gave me a permanent dislike of coffee, until when I travelled to Italy and had real coffee for the first time.
And beans, don't forget the beans. I've had complaints from 2 colleagues after I have given them good beans, that they couldn't look at 12 month old supermarket coffee ever again.
I think I had Espresso once, and it had this fine grit in it that I didn't like, maybe it was badly made.
I do love Cappuccino that I get from the Wild Bean Cafe in the BP service stations, if it wasn't so expensive I would be buying it every 2 hours.
I watched the video - there is no crema on top of the coffee.
This machine appears like a variation to the normal Moka machine.
Among our pod machines, the MAP Luna puts out the closest thing to a dual boiler espresso, and strong Nespresso pods do a good job too.
Regards,
Renato
DeLonghi PrimaDonna coffee machine
