Coffee machine with a milk container: pour the mixture into the milk container and activate the hot steam/milk function. Yes, also for the Dutchman who has regular visitors, and does not want to spend his expensive coffee beans on others. With its separate milk preparation system, the coffee machine is always ready to make perfect milk foam. Admittedly, quite often I find myself wanting to use ‘Everything’s Great, No Problems’ as a title for the cleaning section. Limescale is one of the most common causes of coffee machine failure, so it's very important to remove it in time.

To the manufacturer’s credit, I think this reflects just how much it cares about this important aspect, in general.

However, this doesn’t produce a Cappuccino, but rather a Caffè Latte — the closest thing you’ll get to a Latte Macchiato. As always, the B in the name stands for the Black plastic version, and as always, you have the option to choose Silver or a mixed version. The fact is that the slightly more affordable and smaller ECAM machine is a wonderful machine in its own right. The only drawback of the milk reservoir is that the milk spout is just not long enough in my opinion [and this was my mistake.

I wasted days and days being bounced around their system, waiting on hold for hours, only to get dropped from the system.As with all bean-to-cup coffee machines, the conical grinder has several settings for coarseness (13 to be exact.

This dispenses water through the milk nozzle into the drip tray to keep it clean and ready to use for next time. If you have the serial number available then please select it from the list below to ensure you get the right part first time. Grab a bottle and let it help you save energy, as well as ensure the finest coffee flavour day in and day out. Speaking of the front panel, the digital display shows your current mode, while a dial and several buttons are used to customise your coffee (more on that in a moment). Still, that’s only due to details like a completely stupid button assignment — the quirkiest ever to appear in a super-automatic espresso machine review.Most importantly, it makes brilliant coffee every time and is easy to customise, so we think it provides value for money.