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Review on Carob coffee maker De "Longhi ECP 31.21, black by Edyta Chimkowska ᠌

Revainrating 4 out of 5

Satisfied with the product, I recommend it to everyone.

I decided to switch to a carob coffee maker after the taste of coffee from an automatic coffee machine was no longer satisfying. Yes, and there was no way to control the preparation process and form the gram of the tablet, since the maximum filling was about 12 grams, which, in my opinion, is super small. After a long search, the choice fell on this model. With a complete lack of experience and practice with the horn, he began to make coffee, which tasted significantly different from the coffee machine for the better. At the same time, I bought an ordinary milk with blades along with a coffee maker. The main advantage of this model is that even if you have no experience in working with horns, it will forgive everything and prepare a quite tolerable result. The two baskets come with enhancers that provide crema even if you have a bad grind or a bad coffee tamp. The taste of coffee, if you follow the recipe, grams and proportions of water, you can quite enjoy it. And if you take a good coffee grinder, scales, tempera, then the taste of coffee can compete with expensive automatic coffee machines and coffee makers up to 20 tons. Thanks to this coffee maker, you can enter the world of coffee and become interested in this topic. Yes, this coffee maker is a fake espresso and will not make real espresso, but you can learn the very basic skills of working with a cone, properly tamping, frothing milk, and even the basics of latte art. If you don’t bother and don’t want to change this coffee maker to a professional one later, then it will fit perfectly for home or office and will delight you with quite tolerable coffee and cappuccino.

Pros
  • - the enhancer on the baskets gives cream no matter how obliquely / crookedly you tamped the tablet or made uneven / coarse grinding - subject to the recipe, it turns out quite a normal taste of coffee and cappuccino - the opportunity to get and learn the basic skills of working with a horn - simple care of the coffee maker - Definitely the top of the presented segment for this price
Cons
  • - the 80 ml boiler gives a strong instability in the brewing temperature. Therefore, this coffee maker does not need to buy expensive grains, since it simply will not pull out its descriptors. Sometimes, due to the constant drop in temperature on some grain, it makes an underextract and you get a nasty sourness in the mug. Also, due to the small boiler, when frothing milk in a 350 ml pinscher, the steam power drops almost 5 seconds after the start. takes about a minute to beat. - if you want to make a cappuccino, you have to wait. You make espresso, switch to steam, and wait about 40 seconds for the steam to heat up. And if you have guests and everyone wants coffee, then you can stand at the coffee maker for 20 minutes while you repeat all the steps. - The panarello attachment is just awful. It doesn't emulsify the milk, it just froths it and this foam falls out into the espresso. I found a solution - I just removed this nozzle, fixed the elastic band that is on the steamer with a paper clip, and it became better - the milk is whipped without a foam cap. - very humid steam. But such coffee makers cannot have anything else, since the boiler is scanty. - the tamper that comes with the kit is terrible. Due to the fact that the holder is 51 mm, it is difficult to find a professional tamper for it. - a single basket can be thrown away immediately, because no sense from her. The maximum single gram is 10 grams, and the double gram is 15. - due to the nature of pressure and temperature, it will never make a real espresso