Review on Krups Calvi Meca XP 3440, black/silver coffee maker by Stanislaw Kosciukiew ᠌

Name: Krups Calvi Meca XP 3440, black/silver coffee maker
Item: Krups Calvi Meca XP 3440, black/silver coffee maker
Rating: 5

April 21, 2023

I am very happy with this purchase, I will advise everyone!

I read a lot of reviews, the decisive factor was still the ability of the machine to whip milk into the correct foam for cappuccino. I didn’t consider the machine - I can’t stand automatic foam: it’s not the same taste at all. I found a video on YouTube, where this machine was made using this machine. I got it 3 times. Everyone who writes that they spray and boil milk without whipping is using it incorrectly (the reviews often show how the cappuccinatore is immersed to the bottom) - you need to beat the steam on the very surface of the milk, and you will be happy.
It is also very quiet when brewing coffee and is expectedly noisy when frothing milk.
Worth your money.
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Pros

Compact, quiet, easy to operate. Whisks milk into a good foam (Topic 3.2%). Brews good, strong coffee

Cons

The strange design of the horn and filters: 1. a large filter is very deep - having rammed almost 2 measuring spoons and turning the horn at an angle of more than 45, as a result, we don’t get a hard tablet at the output (maybe it’s a coffee grinding feature - I bought another one, I’ll check it). 2. the small filter is very small, subjectively it seems that the spoon will not fit. 3. The filters are not attached well in the horn, when shaking out, even using the structurally available retainer, the filter flies away with the coffee into the bucket. : I tried another coffee and a small filter: as a result, after the strait, there is still liquid in the cone, and not a dry tablet (this was the case in the old Rovento Adagio), I will continue to look for the optimal solution empirically. If you compress coffee directly, then it does not shake out at all, you have to pick it out with a spoon, 2: on the third day I figured out the preparation completely (see photo), but the horn itself is a drawback. In general, disappointed with the design of the horn.