Review on Krups Calvi Meca XP 3440, black/silver coffee maker by Edyta Grober-Wytryko ᠌

Name: Krups Calvi Meca XP 3440, black/silver coffee maker
Item: Krups Calvi Meca XP 3440, black/silver coffee maker
Rating: 4

April 21, 2023

The product is really good, Im glad I bought it.

For a small office and for office money - the norms. Espresso brews good, but you don't need more. But for home use . Too many nuances to brew a cup of hot coffee in the morning.

 A 51 mm horn, if this is important to someone.
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Pros

1. Quiet. When working, it does not shout with a good obscenity, but rumbles on the border between "quiet" and "normal". 2. Compact. 14 cm wide. 3. Fast heating. Readiness for cooking already somewhere after 30-40 seconds after switching on (thermoblock, after all). 4. Brews good strong coffee. Stands in the office, gives out about a dozen or one and a half cups a day, does not ask for porridge. When using good ground coffee and normal tamping of the tablet, the output is a rich aromatic drink that puts the brains in place and gives rise to a slight tremor in the hands))) 5. A tank of water is enough for a day of espresso brewing.

Cons

1. Coffee not hot enough. The temperature is really lacking, and in the case of an unheated cup/group, be prepared for the final product to be disappointing in terms of temperature. 2. Residual humidity of the tablet: after brewing, it is not a tablet that remains in the basket, but a wet thick (my colleagues and I tried over 9000 types, grinds and tamping efforts of coffee, we realized that you need to be at least Gandalf in order to get a dry tablet at the exit, and scored - now just wash the basket after cooking under the tap). Plus, the coffee maker is very demanding on grinding coffee and tamping the tablet, and if the specified parameters are not proper, there will be a puddle in the horn. 3. Regularly overflowing shallow tray. 4. Baskets are not actually attached to the horn, and after cooking, you either have to pick out the raw grounds with your hands into a bucket, or wash the basket under a tap with the cake drained into the sink drain. 5. Conical basket (narrows towards the bottom). An extremely inconvenient thing when forming a tablet.