Coffee machine for my parents

ddebski_us

I'm looking to buy my parents a surprise gift of a coffee machine this year. My budget is £50 and ideally it'll be one that use ground coffee and maybe capsules too (but don't want to limit them to just capsules).

Any recommendations? (I don't drink coffee so I have no idea.........!)

Thanks

xDx

tillycat123

Dolce Gusto machine - Always has great reviews, have one myself and got my in laws one last Christmas. This time of year you can usually get the for the £50 - £60 mark.

Latte is the best pods but the machine usually comes with a free box of pods that are mixed to try.

ddebski_us

tillycat123 wrote: »

Dolce Gusto machine - Always has great reviews, have one myself and got my in laws one last Christmas. This time of year you can usually get the for the £50 - £60 mark.

Latte is the best pods but the machine usually comes with a free box of pods that are mixed to try.

Can you use ground coffee too? Don't just want to limit them to pods.

xDx

Kez100

Not on my Dolce Gusto piccolo, no. Just pods.

If I want to hae a lot of coffee then I use a cafetiere.

The Gusto Piccolo was £49.99 at tesco last weekend (I got it free with doubled up clubcard rewards as well). I have bought £30 of pods though from the website - lots of different ones to try - so pods will add up if you do just get a pod machine. I assume that's why you said you wanted to avoid it.

ddebski_us

Kez100 wrote: »

Not on my Dolce Gusto piccolo, no. Just pods.

If I want to hae a lot of coffee then I use a cafetiere.

The Gusto Piccolo was £49.99 at tesco last weekend (I got it free with doubled up clubcard rewards as well). I have bought £30 of pods though from the website - lots of different ones to try - so pods will add up if you do just get a pod machine. I assume that's why you said you wanted to avoid it.

Yeah, I imagine the pods get quite pricey.

xDx

Kez100

I've paid £3.28 for boxes of 16. 20p/cup. However, hot choc and lattes etc use two pods (one is a dried type milk) so the boxes of 16 pods do 8 drinks - 40p/cup.

Not sure how much nicer it will be than, say, the sachets of hot choc which you get 7 for £1, but we will see.

I wanted the machine for espresso or americano, just one cup for me each morning. So, unless we find we love these different flavours, it will be affordable for us. I have only bought the selection online so I can see if we are missing anything! When freinds come I'll use the cafetiere unless they fancy trying something a bit different.

pjjafc

Have a look on the argos ebay site. They have a lots of Gordon Ramsey coffee machines that look good...

nikki1520

I've got a De Longhi metro - makes a big jug of fresh ground coffee, keeps warm for hours - lovely.