Your Morning Joe

Posted by Jeff Carter
on September 19th, 2011

I like to wake up and make myself a nice cup of espresso in the morning. I hated standing in line at Starbucks, and I also hated the fact that I couldn’t lounge around in my pajamas. So, back in 1996 we bought a coffee machine for the home. It was a Saeco Vienna Deluxe.

I never had a problem with it really. After a few years, I had to take it to a local shop for some repairs. It worked great. Then one day, it died.

It was a workhorse. Since both of my daughters, and my wife drink a lot of espresso and latte’s. But it was time to get a new machine.

I called Whole Latte Love. Spoke to a salesman. They talked me up to the Gaggia Titanium (pictured at the top). I have to tell you it is possibly the worst purchase I have ever made. The entire first year, it was in the shop 6 months and on my counter six months. When it needed repair, I had to send it to Italy. Totally unreliable, and it seemed to have a mind of its own as it sat on my counter. Somedays it wanted to make coffee, other days not so much. It was like a very high maintenance girlfriend.

Well, yesterday it finally blew up. I will never buy anything from Gaggia again as long as I live. Pieces of junk. Not to mention the fact I am pretty ticked at the Whole Latte Love people for talking me into it, so I will be using Amazon this time.

Time to get a new espresso machine again. I am buying a Saeco. How about you. Anyone have any machines they love that aren’t temperamental? What machine did you buy and why? If you were buying a machine, what would you get?

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