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- Amazon Sales Rank: #514087 in Kitchen & Housewares
Crossland Coffee CC1 Version 1.5 Espresso Machine
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By Officedog
My husband bought me this machine from another site. He read that this was the way to go if you were a coffee lover. Apparently, the PID system is what all the cool kids are buying. Since I consider myself pretty coffee affluent, I was excited to see what I've been missing. Longer time waiting for coffee was the answer, apparently.Right off, you see a flaw in the design. There is a metal tube in front of the water reservoir. One needs to perform finger gymnastics to put water in the darn thing without breaking the pipe (which I did, with barely any touching of it).Next flaw comes when you select what you want to do. One is supposed to turn and press the Menu button to select the desired action. However, on some functions, pressing Menu actually starts the process. So, if you select 2-Cup Espresso while the machine is still heating up, DON'T PRESS THE MENU BUTTON. You will bathe your counter in cold water. The machine has to blink three lines for a loooong time before it actually heats up. Then it sloooowly climbs to the desired temperature and only THEN should you press Menu.First time I used the machine, we couldn't figure out how to get it to steam. Now, he's a computer engineer and I'm a programmer. It's not like we're illiterate. But no matter what we did, only water shot out of the nozzle. After waiting a long time, we finally got the Steam screen to appear. Seems there's Steam, and then there's Steam...and you're supposed to know that one means it's ready while the other just means that's what you want. What?After struggling, I finally got a latte out of the machine. It was terrible. Watery and bland. We read the reviews and they blamed my coffee grinder. I've used this fine on my old Starbuck's Barista for years. Why would this be the culprit. I asked a local coffee house and they suggest the machine might need to get "dirty" so not so much water runs through it. Hoookay. So, I changed my grinder settings to Turkish coffee and left a bit of much at the bottom of the basket and the coffee tasted stronger...almost as good as the twelve year old machine I was replacing.I have to say, the foam was amazing. Rich and thick and better than most restaurants. That is, until the third day, when the machine stopped foaming. It would turn to Steam, then display Steam (again, lol that you have to wait for the second Steam), but then almost immediately blink off to "Set Up". I've had it for about a week and it's going back. I'm not really encouraged to get another one. For this kind of money, I want the machine to drive my kids to school after it makes my coffee. I don't need another headache in the morning.
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