Tuesday, October 07, 2008

Magimix Robot Cafe

Our second bean to cup machine. Bought from Amazon. Over £300.

Much to our relief it worked fine - for a few days. Then it started to go wrong. We sent it back to get fixed and it came back fixed.

It worked! For a short while. Then it got temperamental again and like the Gaggia, refused to make coffee unless it was in the mood to do so.

It was badly designed and very difficult to clean.

Then it stopped working all together.All flashing lights. I read a review on Amazon from a customer with the same problems and Magimaix charged him £80 each time it was fixed.

We dumped it in the tip.

We now have a new machine. A DeLonghi. Recommended by the Good Housekeeping Institute. So far so good-not a single blip and excellent coffee. Lets see what the future holds. If this machine is also crap, that will be it. We will stick to the stove percolator.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Disbelieve anything that calls itself a "robot."

We have a noisy little bugger called an iRobot. Little vacuum cleaner round thing that goes around and vacuums while you sit and hold your ears and wish it would just go away. Jim loves the thing. I hate it. It gets stuck everywhere. It's constantly breaking off the little spinning brushes on the side and they're a pain in the neck to clean and it's always stuck in a corner somewhere. I think he likes to clean it. It's kind of like a pet. So -- I've learned to let it run around on the kitchen floor once a week so he can clean it on Sunday. I use the upright vacuum and a mop. We're both happy.

Anonymous said...

We have a Cuisineart bean to coffee maker. Love it, love it, love it! We've had it nearly a year without a single blip. Easy to clean, too.