Price: $298 - $399
Description
Features
* Programmable pump espresso machine
* Semi-auto - push button operation
* Hot water function
* Full metal structure & components
* Brass & phenolic filter handle
* Extra cup height clearance - fits mugs
* 15 BAR pump system - Italian made
* ‘Thermoblock’ heating system
* Italian designed dual-wall ‘crema’ system
Fully programmable the Sunbeam Cafe Aromatic takes the guesswork out of making an espresso, the basis of all cafe coffees.
Sunbeam Cafe Aromatic Espresso Machine Features Programmable pump espresso machine Semi-auto - push button operation ‘Intelligent’ programming - constainly monitors the water temperature Hot water.
I have recently (under three weeks ago) purchased this machine, along with a krups grinder (GVX2) and a Sunbeam bang bang waste box. I know this isn’t quite as nice as the ever popular silvia / rocky setup but it is a setup I was quite proud of up until today, as I had been making some nice coffee using fresh beans from a little roaster with an online shop. When I say nice, I mean a hell of a lot better than I have ever had at home before.
So anyway, I have been reading this site and others, tasting new beans, trying different grinds of previous ones, playing with tamps, working on my milk, attempting late art but anyway. So over the three weeks since I have had it, it has been in constant use. I mean I work full time so not all day, but I have been pulling at at least 10 double shots a day from it I know this is a personal machine and nothing like a high use cafe machine, but even so I thought this machine could deal with it.
This morning whilst making my coffee, the handle / head came off and sent coffee and grinds everywhere. This annoyed me somewhat, but after reading the manual and finding I had done everything right (and pretty much as per the previous however many shots) I put it down to me not paying attention and not securing the handle correctly. But then this afternoon, it happened again! This time it wasn’t on the metal cups they had provided but on the fine itialian espresso glasses my girlfriend had sourced for me! It cracked them, and sent hot water everywhere. Now, this was just a warmup shot (to get the glasses and head nice and warm) so it was definitely not my grind or tamp as the manual suggests, and as this happened this morning I had been very careful when securing everything so it was not that. The manual says the rubber needs to be replaced every 6-12 months and I have had the machine less than three weeks so the only thing I can see it being is a defective head.
Anyway, I am not all that impressed anymore and am wondering what I should do about it. Of course I will contact a service center tomorrow and see what they suggest, but what do you guys think? I don’t know if I should stay with this machine. I am still very much an amature at this stuff, so would it be a waste of money shelling out for say a silvia? Should I demand my money back and get sunbeams new paul bassett machine? I am just not comfortable putting nice cups under this machine anymore Sad.
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