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Okay, call me a liar

I know I said I'd never buy a machine that grinds and brews and does all that other stuff, BUT ...

I saw a Krups today in my favorite housewares store, and I must get it!!!!!! It made a perfect stretto, with beautiful crema. And it's got a spigot to steam milk, which I'm sure it will do very well, too (if it has enough pressure for the crema, why not). Now I just have to save my pennies until next month, when the salesman said there would be another few "tax-free" days. (Not that I object to paying tax, but it's a hefty chunk of change on something this pricy.)

Before I get too carried away, does anyone have any experience with it? It's the Krups Palatino, that grinds the beans, brews the coffee, ejects the spent grounds, and can steam the milk. Or if not this baby, how about ANY relatively complicated Krups machine? I figure folks here will give me the honest pro-and-con from their experience with Krups. Thanks in advance.

 I use a french press to make my coffee. Tastes better than any other way I have made coffee.

Hi, Alejandra. Welcome to Cheftalk.

 

Don't know if you noticed, but this thread is eight years old. Half the folks who posted on it are no longer regulars, in fact.

 

You might want to go to the Welcome forum and tell us a little about yourself.

 

I recently broke down and bought a French press, after spending the past ten years just making boiled coffee. I had to laugh, as the instructions said to use "hot, but not boiling" water. Say huh? And then what; enjoy a cold cup of coffee by the time it brews?

 

I would say this, though. I've made, or had served to me, coffee made by every imaginable method. And what it boils down to (sorry about that) is the kind of beans you start with. As with anything else, GIGO's law applies. If you start with good beans the brewing method is almost irrelevent.