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De'Longhi Prima Donna Bean to Cup Coffee Maker | 
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| Brand: Delonghi
Category: Kitchen
List Price: £999.99
Buy New: £749.99
You Save: £250.00 (25%)
New (2) from £749.99
Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 719
Media: Kitchen & Home
Fragile: No
Batteries Included: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0
Dimensions (in): 19.7 x 19.7 x 19.7
MPN: ESAM 6600
EAN: 8004399322783
ASIN: B000KF9SPS
Release Date: June 11, 2007
Shipping: Eligible for Super Saver Shipping
Availability: Usually dispatched within 2 to 3 weeks
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Product Description
De?Longhi has been high profile Italian brand for more than 100 years, providing high quality, efficient, innovative, and stylish domestic products. Instantly recognisable, De?Longhi possesses a unique design quality that, when combined with De?Longhi?s technical expertise, creates products that truly stand alone. De?Longhi has been high profile Italian brand for more than 100 years, providing high quality, efficient, innovative, and stylish domestic products. Instantly recognisable, De?Longhi possesses a unique design quality that, when combined with De?Longhi?s technical expertise, creates products that truly stand alone. PrimaDonna is simply the best domestic bean-to-cup espresso, lungo, latte, and cappuccino machine on the market, with ingenious design and patented innovation. It allows consumers to make 15 BAR restaurant and coffee-bar standard coffee in the comfort of their own homes, and in the simplest way. All aspects of a typical professional pump espresso machine (like the ones you see in your highstreet coffee bar) such as grinders, filter holders, steam pipes etc are found working inside PrimaDonna, De?Longhi has just redesigned them, compacted them, and hidden them inside the machine. Instead of grappling with filter holders and fiddly cappuccino steam pipes, PrimaDonna expertly performs all of these functions at the touch of one button. Please Note: All electrical products sold by cookinstyle (InStyle Products Limited) are supplied with a UK 3 pin plug.
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Barista quality "crema" coffee at home, without fuss, every time June 5, 2008
The Connoisseur (London, England)
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
Quite simply this machine has no equal on the domestic market. It is the answer to the problem of making quality expresso coffee every time. We have tried a series of machines from the quixotic "chrome peacock" to the workaday "pod" machine, but this is far, far superior.
With this machine, you simply pour the coffee beans in one end, press a button and a perfect cup of fresh expresso coffee emerges within seconds with a perfect (and delicious) "crema" every time. It is highly adjustable, so for example, you can select "long" or "short" expresso, and you can easily vary the strength(6 options) just by pressing a single button.
If you take milk in your coffee, the jug system is ingenious and simple to use, again using a single button. It effortlessly produces that wonderful, creamy, thick foam that you normally only see in commercial outlets. Moreover, it does this within seconds for cup after cup, eliminating that tiresome fuss experienced with lesser machines. The result tastes like a professionally-made cappuccino or latte.
More prosaically, it tells you (on the small electronic screen) when to empty the coffee grounds or fill the tank (both very simple procedures). It also rinses itself when you switch it off. It looks good too: it is a quality item, well made with very high specification chrome and plastics. It is not too big: it has plainly been designed to sit comfortably on a domestic kitchen work surface and it does so very happily, without looking disporoportionate.
In short, while this machine is obviously expensive, it produces commercial quality coffee with a fantasic crema and/or foam at the touch of a button, consistently, and without fuss. If you love expresso coffee, it is well worth the money.
The Prima Donna of all Coffee Machines!!! a Must buy January 9, 2008
Adam Taylor (Nottingham UK)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
I purchased this machine in the Amazon Xmas sale and what a buy it is. it looks absolutely brillaint on my breakfast bar. The machine is so easy to operate and clean. We live in a hard water area and our previous Gaggia machine broke down within 18 months due to my lazy approach to cleaning. However, this machine will tell you when it requires de-scaling etc. I think it may also iron my work shirts if programmed accordingly. You can program the machine to produce the exact amount of coffee you prefer and froth milk required per cup. If you enjoy coffee and want a machine that lasts a long time, the Prima Donna is for you. Impress your mates and splash out that bit more, i recken over time it will be worth it!!
Goodness me, October 1, 2007
Mr. D. Harper (UK)
12 out of 12 found this review helpful
I have wanted this ever since i got a demo in a department store, but put it off ... as it is 'quite expensive'. I did have a Tassimo Nespresso Machine, that i thought was great, but it is quite wasteful, (and anything but the coffee was awful most notably the 'Late' discs). However it did the job of a reasonable coffee quick, easy and Much better than instant rubbish.
So wanting more i upgraded to a cheap and cheerful (under 30) espresso machine. it was great, good coffee - but.... It was a bit of a faff to do, and clean. Then it broke after about a week.... but it did enough to prove i really wanted nice coffee........
Then i saw the Prima Donna... what a beauty, relatively small and it does everything.... full programmable to your cups and strength, it cleans itself, it even turns itself on in the morning to heat up the tank and your cups. I'm sure you can probably program it to do your ironing and pick up your shopping if only i could find the function.
This thing is amazing and worth the money for what it does..... it comes down to how you justify it.... I figure you spend more on a sofa and a TV... and neither of those help get me up in the morning...
You can spend half the money on a REALLY nice manual one... but you'll never use it as you have to faf about with grinding and cleaning...
but then i am lazy.....
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