Philips 2300 Series Fully Automatic Espresso Machine - 4 Beverages, Modern colour touch screen display, LatteGo milk system, SilentBrew, 100% Ceramic Grinder, AquaClean Filter. Matte Black(EP2336/40)

Just what we wanted! nothing fancy, extremely easy to use, lovely cup of coffee and you can adjust the temperature of the water, so that you can have a lovely hot cup of coffee. You can also adjust the ml in the cup. Very good price. I could not have chosen better. It replaces my Krups bean to cup which unfortunately failed. This is far better.

We bought this to replace an ageing coffee machine of the coffee pod variety, finally deciding to bite the bullet and step up a notch.We are certainly not disappointed with the decision, finding it somewhat cheaper to run (buying beans rather than pods) and far better for the environment.It is super-easy to use and can produce really nice coffee - espresso, lungo and full coffee sizes are just a single button press away. The range of strengths is nice and it's super-easy to use ground coffee if someone in the house has a preference other than the current bean selection.The milk frother, as well, is super-easy to use and very simple to clean.One thing of note is that you really do benefit from heading to youtube and finding the maintenance video there as it makes the maintenance instructions a lot clearer. There is rather more maintenance to do than the simpler coffee pod machine we used to own but I am hoping that means that this machine will have a longer lifespan.

I love this coffee machine (3300 series), it was really easy and quick to set up. The LatteGo system works well and produces hot frothy milk really quickly.I had a few disappointments when I first started to use the machine but, I soon found out that it has so many settings over and above the settings on the screen, which soon overcame my disappointment. Most of these changes need to be made with the machine switched off. I would advise downloading the full user manual from the website, there is a QR code in with the quick start manual.There isn't an onscreen button to change the drink temperature, but this can be altered with a few button presses.The coffee wasn't initially very strong but the grind settings can be altered, there is an adjusting wheel in the coffee bean hopper, just turn anti-clockwise to go stronger (finer grinds) or clockwise to go weaker (more coarse grinds).The standby time can be customised to stay on for 15, 30, 60 or 180 minutes, this has to be done when the machine is off.Initially the amount of drink dispensed on the highest setting wasn't enough to fill my cup, but the highest amount can be altered for each drink, you have to enter program mode whilst the machine is off to do this, the instructions explain this and other features very well in the full instruction manual.With a 2-year warranty I look forward to many great cups of coffee.

First six month were great, made lovely coffee and a great froth, although it contantly said the coffee ground bin is full full when it clearly wasn't. However it gradually started producing deteriorating milk froth quality, we cleaned the wand after every use as instructed, lubricated and cleaned the brew group as instructed, but the quality of the coffee and froth just kept deteriorating. The frother wand now does not get up to temperature and it takes two cycles to get the milk hot. Also, it does not produce a froth anymore, just hot milk. I have cleaned the wand and made sure the black plastic insert is positioned correctly, no improvement. As a test, I tried steam into an empty jug, I was shocked to see little steam and about 100ml of water came out. Little surprise that the coffee tasted so weak and it took forever to get the milk up to the correct temperature.This morning was the last straw, made coffees for my wife and me, they were awful, It is now in the bin and looking forward to getting my new Sage Sage Barista Express Impress Coffee Machine.

I read the reviews for this before buying, so to address some of the negatives,1. Water tank - not massive but it does the job2. Coffee strength - agreed, single expresso shot in a cup isn’t as strong as the same amount of coffee from a more traditional expresso maker, but the work around, select double expresso and use a smaller cup selection (you can set cup size), yes you use twice as much coffee, but when you get your head back on you’ll either accept or compromise.What’s to like - you can set expresso or regular coffee cup. You can set cup size. You can select single or double drink. Cleaning up the grounds is so simple it’s untrue. Looks good on the counter. Can select grind level or use pre-ground coffee.What’s to dislike - the clean cycle, every time you power up the machine it does a clean cycle, wastes water, but you can live with it. No warning “out of coffee beans”, but you can live with it. Waste coffee alert seems to be a timer/counter rather than a sensor, so expect alerts to an empty waste coffee container on occasion.Overall, A very good price for a bean to cup coffee machine that seems to do the job. Only had it for two weeks so let’s see how reliable it is long term.