De'Longhi Dedica Style, Traditional Barista Pump Espresso Machine, Coffee and Cappuccino Maker, EC685BK, Black

This is a very good coffee machine that produces consistently enjoyable espresso without taking up too much space on the worktop. It is straightforward to use once you get familiar with it, and the milk frother is useful for making cappuccinos and other milk-based coffees at home. The machine is regularly reduced, and at its sale price I think it offers particularly good value. You still need decent coffee and a little practice with the grind and amount used, but the machine itself is more than capable of producing a proper cup of coffee. A good choice for anyone who wants to move beyond pods without buying a much larger or more expensive machine.

Long lasting space saving machine! Works like a charm and I do descale it properly and I use distilled water. I love it because It occupies very little space and I have a grinder too from Delonghi so my coffee is freshly brewed everyday! I got one of the bottomless porta filter coffee handle and basket. The cream, aroma and taste are better than a coffee shop. I was on a budget when I bought this and it saved me a lot of money as I stop buying coffees outside and also I paid a reasonable amount for a coffee machine that has its own tank rather than needing pressure and other connections. I make a lot of coffees everyday and I’m very pleased with it! It is a bit loud but its fast so that is no bother to me. When I hear the sound and smell of fresh coffee, I know my day begins the right way thanks to Dedica Delonghi and I didn’t even try to create a headline 😂 They better give me royalties for this! Now seriously if you want a no fuss, good quality at a reasonable price coffee machine that lasts in time, then get this one. I had several coffee machines before this but stopped searching with this one. My family has sage and other more expensive coffees but I prefer mine and now I could afford a more expensive one but I’ll stick to this one as this is how pleased I am with it. Is the speed of it that I love!

Simple little machine very compact and pleasing to the eye and for the price it’s brilliant . Makes a decent tasting drink but you do need to use decent coffee to start with . Not too noisy can be used when others are in bed and won’t disturb them . We like a small mug of espresso instead of a shot so we press the 2 mug button and then use the milk frother to dispense hot water to make a decent size drink works well

I love my coffee and I have wanted an espresso machine with portafilter for a long time. I had tried the pod machines and used refillable pods, grinding my own beans. But I just knew I could get better coffee so I picked this up when the vine sale hit and it looked more reasonable in price. I am so happy I did. It's like night and day in comparison. I chose the silver look as it's just a metal finishing and easy to wipe down. Out the box it is easy to assemble. You get the machine, a tiny drip tray, portafilter handle, 2 portafilters (a 1 cup, and a 2 cup), a hefty instruction book and descaling fluid (cleaning). Make sure you follow the instructions about 1st use to flush out any nastyness. Espresso is easy even for a novice. Just pop the filter into the handle, fill with ground coffee and tap down with tamper. Then twist the handle in until it locks. There's a power button on the side and when the lights stop flashing hit the 1 or 2 cup option. In 30 seconds you'll have a tasty espresso. You can then hit the 1 or 2 cup option to add more hot water and make it a longer drink. The filter holder twists in securely. It is a bit tough if you're not used to it. So just hold the top of the machine to get a bit of leverage. The filters are pressurised and use a small point in the middle. I changed them over for a more open basket. There's also a rubber seal which can effect flavour. Inside the holder/ handle there is a plastic flow director... Again it's plastic which is porous and can leach bad flavours and effects the taste so if you remove it (1 screw underneath) your coffee will taste wonderful again. The water tank is easy to fill and big enough for an afternoon or day of making coffee. The wand for making hot water or frothy milk works a treat. It is tricky at 1st but try and get the spout just on the surface of the milk and adjust up or down a little . When you get the hang of it it makes wonderfully frothy creamy milk for espressos. It does recommended semi skimmed but full fat milk is wonderful to do if a little more tricky. You can also just get hot water from the wand for tea or top ups which is a great excuse to replace the kettle. Just make sure you undo the wand and rinse and wipe after use to keep it fresh. The drip tray is pretty useless unless you are only using tiny mugs. It gives you very little clearance. So I just removed it and used the lower one, then wipe with a cloth. Noise. This is not quiet but it is a serious machine. As long as it is in a separate room from the family you will be ok. If you have an open plan kitchen / living room you might be banished to another part of your home with the machine. Space. This has a fantastic narrow profile so it takes up the same width of counter or desk space as a kettle and because it has a water tank you can set this up in almost any room of your house or office. There is enough space on the top to sit a couple of mugs which is great for sleepy morning prep. Cleaning is really easy and there are lots of accessories available for this machine to. Good quality and value. Highly recommended. Thank you for reading my review. I hope you found it useful

This is a very compact machine. Very easy to use as switch it on, sort out your portafilter etc and when ready lights go solid. It is very quick to heat up for coffee and steam. It has 4 buttons single shot, double shot cold brew and steam. Push the button for what you want. You can change the temperature by pressing the buttons in a set sequence bit of a faff so you wouldn't want to change everytime. The steam wand is noisy, quick and easy to get hot steamed milk took a bit more practice for foam. I like an espresso but am not super technical about it so this is good for me as easy to use and makes a decent drink. My partner assures me the cold brew is not as good as an overnight but great for a 5 minute version and expect it will get a bit more use in summer. Overall very pleased with it.

Bought 3 times, and 3 times broke within a short period of time. Exceptional trash. The machine seems to come with multiple faults. - The “manual” included in the box was totally incomprehensible diagrams – without any words - which were open to interpretation, and utterly useless. - Accessories shown in the “manual” were missing from the box!! - So you had to look up on the internet for the proper manual for this model: EC685, EC695, EC785 coffee maker manual. Page 6 of this manual, Section 3 “Setting up the appliance”, point 7 says: “Turn the steam dial (A11) to position (fig. 5) and dispense hot water: the appliance automatically stops dispensing and the lights (1 cup) and (2 cups) flash.. Turn the knob back to position O. The purpose of this procedure is to purge any water from the circuit before using steam to prepare the beverage.”…. However, the appliance does NOT automatically stop dispensing at all, emptying the tank completely. The lights (1 cup) and (2 cups) do not flash either. I called Delonghi technical support, and the first guy is very kind, but has no idea even where to find the manual on the Delonghi website. I had to help him to find it. Needless to say, he has never read it and has no idea why the water does not stop dispensing. The second technical support person had no idea either, and simply said: it’s defective and return it to amazon. Another problem with this machine was that it was extremely hard/nearly impossible to turn the coffee holder into its position – it required unnatural force. Seems to be a very common issue with this model. Therefore, I bought a replacement machine, hoping the second one would work as described. The new one does not automatically stop dispensing water either.. But I decide to turn a blind eye to this particular problem… Soon, I also found that the coffee machine does not give coffee! When lucky, it gave little drip drip, then stopped... Other times, nothing at all. Then 3 lights flashed simultaneously. Had to remove the coffee holder, then replace it. Still no coffee. I did all the troubleshooting. The machine was descaled. Made sure the coffee did not go over the line. Changed the way I used the tamper. Used a pin to prick the hole at the bottom of the coffee holder, etc. None of the above made any difference. This machine was defective and did not give any coffee, whatever I did. Other reviewers said that the pressure is insufficient for coffee to come out. Maybe. I have read horror stories of customers sending back the new coffee machine to Delonghi for “repair”...so I do not want to go that route and waste my precious time further… Delonghi does not seem to care a jot, as this model is selling so well...

My first impression was that it was a beautiful and compact machine that would look lovely in my kitchen to replace a 5 year old pod machine which I felt was not environmentally friendly. I read the instructions carefully because that's the kind of person I am. I suspect that if you are not a read the instructions kind of person you may be disappointed with the coffee that you get! So, I cleaned it as instructed and set it up. Then I ran the circuit program to clean the insides. No problem at all. Now, I live in a hard water area so wanted to change that setting. I read the instructions again and made my first attempt, this resulted in my getting water everywhere. I realised that I hadn't been quick enough to press the right button and it made me a cup of coffee instead. I suggest removing the drip tray and putting a container under the outlet when in programming mode, just in case. Some reviews say that the coffee isn't hot enough. Well, you can change the temperature of the water. I like mine hot so I changed the setting to hot, it made very hot coffee. I like espresso, cappuccino and flat white. Espresso is easy, just use the 1 cup basket. The first time I tried the coffee took ages to come through, I realised that I'd tamped too much. The second time was much better. However, I need to mention my next issue, I really really struggled to twist the handle to lock the holder into place. I found myself wrestling with the machine for several minutes. Having used it for a few days now, it does get easier and it locks into position without the wrestling. Note that the tamper that comes with the machine is okay but you need to hold it at the bottom, if you push the top, it bends alarmingly. I bought the wood and metal tamper which is much easier to use. Cappuccino etc is also easy once you realise how the frother works. I recommend watching a YouTube video but basically you pop the ring up for hot milk and down for frothy milk. To get the wand off, twist to the right and pull down. It's easy once you know how. Cleaning it was straightforward. My final choice is for a mug of coffee, and I do have a few of these every day! To achieve this I reprogrammed the 2 cup button to run more water through the machine using the 2 cup filter basket and 10g coffee. I have a slightly larger mug too, to fill this one I use 12g ground coffee, my reprogrammed 2 cup button, and then the default 1 cup button to get an extra 60ml of water through. I absolutely love, love, love this machine. It makes perfect coffee every time xxxxx

Ok, so, I really have to say something about this machine as this is my 3rd DeLonghi of such type. First of all, what I do want people to know that this machine makes a really good coffee, with putting some research and knowledge of how to use it. If you don't have time/desire/opportunity whatsoever I STRONGLY recommend just to buy any bean-to-cup with no fuss - just press the button. First of all, I am fascinated with its demensions - you will barely notice its presence even on small counter top. It's heating really fast for such small device. I do recommend to use freshly medium-to-fine (but not too fine as the machine will be "choking" in the process) ground coffee, to buy a decent tamper and a stainless steel milk frother cup. Then, DO NOT add more coffee than its meant to baskets (14 g for double portion and 7 g for one portion) as it had been written by other reviews - you will need to put too much strength to close the holder or even worse - you wouldn't be able to do it at all, but with the right measurment (which later you will be able to see intuitively) it will close with NO effort. Milk steamer works fine, too, with skimmed/semi-skimmed (haven't tried whole, though) or soya milk, you will need no more than 40-45 "ticks" to heat milk properly and to make lovely cappucino. Yes this may seem like a lot of fuss for quick coffee-lovers however when everything is done automatically it's actually not. And the price especially on promotions is very good for such lovely device. I do have to mention that I have a separate coffee-filter machine for my big morning cup and this one is for occasional espresso/cappucino and I am satisfied by its taste and quality (good beans make difference as well).

Es una cafetera con un tacto y un ajuste muy bueno, una apariencia que mejora en directo y fácil de utilizar y limpiar. Obervaciones y CONSEJOS ÚTILES: 1. Preparación del café: la colocación de la cazoleta en el brazo es muy sencilla y tiene un buen ajuste. Va a presión y hace "clac" cuando la insertas. Gracias a la cuchara de plástico que viene con la caferera es muy fácil tener la cantidad de café exacta: una única porción(son unos 7g) para un café y 2 porciones para la cazoleta grande de 2 cafés. La misma cuchara sirve para prensar el café y esto es importante: un exceso de prensado hará que no salga café o que salga muy poco. Hay que prensar con poca fuerza hasta que notemos que ya hace falta incrementar más la fuerza de prensado, y ahí paramos. 2. Haciendo café: colocar el brazo y apretarlo es bastante fácil porque está marcado el punto de inicio y fin de giro y además el tacto es buenísimo para notar si lo estás haciendo bien. Parece una tontería pero en algunas cafeteras de brazo no da mucha seguridad esto que comento. Si no sale nada de café es porque el agujerito que hay debajo de la cazoleta está embozado. Es complicado que pase porque ese agujero no está en contacto con el café molido pero si se cuela algún granito de café cuando lo estás limpiando se puede obstruir y no sale nada de café. Otro consejo: si notáis que cuesta girar es porque os habéis pasado de cantidad de café. Esto ocurre con más frecuencia cuando se usa la cazoleta de 2 cafés aunque se use la cuchara medidora para llenarla. Por muy poco puede darse el caso de que entre muy apretado el brazo y luego no salga café o salga poco. 3. Usando el capuccinatore: Consejo: yo suelo hacer primero el café y luego cambio al modo de capuccino para espumar la leche, de esa forma no tarda nada de tiempo en calentarse y poder usar esa función. Pero si lo haces al revés, y esto es de lo que mucha gente se queja, luego tarda mucho en enfriarse la función café. Eso es así para evitar que te hagas un café quemado. En este punto tienes 2 opciones: 1. apagas y enciendes la cafetera 2. En el modo café (no en el de vapor), abres el grifillo para tirar vapor y dejas que actúe unos segundos. Tirará vapor y luego agua, y ahí cortas. En unos segundos los botones de hacer café dejarán de parpadear porque habrás enfriado la máquina. Esto no es una solución casera, está explicado en el manual, pero la gente no lee el manual. Otro consejo: el mando de accionamiento del vapor no tiene un recorrido de 90°, son más de 90° así que asegúrate bien de que está abierto "a tope" cuando lo uses o funcionará unos segundos y luego no irá y pensarás que va mal. otro consejo: veréis algunos comentarios de gente que dice que sale agua alrededor del botón de encendido y que está defectuosa y la han cambiado. Decir que eso sólo pasa si no colocas bien el depósito de agua. Hay que insertarlo desde arriba y hacer un poco de fuerza y que haga "clac" para asegurarse que se ha encajado bien. Si no lo haces bien es cuando va filtrando agua por debajo y empieza a salir por el botón de encendido. A raíz de comentarios sobre la baja temperatura de los cafés: se puede regular (baja - media - alta) la temperatura del café así como la cantidad. Hay que leerse el manual, para eso está!! A día de hoy me funciona todo perfectamente y después de leer opiniones malas puedo decir que la mayoría son por un mal uso o por no leerse el manual. Por su puesto que habrá alguna con algún defecto pero por estadística es normal visto lo visto de unidades vendidas. Edito 8 meses después: sigue funcionando perfecta, muy contento. (25/12/2020)

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Great home coffee maker

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Great buy my old one lasted 10 years. I hope this one will do the same