what is the best cappuccino machine to buy between 150 - 200 ?
thanks
Frank

>what is the best cappuccino machine to buy between 150 - 200 ?
>thanks
>Frank
>
Depends what sales are on, but insist on a pump model with at least 15 bars of
pressure. Then decide if you mind "pods" or insist on grinding your own.

Neil

WardNA wrote:

> Depends what sales are on, but insist on a pump model with at least 15 bars of
> pressure. Then decide if you mind "pods" or insist on grinding your own.

This is good advice. Cappuccino depends on high pressure, and many of the
home machines don't have pumps that put out a high enough pressure. The result
is no mahogany colored 'crema', which means it's just making strong coffee.

15 bars is a good minimum pressure (BTW, bars are approximately the same
unit as 'atmospheres'. I have seen them specified both ways)

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fgphotog wrote:

> what is the best cappuccino machine to buy between 150 - 200 ?
> thanks
>

I had a Braun machine that was pretty good. The second time the
pump blew I tried a Krups and have been very happy with it.

On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 09:27:32 -0500, "fgphotog" >
arranged random neurons, so they looked like this:

>what is the best cappuccino machine to buy between 150 - 200 ?
>thanks
>Frank
>
I have a Capresso Espresso Classic (roughly $200 US) that is
wonderful. 18 bar power pump makes beautiful creama, but the best
part, IMHO, is that it cranks out very, very good espresso very, very
fast. If I'm serving, say, 8 people for dinner, I can actually get the
8th person a cup of espresso while the first folks are sipping theirs.
Couldn't be more simple to operate, either. And not bad looking on the
counter.

Terry "Squeaks" Pulliam
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Terry Pulliam > wrote in message >. ..
> On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 09:27:32 -0500, "fgphotog" >
> arranged random neurons, so they looked like this:
>
> >what is the best cappuccino machine to buy between 150 - 200 ?
> >thanks
> >Frank
> >
> I have a Capresso Espresso Classic (roughly $200 US) that is
> wonderful.

Humm. We had nothing but recurrent problems with ours. We had it
fixed three separate times - the mechanism/pump that brewed the
espresso just didn't work properly. We finally just took it back and
are still looking for a replacement.

-L.