For me, an ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure when it comes to limescale. Yes, I know you can descale your machine, but why head down that path if you don’t need to? Removing limescale tends…
Yes, I’m looking a bit reckless (read stupid), but it has highlighted a problem; the KF4 doesn’t fit all nominal ’12 cup’ coffee makers Im still no closer to a quick and easy method for making a litre of gourmet…
As previously advised the Sainsbury’s filter coffee machine was expected to be moved along fairly quickly as the KF4 Swissgold filter does not quite fit. The swing door also annoyed me. So tonight I have ordered from Amazon, for just…
CAUTION: These images may be disturbing to those with obsessive-compulsive tendencies. That is to say, we’ve made a real mess! We used exactly the same batch of Honduran coffee, on exactly the same grind setting, and exactly the same amount…
You are looking at our ‘to do’ list. 10 coffees, none of which we have tried before, are how we have chosen to kick off 2011. We’ve also got some other new coffee in the queue that we have yet…
It struck me today that something we probably haven’t bothered to emphasise enough is just how compact the Olympia Cremina really is. To illustrate a point this image shows our currently rather unkept Cremina sitting on a sheet of A4…
Bother, I’ve got egg on my face this time, well and truly. I bought a KF4 Swissgold 12-cup permanent filter home tonight to drop into the Sainsbury’s filter coffee machine and guess what; it didn’t fit. So I pulled out…
This image shows the ‘permanent’ filter the machine was supplied with after a single use. I have held a white tea towel over my hand to show more clearly how tainted this nylon mesh filter is after a single use…
Yes, I have an increasing need in this cooler weather to take a thermos of coffee with me on the road some days. Three cycles of the KF300 Swissgold perched precariously upon the top of the thermos seemed a bit…
There is one thing we’ve learnt to value this far along life’s journey, and that is simplicity. We hope you can see our commitment to simplicity in the coffee equipment that we sell and the advice we provide. Penn Reels…