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…
Perhaps I’ve not been paying attention, but I’ve not seen this product before. It struck me as the ideal product for a family, or indeed anyone who has to meet the needs of a small group of coffee drinkers (as…
We’ve said it before, but we’ll say it again: With the Bacchi we recommend you start off by going and buying yourself a tin of roast & ground Illy espresso blend coffee from your local grocer or supermarket. If nothing…
The snow didn’t make the job of looking after customers in the run up to Christmas any easier, but it turned the sometimes drab streets of London into a more magical place for a few days. We stopped for a…
From memory the author was talking about porridge, but we’re talking about coffee. If you want to find out if your coffee roaster really knows how to roast, here’s an easy way to cut through the hyperbole; let your black…
We received the email below from a customer today. While the Bacchi contains a vacuum breaker valve in the base this does not mean you will be able to separate the main component that contains the cylinder and piston from…