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The other reviews are correct, if you put the correct amount of water and milk, and tighten it just right, it makes a perfect cup of coffee. I make it morning and night. It took a couple of times to figure out the trick of unscrewing the two parts.remove the frother to release the pressure and then it's easy to open and clean. I was given this by a friend from Italy, and all I can say is wow. I have never liked homemade coffee as much as buying it at a cafe, but not any more. For me, it's a single cup because I want an American sized coffee.
Yummmmmmmmmm.My mukka soy cappucinos, hot and iced soy lattes are truly as yummy and satisfying as Starbucks (and I adore Starbucks) but without the financial guilt.Wishing you good luck and good lattes. Also, I leave the pot on the burner after the pressure button pops and until the frothing sizzles stop making noise. I simply followed the video that was included and I read the directions - and I have been truly delighted and in love with my mukka cappucino maker.It makes wonderful creamy, yummy soy cappucinos and soy lattes. The only slight change I made concerning the instructions is I cook my cappucinos on medium low vs medium high heat which takes a bit longer but it seems it makes more microfoam at a lower temperature. For lattes, once again, see the video for "creamy coffee" but replace the milk with soy milk.
I think Bialetti have done a great engineering job and there is a place for it.However, it's a good product but did not fully live up to my hopes. However, I can detect a slight burned taste and I suspect this comes from the prolonged heating of the milk via the steam, which has to travel through the coffee basket.
After all, if it was as good as a full-blown machine there would hardly be a market for it. So far I have only done this once but it seems to improve the taste.
So, I set out to test this theory by preheating the milk for a minute and ten seconds in a microwave, hoping that there would now be less prolonged exposure of coffee-flavored steam for the milk. It is very portable but you do need a stove top, so not all hotel rooms provide that.I'd probably buy it again, but I would have benefited from more realistic expectations.
I like using this product. Perhaps I was unrealistic in my expectations, but I thought the process would deliver a coffee similar to one produced in a proper espresso machine.The coffee certainly tastes a great deal better than one produced any other way, save the above mentioned cappuccino machine.
I will test this some more.So, all in all, you do get a good unit at a reasonable price (although if it wasn't for portability - I travel with it - I'd have chosen a pump-based machine).
Never again. So its upto you now. If I am doing something wrong then this maker is not straight-forward. End product is frothy coffee latte. And most important is the pressure value.
Add water, coffee and milk and put it on the stove. That's it. Cleaned the maker yet never got the same result again. Don't know how best to clean that. I bought this thinking its simple and straight-forward.
Actually I got the expected result on the 1st day. Cleaning is not easy at all due to the shape of maker parts.
I recommend this for the convenience of storage space but not for capacity as it only makes 2 cups at a time. Now my husband and I go for afternoon walks and come back and have our Cappuccino. Since coming back from visiting Italy and having a Cappuccino every afternoon, I started looking for a way to make them at home. I did not want to invest in a huge cumbersome unit, but found this one on Amazon for a very reasonable price. At first it was a little difficult to judge when it was ready and hot enough but after the 4th or 5th time we got it right.
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