De’Longhi Magnifica: Repair or Replace, and the Brew Unit Question
The Magnifica range spans a wide price band – a Start is around six hundred dollars, a Duo close to a thousand – and that band…
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Is a Breville Barista Express Worth Repairing? Run These Four Numbers
The Barista Express is the machine where this question comes up most, and the answer is almost always repair – not because we are sentimental about…
Mr. Coffee Descaler: The Own-Brand Cleaner and the Cheaper Route
Mr. Coffee sells a coffeemaker cleaner under its own name, and it is one of the cheapest own-brand descalers on the market. For a machine that…
Breville Water Tank Replacement: BES870 Assembly and the Lid Sold Apart
The Barista Express tank is sold as a water tank assembly rather than a bare plastic box, and that is worth knowing because the assembly includes…
De’Longhi Cleaning Tablets: For the Brew Unit, Not the Boiler
De’Longhi sells cleaning tablets for the brewing unit of its manual espresso machines, and they solve a different problem from descaler. Confusing the two is the…
Braun Descaler: The 200 ml Bottle and What the BrewSense Light Means
Braun sells its own descaling solution in a 200 ml bottle sized for one cycle on a BrewSense drip machine. It is a citric-acid concentrate, and…
Smeg Carafe Replacement: The 50’s Retro Line Jug Is Its Own Part
Smeg’s drip machine is sold on how it looks, and the carafe is part of that look. The 50’s Retro Line glass carafe is a Smeg-specific…
De’Longhi Carafe Replacement: COM530M, COM532M and the 10-Cup Fit
De’Longhi’s drip range is smaller than its espresso range, so the carafe question usually comes down to one family: the COM530M and COM532M 10-cup machines and…
Krups Carafe Replacement: F0344210F, SS-9100 and the Two Different Jugs
Krups sells coffee makers at two ends of the market and the carafes do not overlap. The F0344210F is the 10-cup glass jug for the Pro…
Philips LatteGo Parts: The Carafe, the Tube and Which One Stopped Frothing
The LatteGo system on Philips espresso machines has no tubes in the milk path by design – that is its selling point. It is a two-piece…