Pros:
- I love the look and feel of this machine. It has been absolutely awesome to use, I get compliments from everyone that comes visit and it is just pleasant to use.
- I do not have enough experience with it to say that is has blown my mind with the espresso from it (I have had it for almost a month), but overall so far has been great.
- Love the design choice of having the ability to turn on and off the steam boiler right there in the front of the machine, it was probably one of the key selling points for me since I normally do milk drinks in the morning and a shot or two in the afternoon and I don't want to have to pull the tray out or get into the PID to shut the steam boiler off every day as some of the other machines make you do.
Cons:
- The drip tray is a bit short. I got an Acaia Lunar scale and I need to put it on the frame of the tray because the mesh seems flimsy (even then, the scale is not fully stable). I would have chosen a slightly larger drip tray design without the mesh and have something sturdier instead (I have to say that I like the look of the mesh, but is just not functional). My scale goes a bit nuts when I put it on the mesh and also gets wet from the exhaust when pulling a shot. Clive, I hope you take this feedback and you make a better drip tray for this to improve this experience.
- I experienced something odd with the steam boiler. My machine run out of water as I was pulling hot water and the steam boiler started to try to pull water from the reservoir, but there was none, so as the machine was trying to pull water I started to see that the pressure in the steam boiler started to raise and raise up to the point of going beyond 2 bars and into the red zone, and I got so worried/scared that I just shut off the machine. After that I put water on the reservoir and turned it on and everything was fine, but makes me wonder what the heck happened there because the machine is supposed to have safety measures to identify when there is no more water. Clive, any ideas???