Bosch TAS4011GB Tassimo Coffee Maker, Silver
Bosch Tassimo multi-beverage machine automatically offers freshly brewed hot drinks at the push of a button. It makes a wide range of drinks, including caffe crema, espresso, latte macchiato, cappuccino, tea, hot chocolate and more. These discs have the right amount of ingredients sealed into them to protect their flavor. Beverage System reads the barcode printed on each drink, adds the right amount of water for drinking and sets the best temperature to ensure a perfect drink…
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Coffee is one of those things that for some reason I can not do – coffee, even now, is beyond me! Seeing my guest's faces as I serve a perfect latte is just hilarious – there's no way I could never do this without my Tassimo!
This is a great little machine and a big improvement on the old machine Tassimo. This new machine is more compact design and quality construction greater than the former. It has a large container of water 2litres is now much less fiddly than before and can be quickly removed / reloaded with zero effort. You can prepare about 8 glasses before having to fill the tank.
The hot drink is now prepared immediately without waiting for the machine to warm up, we must now 45 seconds from cold to prepare a standard drink – Compare this to a boiling point Kettly which takes about twice as much time just to heat the water. A second glass can be prepared immediately after the first without delay.
The quality of drinks is very high, it produces the best home for hot chocolate I've ever tasted! This may be because the chocolate is made from syrup rather than the more commonly used powder. The coffee is great and is second in the freshly ground coffee – please remember that it takes a few minutes and machinery more expensive to brew coffee from scratch – this machine does an excellent job to imitate these machines! I have not tried the tea can not give advice on the flavors.
The T-Discs (shelled) themselves vary in price and flavor from brand to brand. Just standard Kenco coffee costs £ 2. 99 (at Asda, Tesco, etc.) for 16 servings. This prepares a good regular coffee tasting as 20p per cup. It's the same price for the Twining tea and Suchard hot chocolate. For something a little more fancy, you can choose a latte or cappuccino of different brands, including Carte Noire for £ 2. 99 or sometimes £ 3. 49 for 8 servings, which is 40-50p per cup. These items must be 2 discs and so take a little more time to prepare.
Overall, I heartily recommend this machine Tassimo any potential viewers, but I must quickly point out some pitfalls.
– You are limited to what coffee / tea / hot chocolate you buy – this is true of other pod coffee machines, but the Tassimo does a very good selection to choose from.
– The portion size is too small for some people – hot chocolate is only 180ml. Latte / cappuccino is 200ml. While most cafes are 300ml.
– Requires some cleaning (but not much)
This is my second machine and Bosch Tassimo have the right of all the little niggles I had with the previous machine Braun. Including being now able to adapt to my Portmeirion mugs on it, less fiddley parts to clean, no overflow ever-emptying absolutely necessary and best of all – more pressure during the preparation of drinks – the Braun has never been right (half Suchard chocolate left in the pod and foam was never really good on the coffee!). Bosch never stop working completely after 3 weeks, but it was exchanged without a quibble. I am very happy with it and enjoy my morning headaches, free coffee.
This is my second machine over the last 6 weeks. The first has completely stopped working after 3 weeks, but Amazon replaced it without question.
PROS: This machine is easy to use. Just pop the disc into the top of the machine, press the button and you have a hot drink in 60 seconds. The Tassimo is also less messy than the machines that use ground coffee. With a wide range of discs available, both online and in supermarkets, there is a hot drink for all tastes.
CONS: The machine does not include drinks such as pictures on the box! SAPs have a large cappuccino with frothy CAP. In fact, mine did not foam. Similarly, with the Latte Macchiato. The milk tastes terrible and I tend to use fresh milk from cows in place, and much of it, to get the effect milky latte. Suchard hot chocolate tastes good but, like other beverages do not produce enough of an automatic execution, as shown in the demo. Using the button that makes a drink more, but at the cost of a weaker taste.
Bosch is a really good brand, and I have had no problems with my appliances. This to me is a very reliable coffee machine that will last a long time