I received the DeLonghi EC155 today and tested it immediately. It was not bought from Amazon but from Lowe’s. Here are the results.

1. Discovered that it had been returned by someone else because the plastic bag in which it came was all wet inside as was the espresso machine itself. So it had to be dried before using.

2. When I plugged it in to get the water warm, it spat coffee and water all over the counter top. (I had not put the coffee holder on yet) It was even more obvious then that the machine had been used and not properly cleaned when I saw all the coffee come spitting out of the machine. Then I turned it off and wiped the area inside where the holder sits and came away with a very brown paper towel filled with coffee grounds. I did this several times til the paper towel was fairly clean.

3. I tamped with my own tamper and attempted to put the coffee holder onto the machine. It was very, very hard to turn and I never got it on straight out as it shows in the picture. It was on an angle.

4. Espresso was lukewarm.

5. Frothing arm is very short and I got very little froth but lots of hot milk. The pitcher I use isn’t all that big but in order to get froth I would have to fill it thereby wasting a lot of milk.

6. Espresso itself was very good but as with the machine I have now, I had to put it in the microwave to have a hot latte.

7. Water holder doesn’t hold nearly so much water as the Krups does.

8. I could see why the frothing cap will not last long. It is made of plastic and constant removal will remove the threads. The Krups frother has a rubber cap and is easily removed and cleaned as is the entire frothing arm.

9. I found that when I turned off the machine the frother continued to spit out steam and covered the counter top until I realized it was happening since it was silent and I had turned away from the machine. The separate frothing button was also turned off.

10. When I tried to remove the coffee holder it was so tight I could not do so without holding the machine itself tightly to my chest and then applying a lot of hand pressure to get it to turn.

11. I did get a hockey puck in the coffee holder but it did not want to come out and it took several hard taps on the counter top (used a paper plate to catch it) to get the grounds to drop.

I guess you have already figured out that this machine is going back to Lowe’s and I will continue to use the 10 year old Krups I have. I consider this to be a refurbished machine and should not have been charged the regular price, but that’s a different discussion.

Eileen

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