De'Longhi Traditional Espresso Machine with Steamer for Milk based beverages, 220V, Medium, Black (ECP35.31)

Excellent machine for expresso and Cappuccino. Foaming the milk was very easy and coffee brew tasted fantastic.

Easy to operate, Value for money

Product is decent. You can pull cafe quality espresso shots with zero barista training. You just need to watch a few YouTube vids and you're set. Excellent Crema on the espresso. And the steamer works great to provide a silky frothed milk. This is all you want to know at a quick glance. Below I'm gonna address a few nagging issues The manual is not very helpful. It comes in a variety of languages and is least helpful in understanding how to use the machine. The machine itself is quite light and plasticy and keeps moving everytime I put in the porta- filter and remove it. It could have had rubber suction cups that hold on to the kitchen counter. Especially because putting in the porta-filter is quite difficult as it's really tight and need a bit of elbow grease. It comes with two baskets, one for single and double shot espressos... The single shot basket holds exactly one scoop and not a gram more... Likewise with the double shot basket. If you put even slightly less than a single scoop in the single scoop baskket, you won't be able to tamp it and if you put slightly more coffee powder than a single scoop, then again you won't tbe able to tamp it. Same with the double scoop basket. Why this is important is that YOU CANT AFFORD TO LOSE THE DAMN SCOOP. The baskets are pressurised and tightly fit into the porta-filter and takes some effort to remove the basket. On the flip side when you try to tap the porta filter to remove the coffee puck after you're done, the whole basket comes out with the puck It's terrible user experience. At least give one of those plastic latches to hold the basket in and just get the puck out. C'mon delonghi... You need half a brain to figure that out.. Half way through the espresso, the green light goes off indicating that the water needs heating, which means half way through the espresso, not so hot water is going through the powder? Not sure how this is possible. I need to do some more testing on it. I suspect that since this is a not so expensive variant, it has a small thermoblock which heats a small amount of water which is barely enough for a single shot. I need to test it more to confirm it. This machine is imported and comes with the UK plug pin. They also send you an Indian plug pin which you'll have to change. This changing involves cutting the cable. But here's the sad part: the UK plug that comes with the machine has a glass fuse to protect the machine from surges, but the Indian plug they provide is a 10 rs base quality plug. Fixing that is definitely not safe for your machine. So I'm forced to use a travel adapter. Again this is terrible job by the distributors. The least you could do is have it ready to use when you unpack the product. Poor user experience again Also when I got the machine from Amazon, the package and the machine was damaged. I had to have it replaced. Typical Cloudtail shenanigans. It's been happening quite often where Cloudtail sends you defective equipment to see if you're smart enough to return it. The first one I got was clearly used by another customer and returned. Overall I'm happy with the product, but I'm not happy how it's sold in India... Poor sales and distribution and I'm not sure how good the service is... The servicing in india is managed by Lavazza. Will have to wait and see how much they suck. Day 2 update: All of a sudden the machine starts giving trouble. Always end up with a soupy puck or the puck sticks to the group head. Tried troubleshooting in many ways with no respite. Tried purging the machine before removing the porta filter... Nothing. Tried using different size grind... Nothing. Tried smaller quantity than recommend... Nothing. After much fiddling around, I decided to call Lavazza who's responsible for post sales service of this product. But there is no one at their end to receive the call. After all due diligence, i decidws to return the machine. I had high hopes for Delonghi but looks like it's a very fragile product that needs to be sparingly used. Overall summary: if you're from India, I don't recommend buying this product. It has zero post sales service. Also notice that all good reviews are from UK buyers and all poor reviews from Indian buyers. So don't look at the rating and buy it.

I bought this product from Amazon. Ever since then I am trying to get this product to work. The Orient Repair Service wants warranty card which is supposed to come with the machine. There is non supplied. Now I have a defective product which does not work. De Longhi does not have any service centre in India in place to help its customers.

In seguito alla rottura di una vecchia Saeco, mi sono trovato alla ricerca di una macchina del caffè consapevole che oramai non sono più come quelle di un tempo, ma di plastica leggera e scarse. Invece mi sono trovato a dover ricredermi su questa DèLonghi ECP35.31, chiaramente ho scelto il top con finiture in alluminio proprio per evitare le plastiche e devo dire che sono rimasto davvero soddisfatto della macchina del caffè. La vaschetta dell'acqua è di medie dimensioni (1,1 litri), ma la comodità dello sportellino con accesso diretto alla vaschetta elimina i problemi di rabbocco con caraffa. Il recipiente di recupero liquidi è abbastanza grande e stabile, inoltre è removibile facilemente anche perchè è progettato per favorire l'inserimento di tazze alte da latte in cui fare direttamente il caffè o inserire la tazza da the e far scendere direttamente acqua calda per poter fare il the. Il pannarello è uno dei punti forti, snodabile ed inclinabile per favorire l'inserimento di qualsiasi tazza e trovare l'inclinazione giusta, ha la funzionalità latte caldo che permette di riscaldare il latte (o thè/acqua) senza montarlo ed è facilmente pulibile grazie alla semplicità di rimozione, nonostante la sua solidità. Il cappuccino inoltre viene davvero bene perché rispetto ad altre macchine da caffè non perde acqua e non anmacqua il latte. Ho allegato un video per rispondere ad una domanda, più di 1 litro montato da 33cl di latte. Il tasto di accensione laterale è facile da raggiungere rispetto ad altre che lo hanno dietro. Il braccetto è del giusto peso, per niente leggero e si riesce ad inserire facilemente anche con una mano ed a sorpresa i filtri hanno una specie di incastro a molla che fa si che si possa pulire e sbattere sul bordo del secchio con una mano, senza doverlo tenere con scomode alette di plastica come succede con altre macchine. In sostanza la macchina dà un impressione di solidità, le plastiche (le poche visto che ho preso il top con le finiture in alluminio) inaspettatamente anch'esse risultano solide e di buona qualità, il coperchio per il rabbocco è pratico e nasconde/contiene i restanti due filtri accessori, il pannarello è di qualità e ottima progettazione (occhio che la funzione latte caldo c'è solo su quella top 35.31), inoltre il braccetto ha in fondo un sistema antigocce che terminato di fare il caffè non vi è uno sgocciolo residuo. Se acquistate caffè già macinato, posso confermare che viene bene e con la crema, ma se lo volete più denso come al bar consiglio di acquistare un macina caffè anche da 10/15 € per raffinare ancora la macinatura al punto giusto, poi è chiaro che dovete trovare il giusto compromesso a seconda dei gusti, in ogni caso posso confermare che per 110€ è stato per me un ottimo acquisto! PRO Macchina e plastiche solide, finiture in metallo ottime Braccetto del giusto peso con portafiltro con dispositivo crema e sistema antigoccia, filtri autobloccanti a molla Pannarello snodabile e inclinabile con funzione latte caldo Vaschetta portatazze removibile per tazze alte Funzione The CONTRO Nessuno (finora)

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I've been using this coffee machine for over 4 years, and it's been nothing short of exceptional. The coffee quality is consistently excellent, cup after cup. Unfortunately, during a recent move to a new apartment, the machine fell and was damaged beyond repair.. So without any hesitation, I purchased the exact same model again, that's how impressed I am with it. This coffee machine offers outstanding value for money and produces truly remarkable coffee that rivals much pricier alternatives. If you're in the market for a compact, reliable manual coffee maker that delivers consistent, high quality coffee, look no further, this model is definitely worth your consideration.

Ordered my De’Longhi Traditional Barista on August 13 and got it the next day—super fast delivery! The machine is sleek, easy to use, and brews rich, café-quality coffee right at home. Now I can practice my barista skills every morning—absolutely love it!😍

Best Value manual expresso machine for beginner home barista. The only wish I hope DeLonghi could do is to allow customer to choose the option of unpressurized or pressurized portafilter. I purchase two additional portafilter from Amazon.