great coffee when i wake up - Love it!!!! (Morphy Richards Cafe Matino 47070)

Member Name: rlparker23

Product:	Morphy Richards Cafe Matino 47070
Date:	14/04/08 (182 review reads)
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Advantages: cheap, easy to use, easy to clean, looks good, nice coffee

Disadvantages: none i can think ok unless you want that silly frothy milk

I am currently saving to buy a house and so following some advice on the money saving expert (great website highly recommend!) I started making a list of everything I spend. I spent a month dutifully writing down every single penny I spent, which is actually a lot harder than it sounds. At the end of the month I totted up everything and was shocked to see how much money I had spent on coffee at the Costas near my office. £2.95 a large coffee = £14.50 a month = a whopping £58 a month!!!! Plus if I'm honest I can very rarely buy a coffee without a muffin or cake of some kind at £1.40 each that's a further £28 a month. After picking myself up off the floor I decided that something had to change and that Costa coffee was responsible for me being broke and getting a bit podgy :-D (Nothing to do with my lack of self control, honestly).

I have a stove top espresso maker but this is such a pain to clean and takes ages to make the coffee so I knew I wouldn't be bothered to do it every morning and would be back buying coffee in no time. I had a look online for coffee makers that had a built in timer. Most of them seemed quite expensive (£100+) so they were no good as part of my new cheaper lifestyle! I kept looking and eventually found the Morphy Richards 47070 for £27.99 on the empire direct website, with free postage, so I thought I would give it a try. I think it has gone up to £29.99 on this site now but that is still saving you £5 on the RRP so it's still a good deal. I also ordered it via the topcashback.co.uk site so I got 95p cash back on it too - bargain!

This is a no frills filter coffee machine; you put the ground coffee in the top pour water into it and turn it on. About 5-10 minutes later you have a pot of fresh coffee, perfect. What makes this machine great instead of just good is the timer. It takes 30 seconds to set and then in the morning you wake up to fresh coffee and the kitchen smelling wonderful! Plus you don't need to worry if like me you are a fan of the snooze button as the machine has a Thermostatic hotplate to keep your coffee hot for you. There are also 2 coloured lights on the machine, a red one to show the power is on and a green one to show the automatic time is on. This is quite handy to remind me to turn the timer off on a weekend.

This coffee maker can make up to 12 cups, but if like me there is only one of you it is easy to adjust the amount you make, just put less coffee and water in! The instructions say to use 1 rounded desert spoon of coffee for each cup you want to make but I think it's more a matter of personal taste and it doesn't take long to work out how much you need to use to get your desired strength.

Both the jug and the coffee make have indicators on them to show how many cups worth of water you are using. You can also re-use it after only 3 minutes if you have a lot of people round which is very useful.

There is also a failsafe cut out (turns off after 2 hours) so you don't need to worry about it blowing up your kitchen if you forget about it! Plus it comes with a 1 year parts and labour guarantee.

The coffee machine is very easy to clean as you just need to lift the filter out, empty it then run it under the tap. I also run it with just water in once a month to clean out all the pipes. There is also a none drip device and if the jug is not on the hotplate no coffee will come out so it doesn't make a mess.

I couldn't be happier with this coffee maker. It's easy to use, easy to clean, and makes great coffee. Plus it is saving me a fortune. I bought a flask from my local camping store so now all I spend is £4 a month on ground coffee. Also it has a permanent filter so you don't need to buy any.

It is quite an attractive machine in silver (brushed metal effect) and black and it is not too big so it doesn't take up too much work surface and is easy to store if you don't want it out all the time.

I feel to be truly fair I should try and mention some bad points. Erm.... I did spill water everywhere the first time I tried to fill it as it's a fairly narrow gap you pour the water into, but if you're paying attention to what you are doing I don't think you'll have any problems!

The only real downside I can see with this machine is that I now have to be very careful not to drink too much coffee every day!

Summary: cheap, easy to use, easy to clean, looks good, nice coffee

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