Expensive pods and amusing delivery (Braun Tassimo Hot Beverage System TA 1400)

Member Name: norton501

Product:	Braun Tassimo Hot Beverage System TA 1400
Date:	31/07/09 (254 review reads)
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Advantages: Sheer amusement of someone trying to figure out how it works

Disadvantages: Expensive to buy the pods

Offering to make a coffee for my husband when he wasn't feeling too good, I didn't quite realise what I was getting myself into with the Tassimo. I had been shown the day before how to work the machine: ensure there is water in the back section reservior, put a small (3/4 size) mug in the slot, turn it on, wait for the light to come on, put one of the pods into the hole at the top (lid side down and press hard so it clicks closed), then press the large button on the front and wait. I somehow managed to switch it from Auto to Manual (I got impatient and pressed the "go" button twice), but after it gurgled and spat about 10mls of coffee into the mug, I remembered being told to NOT remove the mug as there is more to come! Surely enough, then the coffee started flowing and the machine (working out I was a novice) even in its manual mode, managed to make a good Tassimo Coffee despite my hopping around infront of it trying to work out if i'd "done it correctly".

Summary: Makes a great cup of coffee if you are patient

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