Smeg ECF01CREU Crème

This is exactly what I wanted: a traditional, no-gimmick, no fancy lights or displays, Italian coffee machine. This ticks all the boxes for me. I love the fact that it's manual and I can tweak my coffee to my liking and it looks so good! I would recommend it for lovers of Italian coffee who are already familiar, or want to learn, how to make espresso the traditional way. There is also a filter for pods but I've never used it. Bought it with the SMEG grinder and the pair look and perform wonderfully.

Very pleased with it. Looks great, nice retro look. Easy to use. Easy to clean. Great for hot chocolates. Makes lovely coffee. Could not live without it. Very happy.

without a doubt it is garbage. the only reason anyone keeps this is because it's designed for influencers. The coffee maker is made of cheap plastic and the milk frother makes less sense than combing a bald man's hair.

Hybrid coffee machine which takes ground coffee beans but like a pod machine the buttons control the amount of coffee that flows into the cup. Very easy to use but as I dont have milk I cant comment on the milk frother. There is a cup special coffee dispenser for coffee bags but I cant find any in the supermarkets around me.

This SMEG coffee machine is expensive, but like most things, it is worth paying for quality. Overall, the machine is easy to use, the build quality and the design are excellent and it makes very good coffee. As to downsides, the milk frother is a little fiddly to remove so that it can be cleaned and the instructions are quite complicated and require some careful study. So, I can recommend this machine if you want a coffee machine that doesn't cost a fortune and looks good in the kitchen. I made the decision to buy the SMEG because when I tried to replace my old Krups coffee machine with a like-for-like Krups product, I found the new Krups machine (which was a quarter of the price of the SMEG) to be cheap, nasty and it didn't work.