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Melitta Bean to Cup Coffee Machine, Barista TS SMART Model F85/0-102, 1450 Watts, 1.8 Litres, Black
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Brand | Melitta |
Colour | Black |
Product dimensions | 25.9D x 46.7W x 37.2H centimetres |
Special feature | Integrated Coffee Grinder, Removable Tank |
Coffee maker type | Espresso Machine |
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About this item
- 21 pre-set coffee specialities prepared according to the original recipes, Additional customisation of coffee with the Melitta Connect App
- My Coffee Memory: Saves the preferences of up to 8 people, 4 pre-programmed classic specialities: Expresso, Café Crème, Cappuccino, Latte macchiato, Separate hot water preparation possible (e.g. for tea)
- Exceptional taste: Genuine fresh coffee enjoyment cup after cup thanks to the Best Aroma System Plus and the Intense Aroma feature, 2 airtight grain compartments, Ground coffee chute, 5 settings for coffee strength
- Simple and intuitive, Customised coffee selection with Automatic Bean Select, Touch display for selection of hot water, milk, foam and coffee and amount of coffee (25 ml - 220 ml), Automated choice of grain type, Double-cup mode
- Preserve the optimal coffee taste of the best bean to cup coffee maker with automatic cleaning and descaling, Includes welcome pack cleaning kit, Easy to clean interior thanks to the removable brewing unit - Dishwasher safe
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This product has sustainability features recognised by trusted certifications.Manufactured on farms or in facilities that protect the rights and/or health of workers.As certified byRainforest Alliance is an international non-profit organisation working to create a better future for people and nature. By choosing Rainforest Alliance certified products, you help to support farmers to follow more sustainable, climate-smart farming practices that protect natural resources and the environment by using land, water and energy more carefully. These practices also safeguard carbon-storing forests and help farmers to mitigate and adapt to climate change, which ultimately improves their livelihoods.Made with materials harvested from responsibly managed forests.As certified byRainforest Alliance
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Rainforest Alliance is an international non-profit organisation working to create a better future for people and nature. By choosing Rainforest Alliance certified products, you help to support farmers to follow more sustainable, climate-smart farming practices that protect natural resources and the environment by using land, water and energy more carefully. These practices also safeguard carbon-storing forests and help farmers to mitigate and adapt to climate change, which ultimately improves their livelihoods.Made with materials harvested from responsibly managed farms.As certified byRainforest Alliance
Rainforest Alliance is an international non-profit organisation working to create a better future for people and nature. By choosing Rainforest Alliance certified products, you help to support farmers to follow more sustainable, climate-smart farming practices that protect natural resources and the environment by using land, water and energy more carefully. These practices also safeguard carbon-storing forests and help farmers to mitigate and adapt to climate change, which ultimately improves their livelihoods. - Sustainability features for this product
Sustainability features
This product has sustainability features recognised by trusted certifications.Made with materials harvested from responsibly managed forests.As certified byRainforest Alliance
Rainforest Alliance is an international non-profit organisation working to create a better future for people and nature. By choosing Rainforest Alliance certified products, you help to support farmers to follow more sustainable, climate-smart farming practices that protect natural resources and the environment by using land, water and energy more carefully. These practices also safeguard carbon-storing forests and help farmers to mitigate and adapt to climate change, which ultimately improves their livelihoods.Made with materials harvested from responsibly managed farms.As certified byRainforest Alliance
Rainforest Alliance is an international non-profit organisation working to create a better future for people and nature. By choosing Rainforest Alliance certified products, you help to support farmers to follow more sustainable, climate-smart farming practices that protect natural resources and the environment by using land, water and energy more carefully. These practices also safeguard carbon-storing forests and help farmers to mitigate and adapt to climate change, which ultimately improves their livelihoods.Made with materials harvested in a way that helps protect animals, plants and a healthy ecosystem.As certified byRainforest Alliance
Rainforest Alliance is an international non-profit organisation working to create a better future for people and nature. By choosing Rainforest Alliance certified products, you help to support farmers to follow more sustainable, climate-smart farming practices that protect natural resources and the environment by using land, water and energy more carefully. These practices also safeguard carbon-storing forests and help farmers to mitigate and adapt to climate change, which ultimately improves their livelihoods.Manufactured on farms or in facilities that protect the rights and/or health of workers.As certified byRainforest Alliance
Rainforest Alliance is an international non-profit organisation working to create a better future for people and nature. By choosing Rainforest Alliance certified products, you help to support farmers to follow more sustainable, climate-smart farming practices that protect natural resources and the environment by using land, water and energy more carefully. These practices also safeguard carbon-storing forests and help farmers to mitigate and adapt to climate change, which ultimately improves their livelihoods.
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Bean-to-Cup Brilliance: 21 Different Coffee Specialties
Caffeo Barista TS Smart Offers the Ultimate Creative Coffee Experience
With 21 different pre-set coffee specialties, My Coffee memory capabilities, double-cup pour, Bluetooth connectivity and many other features, the fully-automatic, smooth-surfaced TS Smart provides an unsurpassed creative outlet for the coffee enthusiast. The machine's Whisper Grinder ensures a discreet manner of high productivity, while clean visual aesthetics complement kitchens in either home or office. This German-designed Melitta coffee maker also features a removable brewing unit that is dishwasher safe and a welcome-pack cleaning kit to encourage use of automatic cleaning and descaling features. Examples of the 21 pre-set options prepared by the TS Smart include espresso, cappuccino and latte macchiato, flat white, americano, and espresso doppio. The milk container is removable and easily fits any refrigerator.
Options for Bean-to-Cup, Pre-Ground, Water for Tea and Smart Phone Operation
The Caffeo Barista TS Smart is compatible with the Melitta Connect app, so you can remotely steer the preparation of coffee and manage other features of this all-in-one Melitta coffee maker. An airtight double-bean chamber offers steady rotation of coffee flavour. The TS Smart additionally offers separate hot-water access for tea service and a pre-ground coffee chute.
Melitta: Pioneers of Coffee Industry Since 1908
Melitta has led the coffee industry since 1908, when founder Melitta Bentz made the first paper filter bags. Now 20 billion filter bags are used world-wide on a yearly basis, and this conscientious German organisation continues to lead the way in coffee-related innovation, designing and retailing coffee products of the utmost quality.
At a glance:
- 21 pre-set coffee specialities with additional customisation possible with the Melitta Connect App
- Makes Espresso, Café Crème, Cappuccino, Latte macchiato, Hot water preparation possible for tea
- Patented technology including Best Aroma System Plus, Intense Aroma and Whisper Grinder features
- Automatic Bean Select: 2 airtight grain compartments for customised coffee selection
- Touch display for choice of hot water, milk, foam and coffee and amount of coffee (25 ml - 220 ml)
- Convenient pouring with double-cup mode and height-adjustable spout
- Automatic cleaning and descaling
- Compact design, Made in Germany

Melitta Connect
With the Melitta Connect App many of the features on your fully automatic coffee machine can be managed with your smart phone. For example, appliance settings can be managed conveniently and personal My Coffee Profiles can be programmed and saved. Practical tutorials assist you with cleaning and maintaining the appliance. A special highlight with this app is that you can create your very own coffee specialities.

21 coffee specialties
Thanks to the product buttons you can make the 4 classics espresso, café crème, cappuccino and latte macchiato at the touch of a button. The recipe book feature allows you to create 17 further coffee specialities such as flat white, ristretto, americano or espresso doppio.

My Coffee Memory
You don‘t want to set your personal coffee preferences each time you make a coffee? No problem! With the “My Coffee Memory“ feature you can programme your favourite coffee specialities completely individually. The Melitta Barista TS Smart saves the preference settings for up to 8 people.

Quiet as a whisper grinder
You want to enjoy making your coffee in peace? This is no problem with the quiet as a whisper grinder, it is not only quiet but also especially quick.

Melitta Connect

22 coffee specialties

My Coffee Memory

Quiet as a whisper grinder
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Description | One of the smallest automatic coffee machines on the market, Impressive design and features with the option to choose between an espresso, café crème, latte macchiato and cappuccino. | Automatic espresso machine with many features such as a quiet grinder, 5 grinder settings, favourite coffee function, Melitta Companion App, Aroma Extraction System (A.E.S.), service button, and 2-cup mode | Coffee bean grinder with 17 grind settings, ranging from fine to coarse | Coffee filters with specially arranged Aromapores and 3 distinct Aromazones, Compatible with all AromaFresh machines | Automatic bean-to-cup machine with 21 pre-set specialties, My Coffee Memory customisation, optional Bluetooth connectivity, Whisper grinder, welcome-pack cleaning kit and intelligent visual aesthetics, German-designed | Electric coffee grinder with integrated digital scale for measurements to the precise gramme, 39 variable grind settings from coarse to fine, Automatic saving of most recent grind settings (even after unplugging of cable) |
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Technical Details
Brand | Melitta |
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Model Number | F85/0-102 |
Colour | Black |
Product Dimensions | 25.9 x 46.7 x 37.2 cm; 10.6 kg |
Volume Capacity | 1.8 litres |
Voltage | 220 |
Auto Shutoff | Yes |
Special Features | Integrated Coffee Grinder, Removable Tank |
Item Weight | 10.6 kg |
Additional Information
ASIN | B077ZK2K9D |
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4.0 out of 5 stars |
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Date First Available | 29 Jan. 2018 |
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- Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 1 August 2024Colour Name: BlackStyle Name: SingleVerified PurchaseOver the years, I've owned (and still own) many types of coffee maker. My espresso needs have been met, for the last 10 years or so, by a Sage machine but it had become a chore to have to do every single aspect from grinding to pulling, manually. My wife also refused to get involved, so the coffee making always fell to me. As a result I was looking for a bean to cup machine for a while, but hadn't really thought about a fully automatic until I looked at the Barista TS SMART. I compared it to a number of others, and the fact that it was on offer at the time sealed the deal.
I'll start with all the good bits, and there are many. Firstly, it makes really great coffee in no time at all, and with almost no input from me. If you're not getting good coffee out of the Barista TS SMART, look for better beans and thank me later. The self-cleaning processes that run at both startup and shutdown mean one of the biggest drawbacks of any espresso machine are removed immediately. Yes, it increases your water consumption but, take it from me, the alternative is much worse.
The range of drinks it can make are extensive and, if we're honest, probably overkill. Out of the 20 listed, I've probably not used more than half a dozen of them. Better too many than too few, though. The "obvious" drinks like espresso, cappuccino, and latte are available from a row of buttons on the front of the machine. The rest take a bit of work to get to, but you soon get used to it.
The ability to adjust every aspect of the recipes is excellent, and makes a huge difference if you have two people who like their drinks prepared differently. These variations can be stored in up to 4 separate profiles, for ease. Another good example of this being very useful is that we have 340ml cappuccino cups, and the "milk only" programme defaults to 120ml. What I do is set the default cappuccino recipe to get to 220ml total milk/coffee, then simply hit the milk button to top up to the 340ml level.
The Barista TS SMART is smart enough to know what needs cleaning and what doesn't. I mistakenly turned it off, and triggered the shutdown flushing process, without running the milk easy cleaning programme first. Not wanting to leave milk in the system, I turned it back on and ran the easy cleaning. When turning the machine off again, it knew it didn't need to run the shutdown flush again, as no drinks had been made. A small thing, but welcome nevertheless.
Being able to use 2 different types of coffee beans has been useful, but the ability to turn off the feature and let the machine use whichever side of the hopper has beans in, is very nice if you only tend to use a single variety. The water tank is about as big as it can be without increasing the size of the machine significantly but, as I mention above, you do go through a lot of water so expect to fill it twice a day if you're making 10/12 cups. Cleaning is easy and quick, and the Barista TS SMART prompts you to run the milk cleaning process, both the easy cleaning every time you use milk, and then the full programme with the cleaning solution periodically. It also prompts you to empty the bottom container where the waste water goes, but I'm in the habit of emptying it at the end of every startup flush process.
Overall, several weeks in, it's a purchase I'm still really pleased I made, and have absolutely no regrets. But, as the title of this review suggests, the machine is not without its flaws.
First, the milk foaming is great apart from the milk is just not warm enough coming out of the machine. This is not unique to this brand/model, it's a drawback of fully automatic machines and the balance between convenience and speed. The solution is just to microwave it for 30 seconds to bring it to the desired temperature. Don't microwave for too long, or you will burn both the milk and the coffee. A bit less is better than too much. The process for accessing the recipes that aren't on the front of the machine is also a little unclear and awkward at first, even with the included card, but a bit of trial and error does get you there in the end.
The included milk container has, so far, remained unused, mainly because it's quite big, and doesn't keep milk cool. I simply use a small stainless steel jug together with the optional milk wand that you can buy (£10). You soon learn how much milk to pour without wasting any, and it's much easier.
And now I'm going to save you some time. Just ignore the fact there's a Bluetooth app for this. You can't power on the machine with it, and you can't keep your milk cool unless you pay over the odds for the stainless steel model, so you need to go and stand in front of it anyway unless you're making drinks constantly. I've never even downloaded it, and I'm 100% convinced I neither need nor miss it. The only use the app could have, but which is very unlikely given it wopuld need to be built into the machine itself already, would be to update any firmware.
The very slight niggles aside, I have no complaints about the Barista TS SMART. Making 2 drinks used to take me about 20 minutes and involved a lot of mither. I can now do it in 5 minutes and without breaking even a mild sweat. The fact the drinks taste so good is almost a bonus, although it's obviously the main point!
I highly recommend the Barista TS SMART. Learn to live with the quirks, and you'll love it.
- Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 9 December 2022Colour Name: BlackStyle Name: SingleVerified PurchaseWe've mostly used it for cappuccino and lattes. The default drink sizes are a little on the small size but that's easily adjustable. Drinks are consistently well made, milk froth is much better than the type where the milk is heated/frothed in the top of the removable milk tank. Some reviews complain about milk drinks being cold, I think that's an exaggeration. They do come out a few degrees cooler than from some machines, but to my mind it's ready to drink, rather than needing to let it sit and cool a few minutes.
Cleaning the machine is easy - brew unit out for a rinse weekly, milk tank run for a cleaning cycle monthly, brew head cleaning cycle run every 2 months and a descale cycle every 3 months. Mostly automated, just follow the on-screen instructions and fill the tanks with the appropriate cleaning solutions. Beyond that it's just damp cloth on the outside like any other appliance.
Noisewise, it's a bean to cup and there is a coffee grinder in there. It's quieter than I expected, but still a lot louder than a pod machine.
Cons :
Water tank and drip tray could be larger. This machine uses a fair amount of water on self-cleaning cycles. Turn on, rinses brew head, make coffee, milk system self-clean, turn off, brew head rinse. Once you've gone through that process a couple of times the drip tray will be full, regardless of how few coffees you made each time you turned it on.
The buttons on the front are all capacitive-touch non-clicky type. They could stand to be be more sensitive, especially on the coffee volume and strength adjustment controls.
- Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 21 March 2023Colour Name: Stainless SteelStyle Name: SingleVerified PurchaseUPDATE: Well, I did learn to love this machine but, after only 18 months it has stopped making coffee. Instead of dispensing coffee through the nozzles on the front of the machine… the coffee just goes straight into the drip tray!
And, yes, I run the cleaning routines whenever prompted, sometimes even sooner. And that includes taking the brewing unit out and giving it a thorough wash.
I called the UK Melitta support line… which just rings indefinitely with nobody answering. I sent them an email, which has not been acknowledged.
ORIGINAL REVIEW:
Having previously owned (and loved) the Melitta Caffeo Bistro, I though this would be a fancy upgrade. Unfortunately, they’ve added a load of fancy-looking features that work incredibly unreliably.
Instead of mechanical buttons, you have a touch interface, that’s horribly unreliable. Sometimes you tap on the -/+ symbol and it does what you expect, most times it does nothing.
It’s designed primarily for use with dark roast beans in the left hopper and mild beans in the right. If you want to use the dual hopper for car vs decaf, then you’re going to need to remember to use the bean selector before making any coffee… otherwise the machine will automatically select them based on the recipe.
“Cafe Crème”, “Cafe Latte” and “Cafe au Lait” use the right hopper (“Beans 2”) by default, unless you select “Beans 1” beforehand.
“Red Eye”, “Black Eye” and “Dead Eye” (seriously… who’s heard of these?) use beans from both hoppers, so these recipes rather depend on the hoppers being filled with dark and medium roast beans rather than a caf/decaf split. Although maybe shots of espresso in a decaf would give the same visual effect?
The portions you get from the recipes are rather random and extremely stingy… a standard home coffee mug is typically between 200-300ml. Yet the Americano recipe only dispenses 150ml and the Cappuccino a miserly 130ml! I’ve included a photo of a cappuccino to show (to scale) how absurd that is. Even the latte is only 180ml. The largest recipes are the “Americano Extra Shot” and “Latte Macchiato Trip’e Shot” which are 210ml each. These amounts may be fine for your local overpriced coffee shop, but they’re too small for home use.
You can override this and use the slider on the machine to adjust the total amount… but (and this is incredible) you can only do this AFTER starting the recipe but BEFORE the coffee starts dispensing. That’s a 10 second window to make the adjustment. But it gets worse: the machine display does not tell you what the total amount will! Instead it tells you “Coffee 65ml Milk 115ml” and you have 10 seconds to add that up in your head and decide whether that’s suitable for your chosen mug, adjust, repeat.
If you want to tinker further with the recipes or create your own, you can do so via the iOS app; however, I found that it does not reliably select the beans you asked for. Instead it seems to select whatever was chosen by the last person to use the physical controls. Also, it does not have the option to adjust the total amount while keeping the coffee to milk ratio consistent. I used the app for a few days, then went back to the standard machine controls.
I do find it astonishing that such a computer-based machine does not have any means for the customer to upgrade the firmware. I did ask Melitta support and they told me if there is a firmware issue, it has to go back to the manufacturer to be updated.
Let’s finish with some positive saving graces though, as you’ll be wondering why I gave it 4 stars.
The coffee this machine makes (from the recipes, using good quality beans) is delicious. I was particularly impressed at the 3-layered Latte Macchiato… make that in a glass for the full effect! The flat white and cappuccino are especially tasty. I source my beans from CoffeeLink, who also do really good decaf beans.
If you know for sure that the total will fit in your mug, then you can simply choose “2x” to make double the amount (which is actually intended for making two tiny coffees side-by-side). I use that setting all the time.
The milk container that comes with the stainless steel model (which I got) is a proper flask that keeps the milk fresh and cold for ages.
I definitely recommend you purchase the milk “lance” (it’s about £10) if you only intend to make a single milky coffee, as it’s quicker and easier to clean than the flask and no milk is wasted. You simply stick that in your milk bottle/carton. It should really be bundled with such an expensive machine though, shouldn’t it?
So, overall, I’m happy with the machine, despite all the shortcomings above.
1.0 out of 5 starsUPDATE: Well, I did learn to love this machine but, after only 18 months it has stopped making coffee. Instead of dispensing coffee through the nozzles on the front of the machine… the coffee just goes straight into the drip tray!UPDATE: Failed after 18 months.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 21 March 2023
And, yes, I run the cleaning routines whenever prompted, sometimes even sooner. And that includes taking the brewing unit out and giving it a thorough wash.
I called the UK Melitta support line… which just rings indefinitely with nobody answering. I sent them an email, which has not been acknowledged.
ORIGINAL REVIEW:
Having previously owned (and loved) the Melitta Caffeo Bistro, I though this would be a fancy upgrade. Unfortunately, they’ve added a load of fancy-looking features that work incredibly unreliably.
Instead of mechanical buttons, you have a touch interface, that’s horribly unreliable. Sometimes you tap on the -/+ symbol and it does what you expect, most times it does nothing.
It’s designed primarily for use with dark roast beans in the left hopper and mild beans in the right. If you want to use the dual hopper for car vs decaf, then you’re going to need to remember to use the bean selector before making any coffee… otherwise the machine will automatically select them based on the recipe.
“Cafe Crème”, “Cafe Latte” and “Cafe au Lait” use the right hopper (“Beans 2”) by default, unless you select “Beans 1” beforehand.
“Red Eye”, “Black Eye” and “Dead Eye” (seriously… who’s heard of these?) use beans from both hoppers, so these recipes rather depend on the hoppers being filled with dark and medium roast beans rather than a caf/decaf split. Although maybe shots of espresso in a decaf would give the same visual effect?
The portions you get from the recipes are rather random and extremely stingy… a standard home coffee mug is typically between 200-300ml. Yet the Americano recipe only dispenses 150ml and the Cappuccino a miserly 130ml! I’ve included a photo of a cappuccino to show (to scale) how absurd that is. Even the latte is only 180ml. The largest recipes are the “Americano Extra Shot” and “Latte Macchiato Trip’e Shot” which are 210ml each. These amounts may be fine for your local overpriced coffee shop, but they’re too small for home use.
You can override this and use the slider on the machine to adjust the total amount… but (and this is incredible) you can only do this AFTER starting the recipe but BEFORE the coffee starts dispensing. That’s a 10 second window to make the adjustment. But it gets worse: the machine display does not tell you what the total amount will! Instead it tells you “Coffee 65ml Milk 115ml” and you have 10 seconds to add that up in your head and decide whether that’s suitable for your chosen mug, adjust, repeat.
If you want to tinker further with the recipes or create your own, you can do so via the iOS app; however, I found that it does not reliably select the beans you asked for. Instead it seems to select whatever was chosen by the last person to use the physical controls. Also, it does not have the option to adjust the total amount while keeping the coffee to milk ratio consistent. I used the app for a few days, then went back to the standard machine controls.
I do find it astonishing that such a computer-based machine does not have any means for the customer to upgrade the firmware. I did ask Melitta support and they told me if there is a firmware issue, it has to go back to the manufacturer to be updated.
Let’s finish with some positive saving graces though, as you’ll be wondering why I gave it 4 stars.
The coffee this machine makes (from the recipes, using good quality beans) is delicious. I was particularly impressed at the 3-layered Latte Macchiato… make that in a glass for the full effect! The flat white and cappuccino are especially tasty. I source my beans from CoffeeLink, who also do really good decaf beans.
If you know for sure that the total will fit in your mug, then you can simply choose “2x” to make double the amount (which is actually intended for making two tiny coffees side-by-side). I use that setting all the time.
The milk container that comes with the stainless steel model (which I got) is a proper flask that keeps the milk fresh and cold for ages.
I definitely recommend you purchase the milk “lance” (it’s about £10) if you only intend to make a single milky coffee, as it’s quicker and easier to clean than the flask and no milk is wasted. You simply stick that in your milk bottle/carton. It should really be bundled with such an expensive machine though, shouldn’t it?
So, overall, I’m happy with the machine, despite all the shortcomings above.
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Client d'AmazonReviewed in France on 24 March 2025
5.0 out of 5 stars Très bon cafe
Colour Name: BlackStyle Name: SingleVerified PurchaseLa machine à café d'ontr tout le monde rêve
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lenaReviewed in Sweden on 17 September 2022
5.0 out of 5 stars Mycket nöjd.
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- TownxReviewed in the United Arab Emirates on 6 February 2021
5.0 out of 5 stars Best machine for milk coffees
Colour Name: BlackStyle Name: SingleVerified PurchaseBest coffee machine you can get for small office or home use. Coffee taste is amazing especially for milk coffees. 2 bean container is very convinient, as you can use 2 different type of beans. Milk froster has flexible sucking hose that can suck the milk from any bottle which avoids extra cleaning and need to use any extra bottle/tank. Only disadvantage is water tank is 1.5l only and because of self cleaning machine always keeps some water in the tank for cleaning and you have to keep feeling up the water tank every 5-6 cups of coffee. If you have a budget it is best machine you can get in the market.
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LilianReviewed in Italy on 8 November 2024
5.0 out of 5 stars Mellita the best 👌
Colour Name: BlackStyle Name: SingleVerified PurchasePerfetto. Come nuova. Per la casa
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SnijplankenReviewed in Belgium on 9 February 2025
5.0 out of 5 stars Volautomatische koffiemachine Melitta.
Colour Name: BlackStyle Name: SingleVerified PurchaseSuper. Heb verschillende merken in huis gehad, maar deze volautomatische koffiemachine van Melitta geeft toch de lekkerste koffie! Tevens gemakkelijk in onderhoud.