My new machine arrived this morning. I had been told by John Lewis it would be delivered tomorrow, Wednesday, so it was only luck I was in to receive it.
Unfortunately the machine arrived before the beans I ordered online from Amazon, so I had nothing to test the machine out with. Went down to the local supermarket to see what they had. Not much really. I bought a couple of small bags of beans - from Taylor's of Harrogate. I also picked up a tin of Illy ground decaffeinated coffee.
Setup was fairly straight forward. The usual stuff like language, time, water hardness etc. The test strip they supplied for hardness setting didn't seem to work. There are 4 settings and the test strip is supposed to show 1 or more red squares to indicate which setting is required for my local water. But the strip did not change colour at all, so I just set it to the number 2 setting for now, until I can get another testing kit.
I mainly bought this machine for black coffee, but I tried a couple of the automatic milky drinks buttons to start with. I first tried a Latte, but all I got was milk and the coffee went straight into the grounds hopper as dry grounds. Not sure what I did wrong, but I will have to come back to tha I will be interested to see re
Here's my new machine in action.