De´Longhi Dinamica Plus | The Ultimate Coffee Machine 

Quite a bit more than my daily $19.00 Mr. Coffee machine I use that I got from Wally World! My splurge was an Aero Press, about as close to a cup of Expresso Machine made coffee as I could get on a budget.

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Chuck, you really need one of these...😊

@@MyPIDream we love our keurig!

You got me Ma Elena Martin. I fell for Brad's charm!

With Jame's skill sets and interest in gardening, he might just go the rest of the way and buy a plot and grow his own coffee beans

It does!

Looking forward to coming to the Philippines for a month in February!

There are settings in the program as well as the milk carafe that alter the type of frothing it dispenses.

Quite expensive but something us retirees can spoil ourselves with after many years of hard work and financial discipline.

@@MyPIDream so I see my lookalike Brad Pitt is actually advertising your exact coffee maker ! Would I buy one ? yes but my old one works fine.

Using the DeLonghi every day. Start out making 4 cups in the morning for myself (2 cups), wife and gardener. Then a speciality coffee in the afternoon or evening. No problems as of this date and couldn't be more happy with our purchase. After 1 year I still give this 2 thumbs up! 👍🏻👍🏻

@@MyPIDream thank you SO MUCH for the info!!

Yes, beans stay in the hopper. As much coffee as we drink the beans never get a chance to go stale.

@@MyPIDream We love coffee, I've always wanted an expresso maker. I've been fascinated by them since I first saw them in Sicily when I was stationed there at NAS Sigonella back in 1980. We used to go to the local town of Catana and go into the little coffee shops that faced the central fountain, they would have a giant expresso machine and people would be sitting at the counters drinking expresso with their savory or sweet treats, they also had a wall of liquors on the back wall people would drink. It was an amazing cultural experience for me as a young guy in the service. I remember returning back to the US and thinking, it's too bad we don't have something like that here. Fast forward many decades later and Starbucks is everywhere now kind of serving that same niche with a similar concept, but without the feel of sitting in the warm sun with vespas and italian chatter all around you as you sit and watch the world spin around the central fountain enjoying a favorite cup of joe. I make small cups using an Aero Press, but I'm still contemplating buying that Expresso machine someday. I'm glad you found a nice one. I'll look into it. Enjoy! ☺

No oily beans...check. It actually says that in the manual.

Interesting that you brought that up, I had the same question in my mind about oily beans and if that would cause an issue in the mechanisms.

That machine is a very nice machine, it is also very expensive…. I looked on lazada for an alternative, look up Lattego 3200, it doesn’t have all the bells and whistles but it does make a cup of fresh ground espresso, cappuccino coffee. When my expensive machine broke down I replaced it with a new Lattego 3200 for less than the cost of repairing the expensive machine. So far I’ve had it over 3 years and it’s working flawlessly but I do pay more attention to getting dry beans. I find that blonde roast beans tend to be the best, stay away from espresso or French roast, if you want darker roast buy a ground roast and bypass the machines grinder. Another thing, I just can’t stand “flavored coffee”, if you brew a cup in these machines that flavor will carry over in the machine for quite a number of regular cups.

What’s an example of non oily beans. I’m completely new to this

@@TheHelicapt compare a lighter roast bean to a French roast, you’ll see the difference, dark roast beans have a shiny appearance while most lighter roasts have a dull look.

Very good. That's what we make every morning. Ness regular coffee, then I make first regular then Americana (1 shot expresso and hot water to taste).

I saw...I didn't think there were coffee machines priced above the one we got but I was totally wrong after watching your videos.

@@MyPIDream yes those were exorbitant haha like buying the whole Café shop already

P105k on Lazada's 11/11 sale. Plus paid with US$ so the exchange rate also helped tremendously with the current favorable rate.

I got it on the 11/11 sale on Lazada for P105k. Using a US credit card you can also save quite a bit with the current exchange rate that favors the USD$.

@@MyPIDream Good savings. I just checked, Php 118,800 and they still want 520 for delivery! I better not let asawa ko see this.

No offense taken. My house is built after many years of saving and now it's time to enjoy retirements simple pleasures. Ingat!

That machine is made in Italy. Not saying it's the best but it's made in Italy.

The DeLonghi steams the milk with 3 settings from hot milk to froth. Works for us.

@@MyPIDream tnx.. now I cant decide between this and primadonna class..