Coffee Appreciation

How many Gaggia Classic fails have been new machines? How many ebay purchases? People don't maintain their machines properly and they get sold for £50 on ebay as 'for parts' only to have someone descale them and show they work fine.

Also, Silvia's are twice the price of Classics new so you'd expect them to be substantially better.

They were all new, but you may be on to something with the descaling thing. I don't think missmouse has had time to scale hers up though and I've heard of other similar cases.

Agree completely on Silvia v. Classics - that's why I was asking upthread if there is a recommended machine between the two cost-wise?

I descaled the Krups today though and the standard of coffee it produces has, of course, increased significantly. Which is cool as I would rather keep using that and save up for a Silvia I think, I don't think the difference between the coffee from the Krups and the coffee from the Classic would be radically different, just 'a bit better'.