Any experience with a Miele or other plumbed-in coffee machine?
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I Reallllly Want a Miele Coffee machine--How? Where? Discount??
Comments (19)Okay, we have one, and I end-arounded Miele Corporate and bought mine on eBay, saving around $350 IIRC. The unit I bought was perfect, in the crate, impeccably shipped and arrived in perfectly inoperable condition because the Miele Factory (the coffee machines are built in Switzerland) had failed to secure a plug-jack properly. The floating connection caused repeating faults in my unit, which led me to discover that I had no warranty at all on the machine. Meanwhile the dealer who sold it to me vanished from ebay, only to return with a new seller ID. I sent REPEATED inquiries to the seller asking about warranty and was COMPLETELY ignored. Lesson learned: If you buy from ebay, 1. Contact the seller first and find out who they are actually doing business as. 2. Make sure that the underlying store is an authorized Miele dealer. You can check that through the Miele website or by calling Miele. Do not mention ebay to Miele, EVER. They hate ebay and will screw you out of your warranty if they find out you purchased there. 3. Tell the seller that as a condition of sale you expect to be shipped a store receipt with the authorized dealer's name plainly listed as seller and that the terms of your factory warranty are included on the receipt. That receipt must not mention ebay. Get everything in writing from the dealer. With my coffee machine, Miele got THEIR dough, the dealer got HIS dough, via backdoor sale to move his stock, and I got reamed. Don't walk into that trick. There are dealers who have those things sitting around that they want to move and they will have NO problem dropping you into a crack where no light comes a shinin'. I fixed my own machine by opening it up and tracing around the harness till I found the loose PJ. (It came apart in my hand!) I plugged it back in securely and the machine has run flawlessly ever since. As to the machine, while it is NOT something real coffeegeek reviewers will ever find adequate, for us it is a godsend. Seriously. When we are staying at our city apartment and have to get by using the Keurig fill-a-basket, a sense of loneliness haunts our existence. But when we get home to our house and our Miele, our hearts bloom with contentment. You can get a great cuppa any time of day, with fancy foamy milk if you want. I really recommend that you select the plumbed version of the machine. You run a 1/4" PEX water line to your cutout, put an inline water filter on the supply, and then the machine takes care of keeping itself full of water. As far as the quality of the machine goes, despite the loose plug-jack, which probably occurred during a sensor testing regimen prior to packaging, the rest of the thing is really very nice quality. Tremendous engineering went into the design of components from a serviceability aspect. Everything pulls out of the front of the machine and is easy to get to. You open the door and everything is right there, easy to get at. We could not be happier. We picked a Bluestar range, Miele Speed Oven, and Miele Coffee System when we updated our Reagan-Era kitchen and we simply could not be happier. If I had it to do over again I would buy the exact same stuff but I would be sure to get the right receipt to mollify the price-fixers at Miele. Couple more helpful tips: The unit comes with a couple plastic containers that one could almost confuse with shipping spacers or something. They are NOT shipping spacers, they are used to clean and descale the machine. Hang onto them, you need 'em. Be VERY careful removing and replacing the lid on the milk thermos. The plastic pipes that suck up the milk are easily broken. You can superglue them back together, but you have to replace the entire lid if you want them really fixed and its close to $200. Miele charges 44 bucks for a box of 30 milk cleaning packets, which is ridiculous. But if you SMELL the cleaning solution they make when dissolved in water, and then smell the cleaning solution you get when you dissolve a scant teaspoon of OXYCLEAN in the same amount of water you will find that they are eerily similar. While I haven't sent the substances off to the lab for chromatographic analysis, I am quite confident, after two years of steady use, that Oxyclean works great to clean the milk system and that you do not need to spend the outrageous amount of money Miele demands for their precious cleaning packets....See MoreMiele Coffee Machine Owners - What brand coffee do you use?
Comments (25)Thanks homepro - I'll give them a shot. The prices seem reasonable. I like the Waialua coffee grown here on Oahu, just don't buy much Kona these days as all the stores (including Walmart) are overrun with tiny 6 to 8 oz. bags of 100% Kona, or a million flavored Kona blends, for the tourists. There are a couple of blends labeled as made for well known local restaurants which are OK - but they are 10% Kona only. Most the blends are only 10%. I want to use real beans and get real flavor! Sharon - just what I need, another gadget! LOL! Maybe I'll try when I'm retired. Too busy to start another hobby right now! Terri, this one could be promising. It could probably arrive from WA within a couple of days. Maybe the pachamama mentioned by arbenson too. I want to try a few over a period of a couple of months to try some new roasts. Then I can set up a standing order with the ones we like best....See MoreJura vs Plumbed in Miele Coffee Maker
Comments (5)"@opaone - everyone agrees the Breville Oracle makes great coffee. Everyone also agrees that it breaks within a year; if you are lucky, two years." Where are you getting that? I don't know that the Breville machines are any more or less reliable than others and I don't think they'd be as popular on coffee forums otherwise as these are folks who are analyzing everything to the nth degree before purchase. :-) Anecdotally, I know a number of people who've got many years on theirs and I've not heard of any problems. Anything more than a simple drip machine is likely to have some problems at some point though. In theory it should cost less to fix a counterop unit than deal with service calls for a built-in....See MoreMiele CVA6805 Coffee Machine Venting
Comments (5)Same here! Years ago we rented a brand new townhouse on the beach for a month and that is where my husband got to try a built in coffee machine. He loved it. When I remodeled our kitchen years later, that was the only thing he asked for, that I make room in the design to fit the coffee machine. It worked great in that house and he wanted it again when we designed and built a house this past year. It does require regular cleaning procedures (descaling, emptying the grounds, emptying the drip tray, etc) and my husband has taken charge of that now that he is retired and home. Just as well, because I hate the smell of coffee! The machine tells you when you have to do things, so easy to keep it clean and running without issues....See MoreJo
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