I have resurrected my De Longhi Magnifica S which is about ten years old - hardly used. Your video was brilliant as I had lost the instructions, but downloaded them from the De Longhi site. However, I couldn't work out how to use it in the Cappachino mode. After searching the web I found your video. Thank you so much, it explains everything in a simple way (simple minds ! ) I was about to try to sell it on Marketplace, but carried on looking for a tutorial - Thank you so very much I hope I will enjoy my brilliant machine now. The only thing I find is when I make a norma coffee it's not very hot - if you read this any suggestions ! Thank you again Brilliant Tutorial. Have subscribed and liked.
You can alter the finished volume of the different functions so you don’t have to press the button for a double shot. To do this, press and hold the function button for 5 seconds. Then allow the machine to fill the cup to your desired volume and press the button again. When you do this the machine recalculates the amount of coffee beans to grind to maintain the strength of the finished coffee for your chosen volume. We had this machine at home for 7 years and it was faultless. We have now replaced it with a Magnifica Evo because I wanted to have the S plus in my office at work!
I have had the same machine for years. This review is very poor. He just doesn't understand how it works. The adjustable grinder is designed to get the right coarseness to get the optimum brewing rate and best flavour from the beans. The Hot Milk setting just gives steam to heat the milk. The Cappuccino setting draws in air to make the froth. The coffee is packed down before making the coffee to ensure it is packed in tightly, Strange idea that it is compressed afterwards! The Beans button changes the strength by increasing the amount of coffee used. This is a setting indicated on the display. Pressing the Large button twice doesn't do anything. (unlike the Gaggia I used to have). You press the 2 Large button if you want a double dose. You can use the single button AFTER the first brew to make a second single brew. One point sometimes missed is that the correct way to make Cappuccino is to put the frothed milk into the cup before the coffee. Anyway the machine is good. The flushing before and after means it rarely has to be cleaned internally.
hi..great video. So, when using the beans to make a cup of coffee, you don't have to set or press the BEANS button of the machine? There is a PRE GROUND coffee button too. I never used coffee beans because I am confused :)
Hi Maureen. Thanks for watching. So the machine is set by default to use beans. So if you press any of the preset functions they will always try and grind the beans first. The preground option only works if ground coffee has been added and detected by the machine.
Hi Dan about to buy my first bean to cup machine want a Delonghi have a £350 max have found a De'Longhi ECAM250.23SB Magnifica Bean To Cup Coffee Machine for £320 is this a good machine as i like the fact you can also heat just milk as am also a hot chocolate lover but a lot of the machines came with a removable milk tank like my friends she used to make a hot chocolate it was nice but was told it’s better to have a nozzle I have arthritis but my friend will come & clean the machine but live in an area with really bad hard water so use bottled water for everything as am waiting for the eco filter where you buy one cartridge & just empty it & refill with the sachet instead of buying cartridges but i know i will have to use a cartridge for this & filter water as my friend said the coffee machine kept telling her to descale a lot until she used bottled & had the filter but if you can recommend a good de longhi machine have saved for 8 months plus birthday/Christmas money & sold laptop so could go a bit more but would be great to get your opinion as this video was a while ago & machines change a lot
Hi Marie-clare thanks for the question. That looks a reasonable machine and have used it before without any issues. Only thing I did find funny was to get a full cup I needed to press long twice as the double long didn't really do it. However all of the magnifica are great. I don't have much use for the milk tank myself as it is always a latte for me. However I can see the benefits if you like some variation. As long at you have a milk throther it should be able to acheive the same thing. Re filters, you can get a filter to sit inside the water tank as a standard feature I believe and that would certainly help with the hard water and reduce the descaling. Please let me know what you go with and if any of my views actually helped your decision. At the end of the day you can spend silly money and you won't get much more for it and your price range I think gets you to the decent ones so enjoy.
Great question. I should have mentioned that by pressing the long button you do get a double shot but the amount of water is less and I end up with a bigger cup by pressing the large button twice. Thanks for watching. 😊
@@danreviewsitall on the website it says it can make so many coffee types but it doesn't give me an idea how to make it anywhere at all. Sorry for being so stupid about its my first coffee machine
@@bodol4d2 thats ok dont worry. So basically you just use the coffee quantity and then add what you want. For example if you want a latte. Press the smallest coffee button and it will give you a coffee shot or espresso as it is known. Then use the milk throther to heat and foam your milk then add to the coffee. Might want to get a thermometer and espresso beans tho. Hope that make sense.
My father's newer wife has the same machine, and all I can say that the amount of noise this makes, now THAT is something no-one deserves, not even the poor kWh meter, which has to stand such wastes of electricity. Sure, it's convenient and elegant, but the robotic noises and the weak grinder is not something you'd want to wake up to. Why can't manufacturers put mains frequency induction motors in them, which waste less electricity and are quieter.
I'm considering this model for my next bean to cup after years of great service from a Delonghi, and didn't get to half way through because gaffs indicate that you're not really 100% on what you're talking about. Coffee shops rarely ever use a BTC. But they'll have a grinder to fill the espresso filter from that, for the fresh grind reason you say. The grind adjustment, isn't for different sized beans, and I think you realised that, but didn't edit your video, just brushed over it. It's for coarse/fine ground, only represented by a big/little bean. These are small points. The biggy that shows a complete non understanding of the espresso making process is your fantasy of the machine making waste pellets because they're tidier. Espresso is made by compacting the coffee grinds BEFORE any water passes through them, through a process called tamping. Then water is passed through this at force. This just happens to make these little damp hockey pucks, whatever machine that you use. And yeah, gardeners use them or chuck them on the compost. If you'd ever made espresso manually, either in a stove top percolator, or a manual pump espresso machine, or watched a barista in a coffee shop, you'd know this.
Well William thank you for educating me. As with most of my videos I don't claim to be an expert on anything other than gardening products really and are mainly observations from a standard user. When it comes to buying my next machine I will be sure to bring up some of your points.
I have resurrected my De Longhi Magnifica S which is about ten years old - hardly used. Your video was brilliant as I had lost the instructions, but downloaded them from the De Longhi site. However, I couldn't work out how to use it in the Cappachino mode. After searching the web I found your video. Thank you so much, it explains everything in a simple way (simple minds ! ) I was about to try to sell it on Marketplace, but carried on looking for a tutorial - Thank you so very much I hope I will enjoy my brilliant machine now. The only thing I find is when I make a norma coffee it's not very hot - if you read this any suggestions ! Thank you again Brilliant Tutorial. Have subscribed and liked.
You can alter the finished volume of the different functions so you don’t have to press the button for a double shot. To do this, press and hold the function button for 5 seconds. Then allow the machine to fill the cup to your desired volume and press the button again. When you do this the machine recalculates the amount of coffee beans to grind to maintain the strength of the finished coffee for your chosen volume. We had this machine at home for 7 years and it was faultless. We have now replaced it with a Magnifica Evo because I wanted to have the S plus in my office at work!
Best review I’ve seen
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I have had the same machine for years. This review is very poor. He just doesn't understand how it works.
The adjustable grinder is designed to get the right coarseness to get the optimum brewing rate and best flavour from the beans.
The Hot Milk setting just gives steam to heat the milk. The Cappuccino setting draws in air to make the froth.
The coffee is packed down before making the coffee to ensure it is packed in tightly, Strange idea that it is compressed afterwards!
The Beans button changes the strength by increasing the amount of coffee used. This is a setting indicated on the display.
Pressing the Large button twice doesn't do anything. (unlike the Gaggia I used to have). You press the 2 Large button if you want a double dose. You can use the single button AFTER the first brew to make a second single brew.
One point sometimes missed is that the correct way to make Cappuccino is to put the frothed milk into the cup before the coffee.
Anyway the machine is good. The flushing before and after means it rarely has to be cleaned internally.
hi..great video. So, when using the beans to make a cup of coffee, you don't have to set or press the BEANS button of the machine? There is a PRE GROUND coffee button too. I never used coffee beans because I am confused :)
Hi Maureen. Thanks for watching. So the machine is set by default to use beans. So if you press any of the preset functions they will always try and grind the beans first. The preground option only works if ground coffee has been added and detected by the machine.
Hi Dan about to buy my first bean to cup machine want a Delonghi have a £350 max have found a De'Longhi ECAM250.23SB Magnifica Bean To Cup Coffee Machine for £320 is this a good machine as i like the fact you can also heat just milk as am also a hot chocolate lover but a lot of the machines came with a removable milk tank like my friends she used to make a hot chocolate it was nice but was told it’s better to have a nozzle I have arthritis but my friend will come & clean the machine but live in an area with really bad hard water so use bottled water for everything as am waiting for the eco filter where you buy one cartridge & just empty it & refill with the sachet instead of buying cartridges but i know i will have to use a cartridge for this & filter water as my friend said the coffee machine kept telling her to descale a lot until she used bottled & had the filter but if you can recommend a good de longhi machine have saved for 8 months plus birthday/Christmas money & sold laptop so could go a bit more but would be great to get your opinion as this video was a while ago & machines change a lot
Hi Marie-clare thanks for the question. That looks a reasonable machine and have used it before without any issues. Only thing I did find funny was to get a full cup I needed to press long twice as the double long didn't really do it. However all of the magnifica are great. I don't have much use for the milk tank myself as it is always a latte for me. However I can see the benefits if you like some variation. As long at you have a milk throther it should be able to acheive the same thing. Re filters, you can get a filter to sit inside the water tank as a standard feature I believe and that would certainly help with the hard water and reduce the descaling. Please let me know what you go with and if any of my views actually helped your decision. At the end of the day you can spend silly money and you won't get much more for it and your price range I think gets you to the decent ones so enjoy.
What is the long button for?
It's means large.
Why don't you just press the double long button on the machine instead of pressing a single long twice?
Great question. I should have mentioned that by pressing the long button you do get a double shot but the amount of water is less and I end up with a bigger cup by pressing the large button twice. Thanks for watching. 😊
Just got it now, how does one make different types of coffees on this?
Did you not get a guide with it? What do you want to make?
@@danreviewsitall on the website it says it can make so many coffee types but it doesn't give me an idea how to make it anywhere at all. Sorry for being so stupid about its my first coffee machine
@@bodol4d2 thats ok dont worry. So basically you just use the coffee quantity and then add what you want. For example if you want a latte. Press the smallest coffee button and it will give you a coffee shot or espresso as it is known. Then use the milk throther to heat and foam your milk then add to the coffee. Might want to get a thermometer and espresso beans tho. Hope that make sense.
@@danreviewsitall thanks 😊
My father's newer wife has the same machine, and all I can say that the amount of noise this makes, now THAT is something no-one deserves, not even the poor kWh meter, which has to stand such wastes of electricity. Sure, it's convenient and elegant, but the robotic noises and the weak grinder is not something you'd want to wake up to. Why can't manufacturers put mains frequency induction motors in them, which waste less electricity and are quieter.
The noises come from the grinder and the pump. The motors used are induction motors.
I'm considering this model for my next bean to cup after years of great service from a Delonghi, and didn't get to half way through because gaffs indicate that you're not really 100% on what you're talking about.
Coffee shops rarely ever use a BTC. But they'll have a grinder to fill the espresso filter from that, for the fresh grind reason you say.
The grind adjustment, isn't for different sized beans, and I think you realised that, but didn't edit your video, just brushed over it. It's for coarse/fine ground, only represented by a big/little bean.
These are small points. The biggy that shows a complete non understanding of the espresso making process is your fantasy of the machine making waste pellets because they're tidier.
Espresso is made by compacting the coffee grinds BEFORE any water passes through them, through a process called tamping. Then water is passed through this at force.
This just happens to make these little damp hockey pucks, whatever machine that you use. And yeah, gardeners use them or chuck them on the compost.
If you'd ever made espresso manually, either in a stove top percolator, or a manual pump espresso machine, or watched a barista in a coffee shop, you'd know this.
Well William thank you for educating me. As with most of my videos I don't claim to be an expert on anything other than gardening products really and are mainly observations from a standard user. When it comes to buying my next machine I will be sure to bring up some of your points.
How condescending. Please educate us more, great espresso expert. Let us behold your grand wisdom.