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Price Points: Coffee machines

Three coffee machines to suit all budgets | H is for Home

Coffee is our morning brew of choice – double shot, flat white for both of us (soya milk, no sugar, for me – cows milk, sugar for Justin). I must confess, our first mugs of the day are usually instant (the horror!). Fiddling about with coffee machines when you’re only half awake is frustrating.

When I win the lottery (once I start buying a ticket!) I’ll travel ’round the world… and buy a top of the range Jura Bean-to-Cup. It’s the height of luxury having a coffee machine that you can control remotely from your phone. Pre-program your preferences into its memory and, at the touch of a button, it can grind and brew you your perfect cuppa… just to reiterate – that’s a double shot, flat white with soya milk, no sugar, if you’re asking!

  1. Dualit Multi Brew 84440 espresso coffee machine – chrome: £199, ao.com
  2. Sage Barista Express coffee machine – stainless steel: £ 599.95
  3. Jura E8 Bean-to-Cup automatic coffee machine: £1,195.00, John Lewis

Wednesday Wish: Cuisineart ice cream maker

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ICE30 model Cuisineart ice cream maker
Cuisinart ICE30 ice cream maker, £65.68 – Amazon

Regular followers of this blog will remember us, not so long ago, posting a Wednesday Wish for a new fridge freezer. Well, we’ve had the new fridge freezer for a couple of months now – and we still haven’t got used to ALL THAT SPACE! Especially in the freezer compartment which, in the old one, was primarily taken up with a whole lot of ice build up.

My thoughts have been turning towards utilising some of our new-found capacity with a shiny new Cuisineart ice cream maker – especially with summer just around the corner.

Cuisinart ice 40 duo ice cream maker
Cuisinart ICE40BCU Ice Cream Maker Duo, £89.97 – Amazon

This Cuisineart ice cream maker, despite being more than £20.00 dearer, would suit us much better. Justin & I have completely different taste when it comes to ice creams. While he likes smooth classics like vanilla, strawberry and coffee; I prefer mine to be copiously stuffed with chunks of cookie dough, chocolate chips, chewy caramel, glazed nuts and other goodies (although not necessarily all in the same tub!).