Jura X5 bean to cup coffee machine - Sound investment or expensive toy?
http://www.dailyfix.co.uk/articles/168/1/Jura-X5-bean-to-cup-coffee-machine---Sound-investment-or-expensive-toy/Page1.html
By Chief Editor
Published on 4 Sep 2007
At it's most basic, coffee is a drink enjoyed by millions of people all over the world.
Though most people will never enjoy more than a basic instant coffee thrown into a mug, drowned with hot water and tickled with milk.
Get ready to take your coffee drinking to the next level with the Jura X5.
Though most people will never enjoy more than a basic instant coffee thrown into a mug, drowned with hot water and tickled with milk.
Get ready to take your coffee drinking to the next level with the Jura X5.
Enjoy a whole new level of coffee drinking with a bean to cup coffee machine
At it's most basic, coffee is a drink enjoyed by millions of people all over the world.
Though most people will never enjoy more than a basic instant coffee thrown into a mug, drowned with hot water and tickled with milk.
At the other end of the scale, coffee lovers have long turned their coffee drinking habit into a complicated procedure involving coffee beans, coffee bean grinders, filters and other such paraphernalia.
But imagine if you could buy a coffee machine which takes coffee beans in one end and produces your favourite type of coffee at the other end. Better still, what if all of this could be triggered at the touch of a button.
Well imagine no longer. Such feats of wizardry are possible in the form of "bean to cup" coffee machines.
One of the best "prosumer" examples is the Jura X5.
Now before you get excited at the prospect of having such a machine adorn your kitchen worktop, be prepared to do without other luxuries while you save up for the beast of a machine; at in excess of £1500 it is a considered purchase!
But assuming you've sold the family silver in anticipation of making the investment in such a coffee machine, what can you expect?
Well, a certain sense of guilt at spending on a coffee machine what some people would spend on a car will probably be one of the feeling you have as you unpack your Jura. But that'll only last the time it takes to make your first cup of espresso!
The Jura has a large hopper at the top of the machine which takes a good few hundred grammes of roasted coffee beans. Fill this up with your favourite poison and fill the water container with water and this little baby is ready to rock. You don't even need to use filtered water if you use one of the specially designed water filters in the water container.
Switch on, wait for the machine to come up to temperature and with a press of one of the buttons on the front of the machine (depending on the type of coffee you have chosen to drink) theX5 will grind just enough beans to produce your first coffee.
Variables such as coffee strength and the grind level are there for you to experiment with, as are various other settings.
So kick back with your freshly made coffee, make a start on the X5's user manual, and welcome to the ultimate home coffee experience.
The Jura X5 is available from Go Coffee, and other good coffee retailers.
Though most people will never enjoy more than a basic instant coffee thrown into a mug, drowned with hot water and tickled with milk.
At the other end of the scale, coffee lovers have long turned their coffee drinking habit into a complicated procedure involving coffee beans, coffee bean grinders, filters and other such paraphernalia.
But imagine if you could buy a coffee machine which takes coffee beans in one end and produces your favourite type of coffee at the other end. Better still, what if all of this could be triggered at the touch of a button.
Well imagine no longer. Such feats of wizardry are possible in the form of "bean to cup" coffee machines.
One of the best "prosumer" examples is the Jura X5.
Now before you get excited at the prospect of having such a machine adorn your kitchen worktop, be prepared to do without other luxuries while you save up for the beast of a machine; at in excess of £1500 it is a considered purchase!
But assuming you've sold the family silver in anticipation of making the investment in such a coffee machine, what can you expect?
Well, a certain sense of guilt at spending on a coffee machine what some people would spend on a car will probably be one of the feeling you have as you unpack your Jura. But that'll only last the time it takes to make your first cup of espresso!
The Jura has a large hopper at the top of the machine which takes a good few hundred grammes of roasted coffee beans. Fill this up with your favourite poison and fill the water container with water and this little baby is ready to rock. You don't even need to use filtered water if you use one of the specially designed water filters in the water container.
Switch on, wait for the machine to come up to temperature and with a press of one of the buttons on the front of the machine (depending on the type of coffee you have chosen to drink) theX5 will grind just enough beans to produce your first coffee.
Variables such as coffee strength and the grind level are there for you to experiment with, as are various other settings.
So kick back with your freshly made coffee, make a start on the X5's user manual, and welcome to the ultimate home coffee experience.
The Jura X5 is available from Go Coffee, and other good coffee retailers.