DeLonghi Bar 14 Cafe Treviso Review

Good Points
Cheap price for a 15 BAR Machine, nice design, good quality, makes good espresso and cappuccino.

Bad Points
The leaking is the worst thing about this machine, every one owned this machine complains from the leaking, and yes it leaks, but I used to live with it.

General Comments
My DeLonghi Bar 14 Cafe Treviso Machine is one year old, and till now it's working perfectly. The most important part is to know how to choose the right coffee beans and how to grind them.

I suggest people to not waste their time and money with buying ready grinded espresso coffees from famous brands, because they are grinded for bigger and more professional machines and they will not work on this machine, because this machine needs softer grinded coffee, around 2 or 3 levels softer than the ready grinded brand coffees.

I buy my coffee from my friend's coffee shop, he helped me a lot untill we discovered the needed grinding level for my machine. But a grinder is different from a grinder, so you should figure out the best grinding level for you by yourself. If you keep buying your coffee from the same shop and same grinder then ask the seller every time about the level that he grinds your coffee, and if the coffee doesn't work well, ask him to grind it softer on the next time, and after several tries you will find the right level for your machine, and then every time you go to the shop you say, hey I want some espresso grinded on 5 (for example). Or you buy your own grinder and try different levels easily.

Also choosing the right coffee beans is important, I tried Colombian, Brazilian and Indian coffee beans (only these coffee beans are available in my country), and I've got the best results with Indian coffee, then comes the Colombian coffee. But the Brazilian coffee is not good for espresso, only cheap coffee shops use Brazilian coffee beans, at least that's the way in my country.

And finaly don't forget to heat up your machine well, at least for 10 - 15 minutes, even 20 minutes will give you better results. And before making espresso (before inserting the handle) run the machine to empty the water left in the pipes from yesterday, this operation will help you to get hotter and better espresso.

If the coffee is not soft enough then press it well in the handle, and if it's softer than normal then don't make much pressure in the handle.

And here is a final tip for making good cappuccino, fill a very little milk in a big cup then froth it , this will give the milk more room to froth and make the milk froth much more than filling all the milk you need and froth it at once. I make my cappuccino by frothing the milk in two steps, little by little.



Have a nice drink......