Krups Allegro FND112 4 Cup

Pros: Easy to use, incredibly durable, excellent coffee, easy clean up.

Cons: If it carried the coffee to me in the morning, I'd like it even more.

The Bottom Line: This is the perfect espresso maker because it is easy to use, durable, powerful, small and makes my life better.

Review: Steaming right next to me as I type these words is yet another excellent cappuccino that was brought into this world via the kind pressure and steam built up inside this excellent little Krups Espresso Machine. Lets get serious: creating steam and ...

Pros: Small, simple, cheap

Cons: A little tricky to do the final release of pressure.

The Bottom Line: This is a great buy, you don't need to spend hundreds of dollars.

Review: I've been making cappucino 5 to 10 times per week for years. This machine does great. Making cappucino takes some technique, you can't just watch Starbucks. Later, I'll tell you how I do it. I owned two different Krupps machines before this. One ...

Pros: Reasonably priced, easy to use, good machine

Cons: It only makes 1 cup of coffee at a time

The Bottom Line: I high,y recommend this coffee machine because it is compact, durable and the coffee is darned good!

Review: There is a world of difference between coffee brewed in a traditional coffee maker and an Esspresso machine. Itis like comparing gold to nickel. After a trip to Starbucks, my teenage son wanted an espresso maker. We shopped around and finally ...

Pros: Works great, cheap, great coffee

Cons: None so far

Review: This is 100 times better than my Mr Coffee espresso make i had before, AND this one is cheaper. It makes strong, good espresso. It comes with the glass container the coffee pours into, my last one didnt. The milk frother works great. It is easy to use, ...

Pros: Easy to use, easy clean up, makes great steamed milk

Cons: the milk steamer in rather close to the machine making steaming some what difficult

Review: Just bought the Allegro and I am sitting here drinking my 1st homemade cappuccino! I thought a less expensive machine might make a poor cup and thought I could always return the item...no need to make any returns...this is a ...

Pros: It makes good espresso

Cons: The frother makes too much froth before the milk heats up.

Review: I just purchased an Allegra after 12 years using an 871 model. It works differently. Unless, someone can tell me why water spills over the coffee basket, I have remedied it by moving the dial to frothing before the water starts spurting out through the ...

Pros: Easy to make espresso

Cons: Ridiculously ineffective and messy for steaming milk

Review: Unless there's some secret to using the milk frother that I'm unaware of, it seems impossible to steam milk without making a total mess. It takes a while for the steam to start working, at which point it comes on strong and all the milk bubbles up and ...

Pros: low price

Cons: bad electrical design, which invariably fails

Review: We went through two similar Krups espresso machines and both failed within a month. The knob's contact consistently failed. Definitely a very poor design. If you are an electrician you may try buying one and having fun while you fix ...