KRUPS Nescafe Dolce Gusto Piccolo KP100640 Coffee Machine Review 4/5

This machine retails at £99 from the Dolce-Gusto website.

I got sent this coffee machine by the nice people at Tefal and Krups to test and review for this blog!

Tefal - Here
Krups - Here

The Coffee machine is available on the Krups website.

I received it over a week ago now and have found myself using it every day! The machine comes with 6 free coffee pods to try so you can find out which pod you like best, as this was a review unit I had to go and buy my own!

I purchased a pack of 16 Americano pods for around £4, which I actually think is quite a reasonable price for what you get.

I do really like the design of the machine, I think its very sleek and looks very techy / futuristic / cool which I think is the reason I like it so much. I like the way it has a series of LEDs to let you know what stage the unit is at (ie, warming up, ready to go and dispensing hot/cold water). The entire process of making a coffee takes just over a minute.

You can also dispense cold water to the cup from the unit to just cool the drink down a little which I think is a nice feature to have, I haven't seen that on other coffee machines.

Living with other students and being a student myself we quickly used the 16 pods and the feedback I got from everybody was that it was a nice cup of coffee every time. We then started using the machine to dispense boiling water to make cups of tea as it was much quicker than boiling the kettle - I time it at 29 seconds from switch on to boiling water being dispensed, we haven't used the kettle now for a while and I will miss having the machine when it goes back!

In the morning I usually make a cup of tea for my girlfriend and myself. This process now takes just under a minute using this machine.

The water tank of the machine holds just over 2 medium sized cups worth and detaches from the unit for easy filling.

Below is a video from switch on of the machine to it dispensing boiling water. 

I give this machine 4/5. It is a really great product and I think I will end up buying one pretty soon. The only downside to it is that it is fairly noisy as you can hear in the video, it tends to wake people up when used early in the morning!

Thanks again to the people that sent me it!