Hands on with the Miele CVA3650 ST coffee machine

Many’s the time I’ve awoken, rubbed the sleep from my eyes and hankered for a coffee. Not just any coffee mind…the kind of shop-quality coffee that only a 20 minute stroll down the road, lengthy queue, and best part of a fiver, will get you.

Well, good news for us comes in the unlikely form of Steve from Machines That Go Bing, a pioneer in technologies of all kinds, and recent recipient of the Miele CVA 3650 ST coffee machine on a three week trial. He’s posted a very extensive hands-on guide of exactly how he found the coffee machine was to use.

A self confessed “caffeine-pumped twitching freak”, Steve made no secret of the fact that his “taste-buds [were] throbbing”, and wasted no time in getting started, which by all accounts was refreshingly simple “From opening the box to producing my first ‘real’ cup of coffee was about twenty minutes”.

Of course, there was the odd usability problem – “If you’re not used to this kind of coffee machine the extra work over more mundane forms of coffee-making takes some getting used to”, but more importantly for all the coffee-heads… How did it taste? Well, according to Steve “the result is worth the effort, and the quality of the beverages you’ll enjoy from the 3650 cannot be denied.”

You can read the full review here, and why not enjoy a tasty brew while you do.