Bosch TAS4011GB Tassimo Coffee Maker, Silver

Thursday, March 22, 2012

Bosch TAS4011GB Tassimo Coffee Maker, Silver

You Save : £37.47 (30%)
Price : £85.52

Product Description

Manufacturer's Description
Would you like to have a machine that can prepare all the hot beverages you want, whenever you want them – at the touch of a button? Then the TASSIMO T40 machine with classic design will be perfect for you. Its intuitive handling makes the preparation of a large variety of hot beverages a piece of cake
We have equipped your TASSIMO T40 machine with sophisticated features like an intelligent drink identification system and that means you hardly have to do anything yourself anymore. Your TASSIMO T40 machine automatically adjusts to any beverage you have chosen.
Your TASSIMO T40 machine is easy to maintain, has low energy consumption and is instantly ready to serve your first cup. And now you can get your TASSIMO T40 machine by Bosch in all these fantastic colours: Silk Silver, Magic Black and Glamour Red.
Drinks available, Carte Noire Latte Macchiato, Carte Noire Cappuccino, Milka Chocolate, Kenco Columbian, Kenco Caffee Crema, Kenco Medium Roast, Carte Noire Crema Intenso, Starbucks House Blend, Twinings English Breakfast Tea, Twinings flavoured teas, Suchard and individual Milk, also even more new drinks coming soon.
Box Contents

1 x Tassimo by Bosch hot drinks machine

1 x Water tank

1 x Water tank lid

1 x Cleaning disk (in the rear of the machine)

1 x Instruction booklet

1 x Instruction brief (in the rear of the machine)

1 x Cup stand

1 x Cup stand base

Customer Reviews

Coffee is one of those things that for some reason I cannot do - even instant coffee is beyond me! Seeing my guest's faces as I serve a perfect latte is just hilarious - there's no way I could ever do this without my Tassimo!
This is a great little machine and a big improvement over the old Tassimo machine. This new model machine is more compact and of a higher build quality than the old one. It has a larger 2litre water container which is now much less fiddly than before and can be very quickly removed/refilled with zero effort. You can prepare about 8 drinks before having to fill up the tank.
The hot drink is now prepared immediately with no waiting for the machine to warm up, it now takes 45 seconds from cold to prepare a standard drink - compare this to a kettly boiling which takes about double that time just to heat the water. A second drink can also be prepared immediately after the first without delay.
The quality of drinks is very high, it produces the best at-home hot chocolate that I have ever tasted! This maybe because the hot chocolate is made from syrup rather than the more commonly used powder. The coffee is also great and comes second only to freshly ground coffee - please remember it takes several minutes and a much more expensive machine to prepare coffee from scratch - this machine does an excellent job immitating those machines! I have not tried the tea so can not advise on those flavours.
The T-Discs (pods) themselves vary in price and flavour from brand to brand. Just standard Kenco coffee costs £2.99 (at Asda, Tesco etc) for 16 servings. This prepares a good regular tasting coffee at under 20p per mug. This is the same price for Twining's tea and Suchard's hot chocolate. For something a bit more fancy you can choose latte or cappucino from various brands including Carte Noire, for £2.99 or sometimes £3.49 for 8 servings which works out at 40-50p per cup. These items require 2 discs and so take a little bit longer to prepare.
Overall I would heartily recomend this Tassimo machine to any potential viewers but I must quickly point out a few of the pitfalls.
- You are limited to what coffee/tea/hot chocolate you buy - this is true of other pod coffee machines, but the Tassimo does have a very good selection to choose from.
- The portion size is too small for some people - hot chocolate is only 180ml. Latte/cappucino is 200ml. While most coffees are 300ml.
- Requires some cleaning (but not much)

I bought this as a pressie to myself after a new Kitchen was fitted and not only is it a pleasing item to be looked at but also a pleasure with the different brews it conjures up, although so far I've only tried three - out of eight purchased - again on the Internet.
I don't know if others work in a similar way, but after setting it up, (quite simple) you put one of two pods into a special receptable and press the button. The machine then reads the bar code which tells it whether or not it needs Water and what quantity. Then it delivers to your Cup and when satisfied it's finished, remove the Pod and drop in the second one - usually a liquid. The Machine reads again and follows the Bar code instructions to deliver the perfect cup of whatever you've chosen.
It's an expensive luxury if you want a few cups per day for example as each one will cost an average of 20/25p per cup. However, if like me, you like the differing tastes but don't over do it and can afford it, it's a little luxury worth having it.
If you register onsite and also order, the Pods will arrive in 3/4 days from the Netherlands.