DeLonghi BCO70 Caffe Nabucco Espresso, Cappuccino, and Coffee Bar

Making regular coffee also follows tradition: put a filter in the filter basket, spoon in coffee, add water to the coffeemaker's removable tank, and press a button. Up to ten 5-ounce cups of coffee then flow into a 50-ounce glass carafe on a warming plate. (For five and fewer cups, the brewing process can be sped up to provide full flavor.) The brewing process pauses if the carafe is removed from the warming plate for a mid-brew pour. Encased in both bright and matte-finish black plastic, the machine measures 16 inches wide, 13-1/2 inches high, and 9 inches deep and carries a one-year warranty against defects. --Fred Brack

Product Description
Why have two separate machines when you can make coffee and espresso at the same time? You set the brew strength and size, the machine does the rest. You can even pour yourself a cup before it finishes brewing with the handy Pause 'N' Serve feature. Ten-cup carafe. One-year warranty. Model BCO70.

We like the black colour as well as the ease of use. The water container lifts out so easily for filling with easy to read measuring levels in large print. The buttons are elegantly designed and labeled for easy reading even in poor light or when not quit awake in the wee hours of the morning. Which is handy when one has odd hours. The carafe is beautiful and looks classy enough for ones dining table.

The only suggestion I have is buy a second carafe so that one pot can be brewing as the other is being used. This is a machine we will also be giving as a gift. And talk about a machine that makes an awesome Espresso or Cappuccino. WOW !


tolerable   April 4, 2004
44 out of 48 found this review helpful

We have never had an actual modern coffee pot of sorts in my family... so I decided to get this one. At the price, I decided that it seemed reasonable, given the functions. I have some major complaints, while there are some good things about it...

Pros:
*Really good coffee... appropriate strength.
*Really good cappucino/espresso.
*Easy coffee brewing functions.
*More than adequate capacity in carafe.

Cons:
*Counterintuitive design which allows for incredibly easy spills of water, coffee, coffeegrounds, and especially milk
*Cheap design (feels like i could break the entire machine in half with my hand)
*Milk frother feels incredibly flimsy and has a totally counterintuitive shape & rotation (it should be able to rotate more, and it should be longer and more dynamic)
*Coordination of steam system & cappucino brewing is totally arbitrary and impossible to understand (even for someone who considers himself tech-savvy)
*Coffee isn't at all hot (i like coffee from which steam rises, not coffee from which steam could have been rising ten minutes prior to being poured into a cup)... maybe a 1500 watt appliance could heat more than just the water.

To make matters worse, the manual absolutely sucks. Also printed on cheap paper, the step-by-step instructions are vague at best-- they refer to the steps by numbers when the steps are designated by bullets.

Steaming the milk must be done somehow coordinated with making the espresso/cappucino, but I can't understand how-- last time I attempted this, it ended up only steaming the milk and not making the actual coffee. It can only make two cups of cappucino, and I think that the assumption is that it actually makes less than you put in since some of the water is used to make steam. (There is also a compartment above the milk frother which serves no discernable purpose....)

A conclusion to the consumer : Read into this very carefully before buying. I have been satisfied with DeLonghi products before, but I feel screwed on this one. Supposedly, this device can steam milk, brew coffee and cappucino. One shouldn't have to be a rocket scientist to understand a commercially avialable machine...


Problem Features   August 26, 2003
43 out of 43 found this review helpful

Makes great tasting coffee, but the expresso seems weak even at the strongest level and even with cuban expresso. The BIGGEST problem with this machine is that it breaks very easily and has a couple unfortunate design flaws. We have gone through 2 in 2 years and have given up. The filter basket broke off the first one -- it just came off in my hand one morning and couldn't be fixed. The lid for the water basket just popped off one day and we could never snap it back on. Just the other day, the water basket gasket malfunctioned and now the machine is useless as it pours water all over the counter as soon as the water basket is put into place. Other annoying features are that the carafe drips ALL over the place -- we poured our coffee over the sink. Plus, more often than is barely tolerable, if we didn't snap the carafe into place exactly right, the coffee basket filled up and HOT coffee and coffee grinds ran all over the counter -- a very annoying thing to happen first thing in the morning on your way to work -- this has NEVER happened to us with other coffeemaker models. Now that our 2nd in 2 years is broken beyond repair, we're going to go with a different coffeemaker for sure! There's a reason this [money] coffeemaker is selling at [money]!