Electrolux ICON Designer Coffee Maker E24CM75GSS
3 July 2009
“Java”
Every now and again as I’m researching these blogs I find myself wondering what kind of things I would include in my kitchen if price meant nothing at all to me. And one of the items I came across in that regard, namely the Electrolux ICON™ Designer Built-in Coffee Maker seemed, at first blush to fall into that category. But the more I look at all the things this item does and then compare it to both its $2700 price tag and the reputation of Electrolux itself, the more convinced I am that it is actually a modestly-priced necessity, and I say that even though it does NOT dispense beer!
What this coffee maker does is a little bit of everything, in so far as coffee is concerned, that is. But if you’re like my wife—man, do NOT talk to her until she’s had her coffee in the morning!—that’s a great plenty.
Actually, there is a lot to like in this coffee maker. Start with the fact that it is a 24″ Built-in Coffee Maker with Automatic Grinding and Brewing. And for someone who is as serious as the wife about her coffee, this just has to be the ticket. But I have to say that all the attention she pays to this familiar brew makes a difference. She cleans the coffee maker every thirty days and insists on making the coffee herself (that’s worth pointing out because we don’t have a conventional wife-kitchen/husband-grunt-work marriage) because she thinks she does a better job. OK, OK, she does! But I bring that up because some years back my mother gave us a coffee grinder that she used on weekends for that wonderful cup of coffee from fresh-ground beans. But during the week there’s never really time for that sort of thing, so it eventually fell into disuse.
Well, now. Electrolux has solved all that with their Beverage Dispensing Compartments. They have actually included two separate compartments to enable one to quickly choose between regular pre-ground coffee and whole coffee beans. You simply load them up on a regular basis, and on a day-to-day basis, push a couple of buttons, and you’re good to go. They also have a Stainless Steel Dispenser with two spouts, which enables the user to dispense two cups of freshly brewed coffee at one time, which is probably the very feature that would push this baby over the top, as far as the wife is concerned.
She does not like old coffee. In fact, if I get up before her on the weekends, I simply wait until she gets up to have my coffee, because her first question was always, “How old is this coffee?” Now, to me, that really never mattered very much, but over the years, I came to realize that old coffee loses a lot in flavor, becoming rather bitter. The best coffee, really, is the first cup from the new pot. With the Electrolux coffee maker, that’s what you get with every cup—fresh brewed!
But wait, there’s more! The Electrolux ICON™ also has a tamping system program which is designed to work in conjunction with the reverse water flow to bring out the full flavor in espressos. And did I mention the blue display lighting that illuminates the function buttons and brewing compartment with the touch of a switch?
All in all, you really cannot get past the fact that it’s a lot of price for a coffee maker. But it is also a lot of coffee maker for the price! And if a full kitchen remodeling is on your agenda of things to do, for less than three thousand more (your project is in the forties, right?), you can have a state-of-the-art coffee maker. And that ain’t jive!
Joseph
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