Coffee Machines

La Pavoni Europiccola Lever Espresso Machine, Chrome Base

4.7(9)

£488.01In stock

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #479140 in Kitchen & Housewares
  
• Brand: La Pavoni
• Model: 100119
• Released on: 2011-06-09

Features

• Italian Manufacture with manual lever operation
• Steam always immediately available
• Boiler 0.8 litres makes 8 espressos without refilling
• Chromed Finish retains heat and easily cleaned
• Interchangeable steam wand and automatically cappuccino device

• Italian Manufacture with manual lever operation
• Steam always immediately available
• Boiler 0.8 litres makes 8 espressos without refilling
• Chromed Finish retains heat and easily cleaned
• Interchangeable steam wand and automatically cappuccino device

Product Description

Boiler capacity 0.80 liter (8Cups)
Steam delivery 10 min
Pressure 0.7-0.8 bar
Average heating time 5 minute
Safety valve
Water level gauge
On/off switch
Indicator light
Reset safety thermoprotector
Pressurestat
1000W heating element
Cappuccino automatic device
WxDxH 20x29x32cm -
Weight 5KG- 175oz
220/240 Volt or 110/60hz
New Model with pod (ESE) Compatibility.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

41 of 43 people found the following review helpful.
Pavoni Euorpiccola
By MR S Feber
The best lever espresso machine on the market. Makes great coffee, looks cool, can be fixed by you - if you are reasonably competent with spanners BUT requires care and attention to get the best from it. If you don't like the idea of a little craft in the making then get an automatic machine, because you probably don't LOVE coffee that much - so it won't matter.

If you do buy one and get the hang of it (not difficult) you'll be rewarded with great coffee. Beware thoough - you must have a grinder that is good too. Shop bought ground coffee often is not fine enough for the Pavoni. Buy beans - Sainsbury's Lombardy espresso benas are cheap and good - and experiment with the grind - it needs to feel like a coarse powder between your fingers - not fine grains - in other words, its a fine grind. Remember to tap the grind down in the basket and then tamp it lightly.

Stephen Feber

19 of 20 people found the following review helpful.
Temperamental Italian Genius
By Mr. Andrew S. Wright
You either love it or you hate it. I love mine; others obviously hate theirs. I spent the first two years (yes, two whole years!) making the 'anaemic' shots quoted in another review, punishing myself, guiltily blaming my lack of skill and feeling like I had betrayed my wife by not really liking the machine she had so carefully saved and bought for me.I had progressed from a very cheap pseudo-machine, via an automatic pumped one to this gloriously vain peacock of an espresso-maker. It had seemed so easy with the others - switch on, wander off, come back, pop the cup under the portafilter, press the button and wait until it was full. Then, in about 20 seconds, would be a thick-crema'd espresso. Lovely, but somehow unfulfilling.The continental inefficiency of the machine was brought home when I first unpacked it - there were no video instructions, as were promised; no paper instructions, as were promised - just a beautiful machine with a little patch of damaged chrome under the drip tray - already a failing in the world of time and motion and efficiency that we currently inhabit. I made all of the mistakes that the other reviews are talking about - exploding coffee, scalded hands, drips everywhere, milk everywhere, anaemic shots, double-pulls, no crema, nothing but crema...I asked a barista for advice, he laughed, and talked about 'be careful, it might blow a hole in the ceiling!'However, this machine is so simple in its construction, just a boiler, a thermostat and a portafilter, that I have finally realised it does exactly what you want it to do! However, in the same way you wouldn't try to build a house out of pillows, it can't make good espresso without good coffee (buy good beans, grind them fine yourself, use an expensive grinder); it can't make the right temperature espresso without being warmed up (let it warm a while, release pressure when the green light is on via the steam wand, warm the portafilter with a blank shot); it can't make endless repetitive identical shots (pressure goes up and goes down - treat each shot as a new one, let it warm, release pressure, let it cool and reset itself - apologise for the inconsistency at dinner parties - guests will forgive you when they see you working the machine); it can't create crema without fresh beans (grind yourself)...you get the picture - there's a lot it can't do...but, what it can do is make very very good espresso - I have just had one.Buy the Pavoni, but think carefully - realise that this is more Rossi than Rooney and will be with you a lifetime if you are prepared to, during which you may never fully understand it!

19 of 20 people found the following review helpful.
The true classic - best there is
By H.M. Stad
This is the true classic when it comes to coffee machines. It has been on the market for ages. I am having mine since 1978 and still I am getting an excellent espresso from it.Nowadays like almost all classic products this machine is probably outclassed by modern computer controlled machines. Unless ....Unless you have found out which grind is perfect, .... unless you have learned when exactly to pull the lever, ....unless you have mastered the craft of making espresso. Practice makes perfect!This is the ultimate machine for serious coffeer lovers who think it is fun to experiment how to get the perfect espresso.

Huib Stad