Is the Smeg Drip Filter Coffee Machine worth its price tag?
The Smeg Drip Filter Coffee Machine features Smeg’s iconic retro-inspired design, and is available in a variety of colors. It’s designed to produce large quantities of filter coffee in one go, and a hot plate means you can keep the coffee warm for up to 40 minutes after brewing. There’s a timer function, so you can load in the ground coffee, add water, and select the time you want the machine to start brewing your coffee. You can also choose between a delicate or an intense aroma from your coffee, depending on how you like it. Although this Smeg can create multiple cups of coffee at once, we found the cup sizes the machine uses to be much smaller than a standard cup. The interface on this machine also steams up when the coffee is brewing, and the water tank isn’t the easiest to fill up. It did a very good job of keeping coffee warm for up to 40 minutes, while its stylish design also adds to its appeal and earns it a place among our best coffee makers. The Smeg Drip Filter Coffee Machine is available from a wide range of retailers. It’s certainly not the cheapest drip filter coffee maker on the market, but you’re also paying for Smeg’s signature retro design here. The Smeg Drip Filter Coffee Machine’s design reflects the brand’s ethos of combining a retro look with modern conveniences. It’s available in eight different colors in the UK and seven in the US, while color choices in Australia are more limited. Aside from its distinctive looks, the other thing we noticed straight away was how big this maker is. It measures 14.25 x 9.6 x 10 inches / 24 x 25.6 x 36.1cm (w x d x h), and it was too tall for us to be able to slide this coffee maker under our kitchen wall cabinets. It features a lid that forms the top of the appliance, and lifting this allows you to fill up the water reservoir, as well as position the filter basket and reusable filter, and add your ground coffee. The water reservoir has a 47floz / 1.4-liter capacity, which Smeg says is big enough to hold water for 10 cups of coffee, although we found the company’s definition of a cup to be rather on the small side – in practice you’ll get around five standard mugs of coffee from a full brew.
