Philips Saeco Intelia

I was recently offered the chance to try out the new fully automatic espresso machine from Philips Saeco -- the Intelia, which was handy as my ever faithful Sunbeam had been playing up. I’m skeptical when it comes to automatic coffee machines, not least because I’m a control freak bus also because I just can’t see a automatic machine living up to a hand-tamped coffee. After three weeks of using this machine daily, I feel qualified to review it. I thought the best way was to show you the machine in a