Buy De'Longhi Prima Donna Avant ESAM6700 Bean to Cup Espresso and Cappuccino Machine Stainless, SteelDe'Longhi Prima Donna Avant ESAM6700 Bean to Cup Espresso and Cappuccino Machine Stainless, Steel Product Description:
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De'Longhi Prima Donna Avant ESAM6700
From the country that invented and perfected Espresso comes a machine of unrivalled versatility. The Prima Donna Avant embodies everything truly Italian about coffee: style, quality and the perfect intensity of flavour at the touch of a button.
About De’Longhi De'Longhi has been a high-profile Italian brand for more than 100 years, providing high-quality, efficient, innovative and stylish domestic products. Instantly recognisable, De'Longhi possesses a unique design quality that, when combined with De'Longhi's technical expertise, creates products that truly stand alone. De’Longhi Quality and coffee Quality and reliability remain integral to De'Longhi's brand values, so all products are subjected to rigorous quality checks. This is particularly true of coffee makers, a key focus for De'Longhi. The top-of-the-range machines are still designed, produced and assembled by hand in the Italian production sites to uphold the expected high standards.
Every single bean-to-cup coffee machine is tested, and makes a cup of coffee, before being thoroughly cleaned and released to be sold. Each machine is also given a unique barcode to track its history should anything happen to it. The latest and most premium bean-to-cup machine, the PrimaDonna Avant, is so carefully made that it will make up to 30,000 coffees in its lifetime--certainly a quality investment.
The De'Longhi Coffee Club
When you have purchased your bean to cup machine, you will be invited to join The De’Longhi Coffee Club to access to a world of coffee inspiration. This lets you watch barista and tutorial videos to help you make the perfect coffee, shows recipes, entitles you to free gifts, accessory offers and much more. Upon registration De’Longhi will send you a free twin de-scaler pack to help you maintain your new coffee machine. You’ll also automatically receive a free service on your machine at the end of your first 12 months of ownership. De’Longhi will collect it and return it totally free of charge. Servicing is only recommended to help you maintain your new coffee machine and to help you continue to enjoy fabulous coffee.PrimaDonna Avant
PrimaDonna Avant is simply the best domestic bean-to-cup espresso, lungo, latte and cappuccino machine on the market, with ingenious design and patented innovation. It allows consumers to make 15 bar restaurant and coffee bar standard coffee in the comfort of their own homes, and in the simplest way.All aspects of a typical professional pump espresso machine (like the ones you see in your high street coffee bar), such as grinders, filter holders and steam pipes, are found working inside PrimaDonna--De'Longhi has simply redesigned them, compacted them and hidden them inside the machine. Instead of grappling with filter holders and fiddly cappuccino steam pipes, PrimaDonna Avant expertly performs all of these functions at the touch of one button.
| Bean-to-cup journey The function of a bean-to-cup machine is just as the name suggests: literally delivering coffee straight from freshly ground beans into your cup. PrimaDonna Avant does this in seconds, and yet the coffee is as good and as fresh as any you'll buy in a coffee bar. After pressing one button to select ‘espresso'; the bean-to-cup journey starts at the integral coffee bean grinder. PrimaDonna Avant has an adjustable professional conical burr grinder to expertly grind the beans to any coarseness.The ground coffee is then packed tightly and the internal brewing unit pushes hot water through the coffee at professional 15 bar pressure. The espresso is then delivered straight into your cup, the whole process taking just seconds. The hallmark of a perfect espresso is recognised by the ‘crema' - a creamy layer that sits on top of the espresso to seal in the temperature and flavour. The thicker the crema, the better the espresso and the quality of the machine that produced it. |  |
 | Cappuccino, Latte Macchiato and Caffelatte This machine features four separate coffee buttons for maximum ease of use, including a dedicated milk button. Cappuccinos, latte macchiatos, caffelattes and long coffee are made just as easily. The innovative patented milk carafe plugs straight into the machine and expertly froths fresh milk for you. This is a real benefit, as many people find conventional cappuccino steam pipes tricky to use and it takes real practice to get perfect froth using a standard manual pipe and jug. PrimaDonna Avant's milk carafe does this for you and could not be easier to use. Simply fill with fresh cold milk (semi-skimmed or skimmed works best) and slot the carafe into the front of the machine. |
| Next, press the cappuccino, latte macchiato or caffelatte button on the control panel. The cold milk is drawn up into the carafe lid via a thick straw and, at the same time, hot steam is pumped through the lid from a dedicated boiler inside the PrimaDonna Avant. The hot frothy milk is then immediately dispensed into your cup via a stainless steel tube, and a freshly made espresso is delivered into the cup immediately after. Due to the advanced dual boiler (thermoblaock), for the perfect espresso - whether for one or two cups, it will always be the same perfect temperature. The machine also uses a separate element for steam production to create delicious froth for cappuccinos, caffelattes or latte machiatto. The milk carafe can also be easily cleaned. Simply press the ‘clean' button located next to the carafe handle and hot steam is pushed through the lid and stainless steel tube to flush out any milk residue and to sterilise it. The carafe can then be detached from the PrimaDonna Avant and stored in the fridge with any remaining milk inside until you need to use it again.A real advantage to the carafe system is that the milk always remains cold, essential to proper milk froth, and never gets inside the main body of the PrimaDonna Avant. |  |
 | Style and DesignPrimaDonna Avant is such a well-designed machine that it will suit any type of user. It is extremely easy for first-time users to make espresso, cappuccino and latte at the touch of a button, and yet it also has lots of programmable functions for the more serious user, so that strength, temperature, quantity and so on can be easily set. The digital display also makes this feature very simple and you can see at a glance exactly what you have selected and programmed.The display also tells the user exactly what is happening at all times, so it’s virtually impossible to go wrong with this machine. It will inform you when it's time to descale (an automatic function that takes a mere 30 minutes), and it will also tell you when the grounds container needs emptying and when the water tank needs filling, will take you through all the steps of making espresso and cappuccino, and much much more. The stylish design and quality build of PrimaDonna Avant is as you would expect from the high standards of De’Longhi. PrimaDonna is a stunning machine made from solid stainless steel, and will be an icon within your kitchen.Let the Prima Donna Avant enrich all of your senses and give you an intoxicating and unforgettable coffee experience every day. |
Which De'Longhi Bean-To-Cup Coffee Machine Is Right For You?
Capacities and specifications between De'Longhi bean-to-cup coffee machines models differ. Please refer to this handy comparison chart for details.De'Longhi has a range of accessories that can be brought separately to compliment this product.Customer Reviews
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful.
By Mervyn
This is indeed the best piece of Kitchen machinery I have ever bought.The ability to create better coffee at home than you can buy at any of the usual outlets is really something and great fun especially if you take the time to drive the coffee maker manually .Good, freshly roasted, Coffee beans are a must and worth every penny - well pound if I'm honest. The machine is easy to clean and appears to be very well made.Soya works as well for my Wife as real semi-skimmed milk does for me but we should prehaps invest in out own Jugs in order to avoid the odd domestic !Word of warning - not all our friends seem to appreciate the full lecture on the source of the beans and the precise techniques the machine uses in the production of their choosen Coffee - get over it I say ! enjoy.Fantastic toy - just buy one !
35 of 37 people found the following review helpful.
By Mrs. Claire Marsden
I had been looking at various bean to cup coffee machines for a while and had decided between two, the De Longhi ESAM5500 and the ESAM6600 as I liked the idea of one touch with a milk jug which can be kept in the fridge between coffee making, not to mention self grinding and cleaning. Then along comes the ESAM6700 with extra features to make my life easier. Only trouble was the price jumped quite considerably and I had to weigh up whether the extra features were worth the price tag. After much research and consideration I decided on the 6700 which still wasn't yet in the country in the few outlets that were selling them. Having placed it on my favourites list with Amazon priced around the standard £1295 I notice one day they were selling it for £945! A bargain considering the 6600 is retailing for around that.My machine arrived promptly and was easy to use straight out of the box. It doesn't come with any beans or cups so make sure you have some in. After filling the water tank and setting it up for language, time, water hardness etc, all very easy using the touch screen, I was ready to go. The first couple of cups weren't brilliant but after that it was great. My husband drinks mostly long black with a nice crema which is programmable to the desired length and strength you want. We usually select "long" and press the two cup button which gives double strength. This machine grinds your beans with 7 variable settings or you can use the pre-ground compartment where you add one measure at a time.I drink milky coffee and find the one touch facility OK but may need tweeking to your own tastes. There are a few problems with the milk side of things, nothing major. After a couple of months the milk jug doesn't slide in it's housing as smoothly as it did new. This I've read can be a common problem and can be solved by using a silicone lubricant which I have not yet tried, I just wiggle it about until it goes in. The 3 settings for milky coffee are Cappuccino (which I find to be a bit strong), Latte (a bit on the watery side as it uses more steam) and Macchiato (which gives you the distinctive layering effect but the foam is very bubbly and dry) I set the lever to between Macchiato and Latte and this allows for a slightly denser foam. No matter what setting you have the milk jug on you can select any of the milky coffees on the machine ie. Macchiato on the milk jug and make a Latte coffee.One other thing I've noticed about the milk frothing is that the temperature of the milk on it's own is not very hot, so if you want to make a hot chocolate (this is one of the main reasons for choosing the 6700 over the 6600 as you have a seperate milk button for either hot chocolates or just topping up your coffee with a bit more milk) then you'd be wise to either use a setting that has more steam and is therefore hotter but not as creamy, or mix your chocolate powder with hot water and then add the frothed milk.Black coffee wise, this machine is great and with the small issues with the milk side of things this is still a better option than the 6600 or less because having the "milk" and "long" buttons gives you more options to fine tune your drink.As far as the maintenance goes it's all pretty straight forward. The machine comes with a descale solution but buy some more (easily available, Amazon sell them) as if, like me, you live in an area with very hard water you will need to carry this out fairly regularly and it's pretty easy to do aswell. The machine will tell you when to fill the water tank and add more beans, empty the grounds container and the overflow tray. It auto cleans when it switches on and off so there really is no hassle, making it very user friendly and easy to maintain, which at this price is essential.It's never going to compare equally with a coffee made by a barista but for a one touch home option it's probably the next best thing. Above all, shop around. Well done Amazon for a very competitive price for mine!
21 of 22 people found the following review helpful.
By TMT
I read as many reviews as I could find before purchasing this item. The most useful being the ones here on Amazon.We have long experience of espresso type machines - this was to be our first Bean to Cup. It was clear that our brand loyalty to Gaggia would have to end.This machine does EVERYTHING it says it should do. My wife drinks the pre-programmed cappuccino, which means I have use of the My Coffee program. Switch it on, wait for it to heat up (15 seconds?!) cup in, milk jug in, press button, retrieve cup, switch off. Drink excellent coffee at the strength of your choice, with water at the temperature you want, with milk frothed in one of 3 ways. Virtually self cleaning - absolutely no mess.It's not very often that you consider a white-goods purchase as an investment. But for us amateur coffee-connoisseurs - this is the one.Recommended.
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