Coffee makers, advice please

I've had all sorts of coffee machines! Started off with a Senseo, changed to Tassimo but I didn't like the thought of all those little plastic pods ending up in a landfill site. I now have a "bean to cup" machine, a DeLongi, which makes lovely coffee and very easy. My niggle with this machine is that the coffee is just not hot enough. Yes, I know, you shouldn't have it too hot but I have to drink it straight away unless I make a cappuccino or have it black. So many different machines now it gets confusing

Having had a espresso machine for a few years - not the 'pod' variety because it always struck me as silly to be locked into buying those, I have actually gone back to the good old 'French press' . It is so much more flexible, I can buy any sort of coffee and have a really big cup of medium strength at breakfast or a small stronger one after a meal. Its also much easier for a bigger group - I just get the big one out of the back of the cupboard.

Our coffee maker is very cheap and very easy to use. The best thing for me is that it uses paper pods, which I can put straight onto the compost. It is a Senseo machine, and they sell their own pods - but there are many otherr brands too, like Carte Noire. We've had our for years, and I descale it about once every two months.

Hate the Nespresso, etc machines, which use aluminium which is a very polluting resource. I also like the ones where you put the coffee in and then twist onto the machine, but as said, very hard if you have arthritis.

Six years of constant use.

I didn't realise Tassimos had been around long enough to get elderly! We have a Gaggia which DH bought when he was working away from home and renting a flat, but I have never got beyond the second line of the instructions which seem to be written in Middle High Klingon. I stick to my cafetiere (1 cup size or bigger when friends are round) which means I get to choose the coffee - and the price I pay for it instead of those expensive little pods. DD has the George Clooney machine, but it's not cheap to run.

You lot are a fat lot of use!!!!

Yes phoenix. You are quite right.

Unless you are left handed.

I've also got one of these. But you need a strong right arm to plunge it

Coffee's good though.

do what I do. Sink to this level

It's coffee.