Nespresso Lattissima Touch Original Espresso Machine with Milk Frother by De’Longhi, Silver

The Descaling Pipe is under the milk drippan. If you lift up the grill, there is a drawing in the plastic that shows the door opening in the front. Grip the plastic lip on both sides and pull forward until it pivots open (hinged at bottom). Mine did not seem like it was meant to open and I thought it would break but it opened.
I have never seen the Cappuccino button shine orange, to indicate that it needs descaling. But the orange light started blinking a while ago and I have never figured out how to turn it off. I descale a few times a year and it works great.

Get it. It makes YOUR perfect latte at any hour. You can program the buttons to make a latte with the exact amount of milk to dispense *and* water through the pod. No pod is wasted! It can make 3-4 regular lattes or 2 extra large per milk fill – and works with almond milk!
Recommend running the ‘clean button’ after each milk use for good housekeeping.

Pros: automatically makes ristretto, espresso, lungo, lattes, cappuccinos, or just steamed milk. Very easy to clean. Easy to use once you get used to it. Nespresso quality beverages.

Cons: drink icons aren’t all that obvious/intuitive, so at first I had to look at the instructions every time to make sure I was pushing the right one. Tray for discarded pods is somewhat small, so needs to be emptied more often than I’d like. If there’s any water at all, it will start to make your drink even if there’s not enough to finish, and there’s no way to pause process. Important to check water level frequently to avoid this. It seems incredibly silly to me that you have to push a separate “on” button to turn it on. Seems that it could be programmed to turn on at the touch of any of the other buttons, rather than a separate one. Probably the biggest con: it’s kind of easy to forget to lift the milk spout from it’s storage position of flush with the milk reservoir to a level that will aim the milk into your cup. A few times since purchase, I’ve looked over to see hot milk shooting straight down and running all over the side of my machine and counter. There should be a sensor to catch this, or some visual reminder or something.

I am very pleased with this. Better thank Starbucks and only at 40 cents a cup. Having the frother installed is a huge step up. Multiple sizes and blends for your cups. Love the push button cleaning. The key for me is to keep stirring whipping in the carmel to the whole cup.

Had this almost 2 months, a few days short of the return window thank goodness when the frother stopped working.

It stopped working right after we descaled and adjusted it to our water setting. We did nothing wrong and followed the instructions carefully as well as the Nespresso tutorial videos. We called Nespresso and they said that is common and we needed to return it to Amazon.

Lesson learned – we got an upgraded model (Latissima Pro) WITH a 4 year Amazon warranty. We do like the machine and the coffee is wonderful and we have a ton of capsules already.

Update – the Lattissima Pro stopped working after a couple of weeks.

The heating indicator bar stopped midway for the frother so we could only make espresso. So we returned the machine to Amazon and got another from Nespresso where the same thing happened after a few weeks.

So they are sending us a 3rd machine now. It looks like all the Nespresso machines fail to work after a short amount of time, whether it is the original or vertuo line, they all stop working or have issues after a while.

We are hopeful that the replacement works but now we also have hundreds of capsules to go through. Not only that but right now the Lattisima Pro is reduced to $415 where we spend $600 on it a month ago. Pretty frustrating.