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by jaimex2 843 days ago
As a consumer you have to do your research more than ever. There are still appliances out there that will outlive you but you need to hunt them down.

I recently bought the Gaggia Classic Pro coffee machine for this very reason. You can get into and fix anything in this machine in under 5 minutes.
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Suppafly 842 days ago
>Gaggia Classic Pro coffee machine

I can buy a lot of $20 sale price black and decker coffee pots for the $500 that repairable one costs though. There should be a sweet spot between junk and bougie high end stuff.

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jaimex2 842 days ago
It's an espresso machine that makes barista level coffee if you're into coffee culture like we are here in Australia. Yeah, you could just churn pod machines as well, the Aldi ones are pretty good for that as Aldi is super lax on returns.
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giantg2 843 days ago
Shouldn't this be any basic coffee machine? It's a switch, a waterheater, and a hot plate.
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throwanem 843 days ago
The $50 piece of junk is a switch, a hot plate best not used because it ruins your coffee but there's probably no way to disable it short of physical disconnection, and a tube boiler you won't be able to source a replacement part for when it overheats and dies because the two (two!) thermal fuses are in free air, nowhere near thermal contact with what they're meant to be protecting. Ask me how I know.
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