Re: Breville Dual Boiler
The design and thought behind the machine sounds excellent. Some people, like me were disappointed in the price point as its out of the current coffee machine budget, no matter how good it is.
Given the track record of western designed, Chinese built products some of us have what appears to be a legitimate worry about quality control issues. Dare I say that poor steam in a small run of pre production models raises some concerns. If there can be problems in quality control of a gasket when the numbers are small enough to individually cheek each item before they are shipped, what does that say about large prduction runs? A significant number of the smart grinders have required shims. An easy fix, yes - but again it raises worries about quality control in a well designed product.
Ive been bitten before by quality control issues with otherwise well thought out things from well known makers(Apple and Canon to name two). So I feel quite justified and comfortable both wishing for this product to be the hit that Breville and others think its going to be, while also giving it a year to six months before I consider buying one, both so I can save up for it, and see how the early adopters find things. Hopefully it willbethe machine that its promoters think it is and I will end up owning one.
Dismissing such opininons as "talking the machine down" is I think unfair.
The design and thought behind the machine sounds excellent. Some people, like me were disappointed in the price point as its out of the current coffee machine budget, no matter how good it is.
Given the track record of western designed, Chinese built products some of us have what appears to be a legitimate worry about quality control issues. Dare I say that poor steam in a small run of pre production models raises some concerns. If there can be problems in quality control of a gasket when the numbers are small enough to individually cheek each item before they are shipped, what does that say about large prduction runs? A significant number of the smart grinders have required shims. An easy fix, yes - but again it raises worries about quality control in a well designed product.
Ive been bitten before by quality control issues with otherwise well thought out things from well known makers(Apple and Canon to name two). So I feel quite justified and comfortable both wishing for this product to be the hit that Breville and others think its going to be, while also giving it a year to six months before I consider buying one, both so I can save up for it, and see how the early adopters find things. Hopefully it willbethe machine that its promoters think it is and I will end up owning one.
Dismissing such opininons as "talking the machine down" is I think unfair.




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