– PHILIPS L'OR BARISTA Coffee Capsule Machine & Milk Frother, for Double or Single Capsule, Black (LM8014/60)

Got this on sale and it is fantastic. Needed for my rugby club to make coffees for spectators. The dual spouts are great and the frother is quick. Nie design and great value for money. Highly recommend.

Great machine, easy to use with lots of options for a range of excellent coffees. We’ve used a Nespresso machine for years and it’s just given up the ghost but after loads of research we gave this one a try and it’s perfect.

Well what can I say Except !!! If you haven’t got this machine you truly are missing out ! I chose this machine as I have been through different brands and so far this one trumps them A*** for quality , reliability and easy to use . The milk frother is easy to clean and easy to use and the creamiest of milk for your milky drinks .

Makes excellent coffee and milk frother is good, only reason for not giving 5 stars is you have to warm milk up yourself

Brilliant coffee machine

Been using ours for 1 year and it is so good, very easy to use and the milk frother I use even if it’s not for coffee

L’ OR Barista With Milk Frother: It’s quite compact and sleek, doesn’t take up too much room on kitchen bench. You can use a variety of different pods and you can also recycle the pods via pod bags. My favourites at the moment are the flavoured espresso pods, would definitely recommend! Milk frother is easy to clean, and coffee pours out instant. I’m happy I managed to get it on offer.

I purchased this machine whilst having simultaneous use of a Krups Inisia Nespresso pod machine and so was able to make a comparison... Both very easy to use machines, yet the L'Or has the additional affixed milk frother/heater & can utilise the L'Or exclusive double pods to produce two separate espresso coffees from the double spout system (or one lungo coffee from the same larger pod). The L'Or also accepts the smaller classic Nespresso pods as well as the double L'Or ones that work with this machine... This might initially seem a bonus but something you may well later forgo given that only L'Or currently make these and they're not really very low priced. Like me, you might just continue to use two of your favourite cheaper supermarket Nespresso (one after the other) to achieve the same thing. The milk frother attached to this machine does somehow seem to over froth the milk (ie pure froth) at the same time as producing one that dissipated quickly in the cup. You can reduce the frothing effect by removing the frother spring, but this reduces the froth to too little yet still very quick to disappear. It does heat the milk well, but I did find it disappointing. Krups Nespresso variants (including the Inisia) don't have the attached frother although the Krups Citiz does have one attached also. In terms of the coffee itself, I tried three different supermarket grade pods in each machine and consistently found that the L'Or machine produced a far inferior crema whilst also leaving the coffee tasting noticeably more bitter. I'm not sure why, but it really does. I later found that both the bitterness and the poor cream are both common complaints of this L'Or machine. So on that basis, mine was returned. It seems also that all Krups type Nespresso machines do work internally exactly the same with the same specs and are purported to produce the same results, although some (as in the case of the currently available Pixie) are better built. That being said the Krups Pixie and a separate decent milk frother will come to around double the price of this single unit. L'Or Pros: Very low price for a coffee pod machine and milk frother combined / easy to use and keep clean / potentially useful double pod size in addition to standard Nespresso / hotter coffee than Nespresso machines. L'Or Cons: Milk frother produces a thin yet overfrothed product / replacement double pods only produced by L'Or and thus expensive / coffee notably bitter in comparison with Krups Nespresso machines (I'm not sure why but this is well documented in reviews) / poor cream that quickly dissapates and doesn't match the Krups Nespresso produced coffee. My conclusion: Notably bitter coffee in comparison with Krups machines (why, I have no idea?) & inadequate milk frother make this a cheap machine that still produces better coffee than cafetiere or instant. Other independent reviews from trustworthy sources do however rate Krups Nespresso machines as far better & that is absolutely my finding too. On that basis I'd probably rate it as 3.5 stars, but this one went straight back and I'm currently awaiting delivery of a Krups Nespresso Pixie (renowned for its build quality and longevity) and separate milk frother at (admittedly) double the combined price...