Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #98 in Kitchen & Housewares
• Brand: Bosch
• Model: TAS4012GB
• Released on: 2008-09-06

Manufacturer's Description
The Bosch Tassimo Multi-beverage Machine delivers automatic freshly brewed hot drinks at the push of a button. It makes a range of drinks, including caffe crema, espresso, latte macchiato, cappuccino, teas, hot chocolate and more. The discs have the right amount of ingredients sealed into them to protect their flavour. The drinks system reads the bar code printed on each drink, adds the right amount of water for that drink and sets the best temperature, to ensure a perfect drink every time. You can even manually adjust the drink strength to suit your taste. It also includes 'flow heater technology’, which means there is virtually no heat up time and minimal waiting between drinks. There’s an automatic de-scaling function and 2 litre removable easy-fill water tank. An adjustable and removable cup stand lets you use different types of cups and mugs. Dishwasher safe parts.

Box Contents

1 x Tassimo multi-beverage machine 1 x instruction booklet 2 x anti calc tablets (to remove limescale from the machine)

Customer Reviews

Better Than the Braun!
We had the Braun for about 9 months and that died a sudden death, but was used at least twice daily. Working for BOSCH, we snuck one of these home and its been brilliant. The design is more modern and whilst at times it can be a bit violent producing coffee it makes a great cup.

It's still going strong now!

However, my nan bought the Flavia fusion, the sachets make much nicer cups, u can alter strengths and cup sizes and best of all the sachets are cheaper per cup than these pods. When this one dies, we are moving systems.

The Good ,The Bad and the Idifferent
The GOOD is it makes a great cup of coffee or other drinks most times.
The BAD is that the earlier T discs particularly the "crema" types often exploded. They have redisigned them now so the problem has mostly gone away. The official descaler tablets cost more than 24carat gold but you can use Oust according to those that know.
The INDIFFERENT is Customer Services.

Disappointing
We owned a Braun Tassimo machine which we liked, so when the new Bosch machine came out we thought we would upgrade to the new better machine. Big mistake there is known problem that this new machine is too powerful for the T Discs, the system uses which means coffee is sprayed around your kitchen and some of the drinks are unable to be made through this Tassimmo machine, tassimonknow about this but are unable to help the consumer at this time!!
The customer services are useless and very unhelpful.
Our machine was sent back for repair after a few weeks of ownership after the above mentioned fault kept on requiring, but was returned to us "after testing" with no faults found they obviously had not made a drink through the machine.
Now the descale function does not work, the only suggestion from customer services is to buy another cleaning disc and we should not use filtered water through the machine!
Please be warned think very carefully before buying one of these machines, they can make really nice hot drinks but so can other machines without the hassle!
Good luck.