Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #9863 in Kitchen & Housewares
• Brand: Morphy Richards
• Model: 47008

Manufacturers Description
The Mister Cappuccino Filter Coffee Maker.

Make coffee your own.

With Mister Cappuccino you can make a cappuccino, latte, mocha, espresso, macchiato … the possibilities are endless with the milk frother wand. Choose your coffee moment, choose your coffee taste. Compact in size, Mister Cappuccino will take up a minimal amount of space on the work surface and the water tank removes from the side for easy filling.

All you need to decide is what coffee moment will you have today?

Box Contents
Morphy Richards Café Rico Filter Coffee Maker 47008

Customer Reviews

Come to my house for a really good cup of coffee!
I bought this coffee maker about a year ago. I must say that I have been delighted with it. It is permanently out on the work surface and is used every day without fail when we are at home and makes really good coffee. The frother works well - though you will find that some milks froth better than others. I was surprised about the comment that the coffee is not kept hot - ours stays at just the right temperature for a second cup.
I must confess that we have developed the habit of warming the milk in a separate jug in the microwave. This way we get it to exactly the right temperature!
Because of the constant usage my machine is beginning to look a bit worn - but I would definitely buy a replacement when the time came.

Don't be seduced
Don't be seduced by the cost. This machine is basically a glorified coffee jug and filter which you could buy for a lot less. The milk hot plate is a good idea in theory, but you'll find milk will drip onto it and burn. More importantly, the frother simply doesn't perform, so if it's cappuccino you want, go to Starbucks. Or better still, get a proper machine that delivers steam.

decent coffee
This machine will make decent cappuccino/latto type coffee. I would say it makes 90% the taste of more expensive high street latte coffee that you buy for over a quid a go.

I have had this machine for about a month. I have been using cheapo coffee beans, with a proper burr (not blade grinder) coffee grinder, or just packets of powdered ready ground coffee. No doubt thats part of reason its not quite top notch, but more than decent.

Heart disease: One important factor for me for the switch from a unfiltered french press was the raised cholesterol that unfiltered coffee machines produce. Filtered coffee like this machine produces, removes the oils in coffee that are proven to raise your risk of heart disease.

Before getting this, I was just using a french press/cafetaire, so this was a big step up in quality as the bitters of the grind are properly filtered. The only other machine I had experiance of was a Bush coffee maker which made expresso with a steamer, and not only took up a whole tabletop but was useless and blocked up all the time and which headed for the bin quickly.

It is very rapid at making the coffee - within 3-4 mins for 4 cups. I have been using 4 tablespoons of coffee at a time to make 4 cups of coffee. Using 4 tablespoons of grind can seem a lot. Now I realise that was a mistake with this machine.
I have worked out that if you fill it with 6 cups of water, but 4 tablespoons of grind you get a more 'normal' tasting concentration of coffee and need less milk.

The 'cups' in this machine are far smaller than a regular coffee cup. Each 'cup' in the machine is actually about 140ml of water. 4 cups = 550ml of water (in the cona) as I have measured this.
The usual guide for coffee is for 1 tablespoon of grind per 6 fl. Oz (177ml) water. On that basis, 4 cups would be 704ml. This equates to 704ml/140ml = i.e. 5 cups on this machine.

So 4 tablespoons should make 5 cups of coffee with this machine. I quite like to produce 6 cups from 4 tablespoons as I dont like my coffee too strong.

All in all a great little machine which makes a good cup of coffee.

Tips: Its a lot faster warming the milk in the microwave while the coffee is brewing., rather than reliing on the hotplate. The frother is a whisk not steam based. The whisk is much easier and safer to use than a steam frother IMO.

Note: There are few niggles with the machine. Its cheap and plasticy and little tabs have fallen off mine on the lid, you have to watch the mains lead isn't over a hot plate etc.. but all in all it works fine.