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EQ7 Plus coffee machines - Looks, plus style

5th June 2011 Print
EQ7 Plus

With the same impressive features as the original models...and more, the stunning EQ7 Plus coffee machines promise to create the best aroma, the perfect crema, the frothiest milk and the finest bean-to-cup experience to beat anything on the market for consistently fine taste.

Like their predecessors, the EQ7 Plus machines are very easy on the eye - in a handsome silver or sumptuous black and silver finish - specially-designed to be good from any angle so they don't need to be kept against a wall.

But it is on the inside that Siemens' engineers have spent hundreds of hours, looking at every step of the brewing process to achieve perfect results.

A special Senso-Flow heating element ensures the water is kept at an ideal temperature for 30 seconds during the brewing process for a delicious taste. Not only does Senso-Flow ensure perfect heating, but it also offers the fastest first cup in this class of machines.

Siemens' unique Aroma Pressure system, with a specially shaped tamper, gives consistent compression of the ground coffee every time, with a high 19bar water pressure to extract maximum taste. The result is a perfect, rich coffee crema.

The built-in Silent Ceram grinder offers extremely low noise, consistent performance and grinding elements that never need to be replaced.

The fully automatic TE703201RW offers one-touch latte macchiato and cappuccino, makes espresso, caffe crema and Americano, has a graphical display for simplicity of use, a separate acrylic milk container for extra hygiene and is specially designed to be easy to clean and maintain. A newly-designed brewing sieve ensures optimal water flow for better tasting coffee.

An energy efficient auto-off function is programmable for anything from five minutes to eight hours; operates in any of eight languages, offers four different settings for water hardness and four
more for drink temperature, and a built-in descaling programme.

And for those who really like their coffee "full-bodied", the new DoubleShot function offers an extended strength selection to give intense coffee taste with a fuller aroma.

Its big brother, the TE706209RW goes further: it offers all the facilities of the TE703201RW as well as one-touch white coffee and a personalised function that can be programmed to provide the user's favourite cup with one button, an insulated external milk container finished in brushed aluminium, chrome plated buttons and knobs and metal detailing, an illuminated rotary knob on the bean container, a time indicator, early warning indicators on the water and bean containers, and a Brita Intenza cartridge for consistently perfect water — a major ingredient of any fine coffee.

Both machines have a metal swivel coffee outlet that can accommodate differently-sized cups from espresso cups to latte glasses and allow the automatic latte and cappuccino function, and a larger drip tray with magnetic fixings.

Finally, the Cream Centre mechanism ensures perfect milk foam, one-touch cappuccino and café latte, easy-cleaning and even a height-adjustable nozzle (pre-defined cup size options are adjustable), and the perfect cup of coffee is almost at your lips.

The Cream Centre is fed from an external milk container, which on the TE706209RW is thermally insulated to keep milk at a constant temperature. This way milk is heated only on demand to keep milk fresher for longer.

For more information, visit siemens-home.co.uk.

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