- Type of pods: Lavazza coffee pods
- Capacity: 1.1L
- Dimensions: 280 x 145 x 380 mm
- Milk frother: Automatic
Lavazza started in the 19th century as a Turin-based coffee roastery. Its swift ascent to the global coffee market made it a household name, forever attributed with great-quality at-home coffee – and great, accessible barista coffee, too. Lavazza’s A Modo Mio pod coffee products have been lauded since 2007, and continue to be, with new coffee makers greatly expanding the versatility of the brand.
This is the Desea, its latest pod coffee maker and a significant upgrade on its legacy coffee maker devices. Its simple touch-sensitive interface belies a much niftier functionality, which makes this a particularly fun form of pod coffee maker.
One half of the unit’s interface is devoted to drawing espresso, with four pre-set lengths for one-shot, double-shot, long coffee and a manual pour mode. The other half is dedicated to an exceedingly smart milk-frothing system, with three coffee presets – short cappuccino, long cappuccino and latte macchiato – and a just-milk frothing option. A further button for each section boosts the water temperature and foam amount respectively.
The milk-frothing system is smart on account of its intuitive design. A milk-frothing jug is supplied with the unit, which mates to the machine via lid with attached steam wand and frother. When you insert the jug, the Desea detects it and enables only the milk settings; when the jug is absent, only the coffee settings can be accessed. This makes using the Desea foolproof, even groggily-eyed at the crack of dawn.
The smart, all-in-one functionality of the Desea makes it a phenomenal entry in the pod coffee space, and a mightily satisfying machine to use too. Well-built, sturdy, easy to use and uncompromisingly good at everything it’s designed to do: at this price, the Lavazza A Modo Mio Desea is quite simply a steal.
- Four different coffee sizes and five milk recipes
- Temperature boost function
