Oct 03 2011
La Pavoni PA-1200 Napolitana Stainless Steel Automatic Espresso Machine
$599.00
- Stainless steel baskets
- Built-in conical bur grinder and coffee press
- 16 bars of pressure
- 100 oz water reservoir and removable drip trays
- Marine brass boiler
Number Of Reviews 11
Average Rating 3.5
Product Description
Napolitana! The latest addition from la Pavoni is not only beautiful but built to last. The entire body is made of 18/8 stainless steel then polished to a gloss finish. This unit is semiautomatic, (you manually start and stop the flow of coffee via a b… More >>
La Pavoni PA-1200 Napolitana Stainless Steel Automatic Espresso Machine
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5 Responses to “La Pavoni PA-1200 Napolitana Stainless Steel Automatic Espresso Machine”
La Pavoni PA-1200 Napolitana Stainless Steel Automatic Espresso Machine
The Espresso Machine is very good, however I paid $66 for overnight delivery which ultimately took 6 days.
Rating: 4 / 5
La Pavoni PA-1200 Napolitana Stainless Steel Automatic Espresso Machine
Purchased this as a gift for my wife who loves espresso after having had multiple ‘cheap’ units in the past. Found Napolitana to be noiser than described, which was fine. The big problem is the espresso it makes isn’t much above that made at coin operated machines in 7-11. Foaming was really only so so. Going to try a different unit perhaps for a bit more money.
Rating: 1 / 5
La Pavoni PA-1200 Napolitana Stainless Steel Automatic Espresso Machine
Had this machine for 3 days and it stopped pumping water. I have a suspecion that the pump failed. Now I can get anyone to help me out with this broken $500 hunk of metal. Pretty useless as far a quality goes. Cheap construction and the steam spout is loose it feels likwe it will break off if you are not very careful.
Bad product!!!
Rating: 1 / 5
La Pavoni PA-1200 Napolitana Stainless Steel Automatic Espresso Machine
I would have awarded only one star, but since the machine looks so nice, I give it two. Beyond the looks, the performance of the espresso machine is poor where it really counts, and that is the delivery of espresso. The pump system definitely has prostate problems, and is very weak, failing to deliver a 20 second shot of espresso or ANY crema. There is no solenoid switch either, so one is left with a pool of water over a slurry of spent coffee grinds. This occurs no matter the fineness of the grind. One must also wait to remove the group head so that pressure is relieved, or you can risk removing it very SLOWLY to allow built up pressure to bleed out. On numerous occasions, the pump was unable to force water through a normally tamped portion of coffee, perhaps only a tiny dribble came out. While the unit is attractive, and some parts have excellent build quality, there are few areas that need improvement. The buttons are chrome plated plastic. The trays are constructed from poor quality plastic, the injection molding process seems to have caused slight warping (except for the metal drain screens, which are okay). The burr grinder performed well, but adjusting the fine-coarse setting is a bit of a guessing game. Another thing that irritated me was that the photo showed nice euro-style icon labels for the functions of the three control buttons, but for some unknown reason La Pavoni decided to dumb it down to just words (power, steam, coffee) — which looks completely foolish to me.
This machine is not worth $600!
I returned it after only one day of use, and now I am going to buy the Rancilio Silvia, which I hope is far superior.
Rating: 2 / 5
La Pavoni PA-1200 Napolitana Stainless Steel Automatic Espresso Machine
I could not be much happier with this purchase. The espresso is great. I don’t use the frother – just remove it an use it old-school. The built-in burr grinder suffers one shortcoming…the switch is set a tad too far in. You’ll figure it out … the built in tamper is handy. Having an adjustable burr grinder will get you pulling commercial style cups in short order. Just experiment and enjoy as you get closer and closer to your favorite cup. Every espresso maker is going to have plusses and minuses. The minuses here are few and immaterial. Buy it.
Rating: 5 / 5