Since its establishment, De'Longhi has become a veritable century-old store. In the early days, it was mainly engaged in the production of portable heaters, which made it a slightly higher starting point for the production of coffee machines than other manufacturers. De'Longhi has been doing well in industrial design, thanks in part to its design director, Giocomo Borin, who was named one of the "50 Most Influential Designers in the World".
 
When it comes to home coffee machines, De'Longhi is mainly known for its fully automatic coffee machines. The product line is extensive, with high-quality options at every price point. The Prima Donna is De'Longhi's high-end range of fully automatic coffee machines, but the pressure pumps are still vibrating, although they all use dual boilers, which is not common in fully automatic coffee machines.
 
The benefits of the twin boilers are obvious, as they allow for separate temperature control for milk foaming and coffee extraction, as well as improved cup dispensing efficiency, as well as a higher continuous dispensing capacity than a common single-boiler fully automatic coffee machine. However, for a fully automatic coffee machine for home use, whether it is worth spending thousands of yuan on the ability to dispense multiple cups and the limited efficiency improvement needs to be judged by consumers according to their own needs.
 
The Prima Donna range of coffee machines offers users two ways to make milk foam. One is an automatic milk frother, which only needs to pour in milk, select the desired amount of milk foam, and then it can foam by itself. If you want a more sense of operation, you can unplug the milk froth, plug in the steam wand, foam manually with a steel cup, and then apply latte art. A blender is also included, so you can replace the frother to make chocolate drinks.
 
The Prima Donna series coffee machine is rich in features, but the price of about 35,000 yuan is by no means cheap, and for most people, although most of the functions are very exquisite, the usage rate is not too high. So for light users, Prima Donna isn't a suitable option.
 
For most people, a ECAM23.420.SB priced at more than 5,000 yuan is a better choice. In general, the positioning of home automatic coffee machines is relatively business, mainly for office scenes, so the price is generally above 7,000 yuan. In the range of 3000-7000 yuan, the automatic coffee machine has low profits and low demand, so there are few products, and De'Longhi fills the gap of low-end household coffee machines. At a lower price, a reasonable balance has been found between cup speed, durability, taste and price.
 
Although the durability of De'Longhi automatic coffee machines is better than that of other brands, in general, the failure rate of automatic coffee machines is much higher than that of other small appliances. The production and sales scale of the whole category is relatively limited, so the yield rate is not as good as that of common small household appliances such as rice cookers, although the function of the automatic coffee machine is single, but it contains more processing links, heating, extraction, wear-resistant production, grinding beans and other functions have corresponding parts, any link problems, will affect the user experience. Especially for users in third- and fourth-tier cities who do not have after-sales maintenance points, semi-automatic coffee machines are a better choice.
 
For household appliance manufacturers represented by De'Longhi, semi-automatic coffee machines with a high degree of professionalism are not their strong point. De'Longhi's semi-automatic coffee machine does not have much eye-catching in terms of configuration, with a single heating block, the preheating time is not too long, but the water temperature is not stable. At the same time, the noise of the vibrating pressure pump is large, and the vibration amplitude of the fuselage is also relatively large. Icona ECO 310 is the best-selling one of De'Longhi's semi-automatic coffee machines, with a price of about 1500 yuan, which is not expensive for most people, and at the same time has a very elegant appearance, especially the matcha-colored model, which visually gives people a fresh and leisurely feeling, but the performance is only barely enough, and it is far from professional equipment.
 
In addition, De'Longhi's semi-automatic coffee machines are often bundled with their own grinders. However, this kind of activity is not recommended because De'Longhi's grinder is very rudimentary, and the ground coffee particles are very uneven.
 
De'Longhi does not have a stainless steel spout for both fully automatic and semi-automatic coffee machines, and if you want to extract two cups of coffee at the same time, the amount of water may be uneven or even only a single hole. At the same time, because it is closed, when there is only a single hole of water left, it is impossible to accurately determine whether the coffee machine is not placed horizontally or the water outlet is blocked.