Galanz Retro Espresso Machine

It really sucks when you see reviews and you know that they were all operator error. So going into this I want to say that the machine had a learning curve. What I didn’t like though, made me no longer want to figure out how to run the machine properly. I flushed the machine multiple times, but the coffee kept tasting like plastic. The coffee was nowhere near a temperature that you typically expect coffee to be. There’s no way to adjust the temperature either. I liked the convenience of the tank, the tray below, the coffee color was good, frothiness was nice, automatic stop on shots, and I loved the look. However, when using the wand to steam, even though it indicated it was ready, it would shoot out a large amount of water, enough to soak a paper towel. My optimistic thought, maybe that was a fluke but it happened again and again. The dial to turn the steam on was odd. That’s the best way I can explain it, it wasn’t like your typical dial where you could feel it turn and know that it was turning. So I almost wonder if it was broken. The other thing that was unfortunate was it would still have water coming out through the shot while you were trying to steam. That was even with the dial turned to what was supposed to be strictly steam and the lever to turn off the espresso part was off. I really wanted to try to work with this appliance, but the taste of plastic was overbearingly gross. The time it took to do everything was consuming, that I just felt it wasn’t worth tampering with.