Fast and hygienic – each time you make a drink with milk, your fully automatic machine offers to clean the parts in contact with milk. With just one touch you can choose between the pre-set coffee varieties (espresso, long coffee, cappuccino and latte macchiato) but not only. Whether it’s an early morning or late evening, use the coffee machine without being afraid to wake up your household. You can also choose from a selection of colours, which is especially beneficial because we tend to use coffee machines multiple times over the space of a day so it would be inconvenient to have to keep putting the machine away after every use.

When you want to clean the drip tray, put the tablet into the tray, fill two thirds of it with hot water, wait 30 minutes and carefully clean it. Unlike other coffee machines, you get a whisper-quiet grinder that's capable of grinding two different types of bean with the two-chamber bean container. The machine saves the preference settings for up to four people as well, so it's a very useful feature for a coffee-loving family.When half of the cup is filled with water, turn the machine off and give some time for the cleaning tablet to do its magic. Obviously, the Melitta CI Touch is a significant outlay in terms of cost — but it is difficult to deny the outstanding quality that is on offer here. Set them going, according to the instructions, and it means that you won't have to manually clean the coffee maker after every single use. The grinder even has 5 settings, so that you can opt for a fine or a coarse grind, which matters when you make different types of coffee. The cafetiere is inexpensive and it enables you to choose from a massive range of coffees to get the flavour you desire.

Depending on water hardness, descaling of a coffee machine shall be performed after brewing 150-200 cups of coffee. However, while the CI Touch is easy to use, it doesn't take much for it to come to an automatic halt. The dual "Bean Select" coffee bean reservoirs, each holding 135g, allow you to manually choose between two types of coffee beans, providing a personalized experience with every cup.Select the four classics – espresso, café crème, cappuccino and latte macchiato – with just a light touch. Today all I had to do was go to the Machine press two buttons and I had my latte waiting for me in less than two minutes. The same design is still used to this day, not only by the Melitta company, but by a host of other manufacturers and producers too.