Almost a year to the day we purchased it, our beloved Senseo coffee maker is giving up the ghost.
The first sign of trouble: extra-extra-extra hot coffee. From the beginning, Senseo coffee plus a little microwaved milk produced a beverage at just the right temperature for sipping. Over the last month, though, our Senseo’s output has become hotter and hotter. Now, even with refrigerated milk, we’re talking HOT — as in “McDonald’s Lawsuit Coffee Hot Enough to Scald Your Thighs” hot.
At first, I thought I was imagining things. But the other night, when we served coffee to visiting friends, both of them grasped their cups and yelped in pain.
The second sign: unusually bitter coffee. I’ve raved on and on about Senseo’s addictively smooth taste. But as our Senseo spirals downward, its output tastes increasingly thin and metallic.
Again, I thought I was imagining things. I tried adding extra sweetener. I wondered whether my metallic temporary crown was somehow leaking liquid lead. But finally, Clyde — who’s not much of one to complain — said, “This coffee’s not as good as it used to be.”
We’re still dedicated to the technology; in fact, we ordered a new Senseo from Amazon.com last night. But given the in-box warnings not to use the devices in a “commercial or cafe setting,” one wonders whether someone at Philips knows that a Senseo, with regular home use, has a lifespan of only twelve months or so.
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