Pedros Kitchen

When done right, breakfast can bring a great start to the day – just getting up early to whip up a mini feast in the morning can get the brain working the way it should.

But there are some days when it’s going to take a little more than good food to get you out of bed – and those mornings demand coffee. Yes, we all know a caffiene kick can help wake us up after drinking it. But while that might wake you up after drinking it, is a simple mug of instant coffee enough to lure you out of bed in the first place? Probably not.

That’s why we need the promise of gourmet, Italian style coffee, which fills the house with a nice aroma – and perfectly compliments a delicious portion of eggs benedict, bagels with cream cheese and salmon or cinamon waffles. These are the breakfasts we should be eating people – supermarket bought cereal just won’t cut it on a miserable morning.

So this realisation got me looking for coffee machines – because while there is a Starbucks around the corner, a £2.30 coffee every morning is not going to improve my morning mood any. And neither is going out in the cold to get it. So after a hunt around I settled on a nespresso coffee machine. There were a lot to choose from, but here is this particular machines selling points:

• Fresh coffee – every morning, and a guarantee which ensures I won’t lose this privellege should it break early
• The option of several different flavours and styles of coffee – latte? NO problem. In the mood for a mocha, No need to leave the house
• It turns itself off after 9 minutes – Huge selling point for me, having experienced a coffee maker that would burn the pot every few days after a collegue forgot to switch it off.
• Price of £139. My average spend at a coffee shop is £5. After just a month this coffee maker starts to earn its keep. And with bags of filter coffee widely available at just a few pounds each – the savings are real.
• Choice of colours. The model I choose – the Pixie – came in 6 colours so I could match it to my kitchen. I choose a cool chrome colour, but it also came in green, red and blue.
• The biggest selling point of any coffee maker, howeverm is creamy coffee or espresso instead of lukewarm water – with inevitably will never be stirred well enough. What a good choice, this is one kitchen appliance I  won’t regret buying – let’s just not talk about the popcorn maker/cupcake machine which has never been used again.