I have had the expressi machine for a few months now and am very happy in general with it. I started to get trouble after I bought two new pack of coffee pods which most of the hot coffee flowed to the used pod container instead of the cup. I read other people reviews and they also had the same problem. One of them said this is because the newer pods have thicker container and had to be pierced several times for the machine to work as normal. So now I have to pierce it a few time by moving the lever half way 2x or 3x to have all the coffee flow to the cup. Someone from Aldi needs to talk to the pod makers and have the old style back!

The Aldi coffee tastes good - the machine that makes it is rubbish. We have had ours for 3 months and now have the same problem as everybody else here. We called the service number in the manual they tell us we have to descale this machine every month. Our previous machine had given us 6 years of use and only got descaled once - that was a Nespresso - I guess you get what you pay for. We changed to the Aldi machine because I shop there every couple of weeks and it is much easier to purchase their pods. Do not buy this Expressi Machine it is a total waste of money.

Water runs into used pod container. Only getting half an inch of coffee. Was told by Melbourne office to eject pod and start again. Should not have to do that. Not what you want to hear. Not happy at all with the new machine. Coffee is great when you can get a decent cup.

I liked the look of the new Aldi machine so bought a red 2016 model and mothballed the old one. Big mistake!
Half the coffee ends up in the used pod container so to get a decent coffee I had to use 2 pods. Slow, and not hot enough. I took it back today for a refund and reinstated the old one.

Bad bad bad... As another review stated, hard to expel spent capsules, is not hot enough (add milk and it's warm coffee at best). Water reserve smaller and it is hard to see the water level and is noisy, sounding very tinny when starting off. The model is more about the outer design than focusing on the internal to deliver a good coffee... in this case you get what you pay for :/

Annoying differences from previous model:
Capsules are very difficult to expel after use; they don't just fall through as in the previous model. (I'm having to use fingers to push the capsule through, messy and unpleasant). The water reservoir is tinted, so you have to remove it, to see how much is left. The temperature is too low to produce good espresso. The water reservoir is smaller, so must be refilled more often. UPDATE - Returned first one of these as it was not working properly. The replacement
worked mostly, though with same flaws. NOW, I'm going to throw out the replacement, as coffee continually
dribbles into the overflow tray instead of the cup!!!! A different product from the first generation.