"alan_m" wrote in message
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On 30/12/2020 16:39, Fred wrote:

Wish the bugger would tear down them
all so we could decide which one to buy.

It would be of no use unless the tear-down was of a brand new machine
still on sale.

Thats what I meant he should do.

It's much like people recommending a brand that they purchased 20 years
ago and because it has lasted that long (possibly only for them) then this
is the one to go for. They tend to forget that during this period the
brand has been sold on few times and the design changed 10 times.

When looking for a new machine it may be more sensible to see who actually
owns the brands and to see if the many different brands are manufactured
in the same factories.

But plenty have cheap and nasty brands and
better ones coming out of the same factory.

Also take a good look at the facilities you use on your current machine.
Is it worth paying a couple of hundred quid more for a machine with tens
of extra wizzy-wizz gimmicky features that you would never use?

With modern designs, a clive points out, the
extra stuff doesnt always cost any more.

And someone may suggest a better way
of cooking rice, in a microwave instead
of in a pan on the stove and if you dont
have a decent digital microwave you
wont be able to use it to do rice better.