Bought to replace a noisy and rather basic Gaggia grinder. Perceived quality is good and it is reasonably quiet - only problem is the coffee grinding! If you drink espresso or use Moka Express pots as we do, the finest setting is simply not fine enough. On our old Gaggia grinder, we used no 2 or 3 of 16 settings. The Smeg has a rather absurd 30 settings, but the finest is still ‘grains’ rather than ‘powder’. It won’t wake the kids, but then again neither will the coffee be the perfect start to your day.

Quality you’d expect from SMEG ….

Great price (best deal on the product we could find). Great product - if you’re on the fence I’d 100% recommend investing. It’s made the coffee morning ritual a real joy!

lovely piece of kit, does the job really well but expensive. You do get what you pay for but im not sure if its worth nearly £200 perhaps £150 would be a fairer price point

More expensive than others out there kwhen replacing our Nespresso one for the third time) BUT makes two cups worth at a time. Previous Nespresso one you'd to do one at a time and it eventually stops working right as you get overheating issues as the element is in the jug. This one the element is in he base. Much much better designed. AND it looks great!!

Great design and functionality, very easy operation and very quiet easy loading and being able to see when running low on beans. It lost one star for cheap plastic basket support which is grey and flimsy and does not matching colour could be made of slightly nicer plastic to match the brand image and been in black. But otherwise very pleased with my purchase