De’Longhi buyer sends £1,200 product for repair – but baby bugs scuttle out when it returns
When Adrian Turner went to refill the fresh beans in his £1,195 De’Longhi coffee machine, he was stunned when bugs began scuttling out. Although he and his wife, Emma, were not familiar with the tiny dark-bodied insects, it emerged later, to their horror, that they were baby cockroaches. These nasty crawlers may be known and unwelcome residents of damp New York kitchens, they are hardly a common sight in leafy Henley-on-Thames.
But as more and more homes in the UK buy fancy coffee machines, the Turners’ cockroach crisis is likely to be repeated across the country. One coffee machine manufacturer has admitted an industry secret: “We know cockroaches inside of coffee machines is a reality. A disgusting reality.
