Coffee machine deal of the decade: get £130 off a great Smeg bean to cup and 20 KILOS of coffee

Sign up for Lavazza's new coffee subscription service and get great coffee in the post plus a huge saving on Smeg's BCC02

Lavazza Smeg Roast & Ground
(Image credit: Lavazza/Smeg)
Duncan Bell
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Marking the second new coffee subscription service I've heard of this week, Lavazza Roast & Ground very recently launched and offers a less artisanal, internationalist approach to coffee than the excellent Beanz.com by Sage. Not surprisingly, the choice is all from Lavazza's range of beans and ground coffee. This may make coffee purists clutch their pearls and get an attack of the vapours, but personally I don't think there's anything wrong with Lavazza, especially if you want coffee that just tastes of coffee. No, it's not terribly subtle or nuanced, but it's very quaffable, and plenty of people just don't require subtlety or nuance in their morning beverage.

However, one thing that might really turn on coffee-loving potential customers is the deal Lavazza is offering to  new subscribers, in conjunction with fellow Italian maestro, Smeg. Right now you can get a massive £400 off the excellent Smeg BCC02 bean to cup coffee maker. It is normally £699 but with this offer you get it for £299. 

Sure, you'll have to spend at least £270 on coffee in order to take advantage of the offer – I'll come to the maths in a minute – but that's still a £130 saving overall. Also, obviously, you'll end up with an awful lot of coffee to drink for your outlay. To be precise, at least 20kg of it. 

Overall, I'd say £495 for about a year's supply of coffee and an excellent coffee maker is a liquid gold deal. Because it's so compact for a bean to cup, and rather stylish too, the BCC02 is one of the best coffee machines you can buy for a smaller kitchen.

If you're not in the market for a new coffee machine, even with this much of a discount, Lavazza is also offering the option of foregoing the BCC02 and getting 15% off its coffee beans or ground coffee instead, when you subscribe to Roast & Ground.

Lavazza Smeg Roast & Ground

On the left, a coffee maker. On the right, some coffee. What should you do next?

(Image credit: Lavazza/Smeg)

The Smeg BCC02 is a great little machine that makes strong espresso in next to no time and also has a steam wand for texturing your milk for luxurious lattes and creamy cappuccinos. The wand takes a little getting used to but hey; it's good to learn new skills. It's also got a very small footprint, with dimensions of just 42x19x34cm (length by width by height). It's available in several eye-catching colours but, alas, for the purposes of this deal your choices are limited to chic white or classic black. 

Lavazza coffees on offer include everything from Qualità Rossa – arguably the most famous coffee beans in Europe, in their instantly recognisable red bag – to the more upmarket Barista Gran Crema. You have the option of whole beans or ground. 

Let's crunch the numbers then. The Smeg BCC02 officially costs £699, although it seems to be around the £640 mark in several UK shops at the moment. To pick one up for £299 you need to sign up for at least 10 deliveries, of at least 2kg each. There's no charge for postage. As far as I can see, the cheapest option here is to go for entry-level Crema e Aroma beans. These will set you back £27 for 2kg, meaning you'll pay a minimum of £270 overall which makes a total outlay of £569 including the coffee machine. 

So you could think of this as getting £130 off a BCC02 bean to cup coffee machine and receiving a colossal 20 kilos of coffee 'free'. That much coffee would be easily a year's supply for many people. Even for me, that's a good 8-9 months worth. 

Presumably this offer won't last long, so go and take a look at it now, is my advice to you. And if you don't want a new machine, there is also the option of subscribing to Roast & Ground on its own, and getting 15% off all Lavazza's beans instead.

Duncan Bell
Duncan Bell

Duncan is the former lifestyle editor of T3 and has been writing about tech for almost 15 years. He has covered everything from smartphones to headphones, TV to AC and air fryers to the movies of James Bond and obscure anime. His current brief is everything to do with the home and kitchen, which is good because he is an excellent cook, if he says so himself. He also covers cycling and ebikes – like over-using italics, this is another passion of his. In his long and varied lifestyle-tech career he is one of the few people to have been a fitness editor despite being unfit and a cars editor for not one but two websites, despite being unable to drive. He also has about 400 vacuum cleaners, and is possibly the UK's leading expert on cordless vacuum cleaners, despite being decidedly messy. A cricket fan for over 30 years, he also recently become T3's cricket editor, writing about how to stream obscure T20 tournaments, and turning out some typically no-nonsense opinions on the world's top teams and players.

Before T3, Duncan was a music and film reviewer, worked for a magazine about gambling that employed a surprisingly large number of convicted criminals, and then a magazine called Bizarre that was essentially like a cross between Reddit and DeviantArt, before the invention of the internet. There was also a lengthy period where he essentially wrote all of T3 magazine every month for about 3 years. 

A broadcaster, raconteur and public speaker, Duncan used to be on telly loads, but an unfortunate incident put a stop to that, so he now largely contents himself with telling people, "I used to be on the TV, you know."

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