Barista Express Impress

Ooowww, now this interesting! Seriously consider this before you decide! I have a profited go and a mignon sdp, and my good childhood friend, AND door to door neighbour (I live in an apartment building) has a breville barista express impress (the one with grinder and tamper). We decided to do some c

One feature I think you should include, though Breville's documentation doesn't make this easy, is whether or not the steam wand on a unit is insulated. It's a significant quality of life feature as it prevents foam from cooking onto the wand during foaming which is particularly hard to clean off of

I was in a similar boat and researched all these models, too. I ended up getting a Touch for a few reasons: Auto milk frothing: This has been really helpful because as a person who has never brewed my own coffee other than k-cups, I could just focus on learning how to dial in the expresso first and

It's really not a cost issue. Bambino Plus + DF54 = $650 when you can find them on sale. That's about the cost of an Barista Express Impress. Learning curve for the Bambino+DF54 is higher. That's really the only down side, as long as you're OK with single-dosing. Unless you're using it all in the sa

Did anyone find a solution? My old bes870 didn't have this issue ever and ground coffee much finer even with outer burr on 6 but now my bes878 and bes880 both do the same as mentioned in this thread. With both higher end models the same beans cannot be ground fine enough unless the outer burr is 3 o

Welcome to the club, happens frequently to my Oracle Touch even after switching beans and thorough cleaning. It happens on my Barista Express Impress if I use beans that are too light roasted or too heavy roasted. With relatively soft beans or never slips. I think the grinder isn't particularly stro

Personally I think it's the worst part of these machines. The only machines that have such a system I can find are, Ninja Luxe Café Series, Sage Barista Touch Impress, Sage Barista Express Impress, and the Melitta Barista TS Smart. Many users of the Ninja and Sage/Breville systems all complain about

I have a Sage Barista Express Impress that also spit like yours doing. I changed the grouphead gasket steam ring and it did't stop. After removing the shower head I saw that the group head gasket start to peel off like this one from the link. https://www.reddit.com/r/espresso/comments/1pqq6zr/crumbl

Like i said, the niche is a sidegrade over the integrated grinder. It's weak at light roasts and fine grinds, and accordingly to a commenter here, coarse grinds as well. It's a fantastic bit of kit for dark roasts, and moka, and french press, yeah, but that's about it ... Once you want medium light