Barista Express Impress

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

In your circumstance…. Very hard decision. For taste… I can confirm that HX machine (Mara X) will give better coffees (I upgraded to HX machine from barista express impress). Other things… you just said you have kids… HX machine e61 groupset is very hot. If your kids touch the head firmly, it might

Here is my question…. Some people have fear of learning to extract espresso and prefer total automation. Fortunately… full automatic coffee machines slowly come out from commercial level and give good taste but consumer market will take longer to have fully automatic machine with good taste. I tried

Ninja Luxe Cafe Premier - the price point is excellent ($569 on sale), and the ease of use from added functionality (weighing scale based dosing, grind size recommendations and auto milk) is well worth it over something like the Breville Barista Express Impress

Here is my experience. When I had Breville barista express impress. Back to back shots are hard. Still I was managing to have decent shots (such as warmup machine for 20min, warm portafilter and manual mode to extract:pre-infusion). I decided to upgrade my BBE impress to HX e61 machine. I already sa

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

This is super interesting and exactly the same issue I’m having! I also told breville that I got my mum a barista express impress (no issues on factory grind), also a seperate dose pro grinder that makes amazing coffee on my dual boiler machine (on factory settings). I told them the grinder is not r

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