Barista Express Impress

Welcome! This seems like a great starting point (I started with a Breville Barista Express Impress), similar to me when I started. If you were a daily Starbucks person like me, you’ll see the new machine pay for itself in no time. Periodically I’ll do a new cost assessment, and it’s still 1/5 the pr

SAN pellegrino are awesome, various light ones, I like sparkling water with fresh fruit juiced in… summery version is sometimes tonic water with fresh lime 🍋‍🟩… or G&T without the T as we call it. 😂 I sometimes get crazy with tea but recently I bought a Breville Barista Impress and I’ve been making oa

Between the two of those, go with the Breville. KitchenAid is not a recommended brand on this sub. That said, all-in-one devices are generally not recommend here. You'd be better off going with a separate brewer/grinder, as it makes sure you don't have a half-functional machine when the built-in gri

Bes870 is pretty bloody good, I wouldn’t touch Kogan (for any appliance). Breville all the way

My goto beans is Blue Tokai French Roast. I have ended up investing in portable coffee machine and grinder for travel too. The machine I have is "Breville/Sage The Barista Express Impress Espresso Machine (SES876)". I have been using it every single day for about 1.5 years. Makes consistent espresso

As soon as I saw the pics, I thought you run home coffee machine museum hahaha. I can ask everything to you and you can give good answers without trying to buy new machine haha. I just upgraded from Breville barista express impress to HX machine. It will be my endgame machine so not too much interes

This is a sub of hobbyists with much higher standards than you have. You need to take the advice that actually applies to your goals. You don’t need an “excellent shot,” as defined by a hobbyist, you need to match coffee shop quality (which isn’t usually that great). Don’t over think it. I have a br

Sold my Breville (Sage) Barista Express Impress during the holiday season after caring for it for 2 years. Agree the inconsistency and lack of steam power was annoying. Great starter machine, though. I debated long and hard on going with single dose vs. hopper grinder. Finally went with a Mazzer Phi

Honestly it’s totally up to individual….. Before I get into coffee things… To me, coffee is coffee type person. Coffees were surviving tool to awake from morning hahaha. My wife made coffees for me. One day… my wife said she wants Breville machines because it’s on sale so we bought it then I was the

Manus S. I am using it and click of knob, I can change brew temperature, pre-infusion time, pressure and even has built in flow control (by pump). It’s not perfect machine but this is my endgame machine. Good enough for me. Yes. I want to control more precisely like wendougee data but the price…. It