Barista Express Impress

There’s a lot of factors to weigh up but I’d personally go for something like the Barista Express Impress, depends how much effort you want to go to for each cup but it’s probably a nice little balance between manual and fully automatic. There’s benefits to a separate grinder as someone else said bu

I love my Baratza Sette 270 for what it’s worth. I mostly do espresso but it can grind much more coarsely. I currently keep decaf beans in the grinder on my Breville Barista Express Impress and use the Sette 270 for my daily beans. The Sette 270 is loud but consistent. I’ll mirror what a lot of peop

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

I ended up getting the Touch when comparing the Touch with the Touch Impress, Express, Express Impress, and Pro. here’s my reasoning: ⁠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

I've got a Breville Barista Express Impress (that I spent 2 hours doing maintenance on this morning, I feel your pain lol), so pretty similar machine from what I can see in your video. For some context for my machine: I lean pretty heavily on the automatic shot process (I'll weigh it out if I'm dial

I can wholeheartedly recommend the Breville Barista Express. It's about $700 retail, even cheaper if you find it on sale. https://www.breville.com/en-us/product/bes870?sku=BES870XL I got the same machine 8 years ago when I was wanting to stop supporting Starbucks but all the cheaper machines I tried

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