Barista Touch Impress

We bought the Breville Touch Impress in this pic earlier this year. Awesome machine

I don't have a great story, but a year and a half ago, my husband bought a Breville Barista Touch Impress espresso machine during Black Friday. I thought it was a waste of $800. Damn if I don't use that thing every single day.

Breville owns Baratza or they bought them a while ago. Breville started incorporating Baratza grinders into some of their models. The Baratza and Bambino Plus combo is sold on Breville’s website directly https://www.breville.com/en-us/product/bep501?sku=BEP501BTR1BNA1. Amazon is just $50 cheaper. Th

Breville Barista Touch Impress here: Best upgrade for me was IMS basket and bottomless portafilter. I went with the IMS Big Bang & IMS precision baskets. The Big Bang basket is my daily driver.I did see a slight difference upgrading to the IMS precision nanotech shower screen. But IMO, the baskets w

I have a BBE, if you do end up getting a breville machine with built in grinder, I would definitely recommend getting one with the upgraded burrs. (Barista pro, touch impress, etc) I’ve seen lots of people get 7-10 years out of their breville machine, you just need to descale and back-flush on a reg

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

For ease of use and just good, convenient coffee, the barista touch impress offers a lot to like imo. The main thing is that it's extremely important to use good water that won't cause scale build up! The "worst" part of the machine is probably the grinder but if you ever wanted to , you could alway

I've had 3 Breville machine. An older Barista Express, then the Oracle. Meanwhile I moved to Ecuador and the Oracle was way too large to transport, so I gave it to my son. He makes the best espressos with it using local roasters in Austin, TX. In Ecuador, I had a Barista Touch Impress shipped to me.

Absolutely!! Third Wave Water Espresso Machine Profile 2 liter packets in 1 gallon of distilled water test out perfectly with my results of TDS and PH readings work best. Way faster, less messier than making my own water. Been using espresso machines since 1995 and my last DeLonghi lasted 18 years w

Nah, I think Breville sells a metric ton of these and reporting bias is primarily what you will see here. These are sold all over the world and by all rights appear to be extremely popular. Some people having troubles on here does not mean you will have any issues at all. Just use very fresh beans,