Barista Touch Impress

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

Considering you can get a Barista Touch Impress for US$1000 direct from Breville Remanufactured right now, I wouldn't really consider this a great deal. As so many others have said already, great machine, grinder is mid-at-best with the only caveat being that programmable OD vs. single dose has some

If you are coming from Nespresso one of the impress models may be better. While tamping on your own isn't hard it does take awhile to get used to. Additionally, tamping manually is a bit messier at times at invevitally you spill some grounds. Not a huge deal, but the self tamping machines avoid this

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

Any idea on price range, as the Breville range is wide. If you budget stretches to the Beville Barista Touch Impress, I can vouch for it 100%. The touch screen is idiot-proof (press icon and it does something). Push in the coffee extractor till the grinder lights up. Press a button to grind the bean

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

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.

I forget the breakdown but some Breville built-in grinders are stepless (or can be stepless like on my Touch Impress) Etzinger M2 burrs like the Encore ESP, but some older models have the burrs from the older Breville Smart Grinder instead. You don't want those. IMO if you want to single dose, get a

We got a Barista Touch Impress last year and love it. Before that, I used a 9Barista with a hand grinder, so while I have some experience I’m not an expert. But the Breville is super convenient, fast, and easy for my wife (who has no interest in really learning to pull a shot) to use. The only real