Smart Grinder Pro

Breville Bambino Plus with either a Breville Smart Grinder Pro or DF54 Grinder. An absolute starter kit that leaves room to grow. If space is a concern, then Breville Barista Express Impress.

Bambino plus is a great newlywed coffee machine. DF54 if you’re into properly sampling or dosing your coffees by weight. The Breville Smart Grinder Pro is older and not as well-specced for enthusiasts, but fits the bambino’s portafilter size perfectly and is pretty intuitive to use. If you’re wantin

Obligatory separate grinder comment. The touch screen is neat but these are really still semi-manual machines, so you still need to dial in your beans and grinds. So really functionally, the Touch Impress is no better than a Bambino Plus with a grinder and a calibrated tamper. (Touch impress does al

Have been a happy Lagom Casa owner for about 6 weeks now, upgrading from a breville/sage smart grinder pro. I single dose and like to switch. Something that was pretry much impossible with the Breville SGP. The Casa is very clean: low retention and easy workflow. Really happy with it and lets me foc

I put off buying a coffee grinder for so long thinking the same things. Then my wife bought me the Breville smart grinder pro for my birthday for around $200. I felt guilty at first because it’s definitely something we did not need but it’s soo worth the money if you enjoy making different types of

I recently got Gemilai Ele with Mokkom Grinder it should be in your budget ball park. My reason to go with Ele over Owl were as follows. Boiler instead of Heat exchange so better temperature stability on back to back shots. OPV adjustment to set 9 bar pressure. Steam wand has built in thermometer. O

As other said, r/espresso Usually the recommendation is a breville/sage bambino, and a capable grinder. Depending on what kind of coffee you drink, anything from a breville SGP (I recommend this to absolute beginners especially if they make non-espresso coffees at home bc it can always be your gener

I had one (Breville SGP)...it's "ok" and can work as a cheap option to see if you want to get into the hobby (you can get a used one easily most likely), but if you enjoy good espresso as made by actually skilled baristas at cafes, it won't be good enough, imho. Grinders are considered second only i

My wife has used her Breville BCG820BSS Smart Grinder Pro for the past year with no issues. Still grinds consistently and is easy to set up. Right at $200

Looks like Myer has it for $999 but out of stock, maybe can get someone to price match? That’s probably the best price you can get it for these days. The Breville smart grinder pro is fine to start with. Depends how much you want to spend, but you can get decent grinders from baratza and eureka that