Apex v2

Any espresso machine without a PID will have a thermostat controlling the temperature with 10 Celsius degrees difference from min to max. Surfing the temperature gives more consistency than not doing and it will depend on you: how much you want to fine tune your extraction? How tolerant you are to a

We had solid reasons to sway our decision. The first was having gift cards that lowered the price to sub-$500. Second, Gemilai is the white label company making the Turin Legato V2/MiiCoffee Apex v2. This feels like the successor to those machines, with an upgrade in features, and those machines are

Asking for advice here will get you wild answers that waste your money, honestly. Everyone will tell you that you need some super expensive grinder (you don't, it just has to be able to grind fine enough); if you have that? They will find some other way to spend your money on things that aren't wort

Any machine at your price range is going to have similar build quality to Bambino Plus, but with a slower warm up time. You might want to check out Turin Legato V2/MiiCoffee Apex V2/Gemilai 3007z. These are all the same machine "white labeled" by different distributors. It might be available in the

It's a terrific machine. Personally, I don't know if I'd spend more money on a dual boiler or Heat Exchanger (unless milk drinks were my thing), when you can get the MiiCoffee Apex V2, that is almost like a dual boiler and so much cheaper. A conventional single boiler, even the best ones, are good f

Lance Hedrick and Tom's Coffee Corner (his unit was a miicoffee apex v2, same machine different distributor) both went through all of the machine's functionality in their reviews. It really wouldn't be much fussing after your first couple days with the machine to get your grinder dialed in. The othe

That's really good to know--thanks! My machine has been fine overall. The push button for temperature (the +) is sometimes stubborn--not always registering my touch--but everything else on the machine is running so well. My only complaint is that the P2 (pause) after P1 is basically more of P1. The

u/Haff1887 Do yourself a long-term favor and spend a little extra to get something that's already more pressure controllable (manually adjustable) and heat programmable and controlled (PID), with preinfusion, without having to install anything extra or modify yourself. I would recommend the MiiCoffe

Ended up buying a Gemilai CRM3007Z. AKA - MiiCoffee APEX V2. So far so good.

It wasn't true a decade ago, but now it is that all of the sub-$1000 machines are about the same. Slightly different features, but basically the same inside. That means that you don't need to spend $750 as a $450 machine will basically be the same, minus the branding.Of the current crop of Barista E