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

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

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

The most important part of dialing in is finding the best dose:yield ratio. While grind size is also important, finding the best ratio is key to getting the best tasting espresso. More info here: https://espressoaf.com/guides/beginner.html The bottomless will give you visual feedback on the evenness

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

well you got really good points, but i would liketo point out buying a new Gaggia classic or the e24 with the brass boiler and then adding the mod is pretty bad financial descision. If you buy a used one for 150€ you will be at roughtly 450€ with the same upgrades but with a new steamwand (the stock

Gemilai G3007z, aka: Mii Coffee Apex V2, Turin Legato V2 - most interesting variant for now, for me. Chinese 58mm standard brew group, 550ml stainless boiler, separate thermoblock for steam, opv setting screw-knob, flow rate screw setting, PID for boiler and thermoblock, automatic buttons. Main ques

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