Legato Espresso Machine

A dedicated grinder serves a few purposes. infinitely easier to deal with switching beans if that’s something you’re into, especially if you start single dosing vs throwing a pound into the hopper. Even just switching between cafe and decaf is a huge pain in these combo machines. for $300-500 range,

Well I bought the Turin Legato V2 (I'm in the UsA). I was either going to get the Gaggia or the Gemilai 3007Z (Turin Legato V2 or MiCoffee Apex V2 in these parts). Gaggia interested me due to it's long solid reputation but I wanted to be able to adjust things as my tastes change in coffee every so o

Turin Legato V2. Wendougee Data S ($3000, but a killer of any Decent and any Italian machine less than $7000 - has many Italian Swiss components).

Beautiful machine. I was interested in this model too but during my research I came across a user report of high lead content from another model made by the same manufacturer (Gemilai) that gave me pause. Would you mind running a water test with your machine? https://www.reddit.com/r/espresso/commen

If you don't care about steaming there is literally zero reason to buy a Bambino. A $100 De'Longhi will pull better espresso and last longer than a Bambino. The only real advantages are the super fast heat up time (which if you do any sort of planning and thinking ahead, doesn't matter) and the milk

the gaggia is overrated. small boiler, bad temp control. temp surfing is annoying, making back to back shots is difficult. adding a PID would help, but most kits cost >200 and you have to spend a lot of time. i upgraded to the apex miicoffee v2 / turin legato v2 after my gaggia and am extremely happ

I went with a Turin Legato V2 and have been very happy with it so far. That would be right in your price range. Yes it’s a Chinese manufactured and rebranded machine but it’s all metal (alloy of some sort), and feels very well built and aesthetically pleasing. PID controller (although only in Celsiu

That's pricey--if I had 2K for a machine (instead of my next motorcycle) I'd not be looking at that machine. The next 3 years is going to see a wave of OPV, flow control, PID and dual boilers in many of the standing manufacturer's machines. Price points will work in the customer's favor. Gaggia make

I'd not get that scale. I'd look at other grinders. The Turin Legato V2 is a great machine. You can set and forget or fiddle around. It's very solid.

In the USA---for now--Espresso Outlet is selling the Turin Legato V2 and most folks really applaud the customer service from the seller. I did a great deal of reading on the Gemilai 3007Z where I could find it in use in Asia. This meant looking at youtube videos in other languages (among other sourc