Cheap and easy expresso
For the money, this is a treat machine. The plus side is that it is ready to use very quickly, it has an integrated grinder so the whole package is very compact. It’s relatively easy to produce great expresso and you can play around with the settings to your hearts content fine tuning the grinder, the water quantity and the dose. The magnetic tamper is very neat and always to handand it comes with some nice accessories such as the milk jug and the razor dose control for levelling the coffe prior to fitting the port a filter. I got the black one as the stainless version looked to be easy to cover in finger prints if some examples I have seen are typical, and the black version looks great. .
Being ultra picky, the grinder control is rather coarse compared to more expensive dedicated grinders, and only having one boiler for both steam and expresso makes life a little more complicated, the steam is also relatively low pressure, certainly when compared to machines costing a lot more.
Overall, a great introduction to expresso brewing, and I'm sure more than enough for most people,but also a good machine to learn on if you decide to take it further.
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