Barista Express

Love the different views this topic will generate :) Barista Express (and most of the all-in-one Breville's) are good in the longish term. Parts fail and these machines have limited repairability. I have a refurb, and this is my second personal Breville machine, and 4th of their's I've bought/used o

It’s the second item - precision adjustment. The BBE has large ‘steps’. Steps are the settings of your grinder that you see on the side of the machine. The issue is you may pull a bitter shot at 7, but a sour shot at 8 and you’re out of luck to dial in further using grind size. That being said I use

You’re right, they are using $6,000 grinder (jk) but they are probably using a commercial grinder and it’s probably around 3k or more. If you don’t want a fussy grinder do not get a df. If you are going for more traditional espresso and want simple efficiency, go with a eureka grind by time, dial it

Yea it’s better to have grinder and machine separate but for simplicity, I think the sage/breville barista express is the best. You have to look at tj maxx or Marshall’s to find it for $500 though.

The little breville barista express is a cool machine but not the best grinder I sold mine used for $250. They go on sale around Black Friday for $500ish so def wait for a sale. Bambino is very close to being this machine minus the grinder and can be found cheap. The df64 gen 2 grinder that you ment

Register your machine online with Breville and give their support a call. I called today for my 2 month old barista express because the grinder was making horrendous noises, despite cleaning. They were so great! They did a video call with me and walked me thru taking apart my machine and putting it

I have a Breville Barista Express Impress, and I'll just share what I know so far. ❤️ For auto-grind, if the dose level after tamping is below the green bar/smiley face, just press the “Dose” button again and tamp. If it’s still below the green bar, repeat the process until the machine registers enou

Definitely an upgrade. The Sage/Breville grinder seems to get a lot of hate here but in my experience it’s not as bad as people make it sound. Sure, there are better grinders out there but the Sage does a perfectly fine job with one big caveat: it is almost certainly necessary to adjust the internal

Id imagine they're pretty close to the same thing, so not worth it (not sure if the Bambino has a PID like the BBE though). I had a Breville Infuser for a long time which is the same brew setup as the BBE (no grinder). Great machine but when it died the upgrade I made was to a Dual Boiler (they are

I've never understood those dumb machines. I bought a Breville Barista Express espresso machine that has a really good conical grinder for $600 in 2015 that has served me quite well and is still going strong. Lived in an Art studio when I bought it and have put a ton of miles on it. Added bonus of i