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To Make Espresso offers you the best reviews of the bestselling Espresso Machines in the Market. With so many choices, you need to make sure you are getting what you expect and you pay for.
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To Make Espresso offers you the best reviews of the bestselling Espresso Machines in the Market. With so many choices, you need to make sure you are getting what you expect and you pay for.
3n6Yir Excellent article, I will take note. Many thanks for the story!
3n6Yir Excellent article, I will take note. Many thanks for the story!
Love this machine…..fast, easy to clean, and took a few tries to get the perfect latte, but have that part mastered. My only complaint was that nowhere on the product description did we see anything that stated it was a refurbished machine, and we were expecting brand new, so were very disappointed. We contacted Breville and they stated they refurbish the machines sold, and it holds the same warranty as a new machine, so we decided to keep it, registered it for the warranty and will hope for the best.
S. kohler
We’ve had our Breville machine for over 4 years and it’s still going strong – which is saying something because we’ve been known to use it 3 – 7 times a day for multiple espressos, tea, and just steaming milk. We love this machine. It works really well, really consistently, even though we honestly don’t take very good care of it. It’s easy to use, easy to clean, and easy to fill (and wash out)the water tank (especially important if you have gnarly hard water like ours). It’s really good looking out on the counter too and doesn’t really take up much space – after all, it stores all of it’s own parts (there’s a handy tray under/behind the water reservoir that holds the other size of filter, cleaning needle for the steam wand, etc.). The steamer works great and does an excellent job even on soy milk (which is all we use). We have made our money back on this machine many times over. I would highly recommend it to anyone who drinks a lot of espresso and wants to start making it at home. It may have cost as much as my first car, but it runs a lot more dependably!
After 3 weeks of “so-so” espresso’s and cappuccino’s, I was ready to return the 800ESXL. The espresso produced was not hot enough, and the frothed milk not even close to the dense foam I had hoped for. But I gave it one more try using the below techniques, and the results were night and day.
Pre-Heat the machine, then run water thru the portafilter for at least 10 seconds. By doing this, the water temp went from 140 to 174 degrees. OK, so this is recommended in the instructions…but who really reads them?
Using the Breville Conical Burr Grinder, I found the “click” setting two clicks down from Espresso (towards Turkish) worked best. (Great grinder, producing perfectly even grinds every time. Highly recommended!)
Practice your tamping technique. I bought a “Terry’s Tamper” which is much easier to use than the supplied Breville tamper/scoop. Tamping pressure is the greatest variable between success and failure. At least it was for me.
To improve frothing, I tried covering the top hole on the stainless steel frothing attachment with tape and it worked to perfection. I could not get the desired “micro-foam” before making this modification. I have since used a tiny screw to close up the top hole. This really made a difference in the density of the foam, using both non-fat and 2% milk.
Keep your frothing pitcher in the freezer, and use very cold milk.
As other reviewers have suggested, after brewing your espresso and dumping the puck, run another 5 to 10 second shot of water thru the portafilter to purge it out. I have yet to have the filter clog up.
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