Sage the Barista Pro Espresso Machine, Bean to Cup Coffee Machine with Milk Frother, SES878BSS - Brushed Stainless Steel

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I'll get into the main comparisons shortly, firstly I just wanted to briefly touch on the various Sage espresso machines to explain what they all do differently. The Sage Barista Pro is one of the best-selling espresso machines from Sage, and it's an integrated grinder espresso machine, as is the Barista Express and the Barista Touch (which is the touch screen version of the Barista Pro). Changing the brew temperature with the Barista Express is a series of button presses, it's not rocket science but it's not as easy as it is on the Pro.

We offer short-term rental, complete lease packages and straight purchase options on new and refurbished items. Learning how to do that takes time though, it requires the right technique but that's true of any milk frother. You don't need to go mad with it, you will probably find that with new burrs with no wear if you just take it down to five, you'll be absolutely fine. As well as the external grind adjustment, the grinder on these espresso machines (and on the smart grinder pro) has 10 internal grind settings on the top burr.Barista-quality performance with a new intuitive interface that provides all the information you need to create third-wave specialty coffee at home. I would still use the scales, but only to weigh the coffee in and out, espresso machines with shot timers do away with the need to press the timer button on the scales or to put the scales into timer mode if your scales have that. Come join the discussion about collections, retailers, beans, grinders, brewers, technical maintenance, models, styles, teas, reviews, accessories, classifieds, and more! Again as you'll see on the video below (I've set it to start playing at the appropriate time) you'll see that the steaming time is quite a bit quicker with the Pro Vs the Express, 72 seconds on the Barista Express to get 200ml of milk to 60C, and 47 seconds on the Pro, so a saving of approx 25 seconds there. A low pressure pre-infusion, followed by a high pressure (9 bar) extraction delivered via a 15 bar Italian pump aids in delivering perfectly pulled shots consistently.

It’s a big birthday gift from a lovely group of my friends and I can’t wait to make them all fabulous coffee. You can get your boost of caffeine in a hot cup of coffee ready within 3 seconds thanks to its ThermoJet™ heating system which will heat your water up to exactly 93 °C to give the perfectly blended coffee flavour. This has lead many people, though, to make the assumption that the Barista Pro is just the Barista Express in a slightly re-styled case with a faster heat up time. As with changing the brew temp, this is a series of button presses with the Barista Express – and it's actually fairly easy to mess it up. You swipe and touch the screen to select the coffee you want to make, and the machine takes you through the process and allows you to customize that particular coffee to your taste.Every bean offers different possibilities to the barista based on its variety, origin, processing and roast. This machine has similar features to the Barista Pro, featuring the thermojet, so the same fast start-up, steam ready time, and fast steaming with the four hole steam tip. There's none of this with the pro, it's silent except for when grinding, pulling shots, and steaming milk. Also their capabilities, I know the standalone grinder can go courser but can they also go finer than the integrated grinders.

This is a review of the Sage Barista Pro espresso machine, with comparisons against the other Sage espresso machines, including the Barista Express Impress. Faster Heat-Up Time: Innovative ThermoJet heating system achieves the optimum extraction temperature in 3 seconds with instantaneous transition from espresso to steam. Not only that, but you can completely customise each coffee by tweaking the strength, amount of foam and milk temperature, and you can save these settings, you can also create and name your own personalised coffees.The SCA Coffee Diploma is the most comprehensive and cost-effective way to learn and achieve the highest level of qualification within the coffee industry. Trying to find any detail on the integrated grinders burr sizes is really difficult because they are all named so similarly and they do not seem to say on the sage site what actual size they are. Checkout my friends at Coffee Hit, one of the UK's most established suppliers of pro and home barista gear.

Brew coffee like a professional barista at home with the new intuitive interface and LCD screen with grinding and extraction progress animations. This assumption, though, is incorrect – as I discovered when I first used the Express and the Pro side by side. What's important about tamping is a level surface and consistency, it's quite an alien thing to do until you get the knack of it, so this is something else that causes frustration initially.If you've read some of the chatter about this machine online over the past few months coming from across the pond (as it was released over there earlier than here) then you can ignore a lot of it, as most of it is wrong! It's about five hundred quid more, so it does seem quite a lot more cash to stump up just for the touch screen, although it is a bit more than that. There's roughly a hundred quid difference between these machines, and I wouldn't pay this just to get the same machine that heats up faster, but there is more to it, but it's all relating to features – if you're thinking about coffee quality, the pro is unlikely to yield better espresso.