Breville ESP8XL Cafe Roma Stainless Espresso Maker
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Kitchen and Housewares Reviews of Breville ESP8XL Cafe Roma Stainless Espresso Maker
Customer Review: made a latte every day for the past 5 years
Summary: 5 Stars
Makes great lattes! My only complaint about this machine is it is a bit loud. I've made a latte or two every single day for the past 5 1/2 years with it, so figure somewhere around 2,000 lattes and now it's slowing down and not steaming milk the way it did. Works out to about 10 cents a cup, not bad, and figure I used to spend $4 at Starbucks, so I'm about $7,000 ahead. Great machine. I wish their customer service was better and parts were cheaper, like when our housekeeper put the coffee tray in the garbage disposal, a replacement unit was $40.Customer Review: A bargain!
Summary: 5 Stars
This the best espresso machine I have owned - I have tried Krups and deLonghi machines and this beats them by a long stretch. Have used it almost every day for 8 months and it is flawless - a real workhorse. i served a latte to a friend who worked at Starbucks and he was amazed and sorry he recommended a much more expensive one to his girlfriend's parents. I have given these as gifts to my kids as well and they are delighted. Get yourself an ISI cream whipper and your mornng mocha is complete and sooo much cheaper than "the bucks"Customer Review: 100 cup experience
Summary: 5 Stars
The unit is well built with excellent controls. Cleaning ease is eimpressive compared to any other coffee machine I've used. The double spout output does not work well for filling 2 cups in double shot mode - the nozzles are too close together and don't flow equally. Not a huge issue as the double shot can be put into a single cup and divided later. Coffee quality is excellent with this machine - it would be nice it the cofee station was taller to accommodate larger cups. Overall a good design and careful manufacturing.Customer Review: Love my Breville
Summary: 5 Stars
I had a Kraps and it died after only 1 month of daily use. Started shopping and found the Breville. Solid machine. Looks great, but most importantly, it reliably makes a great latte. Plenty of steam for frothing. One trick to pulling a shot of espresso is to cut a disk of filter paper (from a normal coffee filter) for the bottom of the filter cup. All the espresso must pass through a single, tiny hole in the cup. One coffee grain can plug it and cause you to have to clean and repack the filter.Customer Review: Very practical for its price range
Summary: 5 Stars
Overall the material of this machine is elegant! It's solid & tough with its metal surface.
I've compared this one with "Barista"(you can see that in Starbucks), Barista is about $350 something, but you can tell the material is not as solid as Breville one.
But Barista one has a volume control to adjust the steam level, Breville one doesn't.
That's the only part I think Breville should have...
But I still like Breville a lot, for home use, love its design...