Sage SES500SST Appliances SES500 Espresso-Maschine The Bambino Plus Sea Salt

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The Bambino Plus features a 1.9 litre water tank, which is impressive given the unit’s compact size. The Sage descaler is made up of Malic Acid (30-60%), Sulfamic acid (10-30%) & Citric Acid (1-10%), so if you are using an alternative I’d recommend looking for one which has a very similar list of ingredients. Whilst we make every effort to ensure our items are competitively priced there may be occasions where a competitor might be cheaper and we as a small family business want to make every effort to provide you with a positive shopping experience which is why if we can we will try our best to match their price. Hi Sam. To be honest, I don’t think using the internal filters are the best choice, certainly where long-term cost is concerned. I think the best value for money option in the long term is under counter water filtration or reverse osmosis, just getting a plumber to install a decent filter or RO system under the kitchen counter to filter all your drinking water, this way all the water you’re drinking is filtered (obviously not only to prevent limescale). The systems themselves aren’t all that expensive, they start from a couple of hundred, so if you do some research and then find a plumber and let them know what you’re thinking of doing, get some quotes, it shouldn’t be all that pricey, it’s not a big job. No Solenoid valve. While on the face of it, this appears to be a negative, I think it creates a more important positive compared to the fairly unimportant negative. The Bambino Plus has a 3 way solenoid valve for ridding the group of pressure after pulling shots, while the Bambino uses a brew valve.

Start out with this guide, then make changes to get the texture perfect for you, always time what you're doing, and when you get it bang on, you can replicate it. The single-hole steam tip on the Bambino means that it takes a little bit longer to steam, compared to the four-hole tip on the Bambino plus, but also I just find four hole tips easier than single tips. I've used loads of single hole tips, I've used quite a few multi-holed tips, and I usually find that the more holes on the tip, the better, and I prefer four-hole tips over any other. Until your home barista skills reach a certain level, it's unlikely that owning a much more premium machine would have yielded much in terms of additional cup quality. This is one of the main things that sets this machine apart from other small, cheaper (usually quite a bit cheaper, to be fair) domestic espresso machines. The Bambino will tell you it wants you to descale it by alternately flashing the shot button lights and the steam button light for 15 seconds each. You can cancel it by pressing any of the flashing buttons, but it'll prompt you again the next time you turn on the Bambino. So here's what to do.Contrary to many mid-range espresso machines with this level of customization and additional features, the Breville Bambino Plus uses its simple design to offer an impressively straightforward operation. There's almost no learning curve to get over here before you're pulling high quality shots and topping them up with perfectly frothed milk - simply push a button and you're off.

These are little bells & whistles that are nice, but for me at least wouldn't warrant spending the extra money on vs the cheaper machines on the market. If you want a machine to last many years, with the ability to maintain it and repair it yourself: Gaggia Classic Pro

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If you're looking for around 30 seconds, for instance, to extract the desired amount of liquid espresso from the ground coffee at the brew ratio you're using, for example, 1:2 (19g dry ground coffee:38g liquid espresso), then this 30 seconds is the total shot time including the pre-infusion time. Hi Kev. First, thanks so much for your youtube channel. It’s really helped me navigate my way from making very unreliable coffee with my dedica using the pressurised baskets and the same krups grinder from a few of your videos, to to understanding why I wasn’t getting the results I wanted and what I needed to approach them! Now lift the jug up just slightly, but keep the same angle to keep the milk rolling. We want to stop the hissing sound now, the aeration and we just want to distribute the microfoam while continuing to warm the milk. You'll know it's starting the descale when the single shot button light and steam button light both go solid – at this point, press either the single shot button or the steam button to start the descale cycle. Both buttons will continuously flash while it's descaling. Digital Temperature Control (PID) ensures water is delivered at the right temperature for the best results. To begin there is a low-pressure pre-infusion, followed by a high pressure 9 bar extraction process delivered by a 15 bar Italian pump.

Just keep in mind that if you do want to work with lighter roasted coffee beans, you're probably looking completely at the wrong side of the price range, and also, lighter roasts are quite a challenge anyway, even for more experienced baristas. So now I am a proud owner of a Sage Bambino! No grinder yet, I cannot spend 200 more for the grinder. So I grind small batches of coffee in the supermarket grinder. I am getting nice texture and colour of espresso, but I do not get the taste and the aroma yet. It could be the coffee I bought or the fact that the coffee stays pre-ground in the cupboard. But it is a huge step from the capsules, so I am happy at the moment. mm portafilter delivers full flavour with dual and single wall filters Full bodied coffee with rich and complex flavours is created using the ideal dose of 18g of freshly ground beans delivered by a professional style 54mm portafilter. The only hitch here is that the drip tray is a little too small to keep up with the additional water coming through the milk frother cleaning system. That means you'll be washing it out fairly regularly - I found myself draining it nearly every other day when brewing around four drinks a day with milk. Breville / Sage Bambino Plus: Performance For a brilliant guide on all this technical stuff, I'd highly recommend James Hoffman's YouTube series on dialing in, starting with: How I Dial-In Espresso – Part #1 Milk Steaming Capability – Automatic.So just very gently lower the jug, stop when you hear the hissing, and just keep that gradual gentle hissing for approx 30 – 40 seconds (depending on how much milk you're steaming). You'll find really experienced baristas on YouTube telling you that you can simply stop aerating as soon as the jug reaches roughly the temperature of your hands. This works with some machines, but not all, and not with the Bambino Plus, from my experience.

Hi there. Really enjoyed your review of the Bambino. I’ve been searching the web extensively because we are now onto our third machine. We absolutely love it and use it to make, on average, 4 cappuccinos each day, but we keep hitting the same problem and are really now wondering if it is something we are missing or doing wrong. Or if it is a long term design fault. It's not “The” easiest, I actually believe the easiest I've ever used is the Sage Dual Boiler, but among the lower-priced machines, I've not come across a machine as easy to steam milk with, and as consistent. It’s with regards the milk frothing. When we first get the machine, it froths milk beautifully on the automatic setting. Density light at 3 and temp light at 2. But then, and couple of months in, the density just disappears and we end up with almost non existent foam. Failing that, a counter top filter system or RO system is another way to go, they’re similarly priced but they don’t require plumbing in.The Sage Bambino Plus is a stonking little machine, for the money. At the under four hundred quid price point, there's not much that competes. So when I talk about cheaper entry-level espresso machines not competing with Sage, it's not about the bells and whistles, things that make it clever and user friendly, the mega fast warm up time, almost instant steam ready time after pulling the shot, and the almost instant shot ready time again after steaming milk. Other than this, Gaggia Classic or Rancilio Silvia are worth looking at but only if you fit a PID, without that you’ll not be able to change the brew temp, and you’ll have less temp stability than the Bambino out of the box. Experience third wave speciality coffee at home, made possible by the 4 keys formula Our espresso machines are designed to use the right dose of freshly ground beans, ensure precise temperature control, optimal water pressure and create true microfoam milk essential for latte art. You're only a touch away from getting the 4 keys formula used by professional cafe machines.