Sage Barista Touch Espresso Machine – Espresso and Coffee Maker, Bean to Cup Coffee Machine, SES880BSS, Brushed Stainless Steel
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the Barista Touch by Sage, SES880BSS2GUK1
Create Café Quality Coffee at Home with Ease
Barista-quality performance with new intuitive touch screen display with pre-programmed café drinks menu and automatic milk texturing. All within a compact footprint. A built-in grinder delivers the right amount of ground coffee on demand and with a 3 second heat up time, you go from bean to cup, faster than ever before.
The 4 keys formula for third wave specialty coffee at home:
- Rich, full flavour
- Perfectly balanced taste
- Irresistible body
- Silky, velvety mouthfeel
The 4 keys formula for third wave specialty coffee at home.
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1. Rich, full flavourFull-bodied coffee with rich and complex flavours is created using the right dose of 19-22g of freshly ground beans. This dose allows the coffee to fully express the incredible aroma, intense flavours and distinctive character of the coffee, for a true cafe quality result. Anything less than the optimal dose results in a weak and watery taste experience. | 2. Perfectly balanced tasteSweet, delicious and nuanced flavour notes begin with precise control over water temperature. Digital temperature control (PID) technology precisely controls water temperature for a perfectly balanced coffee extraction, giving you the control and consistency for delicious tasting coffee every time. | 3. Irresistible bodyAn opulent, creamy and caramel-coloured espresso starts with low pressure pre-infusion that soaks the grinds, allowing water to pass evenly through the coffee during the high pressure (9 bar) extraction process, delivered via our 15 bar Italian pump. This results in a rich, sweet and viscous espresso. | 4. Silky, velvety mouthfeelSavour the silky taste and velvety mouthfeel of true microfoam milk. The milk is steamed with pressure that creates thousands of tiny bubbles, enhancing flavour and mouthfeel, while the temperature brings out the milk’s sweetness, exciting your taste buds, for a harmonious blend of rich, sweet milk and syrupy, golden espresso. |
Special Features of the Barista Touch
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Automated and Customisable Touch ScreenIntuitive touch screen display simplifies how to make your favourite caf̩ coffee in 3 easy steps РGrind, Brew and Milk. You can easily adjust the coffee strength, milk texture and temperature to suit your taste. Then save it with your own unique name. Create and save up to 6 personalised coffees. | Automatic Micro-Foam Milk TexturingAuto steam wand, allows you to adjust the milk temperature and texture to suit your taste. Delivering barista quality micro-foam that enhances the flavour of the coffee and is essential for creating latt̩ art. | Precise Espresso ExtractionDigital Temperature Control (PID) delivers water at precisely the right temperature, ensuring optimal espresso extraction. | Hands Free OperationInnovative grinding cradle allows any at-home Barista to grind directly into the espresso portafilter. |
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| Interface | Button Control | Analogue Gauge Button Control | Analogue Gauge Button Control | Swipe & Select Touch Screen | LCD Screen; Button Control | Swipe & Select Touch Screen |
| Hands on like a barista | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
| Cafe Quality Microfoam | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Precise Milk Temperature, Automatically | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Built-In Grinder | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Compact Footprint | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
| 3 Second Heat Up | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
| Good for Entertaining | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Weight: | 5.9 kg |
| Dimensions: | 39.4 x 32.2 x 40.7 cm; 5.9 Kilograms |
| Brand: | Sage |
| Model: | SES880BSS |
| Colour: | Stainless Steel |
| Colour: | Stainless Steel |
Great looking home barista machine
The design of the machine is excellent.
It is easy to use and produces great coffee.
Excellent machine
akes some effort to learn and to use, mainly around working out the amount of coffee and grain size and tapping. Once done, it works well and consistent. The frothing is ability is excellent. Remember to run clean cycles as required.
By far the best coffee machine I have owned
This machine really brings out the flavour of the coffee in a way that none of the previous machines I have owned managed. It is easy to use, with a great deal of different settings to deliver the perfect cup of coffee.
It is well worth the money if you enjoy great tasting coffee.
Love i
I had this for 8 months and love it. Saved a lot form my Moring coffee from coffee shops. It is easy to use.
A great balance for me as a semi novice!! A lot of automatio
I’ve always used a stove top bialetti pot and a manual grinder but I felt I really wanted to have a sort of home barista type experience but with my limited ability!. the small of the machine ground coffee and then steamed milk.
I wanted to electronically grind the beans and froth and steam milk. So I felt this was the right balance for me between automation and customisation. I think if you want to be able to do even manual things you may want a less digital one, one with more manual nobs and levers and things, but for me And what I wanted, it’s perfect!.
You select what drink then grind an tamp the beans (with a degrees of alteration depending on the beans used etc, how fine and how much) then brew the shots. Afterward you steam the milk using the steam wand (again you can select how hot and how much froth etc) , you have to do this after the brew as it’s not a dual boiler, again this is exactly what I wanted.
If you want to do both these things at the same time you may want another machine.
Feel like I’m already making cafe quality coffees and have used it perhaps more than I should have since buying it!!.
Would recommend
Easy to use and makes superb coffee
Had the machine a few weeks now and the whole family love it. Brings the ‘Costa’ experience to home and the machine is designed to be as ‘idiot’ proof as possible. That said, a bit of trial and error is required to get the grind adjusted and the whole tamping, brewing, and frothing thing takes a few goes to get right. I have a new found respect for professional baristas!
This machine is expensive but no regrets on spending the cash so far.
Love i
Makes awesome coffee, as long as you buy a good bean. Had it a while now and couldn’t live with out it. Superb machine. Family never used to have a coffee when visiting, now its the first thing they ask for.
What’s not to love
Don’t get me wrong it’s a little more fuss that a capsule or pod machine but worth i
What a fabulous quality produc
I must say I have researched and looked for ages – but this machine exceeds my expectations – beautifully made – it is a fabulous design and easy to use – and works so well !
It clicks into place and is idiot proof !
I fancied myself as a bit of a barista
so thought about the dual boiler – but heck why overcomplicate things –
The hardest part is not drinking coffee all day !!
Highly recommended
Sage barista expresso machine
I’m so pleased to finally own my Barista Coffee machine, was a gift from my husband.
Works exactly how I’ve imagined. I have to work on my coffee art but pleased so far.
After a few hiccups, as I had delivered a coffee machine that was used by someone, Amazon was fantastic to quickly deal with my bad experience and sent a replacement stright away .
AWESOME!!
Love the milk frother also the process is super quick. Smells like a coffee shop in my apartment! Cleaning is simple. Have the black truffle which looks strong but Would prefer the stainless steel but was no option for monthly payments. The machine is very expensive!! But worth it!
Good hot coffee. Easy to keep clean.
I love the simplicity of the empty me flag on the tray.
I'm 3 years in and still get a great cup of coffee every day.
One of my friends was recently asking about about my machine because he loved his coffee I made for him, so I tried to find it again here in Amazon to send him the link, I saw the negative reveiws and thought they were unfair, so here’s mine.
It’s a great machine that takes some getting used to, but once you do you’ll get a great cup of coffee every day. It’s easy to clean. It looks great.
YOU HAVE TO USE GOOD BEANS! preferably ones that have been roasted within a month. The fresher the better.
If your want you can even draw the fancy patterns like the baristas in your brew.
I must admit, it does not produce a boiling hot coffee, it’s better if you warm everything through if you have the time, but it’s hot enough without the faff.
The grinder and milk frothers are faultless.
I believe the filters are a pain to get hold of, but I’ve never changed mine because we have soft, clear water.
Simply Amazing!
This machine is absolutely amazing. Makes beautiful coffee and wonderful silky hot milk. It takes a bit of experimenting to get your ideal grind and brew time, so expect to waste a good amount of beans trying this out. But once you find your perfect combination, you’ll be blessed with delicious coffee there after. I cannot fault this machine at all. When purchasing, I couldn’t decide between the Oracle Touch or the Barista touch. But I’m glad I opted for the Barista Touch and saved almost 1000.
Barista touch & that’s all it takes !
Having had the barista express, I wanted to step up a notch. After a few days getting used to it & adjusting to my preferences ,I can honestly say it is so much better & quicker. Worth the money for coffee shop quality.
Coffee machine
Best coffee I’ve ever tasted when you find the right bean I like the lavazza italiano
Great Machine
From the moment you open the box you can see that this is a quality piece of kit. It comes with a milk jug, 54mm portafilter, tamper, single and double baskets in single wall (for beans) and dual wall (for pre ground coffee), a water testing strip, filter, 2 cleaning tablets and a rubber disk to go in the portafilter during cleaning, a tool for cleaning the milk wand, a brush and a tool four measuring the depth of coffee in the basket. It’s also worth buying a knock box, scales and tamping mat.
When you first switch on the machine, it guides you nicely though the set up process. Getting the best quality coffee out of this machine does take a fair bit of fine tuning – look for videos on youtube. Setting up you will waste a fair bit of coffee, so use a generic off the shelf bag to start with.
Once you’re set up however, this machine makes a great cup of coffee, with enough features to make it easy, and enough flexibility to let you make adjustments to get a really great taste. You can pretty much any type of coffee drink, so it caters for everyone. You can even make tea with the hot water spout if needed.
There’s three stages to making a cup of coffee: grinding and tamping, brewing, and milk preparation (depending on your drink). This requires input at each stage, so if you’re after a fully automatic, press-a-button-and-coffee-comes-out arrangement, this machine might not be for you. It’s more for the home barista, who wants to be able to create quality coffee, but has nice automated features to make that easier.
The touch screen makes everything feel very slick. The milk wand is very clever, and makes a half decent job of a cappuccino etc, but you can still do a much better job manually if you take the time to figure this out.
Invariably, you will make some mess, with small amounts of ground coffee and the odd drip getting on the worktop, so you will need to wipe down afterwards.
This machine only has a single boiler, so you can’t hear your milk whilst your coffee pods brewing, but you can go straight from one to the other without having to wait. The other neat feature is that it heats up in 3 seconds (!) from switching it on, but it’s worth pouring a shot of water through before making your coffee just to get all the bits up to temperature.
Overall, this machine is a compromise between cost and features, with some good automated elements. If you’re on a budget, the Barista express will make just as good coffee for much less cost, but the automated features on this machine make it easier starting out and easier for others to use of they’re not as ‘hands on’ as you.
Overall, it’s a great looking, quality machine at half the price of the Oracle Touch. You pay more than the Barista Express/pro to get the automation, so have a think whether that’s important to you.
Fab Coffee Machine
It’s amazing. Easy to use (if you read the manual) and really looks the part! All four of us use it. My 10 year old daughter is an expert in making hot chocolate’s! We seem to use one setting (now we have got it to perfection).
It was a very expensive purchase (we had been thinking about it for a while and we have had a Nespresso machine or two) but this is definitely worth it. Prefer our coffee than going out!
Buy it!
Its even super easy to clean!
I love it ❤️
It has been almost two month since I started to use it . Its Very compact , easy to use and to calibrate, excellent results of coffee grinding and milk frothing
Great machine - eventually!
Firstly, if you are looking for an espresso machine where you put in beans at one end and get great coffee at the other, look elsewhere for a fully automatic machine. The Barista Touch still requires a ‘hands on’ approach so you must be prepared to be somewhat involved with the process. Secondly, if you expect great results out of the box, you may also be initially disappointed. Due to all the variables (freshness of coffee beans, grinding size, dosing, distribution, tamping and brewing time/temperature) it may take a long time, and a lot of coffee beans, for everything to finally click into place. If you persevere to this point, you will be rewarded with consistently high quality shots. I had great difficulty at the beginning and was even considering returning the machine but found that by removing as many variables as possible, I was able to concentrate on one item at a time until optimum was achieved. To do this, I used the same freshly roasted beans, bought a small cheap scales for dosing/extraction and a distribution/tamping tool which always gives a consistent tamp pressure. This left just grind size and brew timing/temperature to deal with which turned out to be quite straightforward. I am now very happy with the coffee that the machine produces. The automatic milk foaming feature is particularly good and helps to produce silky smooth flat whites.
It should be noted that the machine also comes with pressurised dual-wall filter baskets. These are for lower-quality ‘supermarket’ beans and pre-ground coffee. While these generally make things easier and just about remove the critical elements mentioned above, the results are nowhere near what the machine is capable of producing. Recommended.
This is the ultimate home coffee machine. The coffee is as good as commercial outlets. It does take some practice to master all the possibilities but when you do the results are impressive. It’s worth getting quality beans they make a big difference.
It is expensive but you get what you pay for.
This is an awesome coffee machine – As with most purchases of this expense I researched the market fully comparing a lot of different types as well as brands, I even went in-store for a demo with the Sage representative to make sure that this is what I wanted.
It is beautifully made & very aesthetically pleasing to the eye (as per the image), it feels a quality product straight out of the box as you would expect, it comes with all of the sized filters that you would need for pre-ground, single or double shot as well as to grind beans into, a tamper, a cleaning kit, tablets & a portafilter.
Now, if you’re expecting to plug this in & hey presto a great cup of coffee comes out then I suggest you go purchase a Nespresso machine – you need to use quality beans, you need to get the grind setting right (as per the image), you need to put some time into the machine in order to understand the various settings, time wise for me, this only took a couple of attempts in order to ascertain the right grind setting for the Starbucks (Blonde Roast) beans, as you will see from the image, I managed to produce a beautiful rich honey like coffee with a lovely crema layer, froth the milk & hey presto a great tasting double shot latte.
The menu is already setup for a whole variety of coffee to suit, you can make changes based upon your preference (grind, milk temperature & micro-foam) & save it all as your desired pre-set option, so that once this is all set it is then a simple exercise to produce great coffee, consistently, so much so that I already have my 10 year old son making the perfect latte given he’s put the few hours effort with me in which to learn how to use it properly.
Keeping it clean is easy, like everything else it’s automated, it’s worth flushing the brew head between use as well as the steam wand, again, it is automated but I always blast it though so as to ensure it’s kept in perfect working order.
Take the time to use the water hardness strips & set it for your water type, it makes a difference.
I am absolutely delighted with the Sage Barista Touch, put the time in so as to set it up correctly, practice with the beans & the grind, play around with getting the milk right to suit & it will make awesome coffee time & time again.
Built in grinder require more patience!
The product is absolutely amazing! looks very elegant on the counter. Very friendly to use and require minimal effort to pull a great cup of coffee. The only thing I’m struggling with is perfecting the right grind to pull an expresso that ranges between 20-30 seconds. Either I’m pulling over-extracted or under-extracted, I guess I have to play with the grind setting until I get it right. Overall, no matter what drink I make, the coffee tastes delicious, and the latte art is easer to be drawn due to the automated milk frother.
Fantastic - barista type coffee at home at las
Experimenting with all sorts of beans now, amazing the different flavours – and the machine gives good coffee shop quality taste each time. Takes a few weeks to get used to using the different grind settings etc which you do need to tweak for different coffee beans – but you get the hang of it. Couldn’t recommend more – as someone who would never dream of making coffee at home previously.
Great taste!
Best espresso machine ever! Really easy to understand and great taste. We had filter basket missing and sage immediately supported and sent a new one.
Amazing!!!
Would definitely buy again. Easy to use and coffee tastes just like at my favourite coffee shop. Important to use fresh coffee beans! Makes amazing flat whites and more. Also looks great in my kitchen.
Spectacula
Fantastic bean to cup coffee machine, easy to use and easy maintenance! Worth every penny. Touch controls are intuitive and simple. Easily set various settings such as grind, brew time and milk froth. On screen setup guide and tutorials make everything a breeze. Well made and I’m sure will last, as long as it’s looked after.
Awesome machine - become a professional barista
Perfect machine – very easy to use, all settings very user-friendly and had my first coffee in no time!
This coffee made taste so good and so much better comparing to coffee shop ones. Love the different styles of coffee and ability to froth the milk perfectly without the use of any specialist thermometers or techniques – you just simply set the temperature and froth setting and machine does everything for you in no time!
Machine is very easy to clean afterwards.
Overall couldn’t be happier with my purchase.
I’ve owned the Barista Touch for about five weeks now. I’ve been using it two or three times a day and have been really happy with it so far.
I know it’s not the best espresso machine on the market, but as an all-in-one device, I’m happy.
Pros
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* A user-friendly menu system that allows you to customise all of your drinks
* Integrated grinder is sufficient until you buy a better grinder
* Only takes seconds to warm up
* Straightforward to clean
* Makes great coffee
* 2 litre water tank is easy to top up
Cons
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* Short warranty period
* Bad reputation for breaking down
* Can’t repair yourself outside of warranty as few parts are available
* Official Sage repairs are expensive
Despite it’s poor reputation for poor reliability in the long-term, I have been extremely happy with it thus far. It can make great coffee, is quick to use and easy to clean.
I also think this is a great stepping stone towards a more traditional espresso machine as you can take control of the coffee making process when you want.
Kevi
Love this
I’ve had this for a month or so now and love it. Maybe more than I love my children. (Certainly the eldest… youngest i’m on the fence about.)
Easy to use. Great coffee. Great milk. Easy to clean. Looks nice. Not too large. Love it.
Barring any catastrophic mechanical failures over the next few years, I very much recommend this machine.
A mini barrista machine for the home!
Excellent coffees and easy to use. Take your time to get the grind right for the beans you are using (8-12 secs before seeing the pour) after that, it’s all automated and tastes great!
Beautiful machine, looks lovely in our kitchen.
Pretty easy to get going with to be fair. Get the water filter and hardness test done and then there’s a great walkthrough guide to get started on the screen.
Now the learning begins – I wasted approx 1kg of beans trying to get a nice slow 60ml double espresso in approx 30 secs. Could not get it to stop flowing like water even on the finest grind setting. Watery, weak, rubbish coffee.
I was on the verge of giving up and packing the machine up and sending it back.
Was it the grind?
Was it my tamping – Too hard/Not hard enough?
I just didn’t get it….
I then happened to see an Oracle Touch youtube video that explained that you could remove the conical burr grinder adjustment (located underneath the bean hopper) and adjust that to a finer grind – I changed it from the default 6 to 3 and put it back in – et voila – I was able to get nice “warm runny honey” flow on grind setting 6/7 using the wheel on the side for about 18 seconds grind time. Tamp firmly and use the razor to level off.
Now my coffee is wonderful, rich and smooth.
The milk frother is brilliant and gives the most silky smooth microfoam – this is so easy because you just fill your jug and set it down on the correct spot and it does all the work for you.
Now every coffee bean will be slightly different so the tinkering and adjusting will never end or stop but that’s why you buy this kind of machine right?
I buy my coffee beans from Rave Coffee – try the signature blend, perfect for espresso!
Best bean to cup eve
We have had a number of bean to cup machines but this one is something very special. It makes the best coffee ever. We use Whittards monsoon malabar bean and I have never tasted better. Best bean to cup ever.
Amazing!
We love our Barista touch! A bit of both-manual and automatic! Amazing coffee.
UPDATED after longer use. Very good machine. Star lost as imho overpriced. Great, simple menu system. Fast, intuitive set-up. After couple of practices, very quick to make a perfect coffee, even if done ‘manually’. Very easy milk heating and clean up. Lots to explore once used to the basics, and worth tweaking the settings. Minor wrankles for completeness: first one poorly packed and dead on arrival – Amazon did brilliantly in sorting it though. Water top up fiddly. Standard coffee grind amount wasteful but easy to adjust. If portafilter fitting in the mount seems too stiff, you’re probably overdoing the dose. Works equally well with beans and pre ground but changing the baskets hard on the fingers. If you’re in a hard water area think carefully about the ongoing cost of filters and descalers and, I imagine, it will be a short product life.
Ordered the Sage after having a demo in JL to replace my Lavazza Modo. This machine is on a different league to the capsule machines and other bean to coffee machines. Simple setup, even guides you through making that first cup, which by the way was the best Latte I’ve made. Can’t wait to try out the other available coffee options.
Seriously good bit of kit that will still take an element of trial and error when first used. As much as this machine is semi-automated with the simplification of touchscreen controls, the trial and error comes from the getting the coffee beans right through to the tamp/extraction/pour/crema etc. Any feedback you’ve seen online stating that this machine doesn’t work correctly is wrong. A poor workman blames their tools and this runs true with this so if you’re getting poor results you’re not getting it right.
My learning experience has taught me this. Heat the portafilter prior to the grind so submerse it hot water beforehand. The quality of the beans are critical to the grind and subsequent extraction so generally supermarket bought beans are not that good. Find a supplier of freshly roasted beans that have been roasted with a roast date of less than a month – ideally within a week. It’s all about the roast date unlike supermarket bought expiry dates. I get decent-ish results with supermarket bought Illy beans (vacuum sealed tin) but nowhere near as as good with freshly roasted.
I’ve found that single variety beans don’t produce consistency so I stick to using an Espresso blend. I’ve found by doing this you refine the process and no longer need to experiment with your settings.
Grind setting needs to be in the 8-12 range dependent on the bean. Finer grind for supermarket bought, coarser grind for freshly roasted. Default settings for the type of coffee are generally accurate although sometimes you need to up the dose and deliver more coffee dependent on the beans. A firm tamp is needed but getting a feel for this is trial and error. Remember to purge the machine before attaching the portafilter. The milk frother is a no-brainer.
Suffice to say this is an excellent machine that I use daily and well worth the money. Just got to put some effort in and you’ll be rewarded.
I tried a number of mid-range bean-to-cup coffee machines, and this was the one I was by far the happiest with. It’s a fantastic-looking machine, with an exceptionally well-thought-out design. There are very few buttons and controls, as all of the options are selected via the touch screen, which is clear and easy to parse.
This is the ideal machine for someone who wants a halfway house between a fully automatic coffee machine, and a fully manual option; you will have to tinker with the grind settings to find the ideal fineness, affix the portafilter (and dispose of the grains after you’ve made a coffee) etc, so it’s relatively hands-on. At the same time, the machine guides you at every stage of the process, so it’s idiot-proof, while fully automating the milk frothing stage (which is where things can often go wrong).
The machine teaches you how to make subtle changes to your extraction method in order to ensure your coffee isn’t bitter or burnt, so you learn valuable basics about making coffee as you go, and your coffee will likely improve as a result.
I recommend that you buy the Sage grain bin so that you have somewhere to cleanly dispose of used grains. There will be a little more mess than if you were to use, say, a fully automated Delonghi machine, where everything is self-contained, but you have much finer control over the results, and I greatly prefer the hands-on feel. The amount of time is takes to make a latte is extremely short, as the water heats in seconds. Really couldn’t be more pleased with the purchase.
The footprint of this machine is much smaller than what I was expecting and takes up very little kitchen surface. I’ve gone from a Nespresso machine with a milk frother to this. I wanted the same amount of hassle free, mostly automated coffee making abilities but without the wasteful pods. This machine ticks all the boxes and then some! You also still have full manual control should you want it; water temp, milk temp, milk froth density. The machine heats rapidly and could be used to make tea and even replace your kettle.
It looks and feels classy and everything you touch is either metal or just feels solid. The screen is crystal clear and for the most part easy to use. Some icons such as those for changing water temp and froth density are quite small. So those of us with sausage fingers may have to give it a couple taps before we get it, but I won’t hold that against the machine as it’s still easy to use.
Set up was simple, literally takes a couple minutes, when it does it’s first purge water does spray around a bit, so just have a towel ready. After that you just follow the on screen instructions and it pretty much holds your hand through the whole process, even giving tips on how fine to grind your coffee.
It heats up quickly and can switch from coffee to milk almost instantly, negating the need for a more expensive dual boiler setup.
Great machine, would recommend. However, -1 star because certain accessories are NOT included when they should be. A tamping mat – a small rubber / silicone mat to tamp your coffee on, protecting your work surface. Is NOT included. Why? Also a bin for the spent coffee grind, this too is NOT included.. why? Both items are cheap and the machine would be the whole package if these were included. SAGE does make a bin, and this is what I purchased. It looks great but is also considerably more expensive than alternatives.
As I said it’s a great machine but would have been an all singing all dancing complete solution with the addition of a couple more accessories. A Sage branded cloth would have also been a nice touch but alas this is not included either.
It makes great coffee, this is entirely subjective and also entirely based on your coffee bean and grind settings. Get the freshest coffee you can and ensure it has a roasted on date. The use by date is not a signal of freshness.
Edit: I’ve been using this everyday for about 5 months now and still love it. There are a two annoying points though. The first: sage customer service are terrible. You have to chase them on everything. You get three free water filters. They give a delivery date but don’t tell you to contact them, otherwise they won’t send them out. Crazy.
Secondly; the drip tray fills up very quickly because the machine purges as soon as you turn it on and when you turn it off. This still doesn’t mean it’s worth less stars as it is a top machine and very easy to use.
Good Espresso Make
For the price to low-mid quality espresso maker it is worth it, easy to learn small simple
Once again Sage appliances has produced a commercial quality appliance for home use. Several years ago I purchased a sage grinder pro and haven’t looked back. The barista touch combines the easy of a bean to cup machine with the quality of your local barista. It allows you to set specific milk temperatures and textures and even name drinks after yourself! It’s compact design works well for smaller kitchens. The best element is that it allows you to try your hand at being a barista! This is an all round quality machine it’s so good we use one in our coffee roastery!
Perfect Coffee Super Easy
Auto milk function was incredible.
Really quick to heat up and looks amazing in my kitchen.
I love the quality of this machine. It is well built and makes outstanding coffee! It definately puts alot of coffee shops to shame if you use decent quality beans with it. A bit fiddly to use at first but its worth getting the hang of it. I would highly recommend!
After many months of research, endless questions to coffee connoisseurs and chats on baristsa forums we made a big decision to buy this coffee machine. We had some delonghi capsules operated appliances before and looking from todays perspective those machines were money thrown into the mud. Sage Barista Touch is a pearl among the geese. It does not only make coffee way better than Sturbucks but it actually turns you into a barista by teaching you every step of making your perfect cup. It is intuitive, quick, high quality machine. Easy to clean too. The best 800 we ever spent.
I’ve had a De’Longhi Magnifica ESAM 4200 for seven years which has served me well, but wanted a machine that would give me more control over the grinding and brewing process. After reading reviews on the internet and wanting a more barista experience I bit the bullet and went for the Sage Batista Touch. Not disappointed. Once you get used to setting the grind right, as this can vary depending on the type of coffee, it is a superb machine. The automatic milk heater/frother works a dream.