Breville Bijou Espresso Machine | Automatic and Manual Espresso, Cappuccino & Latte Maker | 15 Bar Pump | Steam Wand | Silver [VCF149]
The Breville Bijou Espresso Machine
Make delicious coffee just like it tastes at your favourite café. Featuring a Pre Infusion cycle that offers enhanced coffee extraction, as well as a Manual shot function for complete control and customisation of your beverage, you can enjoy barista-quality coffee each and every time.
The 15 bar pump helps to deliver the required pressure for the perfect rich crema, while the steam wand finishes your cafe style drinks to perfection, creating velvety smooth microfoam milk that’s ideal for lattes, flat whites and cappuccinos.
At a Glance…
- Pre Infusion cycle
- Manual shot control
- 15 bar pump
- Powerful steam wand
- 1.5L water tank
- 52mm café-quality portafilter
- Comes with 2 double wall filter baskets for a single or double shot
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Be Your Own BaristaManual Shot Control offers complete control and customisation of the strength of your drink. | Great Tasting ResultsPre Infusion cycle and 15 bar pump provide enhanced extraction of oils, coffee solids and aroma for a deliciously rich espresso. | Beyond EspressoSteam wand with cool touch silicone cover creates velvety microfoam milk for lattes, flat whites, cappuccinos and more. |
| Weight: | 5.32 kg |
| Dimensions: | 33 x 24.6 x 34 cm; 5.32 Kilograms |
| Brand: | Breville |
| Model: | VCF149 |
| Colour: | Silver |
| Colour: | Silver |
This is a very simple coffee machine. It’s pretty basic but this also makes it pretty easy to use. I do wish the espresso shot size was automatic but manual control does have its advantages. It still did a decent job of producing an espresso shot with good crema but it’s still far off what you would get from proper professional grade machine so you need to adjust your expectations accordingly. The steam wand works surprisingly well and after some practice to get the best vortex going in the milk, I can now produce lovely velvety milk. There is quite a bit of waiting though as you have to wait for it to heat up especially when making multiple drinks, but for a machine in this price range that’s pretty normal. It’s a reliable little machine though so definitely one worth considering.
You can produce incredibly tasty coffee from the machine, but it takes effort
I personally prefer to let the machine to all the work if I can, and this isn’t quite taking all of the work from you
Steaming milk is easy and can produce a great tasting latte with this machine
Very good coffee machine that while it doesn’t have the functionality of more expensive models, still produces a good range of coffee quite easily, and doesn’t take up a lot of space on one’s worktop. Four stars.
This is a great coffee machine. I had a little trouble with it at first getting the coffee just right but I think that was to do with the type of coffee j was using. The machine is easy to use, instructions are nice and dimple to follow. Easy to clean too. The machine looks great in my kitchen, I love it.
I really would have expected more considering the cost of this machine.
The positives are that it looks really nice and similar to other professional machines. It is a lovely design and fits well in with kitchen design.
The outside of the machine is easy to clean and causes no issues.
The insider is more fiddly but is to be expected.
When using the machine the first few times, we didn’t get the right results at all. Even when the light indicates that the steam function was ready, we found that nothing came through or it spurted water into the milk.
I would have expected the machine to function much better and be easier to use, considering the cost of the machine.
And at a much more affordable price.
It fits very well in my kitchen.
The color and design are superb.
It works very well for the price.
If you are a coffee lover like me, do not miss such an opportunity and recommend it.
For a complete coffee machine novice like me, this machine was a great first purchase. Dead easy to clean, the instructions were pretty clear and the coffee comes out great every time. The only downsides are: slightly larger than average mugs don’t fit under the coffee dispenser (see photo) and you have to manually stop the machine when your mug is full unlike classic pod machines, so you gotta keep an eye on it. But these are very minor inconveniences, all in all a great product.
Great for those who want something that performs well and does not cost as much as the fancy machines but can still make good coffee. Easy to use once you try it out heats up to temperature fast does not make too much noise easy to clean the portafilter and drip tray no advance settings and menus to be confused with switch on and turn the dial and your coffee will be done in no time big enough water tank to last a week if drinking around two coffees a day only two negatives of this are the gap between the dispenser and drip tray is not the biggest so you will struggle to get anything bigger than a standard size mug under it also the milk frother steam wand is pretty poor but for the price of the machine at least it has one.
So, this makes a small espresso coffee. It can froth up milk if you want to then add your espresso and create a latte or cappuccino, BUT this is an espresso machine. So that means it will only fit small cups and if you did manage to angle a normal sized cup underneath it and very carefully make a normal sized filter coffee it will be fairly cool
The coffee tastes as filter coffee always tastes which is fine
The machine is fairly simple to operate after a couple of goes and it heats the water up quickly, it looks quite attractive and fun BUT there are cheaper ways of making exactly the same tasting filter coffee.