Costco Wholesale has for their
Members: Jura S8 Automatic Coffee Machine (Piano Black, 15358) on sale for
$1,999.99.
Shipping is free.
Thanks to Community Member
neithernorth for sharing this deal.
About this Item:
- 15 bar power pump delivers delicious, high-pressure brewed coffee every time
- Integrated Aroma G3 conical burr coffee grinder with variable fineness adjustment
- Programmable strength, can grind from 5 to 16 grams per serving, 10 levels of choice
- Programmable serving size
- 10 oz. bean hopper with air tight aroma preservation cover
- Automatic funnel system accommodates pre-ground coffee, allows you to use ground coffee instead of beans
- 64 oz. water tank
- Clearyl SMART water filtration, removes chlorine, calcium and other impurities for better tasting coffee and extended machine life
- Three temperature levels of hot water; for tea, cup warming or café Americano
- Three programmable coffee brewing temperatures
- Fast heating 1450 watt stainless steel lined thermo-block boiler
- Smart monitors tell you when to add water, fill beans, empty used coffee empty drip tray and when to replace water filter
- Piano black finish
- Automatic cleaning function
- 1450 watts with Energy Save Mode and Zero Energy Switch
- 2 year warranty
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The issue in my opinion with Jura is that after some time, residue/oils will build up no matter how much you clean/maintain it. Other machines such as the meile allow you to completely disassemble the unit including the "dispenser". The meile won't be as "pretty" but in my opinion and experience; it's a much better unit in the long run.
We ended up using the milk system mostly when we have guests and need multiple drinks fast. Otherwise Nesresso Aerochino foams milk better and is easier to clean.
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We make about 10 espressos a day across the family.
I do clean it with the official tablets and I use third party water filters off of amazon
Jura says you dont need to descale if you use water filters. I have only descaled once for the heck of it.
I do have some comments. I dont use the milk frothing etc... I just make espessos. Cleaning the milk is a pain. If I was to do it again, I wouldnt buy this expensive model, but I would just get their cheaper espresso only version. They all use the same brewing hardware.
Coffee is very inexpensive. You will save quite a bit and it pays itself in a year vs a daily starbucks
However, while the recurring maintenance costs are more than we realized before purchasing, as well as dealing with cleaning the milk system everyday, this thing is great as probably the best espresso machine you can buy for home use. Yes, you can theoretically make better coffee and milk In a more manual machine from a company like Breville, but not consistently, and not easily.
I use "Urnex Alkaline Rinza" liquid milk frother cleaner, "Urnex Cafiza E46" tablets for the brew group and Citric Acid powder to descale.
Cafiza E46 are $22 for 100 (3.6 gram) tablets and should last a few years --100 cleanings (1 tablet per cleaning). Jura recommends performing a brew group cleaning every 180 brew cycles. The machine will tell you when to do a cleaning.
Citric Acid powder is $8-$10 for 2lb -- Should last a few years. I use 2 Tablespoons in 16oz water to descale. Citric Acid also has other uses around the house.
Rinza liquid milk frothing cleaner is $22 for 33oz -- 66 cleanings (1/2oz per cleaning). Yearly cost depends on how many milk based drinks you make but at the most will be 1 cleaning per day.
-Hope this helps
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Even though I only pour filtered water in the tank I will still alternate between replaying the filter and descaling so the machine doesn't get too mad at me.
I don't have this model. I have a Jura Z6 that uses the same grinder and brew group so the coffee should be very similar.
For black coffee I use the "Coffee" drink option at 5.5oz, "Medium" grind size, "4 bean" strength.
I'd stay away from oily dark roast beans. They clog up the grinder and grounds chute.
I don't care what I'm buying, I will always find out the maintenance costs for proper upkeep. Doesn't matter if it's a $10 product or $100k product. It doesn't mean I can't afford it. It just means I'm a conscientious buyer who asks all the questions.
It really depends on how you much you use it. I have to change filter and run a cleaning cycle once a month but someone else here said they only needed to do it every 3 months. But these things are not too laborious. You just pop in a new filter for replacement. For cleaning, you just pop in a tablet and put a glass where coffee and milk comes out and the machine does all the work.
The only thing that seemed hard at first to me was the milk cleaning. At least once during any day you made a milk drink (like latte or cappuccino, or my favorite - flat white), you have to use milk tablets in a special container with water that flushes out the milk system. You can watch this process online. Breville even made a video comparing this to their Oracle machine to make it look like this takes a while. But it's really not, once you get used to it and everyone here would probably take this over a Breville any day.
Jura's RFID on the filters is fn annoying. The EU filters are larger but the RFID will stop the machine from operating with them.
Also regarding milk cleaning. I usually just run water then maybe once a week use the cleaning pellets.
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Not sure what these run. Maybe $500 or less for our first one?
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