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expired Posted by phoinix | Staff • Apr 27, 2025
Apr 27, 2025 7:24 AM
Breville Bambino Plus Espresso Machine (various colors)
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You can use the steam wand to output hot water by pulling the wand out and pressing the single serve button and the milk texture button at the same time.
You can also re-program the shot length for each button to help dial in your preferred water to coffee ratio. See this quick tutorial: https://www.breville.co
You can remove the plastic liner of the portafilter to fit lager IMS baskets like 18-22g. Note it does take a lot of force to get out, and you need to remove the inner basket spring first. Recommend using plastic chop sticks to help get the plastic liner out as well as some metal picks to pry it out. If you only want to make 12-14g shots, then don't even bother with this.
Example of larger brew basket for around $17-20
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0922Z67KK
You'll want to buy a better tamper since the one it comes with is pretty terrible. The normcore [amazon.com] 53.3" spring loaded tamper (3 spring included), works very well to make for consistent level and tamping pressure. It's around $43-45 but helped made my shots way more consistent.
You can buy "naked" portafilter to fit even larger baskets than a 18-22g, but you can likely skip that purchased unless you really want to see how your shots are forming and planning to have extra large shots.
You can buy generic coffee cleaning powders like Unrex Puro or Cafiza instead of expensive Breville cleaning tablets.
Update: A less important purchase but helpful one is a dosing funnel and puck screen filter. I didn't think I'd needed either one, but after getting them, it was helpful to prevent grounds from spilling from the portafilter and made for lower maintenance of the shower head. You can simply run another short shot of water to clean and/or a blank shot using the included cleaner plug to flush our any grounds from your system. Combo puck screen and dosing funnels can be found for around $9-12 on Amazon in the 53/54mm size.
Some example recommendations include:
Baratza Encore ESP ~$200
Baratza Sette 270 ~$400
Eureka Mignon Zero Espresso Grinder ~ $350
DF64 Gen 2 Single Dose ~$400
LAGOM casa ~ $530
Niche Zero ~ $670
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It is for$300 and it looks new, but it is a replacement model from breville bc of issues they had with it. Just confused what to pull the trigger on, that one for $300 with some accessories or this one for $400 which will have a warranty.
(Note. if it wasn't Breville and my personal feeling about them, I'd generally say saving $100+ at the cost of the warranty wasn't a bad deal. They expect most of their products to last at least a year, or they wouldn't offer a warranty for that long in the first place. By the time you generally NEED the warranty, it's usually expired anyway.)
(Note. if it wasn't Breville and my personal feeling about them, I'd generally say saving $100+ at the cost of the warranty wasn't a bad deal. They expect most of their products to last at least a year, or they wouldn't offer a warranty for that long in the first place. By the time you generally NEED the warranty, it's usually expired anyway.)
Thanks for the info! Yeah I'm a bit skeptical because I don't want to get a dud or have to deal with issues later down the line. But let me give it a shot with the seller!
My wife uses the kitchen aid grinder. It works well for her. She is on her second one uses it multiple times a day and the last one lasted her 8 years.
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If/when this fails me again and I'm out of warranty, I'll argue aggressively that free repair is still warranted because this is a known product design flaw.
Even the worst dark roasted oily puck will drain on its own given enough time without a 3-way valve. I've never had problems with watery pucks with the standard model when brewing most medium or any light roasts. Just leave the portafilter snapped in another 10-20 seconds if needed. Lavazza Oro for example is medium-light, slightly sweet cup without water retention, easy to find.
We avoid dark oily roasts because they taste like charcoal anyway. Also found a lot of "medium" roast is way too dark. We tend to stick to a few favorites and rotate them.
Further, standard Bambino can be cleaned with only a descale cycle because there's no 3-way valve. Plus models need to be descaled AND backflushed, both with a cleaning tablet.