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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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I'd say yes. You get automated milk steaming plus the 3 way solenoid valve (which is the more important feature). I've had mine for 3 years and love it. For most novice espresso enthusiasts there's no need to get anything fancier.
The frother is like magic and works amazingly well.
I also vote for the Plus over the standard.
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https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0922Z67KK
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The auto-steaming feature doesn't matter to me, as steaming milk is easy either way.
The Bambino is a little narrower on the counter.
Either way you can't go wrong, these are simple and yet powerful machines, heat up in seconds.
I've been happy with the DF54, pretty cost effective.
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I highly recommend micoffee df54 or 1Zpresso J ultra I have both and they are great especially for the price. I had the 1Zpresso and upgraded to the df54 after getting tired of hand grinding.
Using the regular one right now and I'd much rather invest in a better grinder than in better espresso machine
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