Amazon has for
Prime Members: Philips 3200 Series Fully Automatic Espresso Machine for
$399.99.
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Features:
- 5 Aromatic Coffees
- LatteGo Milk System
- 12-step Grinder Adjustment
- Perfect Temperature & Aroma
- 100% Ceramic Grinders
Top Comments
Cleaning: the main core of the machine has to be cleaned every couple weeks or the grinder parts will jam up and start making really weak coffee. It will mold like mad if you go too long without cleaning the core!
Overall the coffee this thing makes is weaker than I like even when I just do a double espresso its weaker than it should be.
This is the best BNIB price I've seen for such ever.
3200/3300 internals/brew-group are the same as the pricier 4400/4500, 5400/5500 units.
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Honestly, at this price, I would buy it as a gift too.
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First, this doesn't make proper espresso. It seems to produce some crema but the espresso is not rich and flavorful. I've played with the settles and let the grinder "break in" and all that. Regardless of how I adjust the ratios, I get either sour or bitter espresso, and no rich espresso. I've dialed it to the point where it's just on the edge of bitterness, but as soon as you add milk, it becomes nearly tasteless - the espresso shot is just very shallow in flavor.
Because it can't pull anything that resembles a proper espresso shot, it can't make anything that resembles a good latte or cappuccino. Plus the drinks are tiny. Tiny flavorless boring drinks.
So despite its features, I use it primarily to make Americanos these days. It's slightly better than drip coffee, and it's very convenient. "Two coffee" drinks gets me somewhere close to one standard cup of coffee. It's drinkable.
The machine does take a while to start behaving consistently. I don't know why it is, but it is. At the start, it will grind too little beans and the pucks will be small and watery. After a few weeks of use, it settles down and starts producing full firm pucks after each brew. So if your initial drinks look terrible, have some patience. Brew through a 2-pound bag of cheap beans to break it in. And then see what you get after that.
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First, this doesn't make proper espresso ... Plus the drinks are tiny. Tiny flavorless boring drinks.
So despite its features, I use it primarily to make Americanos these days. It's slightly better than drip coffee, and it's very convenient. "Two coffee" drinks gets me somewhere close to one standard cup of coffee.
"drinks are tiny." - The drinks are size they are supposed to be. For example, a shot of espresso should be 28-30 ml or around 1 oz (some shops, a little more) or a macchiato would be the same, but with a tsp or 2 of steam milk on top. A latte is shot (or two) of espresso with ~3:1 ratio of steamed milk to espresso.
Those are "standard" espresso drinks, which is what this makes, not a cup of morning joe from a drip coffeemaker or from Starbucks (who somehow have an 8oz drink that they call a macchiato).
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