Sage the Dual Boiler Espresso Machine, Coffee Machine with Milk Frother, BES920UK - Brushed Stainless Steel, Silver

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This is made even more confusing given that the UK Breville brand are selling some machines that look quite similar to some of the Sage machines, and have similar sounding names, so I do hear from people who made the assumption that they'd basically found great deal for a sage coffee machine. Dedicated hot water spout | hot water for Americano / Lungo, and it's a needle valve which lends itself as a potential flow profiling mod (more on this later)

Brass is an alloy of copper and zinc, and it is less conductive than copper alone but also less expensive and easier to work with. They use it in cheaper machines with small brew boilers. Who are they for? I would be sarcastic & say “people who want to drink filter coffee” ;-), but there's more to it than that. Sage only make one filter coffee machine, and it's really quite a special filter coffee machine. These are for people who are really particular about their filter coffee. I've not found enough people talking about this to make me think it's a particularly common issue, so I wouldn't be too concerned about it personally, if it does happen it's fixable. More on the Auto-off function There are a number of elements to getting a great shot of espresso, but one of the most important is brew temperature, if you've got that sorted, you're a big jump towards perfect espresso.

The next generation fully automatic espresso machine.

Re judging books by their covers, the Sage Dual Boiler doesn't look like most other prosumer, or home barista espresso machines. OK, that's not really my nutshell review ;-), but it is my overall opinion – as long as you're looking for a home barista espresso machine, not bean to cup. There's really not much that competes in terms of these kinds of features for this kind of money.

Re seeming too good to be true, the Sage Dual Boiler is a dual boiler machine, with a PID, with a heated group, and with a lot of other features, for around the price of an entry-level heat exchanger machine. The flip side is that larger steam boilers lead to massive espresso machines that cost a lot and take a long time to heat up. A 1 to 2 L boiler is plenty for the average user, and the boiler temperature and steam wand tip can also influence steam pressure from a smaller boiler. Copper, Stainless Steel, or Brass? One other option is a capsule machine. Some high-end models add a milk carafe for one-touch cappuccinos and so forth, while others add a steam wand to provide manual or semi-automatic milk frothing so that you can feel more like a barista in your own kitchen. Cheaper models, however, effectively bolt on an aftermarket milk frother so that you can pour an espresso, then add frothed milk yourself. If you already have a basic capsule machine, then buying a milk frother is a cheap, easy upgrade. Manual or automatic milk frother? Dual boiler machines rely on either a rotary or a vibration pump to achieve the extraction pressure required unless it’s a manual machine. Both are equally capable of achieving the high pressures needed, but there are differences between them that influence user experience. I reviewed the Sage Oracle not long after starting the blog, but that was because Sage had a demo machine doing the rounds at the time, and they were kind enough to trust me with it for a couple of weeks on loan.

The barista's choice for home espresso with a precision grinder included.

Grinding slightly finer than I usually would (At the moment I'm using my Cranberry & Pomegranate blend, at approx grind size 7 on the Niche Zero, and I'd usually be at around 9 for this coffee) Heat exchanger machines, as the name implies, have a heat exchanger system – meaning that heat is borrowed from the steam boiler to heat the brew water.