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By the way, your username is familiar. Have you been here for years but has a period of abstinence or an I confusing you for someone else?
@Teetonal we had a Jura machine at a previous office. It was rubbish. The coffee they were using want particularly good, apparently, but the machine was always breaking down. I had to go down 6 floors to buy a coffee in the canteen and yet still preferred that option.
I can’t imagine a Jura machine would really make coffee four times better.
if spending money I’d go for simpler classic design and less features, screens, electronics.
In fact I found the type of bean to be far more important to my enjoyment than the machine
This is what I currently do, but apparently it's too inconvienient, not sure I'd agree, given that it takes no space, cleaning is easy and repair is non existent...
The cleaning tablets and filters are now available as generic items rather than direct from Jura and machine tells you when to change them. The coffee tastes great and most items including strength, amount and type (expresso latte etc) are easily programmable.
I have a friend in Germany who has been using the same Jura fo 20 plus years.
I don't know too much about alternatives such as Bosch or Sage which look rather complicated.
Swiss engineering and technology expensive as I said but if its still going in 5 years we'll worth it.
Good espresso without much faff = good grinder + cafelat robot.
Good espresso with slight faff = good grinder + flair pro/flair signature
Good espresso with medium faff = good grinder and a good machine, such as a modified gaggia classic. Go used on coffeeforums.
If you opt for the first or second option, you'll get faff-free espresso with no frothy milk. You can get the dualit cino for steaming duties. Obviously, a boiler machine can do more but it's harder to get consistent pressures and temperatures (don't worry, you'll still make great coffee!).
Or... If you're not interested in good espresso and you just want a concentrated coffee with frothy milk, a stove top moka pot plus the dualit can work. The dualit means you get proper textured milk.
Otherwise, there are other milk frothing devices that will be a quarter the price but give a frothy coffee. It won't be a nicely texturised drink like you'd get from a shop but it'll taste great and be much less faff!
1zpresso jx-pro is supposed to be good but I've not tried it.
I currently use a Knock Feld 47 and, previously, a Knock Aergrind. Both are fine - and with a flair, and it's narrower puck, you can enjoy great espresso from a hand grinder. The feld 47 grinds quicker, given the slightly larger burr. I use a robot, so 58mm portafilter which tends to require a slightly finer grind, and both worked fine for that so the flair should be easier still.
Coffeeforums.co.uk you may get lucky
i think your wife just wants to spend some money....
Cheers. I'd seen the aergrind on a James Hoffman video and he seemed to like it for a "cheap" grinder. They don't seem to be in stock at the moment but it wasn't going to be an immediate purchase anyway. I've a big birthday coming up in a few months so it might be something to drop hints about.
It's worth subscribing for stock updates on the MBK website. I did that, and a couple of weeks later received an email from the owner saying that a batch of cosmetic seconds would be going on sale at 5pm that day. I've had a good look at the one I received, and I can't spot even the tiniest mark on it.
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I still stalk you on Facebook anyway
Also, when you go away anywhere, just throw it in your luggage, no glass to break, light, works everywhere there's a hob :-)