Barista Pro

Their Breville Barista Pro broke after about five years.

“Then my Breville barista pro broke…that was 4 months and $4500 ago.”

Their Barista Pro is more than enough for an amazing morning coffee.

“the barista pro is more than enough to make an amazing morning coffee.”

Their Barista Pro makes great espresso even before they upgraded the grinder.

“you can make legitimately great espresso with just the base barista pro.”

Their Barista Pro, built-in grinder and all, makes better drinks than coffee shops.

“I can make better espresso drinks at home with my Breville Barista Pro than anything I can find at coffee shops.”

Their Barista Pro died after heavy flat white use.

“My Barrista Pro went bang.”

Their Barista Pro's built-in grinder is fine for light-medium roast shots and milk drinks, though not the best.

“I do light -medium roast espresso in my barista pro (same grinder basically) for shots and milk drinks and it's fine.”

The built-in grinder on their three-year-old Barista Pro died with a stripped main gear.

“I have been using a Breville Barista Pro for about 3 years now. The grinder just died (main gear seems to be stripped)”

After a few years with their Barista Pro, constant cleanup of loose grounds pushed them to switch to V60.

“the constant cleaning of loose ground coffee and the eventual ulcer made me switch to a v60.”

Their home Sage Barista Pro is far better than the Ninja Luxe at work.

“I’ve a Ninja Luxe in work and it’s a crock of shit compared to my Sage Baristo Pro Espresso that I use at home.”

Two years with this machine: its built-in grinder gives inconsistent grind between identical shots, so they went back to a standalone grinder.

“i could grind 1 shot pull 1 shot grid exactly the same 2nd shot and have way more coarser grind”

The built-in grinder on their Barista Pro constantly stopped delivering grounds, so they switched to a separate machine and grinder.

“I had this machine, and the grinder would constantly do this.”

Hated the Barista Pro's built-in grinder so much it pushed them to buy a Kafatek.

“i freakin hated this grinder when i had it.”

Ran a Barista Pro until recently and found its built-in grinder imprecise.

“This looks about right, given how imprecise the grinder is on that model.”

Couldn't dial in their Barista Pro, blamed the low-quality built-in grinder and sold it.

“I had the same frustration. I ended up selling that machine. From what I know now its the grinder in the machine thats the problem.”

Their first machine was a Barista Pro; after about 8 months they added a DF64 for light roasts but kept the built-in grinder for medium and dark, and call it a very capable machine.

“I continued to use the integrated BBP Baratza grinder for mediums and darks, but moved all my lighter roasted stuff to the DF64.”

The Barista Pro's built-in grinder was its main problem, retaining up to 2 g with grind by time; single dosing with a scale and a bellows fixed it.

“I found the main problem with the pro is the inbuilt grinder, with grind by time I could get up to 2g of retention.”