☕ Black Philips 3200 Series EP3241/54 - LatteGo Fully Automatic Espresso Machine Review

Let me start with the biggest benefit for me – I'm not a morning person, and just pressing a few buttons makes it worthwhile for me to get Starbucks like coffee at home. Below are a few things I noticed that might be helpful when considering a machine: BEFORE YOU BUY - make sure you buy the model with an automatic milk frother. It works great and is worth the extra money. The idea of the car is to be fully automatic, so not having that defeats my purpose. The car is very noisy. This isn't for…

I just wanted to write this review to focus on cup sizes and coffee quantities. The x2 button is approximately twice the number of numbers listed below. Sometimes it was exactly twice as much and sometimes it was a little more or more, but expect double the amount for each size. You can set the maximum cup size for each cup, but I didn't do that, these are factory settings. I don't recommend changing the large size, just brewing more if you want a bigger cup. All measurements are by weight…

We've had it for about a month now but it's been lockdown month and between us and our 3 teenagers it's probably made 400 cups of coffee /espresso/latte/cappuccino - no exaggeration, I used a calculator. There's a reason we decided to take the risk and invest in such an expensive machine. We went from a $130 espresso machine with a manual frother and a Ninja drip coffee maker to this guy. So I'm quite confident in writing down some initial assessments of it. Positives: - What made us choose…

Update - 12/19/2019 - So I've been using this for a few months now and in the end I keep it a four star score. I like the simplicity of the machine. He does what he does well and doesn't pretend to be of high quality. Of course, I'd love to try the DeLonghi Eleta, but I can't wait for almost two thousand dollars. I set the "aroma" to the maximum and the degree of grinding to the finest. I had no need or desire to change these settings. Now that I use very good Italian coffee beans, the pucks…