A daily $7 latte from a coffee shop costs about $2,500 a year. The Breville Barista Express, the number one best-selling semi-automatic espresso machine on Amazon, just hit its lowest price ever. Amazon has it at $499, down from its typical $692 price, for an all-in-one espresso machine with an integrated conical burr grinder, PID temperature control, low pressure pre-infusion, and a steam wand for manual microfoam milk texturing. No Prime membership required, and your barista doesn’t need to know.
See at Amazon
Beans to espresso in under a minute, without leaving the kitchen
The Barista Express eliminates the two separate machines that most home espresso setups require: a standalone grinder and an espresso machine. The integrated precision conical burr grinder doses directly into the 54mm portafilter on demand, which means every shot starts with freshly ground coffee rather than pre-ground beans that have been oxidizing since the bag was opened. The grind size dial adjusts from fine to coarse for any roast without tools, and the dose control grinding delivers the right amount of coffee for a single or double shot without measuring.
The PID digital temperature control maintains water at precisely the right extraction temperature throughout the shot, which is the variable that most entry-level espresso machines get wrong and that produces the sour, bitter, or flat shots that make people give up on home espresso. Low pressure pre-infusion gradually increases pressure at the start of extraction rather than hitting the grounds at full 9-bar pressure immediately, which draws out the flavors evenly across the puck and produces the balanced, layered shot that distinguishes a properly extracted espresso from a rushed one.
