Want a home coffee machine? Listen to the advice of a 10-year-old barista. It may be unexpected, but it is very practical.

I am a 10-year veteran barista. People often ask me to recommend coffee machines through various channels. It is true that more and more people like to drink coffee, but going to a coffee shop every day is too expensive, so it is most appropriate to buy a coffee machine at home. And every time my answer is a little outrageous, but very practical! Because the first thing I recommend is a fully automatic espresso machine and a capsule coffee machine.

Let me first explain why it is outrageous. For coffee lovers, most of them look down on fully automatic equipment and have no experience! So the response that everyone expects is mostly about semi-automatic espresso machines like those in coffee shops. You can grind beans, press powder, extract, and even make latte art. However, you can't experience these links in the coffee machine I recommend. It is more of a fool-proof one-button operation.

If you ask others for recommendations on coffee machines, you are probably a beginner or a novice. These machines look simple, but they actually require a lot of skills and are not something you can easily master. So I recommend fully automatic coffee machines! For those who can really master semi-automatic coffee machines, you may not need recommendations at all, because you already have a specific model in mind.

Why do we recommend fully automatic coffee machines? It is simple, because it is fully automatic and fool-proof, which not only reduces your technical difficulty, but also saves you time and effort.

Many people buy semi-automatic espresso machines on a whim, spending half a month or even a month's salary on them, only to leave them alone after making coffee for a few days. That's why you can see many of them sold at a discount on certain websites. This is the reality. Because a semi-automatic espresso machine can indeed bring you a short-term pleasant experience. But every time you make coffee, you have to do cleaning and maintenance, just like the barista in a coffee shop. You look glamorous, but every time he makes a cup of coffee, he has to wash at least two cups and a saucer.

You are so lazy to wash the dishes after dinner, so few people are willing to wash cups and machines every day just for the five minutes of coffee time. Three or five days is fine, but forget about it for years.

Fully automatic espresso machine and capsule machine

Let's talk about the capsule machine first. The coffee capsules on the market have a variety of flavors, but many capsules can actually be used on different machines. So I personally recommend choosing a popular model, so that you can have more choices when buying capsules later. Some brands will give you a machine directly when you buy capsules, don't be greedy! Because most of these machines can only use specific capsules. The machine can be given away for free, but it will not be cheap if you want to buy capsules later.

As for the Italian coffee machine, the fully automatic one with grinding function, so you can easily drink freshly ground coffee! It is real freshly ground! The operation is not too complicated, and most of them can make milk foam. If you are not a professional coffee player, I personally think that this type of fully automatic one is your best choice! You can think about it, even for simple hand-brewed coffee, it is very troublesome to clean the filter paper, filter cup, and hand-brewed pot every day.