I’ll say this upfront: I’ve never owned a Breville Barista Express. What I owned was a Gaggia Classic — a bare semi-automatic with no grinder, no PID, no help of …
I’ll be upfront, because it changes how you should read everything below: I learned espresso on a Gaggia Classic. It was my first real machine. It taught me most of …
I’ve made espresso both ways. For years my kitchen had a Gaggia Classic on the counter — a semi-automatic, the kind where you grind, dose, tamp, and pull every shot …
I run a DeLonghi at home, so I’ll be straight with you: I’m not a daily Breville owner. But I’ve descaled enough friends’ Barista Express machines — and talked enough …