Breville Barista Touch - Brushed Stainless

The Breville Barista Touch grinds fresh, textures milk hands-free, and lets you order the drink from a touchscreen instead of learning a routine. It heats in about three seconds, doses into a 54 mm portafilter, and remembers up to eight drinks by name so nobody in the house has to reset anything.

Most espresso machines make you carry the whole process in your head: grind, dose, tamp, extract, steam, and hope. The Barista Touch takes the two hardest jobs, the grind and the milk, and does them for you, then puts the rest on a screen you tap. You still tamp the puck yourself, which is the part people enjoy once the guesswork around it is gone.

Highlights

• Touchscreen with saved drinks: build a drink the way you like it, name it, and save up to 8 so each person taps once
• Integrated conical burr grinder with 30 settings and dose control, grinding straight into the portafilter
• Auto MilQ hands-free texturing with 8 texture levels and temperatures from 104 to 167 degrees Fahrenheit, plus a full manual mode when you want to texture it yourself
• ThermoJet heating, ready in about 3 seconds, using up to 32 percent less energy annually than a thermoblock
• 54 mm stainless portafilter with an 18 gram dose, with single and dual wall baskets included
• Razor trimming tool and dosing funnel included, so levelling the puck to the right dose is a step you can actually get right

Who it's for

• Households where everyone drinks something different, since eight named drinks means no arguing with the settings
• Anyone who wants café drinks without learning to steam milk, but does not mind tamping a puck
• People coming off pods who want a real portafilter machine with the intimidating parts taken out

Two things worth knowing. You tamp the puck yourself on this machine, with the trimming tool and funnel included to make that straightforward, so if you would rather the machine handled tamping too, tell us when you call or visit and we will show you the options. And like any machine that grinds fresh for every shot, it rewards freshly roasted beans: buy in smaller amounts more often and the difference in the cup is immediate.

Living with it

Daily, purge and wipe the steam wand and knock out the puck. Milk is the one job on a machine with a wand that will not wait.

Then periodically, the touchscreen prompts a cleaning cycle and a descale when they are due and walks you through both. Cleaning tablets, descaling powder, a water filter and a hardness strip are in the box. Fit the filter and set your water hardness on day one and descaling stays rare.

FAQs

• Do I need a separate grinder?
  No. A conical burr grinder with 30 settings and dose control is built in and grinds straight into the portafilter. Fresh beans are all you add.
• Do I have to tamp it myself?
  Yes. The machine grinds and doses for you, then you tamp the puck. The included razor trimming tool levels the dose so you know you have the right amount before you tamp, which is the part that usually goes wrong.
• Do I need to know how to steam milk?
  No. Auto MilQ textures it hands-free with 8 texture levels and temperatures from 104 to 167 degrees Fahrenheit. There is also a full manual mode on the same wand if you want to learn to texture and pour latte art.
• Can it save drinks for different people?
  Yes. You can create and save up to 8 personalised coffees with your own names, so each person taps their own rather than adjusting the machine.
• What size portafilter does it take?
  54 mm stainless steel with an 18 gram dose, and it ships with both single and dual wall baskets. Tampers and accessories need to be 54 mm.
• Who handles warranty and service in Canada?
  Breville products are covered and serviced directly by Breville Canada, at 1-855-683-3535. We are here for setup, dialling in your first beans and questions about using the machine, before and after you buy.

Specifications

• Type: Espresso machine with integrated grinder, manual tamping
• Grinder: Integrated conical burr, 30 grind settings, dose control
• Portafilter: 54 mm stainless steel, 18 gram dose
• Baskets: Single and dual wall, 1-cup and 2-cup
• Milk system: Auto MilQ hands-free, 8 texture levels, 104 to 167 degrees Fahrenheit, with manual mode
• Heating system: ThermoJet, ready in about 3 seconds
• Boiler: Single, so brewing and steaming happen in sequence
• Display: Touchscreen, up to 8 saved personalised drinks
• Bean hopper: 12 oz
• Dimensions (W × D × H): 32 × 32 × 41 cm
• In the box: 54 mm portafilter, single and dual wall 1-cup and 2-cup baskets, dosing funnel, razor trimming tool, stainless steel milk jug, water filter and holder, cleaning tablets, descaling powder, cleaning tools, water hardness strip, instruction booklet

Why buy from Coffee Warehouse?

• Two Ontario showrooms, Markham and Richmond Hill, where we will pull a shot on this machine and show you how the tamp and the auto milk actually work, plus live virtual demos if you are not nearby
• Help dialling it in, from beans to grind setting, so it performs at home the way it did in the showroom
• Free shipping and financing available
• Toll-free support at 1-888-742-1777, before you buy and long after