A former sommelier and a graduate of the French Culinary Institute, Hannah has worked for some of New York’s top restaurant groups. James Beard Award-nominated writer Hannah Selinger has written about food and drinks for local and national publications since 2015, and is currently at work on a food-related memoir, to be published by Little, Brown in 2025. Product Dimensions: 11 in × 13.8 in × 17.6 inīean Container Holding Capacity: 10 Ounces And the buzzy, new customizable JURA E8 is worth the hype and the considerable investment. If you are a frequent espresso consumer and want your lattes, macchiatos, and flat whites available at the push of a button, an automatic espresso machine is for you. Given the price point, I needed the JURA E8 to truly perform. And the machine consistently told us when it needed to be cleaned, adjusted, replenished with more beans, and refilled with water–all for the benefit of better coffee. Milk, which I refrigerated in the machine’s resealable container, for use as needed, was always frothy and voluminous. In experimenting with the machine’s various offerings (17 drinks is a lot, and covered the bases of things I had never heard of), I was impressed over and over again. In fact, the spouts can be brought down, closer to an espresso cup, for an even more precise, clean pour. The result is a smooth roast with no detectable bitterness or off-notes.Ĭups are easily configured to line up beneath the two spouts, and because the volume is customizable, it’s virtually impossible to overfill a coffee cup. Much of the coffee–and its crema, I’ll argue–has to do with the 15 bars of pressure applied to the grounds through the pump. I appreciated the ease of use just as much as I appreciated looking at the machine every morning. I was able to figure out-without my husband’s assistance-how to strengthen and weaken a cup of coffee how to toggle between various drinks and how to increase and decrease the volume of my drink, depending on how the mood struck. The digital aspect of JURA makes it very easy to use, even for a Luddite like me, who prefers light switches to Nest systems. If I wasn’t quite sure what a flat white was before the JURA came into my life, the image displayed on the interface certainly cleared that up for me. It also helped parse the broad spectrum of drinks that my machine offered. But, as it turns out, being greeted each morning by an image of a frothy coffee drink did wonders for my mood. I came from a DeLonghi background, and I never thought I’d care very much about a sleek, image-forward design. The truest luxury, for me, however, lay in not having to grind coffee, or suffer the utter indignity of drinking coffee made from pre-ground beans. But the JURA offers an additional step, too, on its digital interface: users can also select the strength of their cup of coffee, from mild to strong, as well as the volume of each cup, from four to eight ounces. The different grinder settings change the extraction rate and, thus, the final result of the coffee. The grind can be adjusted to suit the degree of the roast of the coffee by turning the grinder adjustment switch while the grinder is running the machine offers six different grind settings for different results, so experimenting with the grind will offer a sense of preference. The JURA E8 has a 10-ounce capacity bean container, which holds coffee and grinds it to order, meaning that espresso is always freshly ground without any morning fuss or muss.
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