Reviews SAGE SES878BTR
Reviews SAGE SES878BTR
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Customer, Budapest
Rated 25/03/2023, variant SAGE SES878BTR
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Vissza kell küldenünk, mert elszáll belőle a nyomás és tudja átfolyatni magán a vizet.
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Tomáš, Praha - Radotín
Rated 03/01/2023, variant SAGE SES878BTR
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I switched from mocha to this coffee machine as my first. Technically speaking, there is probably nothing to complain about - you can set anything. Lots of information and tricks can be found on reddit or youtube, a huge advantage of this coffee maker is its prevalence and so is the various troubleshooting all over the internet. In the end though, you'll probably still end up with mostly lousy tasting coffee, but that's the same for every coffee maker if you're just starting out :) I would stop at a few things though In the package you will find cups for the lever, some are damn hard to get out, but you can hollow them out with a cutlery knife for example. Razor is also included, I don't really understand how it's supposed to work, I don't use it, better buy some proper distributor. I just use Razor to pry the cupcake off the lever from time to time :) Grinder - you can read on the internet that it's always a good idea to focus on a good quality grinder when brewing coffee. I'm sure you can come up with a better combo of an extra coffee maker and a separate step-less grinder, it'll be a bit more expensive in the end, but a lot of people end up praising it. If you are starting out like me, a better grinder means as many equally ground parts of the coffee as possible, different coarsenesses can cause problems in taste. I'm happy though, but that may change in time :)
What bothers me a bit though is that nowhere is there any description of the system for adjusting the inside of the grinder and the side adjustment. On youtube you can just find a video showing an empirically derived table. Before buying it, I considered whether I would miss the barometer, after all, at the beginning it is useful to know faster and try to understand what is wrong. After about two months, I can say that there is no need. The taste of the coffee (bitter, sour, salty, sweet) will tell you where to move on. One last thing - it's practically necessary to buy some equipment to enjoy the joys rather than the sorrows of brewing coffee. From my perspective, ranked from most important/what will make the biggest difference:
1. flunnel (portafilter attachment -> coffee doesn't fall all over the place when grinding); 2. WDT; 3. fast weighing scale with 0.1g accuracy; 4. puck screen; 5th distributor and a better tamper. Lots of other things come in handy, but I ended up making the most progress with these five. The price for this equipment is very individual, you can start at a few hundred or even lower thousands. Either way, you can't go wrong with this coffee maker in my opinion. But you need to be patient and willing to commit to it at the beginning, to follow the flavours of the coffee and move in the right direction. Cheers to caffeine; )
decent price performance
the black colour is very elegant
supplied with dual wall and single wall cups
you can set quite a few things in it
the display is easy to read
grinding adjustability is reasonably graduated
the speed of getting the machine up and running (how long it takes to make coffee water) is great
spread of the coffee machine around the world -> lots of instructions on the internet
stopwatch -> indicator if everything goes according to plan
the supplied tamper seems useless to me, it lacks some millimeters to cover the whole portafilter cup
it is practically necessary to buy additional equipment in the order of several hundred to thousands of crowns
no barometer (but the resulting coffee taste is a clue)
the ratio between the inside of the grinder on the top and the side is not described anywhere (on youtube you can only find an empirical derivation)
if this is your first coffee machine, you'll be cursing yourself for the first month wondering what the hell you bought: )
it is preferable to buy freshly roasted coffee. and you'll probably be buying more of it than before: )
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Roman, Banská Bystrica 11
Rated 29/12/2020, variant SAGE SES878BTR
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excellent quality / price ratio
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Ondřej, Trutnov
Rated 03/09/2019, variant SAGE Espresso SES878BSS
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Small
Metal chassis
It has all the features you expect from a coffee machine
Good adjustability of grinding, temperature, pre-brewing for excellent coffee taste
The Czech manual lacks instructions on how to set the custom brewing time
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