For coffee shop-quality coffee without the queuing, consult Sage The Oracle coffee machine. Sage has worked with their coffee boffins late into many nights fuelled only by, you’ve guessed it – coffee, to come up with this commercial-quality machine. The Oracle coffee machine from Sage delivers café quality coffee in your own kitchen. In a world first, it automates several of the processes that are usually done manually to make it easy for you to achieve coffee perfection every time. With automatic grinding, dosing, tamping and milk frothing, the Oracle guarantees the best flavour from your coffee beans, and does all the thinking, so you don’t have to. When I say “almost fully automated”, it's automated where it really matters, which is dose, tamp, and milk texturing (you can steam manually but it does a brilliant job of texturing on auto).

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With six preset coffee styles at your fingertip and up to eight customisable settings, this machine makes consistently excellent espressos. Sage The Oracle Plus: also consider All of this programmability translates into one thing — the Sage Oracle makes shot after shot of identical espresso. Ultimately if we're asking if the Oracle is worth it, meaning is it worth spending the additional money on vs a more affordable coffee machine, then we have to focus on cup quality. If you're thinking of buying a bean to cup coffee machine for around a grand to fifteen hundred quid, and you're wondering if it's worth spending a few hundred more on the Oracle, personally I believe that the overall cup quality (espresso quality and milk texture quality) is going to be better with the Oracle and Oracle touch than with any bean to cup machine on the market. For example, the DeLonghi Magnifica ESAM3300 costs significantly less than the Oracle and lets you brew everything from an espresso to a latte. We find it offers excellent value for money. For another affordable option, take a look at our review of the Gaggia Brera. It makes delightful espresso shots, and the Pannarello-style steam wand produces silky smooth milk foam.If you are trying my coffee beans, I'd highly recommend the blends, Chocolate Brownie blend, Fruitcake blend, Fruit & Nut blend & Classic Italian blend.

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There are some people who're purely bean to cup machine users – they just want to walk up to a machine, press a button, and walk away with their coffee, and they're not all that fussy about perfection. These are the people bean to cup machines are made for. As well as the cheaper but in many ways similar bean to cup machines that Sage/Breville itself makes, our top recommends in this category are De'Longhi's latest, range-topping Primadonna machine and the T3 Award-winning Jura E8. They are both easier to use than the Oracle Touch but perhaps less satisfying overall. They are also both a lot cheaper, however, so there is that.There is no point people comparing grind setting between different users as there are a number of reasons why they will vary for the same grind coming out. Changing the top burr setting doesn't change the grind. It just changes the number for the same level of grind, It's best left as it comes as the grinder will have been calibrated, That can only be done to a certain accuracy which is one of the reasons for variations between grinders. Using the buttons on the front of the Oracle, you make your selection from single/dual-shot espressos, a long coffee or just hot water. Here we appreciate the two separate outputs: one that puts water through the coffee arm and a separate output for hot water whose stream falls just behind. Many espresso machines don’t have the facility to output hot water, or do so from the steam arm. The Oracle uses an espresso machine-style grounds holder that has two homes in the machine: one sits under the grinder and the other is under the actual water output. If you want a coffee machine that will make you a latte with the press of a single button, the Oracle isn’t for you. If you're an Americano drinker, you'll love this. Both the Oracle machines have a one touch Americano button – just press this, and you'll get a double shot & then a programmable amount of water delivered through a dedicated water spout. Personalise your own coffees Sage The Oracle, the world's first automatic manual coffee machine. Incredible coffee made simple, it's like there's a barista inside. Until now you have been asked to choose, manual or automatic.

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Traditional espresso machines paired with capable grinders are capable of producing great espresso in the hands of a capable home barista. The problem is, most “normal” coffee drinkers aren't home baristas and have no desire to become one. Next batch of fresh roasted beans. It's generally a good idea to rest them for a while.People use and swear by various times. I'd be inclined to say a few days is a good idea but past that try for yourself. New machine, have your beans. Get on with it if you like as they will age as you use them. With Sage grinders I would say the main problem new is the grinder settling down. Beans can be weighed in but initially less will come out. Eventually what comes out will be pretty close to what went in. Against that they are all easy to adjust finely where ever they crop up. Repeatably as well, The only one that isn't is a sub version of the Sage Grinder Pro that no one seems to sell. They should be able to get people close enough to what is needed. You can adjust the steam temperature and the amount of foam you want in the milk. Then you position the milk jug under the wand and let the machine work its magic. There is a sensor in the tip of the wand that indicates when the desired temperature is reached so you can shut off the steam. Or you can take full manual control of the entire process. It’s up to you. Coffee Quality & Versatility – 4.5/5 But if you want a bit of authentic espresso-making ritual and theatre with your coffee, the Oracle & Oracle touch provides this, as the user goes through practically all the motions of traditional espresso-making, simply without the need for well-honed skills. Best Ever Milk Texture After 20 seconds or so, you’ll perfectly tampered coffee grounds. Remove the coffee holder and put it into the port next door.This is a brilliant machine capable of fantastic espresso and espresso-based coffees, paired with a decent grinder and in the hands of someone with some barista skills, See my review: A benefit of the Touch over the standard oracle where milk texture is concerned, is that you can save the milk texture setting for each drink. So let's say you create your own perfect personalised flattie, with a custom milk temp and texture, the next time you select that drink it'll remember the milk temp and texture level. The drip tray spans the width of the machine and slots home with a firm thunk and can handle a surprisingly large amount of water before the warning sign floats upwards and requests you empty it. Behind the tray, a small storage area allows you to store the supplied filter baskets and any small tools you might use regularly. Sage includes unpressurised single-wall baskets in both single and double-shot sizes. There's a lot to say here, and not everyone wants war & peace when reading a review on a coffee machine they're thinking of buying, so if you want the succinct version, here you go, if you want the much longer version, then make yourself comfortable and enjoy my more in depth review, below. Really brief Sage Oracle nutshell review

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Traditional home espresso machines are based on professional, commercial espresso machines you'll see in coffee shops, only they're smaller, and they usually are tank fed vs being plumbed in. By now, I think you’ll have a pretty good idea if the Oracle Touch is for you. In short, if you want to get the absolute most from top-quality coffee beans but simply don’t have the patience or knowledge to handle a fully manual machine, then the Oracle Touch is in a league of its own. So if this is you, then you may be tempted by the huge price difference between the Barista Express Impress vs the Oracle, but just be aware that while the Impress does achieve the same end result where espresso is concerned (home barista cup quality without the usual skill requirement) it won't help you when it comes to texturing milk. One of the most common issues I see with people using the Oracle and similar machines is shot-to-shot consistency. This isn't a problem with the machine, as such, it's simply a problem with espresso. While bean to cup machines usually have a grinder with 5-10 grind adjustments, the Oracle has 45, all within the espresso range, which gives the ability to “dial in” which is something you can't really do with the usual 5-10 grind settings.I'll go into more detail on the touch a bit later on in this review, but for this really brief nutshell version, I'll just say that the touch is the touchscreen version of the oracle, a bit more flashy to look at, a bit easier to use initially, although in the long term once you find your feet with it, I think the standard Oracle is just as easy to use.