Breville Barista Touch BES880BSS vs Gevi 20Bar Super Automatic Espresso Machine

A household where more than one person makes milk drinks and nobody wants to learn to steam

Scores higher on steam power & milk texturing, build quality & durability, maintenance & cleaning.

Home baristas wanting an all-in-one espresso machine with integrated grinder and steam wand

Scores higher on shot quality & extraction, value for money.

• +Hands-free milk texturing with 8 texture levels and a temperature you choose between 104F and 167F.
• +A 30-setting hardened steel conical grinder built in, dosing to Breville's stated 18g.
• +ThermoJet heating that Breville publishes as reaching extraction temperature in 3 seconds.
• +Two-year warranty, double the one year Breville gives the Barista Express and the Infuser.
• +Five preset drinks plus eight you can create, name and save.

• −$999.95, which buys a super-automatic that also pulls the shot for you.
• −A 54mm portafilter, not the 58mm commercial size, so accessories are less interchangeable.
• −The tamp is still manual, so the one step most likely to ruin a shot is left to you.
• −Breville publishes no pre-infusion pressure and no shot volumes, only the 9 bar extraction.

• +Two boilers, so steaming and brewing do not queue behind each other, which nothing else at this price offers
• +PID, a 58mm portafilter, a pressure gauge with a marked pre-infusion range, and both single and dual-wall baskets
• +An integrated grinder in a stainless steel body

• −$699.99, which is the category median, so not a budget buy
• −20 bar is a pump maximum, and espresso is pulled at 9
• −Manual microfoam by hand, and no warranty term is published