Miele CM 6360 MilkPerfection vs Philips Series 5500 LatteGo EP5544/90

Miele's mid-range machine: 14 coffee and milk drinks, two at a time, eight user profiles and app control

Scores higher on drinks & milk system, cleaning & upkeep, capacity & refills.

Twenty drinks including six iced, from a two-part milk system that rinses in seconds

Scores higher on grinder & grind control, value for money, ease of use.

• +The brew unit comes out to be rinsed by hand.
• +Two coffees or two milk drinks at once, with OneTouch for Two.
• +Eight user profiles, and app control over Wi-Fi as standard.
• +Milk flask, milk pipework and siphon are dishwasher-safe.

• −$2,999 for 14 coffee and milk drinks; a Philips 4300 does the basics for a third of that.
• −Only five grind settings.
• −Miele's own documents give two different milk flask sizes, 0.5 and 0.7 litres.

• +Twenty drinks, all named by Philips, including six iced ones and a travel mug setting.
• +LatteGo is two parts with no tubes, and Philips states both go in the dishwasher.
• +A removable brew group, which is what lets you rinse the part that does the work.
• +AquaClean, which Philips says means no descaling for up to 5000 cups.
• +Four user profiles plus a guest, so a household is not re-setting strength every morning.

• −Philips publishes no price, and its own retailer list runs from $699.00 to $1,299.95.
• −The SKU most shops sell, EP5544/94, has no page on Philips' own site at all.
• −Philips' two pages for this series disagree on voltage and country of manufacture.
• −The AquaClean claim assumes eight filter replacements, which is a running cost to price in.