Do not buy mr coffee espresso maker unless it is a ECMP 50 - By: Ebenezer

All of mr coffee espresso maker used to be steam driven and it is only recently that they launched a pump driven espresso machines, if not, I would asked you not to consider mr coffee totally when it comes to espresso brewing.

The thing about steam driven machine is its inability to brew good espresso.

So, what is the definition of espresso? Regardless of the taste or look and feel of this coffee drink, the very basic thing that an espresso must have is crema. But, unfortunately, most of the machines from Mr. Coffee are not able to achieve that.

The reason that the coffee brewed does not come with crema is because of the low pressure in extracting them. You need at least 12 bar of pressure to extract a good cup of espresso, but for most of Mr. Coffee steam driven machines, the highest pressure that they can manage is 8 bars.

If you have tried coffee from these machines, you would note that it is not intense but it is bitter. A full bodied espresso is bitter with a tinge of sweetness but these coffees are just plain bitter.

This bitterness has nothing to do with the coffee extraction. It is bitter because it is burnt. As it is steam driven and steam is above boiling point, so when this touches the coffee ground, most of the time it would burn the coffee ground, resulting in the bitter brew.

And because this is using steam technology, the entire brewing process depends heavily on the boiler, which takes a long time to heat up. So, waiting time is another major drawback for the Mr. Coffee espresso maker.

Moreover, one boiler has a fixed quantity of steam, so there is a limit of beverages that you can make before water has to be re-boiled. On average, you can make about 4 espressos and if you need to use the steam to make froth for cappuccino, then you can only brew 2 espressos.

Therefore, this is definitely not a machine meant for parties or large gatherings. The waiting time would no doubt dampen the party mood.

You would have noticed that I am using "most of the machines", which mean that Mr. coffee does have a model that can produced good espresso and that is the ECMP 50. This is one of their latest machines that is pump driven and can extract the coffee ground with up to 15 bar pressure.

And this ECMP 50 also come with a thermo block that would speed up the heating process and they also have a better frothing device. In general, this machine is a improvement on all the drawbacks of mr coffee steam driven machine.

So, if you do want to buy a Mr. coffee espresso machines, do note that at the current moment, there is only one pump driven machine which is able to extract good quality espresso and that is the ECMP 50 and personally I think that this is the only machine that you should consider from mr coffee stable of machines...

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