This meticulous process ensures that the information you receive from Home Grounds is not only engaging and useful but also trustworthy and reliable. Still, this compact espresso machine has volumetric dosing, pre-infusion, automatic milk frothing and yields some very impressive drinks for its size. While some larger machines can take upwards of 30 minutes, the SDB will be good to go in under 10 minutes. It has one boiler for steaming milk and a separate boiler for brewing coffee, and the temperature needed for steaming is much higher than that needed for brewing. This internal cable tidy seems obvious, but it's not something I'd usually expect to see on an espresso machine.

A separate steam boiler offers instant and powerful steam on demand, offering the ability to simultaneously steam your milk to third wave specialty coffee. The standard approach to designing a new domestic espresso machine would be to try the best domestic machines on the market, reverse engineer them and look at making them slightly better. The Sage Oracle and Sage Oracle Touch are the same machines as the Dual Boiler in many ways, the same dual boilers, same triple heating system and so on, but there's one major difference which is that the Oracle machines are aimed at bean to cup users, while the Dual Boiler is aimed at the home barista market. In fact, I'd hazard a guess that only a small percentage of Sage or Breville Dual Boiler owners even realize that their machines have these features.Anyway, it's not true – I spoke to Sage Appliances, and they assured me that there are no plans to discontinue the Dual Boiler, which I'm very pleased about! But as I say, that's only by making unfair comparisons, as the Dual Boiler is a very different machine to the other Sage espresso machines. While it did get on my nerves, to begin with, this isn't the fault of Sage, and as I mentioned earlier, although it's an annoyance it's probably a good thing. How easy they've made everything via the LCD, such as changing brew temperature, setting the preinfusion time and power, re-setting the shot button times or volumes if you choose to switch it to volumetric.

We know it is often a big investment when you purchase appliances for your home and if something was to go wrong it would cause upheaval in your household. At the heart of this espresso machine are a 950ml steam boiler, a PID controlled 450ml brew boiler, a heat exchanger and a PID controlled heated group. Also, the entry-level Sage machines including the bambino plus, duo temp pro, barista express and barista pro all have a PID, but they won't provide this level of precision. Sage Dual Boiler espresso machine, also known as the Breville Dual Boiler outside of Europe, is a rarity. By monitoring the pressure gauge, you’ll know when you’ve got the right grind size to hit the 9 bars of pressure recommended for the best extraction ( 5).One of Sage's coffee experts will come to your home to - set up, tune the grind and dose volume on the integrated grinder, and guide you though how the tools work and how to clean the coffee machine.

Featuring a steam wand powered by its own dedicated boiler, this provides the ability to create the same micro-foam texture of commercial machines which is essential for creating latte art. It also offers a true low pressure pre-infusion, which gradually increases the pressure to gently expand the grinds for an even extraction, for a smoother taste. Taking everything into account, I think the Sage Dual Boiler is an incredible machine, and that it's potentially the most perfect espresso machine I've ever used. This is a very inexpensive part, and in all likelihood, it won't go on your machine within a few years of use.Even though the average dirt cheap coffee maker offers this option, it’s unaccountably absent from nearly every high-end espresso maker, forcing the purchase of extra gadgets like smart plugs. Items shipped on pallets will take between 48 and 72 hours of the item being shipped, and you will be contacted to arrange a suitable day. Choose between one shot, two shots or manual control over how much espresso ends up in your cup for the perfect dose every time. You can program a turn-on time so that the Sage Dual Boiler is heated and ready when you get up in the morning. It features smooth curves, a brushed stainless steel casing, inset backlit buttons, and a small LCD screen.