With that said, I have the Breville barista express, and I definitely like it, but I just ordered this one (if for some reason, it doesn’t cut the mustard, I’ll just return it and keep my Breville). Primarily because I like the way the steam wand and milk frother are hands off if I want. I make a lot of lattes and the steam wand on the Breville can get pretty messy, trying to get the milk to froth up. The he ninja actually has an auto clean steam wand sequence which I think I’m going to love (and it also does cold foam). The other thing I like is that you can actually make more than one cup of coffee at a time which you cannot do on the Breville and that’s gonna be great when I have guests who just want drip coffee without requiring me to use a completely different machine. Finally, the other future I think I’m gonna look on the ninja is that it has a low water feature, I can’t tell you how many times I’m in the middle of making a latte and realized I forgot to check the water level on my Breville. It really doesn’t harm anything, but it just adds more steps that I could’ve avoided had I looked around the back and saw the water level. I kinda like the fact that ninja has a “idiot” light to prevent me from doing that.
I’ve had a good luck with all of my ninja products, so I’m hopeful this will be the one I keep. I seriously consider holding out for the pro model to go on sale, but I actually have a tea kettle for hot water as well as an instant hot on my sink, so even if it did go down in price, the odds are it’ll still be at a near $200 premium over the ninja Luxe premiere and I just couldn’t justify the increase at this time.
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