Price: $1,499.95 - $1,199.95
(as of Dec 09, 2024 10:16:08 UTC - Details)

Breville Barista Touch Impress Espresso Machine BES881BTR, Black Truffle
Enjoy step-by-step barista guidance at your fingertips. With real time feedback, the Barista Touch Impress navigates you through the Impress Puck System, precise extraction and hands-free silky smooth microfoam. The ThermoJet heating system gives you a 3-second heat up time, meaning you go from bean to cup faster than ever before
BARISTA GUIDANCE: Step-by-step guidance with real time feedback from the Impress Puck System, precise extraction & hands-free silky smooth microfoam
ASSISTED TAMPING: Intelligent dosing, assisted 22lb tamping and auto correction of the next dose to achieve a precise puck, finished with a 7º barista twist. Simplifies the steps needed to grind, dose and tamp to create an impressive puck
ALTERNATIVE MILK SETTINGS: Auto MilQ features three new alternative milk settings which calibrate air injection time and temperature specific to the type of milk you choose
AUTO MilQ: The auto steam wand allows you to adjust the milk temperature and level of texture to suit your taste. Delivers silky smooth microfoam that enhances the flavor of the coffee and is essential for pouring latte and cappuccino art at home
THERMOJET HEATING SYSTEM: Innovative ThermoJet heating system achieves the optimum extraction temperature in 3 seconds
BARATZA EUROPEAN PRECISION BURRS WITH 30 GRIND SETTINGS: With a single touch, the integrated hardened steel precision conical burr grinder with dose control delivers the right amount of coffee on demand, for maximum flavor
IMPRESSIVE TOUCHSCREEN EXPERIENCE: Improved touchscreen guides you every step of the way to make your perfect coffee, all at your fingertips. Simply swipe and select from the 8 café favorite presets or customize up to 8 drinks
Reviewer: larocque43
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: What an Upgrade!
Review: I have had, used, and loved my Breville Creatista Plus using Nespresso pods for about 7 years. The machine still functioned well, but it was just starting to slow down. I had been waiting for an excuse to upgrade, got a raise at work, and decided to treat myself to a new machine. Boy, am I glad I did. I was deciding between the regular Impress and the Touch Impress. The Touch seemed to have a few upgrade, grinder, milkIQ thing, ease of use, better heating system, that I decided to pay the higher price. I am sure the Impress is an awesome machine, based on my Touch. The Touch, however, it out of this world. It took two times to get dialed in, and in less than 10 minutes, I tasted a better flat white than anything I had ever had. Sure, a lot had to do with the beans, but this machine is AMAZING. Easy set up, like super easy. Put beans in, figure out your grind size, hit the button, tamp it, put the portofiler in, push. the button, put the pitcher with milk under the frother, and done. Next day, made my normal morning mocha. first time, used half the mocha I did with my Nespresso, and it was a top 5 mocha I have ever had. For context, any city I visit, I search for the best rated coffee house. Starbucks is a last resort. I have had great coffee in many places. This machine matches any of them. The only one I know was better was at Palo on a Disney Cruise. My daughter came home from college. Made her a vanilla latte. Said it was the best she has ever had. The level this machine produces espresso and other beverages is so far above most chain coffee shops, and equals the smaller mom and pop boutique coffee shops I love. Even now, I am sitter here drinking the best salted caramel mocha, it is fall after all, I have ever had. Made my wife an americano, her favorite drink. She LOVED it. Easy to use, makes you look like a coffee genius, and looks pretty good in the kitchen. Not even worth mentioning how much of an upgrade it is over my Nespresso, which was a great machine. This machine is everything I hoped and more. For context, I used Koffee Kult beans, which can be found on Amazon. Best beans you will find.Update-It has been 6 weeks and wanted to give a quick update. First, this machine only gets better. I have heard people downplay the milk technology. To me, this is a great feature. Who knew, I didn't, that oat milk gets bitter at 150 degrees? Well Breville did. As you learn more, like using the tap lever twice as some online reviews suggest, produces a cleaner puck. Their different temps make a difference in the quality of the milk, regardless of kind. The machine is pretty clean, but you will find grinds slipping out every now and then. Not a big deal, but trying to keep it real. Something that might frustrate people, but it is the result of fresh beans, not the machine, is dialing in the grind and length of the shot does fluctuate a little. A 12 grind produces 26 second pulls one time, and maybe 23 seconds the next day. Not a big deal to me, but to perfectionists, might be a worry. Again, not the machine, but I believe it is the natural variance of fresh beans. I read a lot of complaints about the grinder. I don't know act people are expecting, but it is a grinder. I think it is surprisingly quiet. Maybe it is because I saw people write about it, but I was quite pleased with the grinder. The machine heats up quickly. It takes about 25-30 seconds to pull a shot. The milk frothing is fairly quick.My daughter went to breakfast the other day. She got a dunkin with her friends. She came home and asked me to make her something, the dunkin didn't taste good. That is my one warning, you can make amazing espresso drinks with this machine. It will change your palette. When I have meetings at Starbucks now, instead of something I look forward to, it is more ok, I will deal with spending $6 on a very average cup of coffee. This machine is expensive, but much less than some. I am not sure you can produce a better espresso shot. I know I haven't found better in even the best coffee shops.

Reviewer: Amazon Customer
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Brand new in box - so far so good
Review: I was a bit hesitant to buy this based on a lot of other buyers getting used or defective equipment. Happy to say it came brand new and put together well. I mean this is a consumer piece designed to hopefully provide some years of use then discard it. This is not a prosumer where you get to replace parts and keep for ever ( I have an ECM synchronita as well in another location ) So far pulls decent shots and absolutely no issues . Based on 19% poor ratings I did buy the warranty just in case. Not going through all that stress trying to be heard . So far so good. It heats up fast and does what it is supposed to do. Go Prosumer if you want something better and replaceable parts . Look up whole latte love or Clive coffee for that . Worth the extra money as you get what you pay for .i did order a naked basket and another porter filter for this as the factory, though good , tends to cool off the shot with the dual funnels. Small foot print and sort of condensed work area. There is a rather large distance from the porter filter to the shot glass but I think I it was designed that way to accommodate milk drinks with a larger cup . I put away my higher end grinder for now and will use the built in until I find I need micro adjustments for the single origin beans.

Reviewer: David Dufault
Rating: 1.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Great machine (when it works)… TERRIBLE customer services for a premium priced product
Review: First, let me start with the positives… we loved this machine for the first 10 months (when it worked). The espresso was great, the machine is easy to use and produced consistently high quality results. As a bonus, it was a wonderful hospitality option to treat our guests. These positives were awesome and ultimately why I still give this two stars.Unfortunately, our machine suddenly stopped turning on (blank screen… no obvious reason) about three weeks ago, and our Breville story has turned into a customer service nightmare since that time.First it takes a lot of time to work your way through their glitchy call in system. They clearly use an international call center which led to a difficult communication environment to start with. What should’ve been the easiest part (Shipping back the product which was thankfully still under warranty) was NOT, as we were given INCORRECT instructions at the beginning (said they would send a shipping box in 2-3 days, only to receive a call three days later saying they didn’t have shipping boxes and we would need to take care of this ourselves). When we finally did get the machine shipped at UPS, it took over one week for them to receive the machine at their warehouse.It then took almost A WEEK just to confirm what we already knew - the machine didn’t turn on… but Breville customer service didn't communicate the results directly to us. We received a very short and confusing email essentially saying “our order was back ordered and wouldn’t ship for 1-3 weeks at the soonest. Upon again braving the call in center labyrinth, I found out the details including the incomprehensible statement that the stainless steel model we owned wasn’t available (note: checked Amazon and it could deliver one to us in 1 day) but they did have other colors. Upon me telling them I’d take other colors, they said we’d hear back shortly… but now over 24 hours later, I AGAIN called only to hear that 1. “The warehouse hasn’t responded yet and there’s nothing the rep can do to expedite” and 2. Upon requesting a supervisor to lay out the frustrating customer service facts of the last several weeks, they said “we can only put you in a queue to speak with a supervisor and it will take 24-48 hours”.After all this, all the positive good will Breville build over 10 months has been eroded in weeks. For a $1,500+tax premium consumer product, I’m horrible disappointed by this experience. Hopefully we’ll get a machine soon… Will update this post if anything materially changes.

Reviewer: Cyndi Lee
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: It's AMAZING!
Review: I use it daily for my latte fix. It's super easy to use, gives the perfect cup every morning. I am on my second Breville and will never go back.I only buy coffee at coffee shop maybe once a month now, which saves so much money and has made this machine well worth the cost.I personally love buying locally roasted beans and enjoy the flavor this machine brings out in the espresso.

Reviewer: PETER
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: It does almost everything and does it well. No mess with coffee grounds after grinding. Perfect tapping. Most important perfect milk frothing. Consistent texture. Lattées and cappuccinos have never tasted better.

Reviewer: Joan
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: We love this machine. High quality for a reasonable price It’s user friendly and make delicious espresso and cappuccino. Haven’t tried anything else yet.

Reviewer: Melanie
Rating: 1.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: I absolutely love how this Machine looks! The coffee is great and the milk foam is even better! Purchased this 10 days ago!!I wish I would have done more research on the Product. It seems like a lot of people running into the same ER code issue! When frothing the milk the machine will just shut off. It usually works fine the first time in the morning but the second person frothing milk is out of luck!I have contacted Breville and I hope they will help me out!I also wanted to return the machine but the seller wanted to charge me a 15% restocking fee I then talked with Amazons customer service and they were absolutely great with helping me out!

Reviewer: Sameer
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Purchased this machine to replace my older Breville barista - new technology and innovation in design and features is truly remarkable. Still nervous about how this machine will stand to the test of time, given the smart technology, but so far it's been incredible. Milk and froth texture is spot on and espresso shots can be customized or set based on preference. Super easy for everyone including our kids to tailor and save their speciality drinks. We use this 4-5 times a day!

Reviewer: Claude Benoit
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Très satisfait, enfin du vrais café et facile à fare