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Crew Review: Saeco Maintenance Kit

Keep your Saeco superautomatic squeaky clean and well cared for with Saeco’s new upgraded maintenance kit. It now includes Intenza filters, Saeco-branded liquid descaling solution, brew group lubricant and a cleaning kit that includes O-ring replacements for your brew group. Watch as Gail walks us through all of the lovely goodies included in this kit. [...]

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Crew Review: Saeco Odea Cappuccino

Superautomatics can’t be beat when it comes to ease of use and convenience. Saeco’s recent addition to their Odea series not only brews up your shot at the touch of a button, it also provides you with an optional cappuccinatore for auto-frothing on the side. Watch Gail take us through the features and functionality, then [...]

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SCG Tech Tips: Espresso Machine Maintenance & Care

So you’ve finally pulled together the courage to add up how much you’ve been spending on all those lattes, macchiatos and cappuccinos you’ve consumed at your local cafe everyday. After looking at the grand total you think, ‘Wow, I could’ve set up my own espresso shop!’ When considering their purchase, folks often think about the [...]

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SCG’s Most Popular Coffee Gear – 2011

Not that we’re encouraging you to keep up with the Joneses, but if you’re in the market for a new espresso machine, we thought it might be helpful to share which models sold the best over the last year. Broken down by budget, here is what other folks have chosen for their home espresso setup, [...]

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New! Non-Pressurized & Bottomless Portafilters for Saeco & Starbucks Machines

The most popular mod/upgrade to Saeco and Starbucks semi-automatic machines is the non-pressurized portafilter, which turns a pretty basic machine into one that can produce shots that rival gear several hundred dollars up the food chain. When the last of them that Saeco had produced were gone, we knew we had to do something to [...]

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Experimenting with Ristrettos

You know that since we are part of the goblin class, we love short things, right? It took us awhile to strong arm Gail into doing a ristretto comparison on several different machines, but we finally wore her down and here is the proof of our labors! Watch as Gail pulls double ristretto shots (1.5 [...]

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Compare: Saeco Aroma vs. Saeco Via Venezia

These little workhorses are some of our most popular machines because their build quality and functionality are great for their price. Gail talks to us about the similarities and differences between the Aroma and the Via Venezia, including which machine is better suited for different drink preparations.

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Crew Review: Saeco Syntia Cappuccino

Yet another gauntlet laid down, yet another petite one-touch superautomatic added to the fray. If we are honest, we will admit that we wish these really were robots and that we could pit these tiny superautomatics against each other in a brew to the death! But we are not honest; doing so would be too [...]

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Crew Review: Saeco Exprelia One-Touch Superauto

Saeco’s newest addition to their stainless steel version of superautomatic espresso machines is the Exprelia, which is basically a simplified version of the Xelsis. With not quite as many programming options (you can program the same number of drinks, you just don’t have multiple users) and a slimmed down case, this is a great choice [...]

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How Much Time to Make 4 Lattes?

If you’ve got a party rockin’ hard, you don’t really want to be away from it too long, do you? That’s the question posed to us by several of our YouTube viewers: How long does it take to make 4 lattes on a few different machines? So we asked Bunny to perform some testing for [...]

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