Im looking at buying an espresso maker for my partners upcoming birthday, and want to make sure Im buying something decent before I blow all that money
Im not looking at spending more than about $350-$400. All we have at the moment is a basic Breville dripolater style coffee maker, so Im looking for something a bit classier / higher quality. Ive been considering something along the lines of a Sunbeam EM3800 along with an EM0480 grinder. Will this make a decent grade of coffee for the kind of money Im looking to spend? If not, what would be a better idea? (Just for the record, Im not interested in just buying a fancy grinder and a plunger, the whole idea here is to produce espresso to make lattes etc)
I notice theres a lot of talk here about pressurised baskets and different kinds of filters etc. To be honest Im being completely overwhelmed by the kind of details people go into in all the threads here. If I do get this machine, would I be better off changing the basket / filter to improve the quality of coffee it produces? Are these simple changes a non-expert could make easily?
Thanks for any help you could offer.
Im not looking at spending more than about $350-$400. All we have at the moment is a basic Breville dripolater style coffee maker, so Im looking for something a bit classier / higher quality. Ive been considering something along the lines of a Sunbeam EM3800 along with an EM0480 grinder. Will this make a decent grade of coffee for the kind of money Im looking to spend? If not, what would be a better idea? (Just for the record, Im not interested in just buying a fancy grinder and a plunger, the whole idea here is to produce espresso to make lattes etc)I notice theres a lot of talk here about pressurised baskets and different kinds of filters etc. To be honest Im being completely overwhelmed by the kind of details people go into in all the threads here. If I do get this machine, would I be better off changing the basket / filter to improve the quality of coffee it produces? Are these simple changes a non-expert could make easily?
Thanks for any help you could offer.

I would suggest I have had more crap coffees from expensive equipment, than from many of the cheep units I have had a coffee from.
If you want good coffee.
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