I've been looking for an alternative to the Breville Dual Boiler for some time and was hoping that Sunbeam was going to come out with something and it looks like I've not been disappointed.
It's called the Torino and on the face of it, it certainly looks to be an excellent machine.
Heavy on the Italian styling with a manual E61 styled group head. It's not actually an E61 as in the photo you can see the standard Sunbeam collar poking out from underneath but it looks the part and the lever appears to be functional.
How the lever integrates with the standard 1 and 2 cup programmable buttons I'm not sure. Perhaps the lever is for manual control and the buttons override it.
This would indicate that the lever is not operating any kind of cam or valves but is most likely just moving a spring and a switch.
Still a cool feature.
Sunbeam are sticking with thermoblock technology as it has served them well over the years. This machine has 3 thermoblocks. One for brew, one for steam and one for hot water I assume. Hopefully the hot water thermoblock can be utilised in the steam circuit to provide more powerful steam which has always been a downside of the thermoblock system.
Also inside is PID temperature control, an LCD display with a shot clock and a proper brew pressure gauge, a definite improvement over the electronic gauges in the EM7000.
The grinder, whilst lacking on specification at this time, looks impressive.
The only specs I have are that it is belt driven and has LED lighting. I assume it utilises the same burrs and burr carriers as the EM0500 however if they've upgraded them to something a bit more solid and reliable that can only be an improvement.
RRP is $2000 and they're due in stores late October/early November. I will probably get one and do a tear down to answer some questions.

It's called the Torino and on the face of it, it certainly looks to be an excellent machine.
Heavy on the Italian styling with a manual E61 styled group head. It's not actually an E61 as in the photo you can see the standard Sunbeam collar poking out from underneath but it looks the part and the lever appears to be functional.
How the lever integrates with the standard 1 and 2 cup programmable buttons I'm not sure. Perhaps the lever is for manual control and the buttons override it.
This would indicate that the lever is not operating any kind of cam or valves but is most likely just moving a spring and a switch.
Still a cool feature.
Sunbeam are sticking with thermoblock technology as it has served them well over the years. This machine has 3 thermoblocks. One for brew, one for steam and one for hot water I assume. Hopefully the hot water thermoblock can be utilised in the steam circuit to provide more powerful steam which has always been a downside of the thermoblock system.
Also inside is PID temperature control, an LCD display with a shot clock and a proper brew pressure gauge, a definite improvement over the electronic gauges in the EM7000.
The grinder, whilst lacking on specification at this time, looks impressive.
The only specs I have are that it is belt driven and has LED lighting. I assume it utilises the same burrs and burr carriers as the EM0500 however if they've upgraded them to something a bit more solid and reliable that can only be an improvement.
RRP is $2000 and they're due in stores late October/early November. I will probably get one and do a tear down to answer some questions.

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