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Originally Posted by red-beard View Post
Nothing wrong per se, but it is a "semi-automatic", meaning you need to grind coffee, fill port-filter, tamp, insert and THEN make your cup. And then you need to clean port-filter between shots.

The super automatic keeps beans and water internally. You press a button, it grinds, tamps, infuses, then controls pressure until enough water has passed. Press button, wait 40 seconds, enjoy coffee. Quicker and easier than even a "pod" machine.
Okay, that is pretty cool... especially seeing as I usually do multiple shots of coffee.

However convincing my wife I need a $800 coffee maker might be a hard sell

On the other hand the reason she shot down a espresso machine was that "they are so messy" and a super automatic would eliminate the grinder (grind my own beans every morning and some spillage is inevitable) and the mess of tamping/loading.

Hmmmmm
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