
Maintenance
EssentialDescaler
Limescale is what most machines die of, and vinegar attacks the seals. A liquid descaler declared suitable for espresso machines does the same job as the maker’s own branded fluid, usually for less.
€15.90
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Philips
The Baristina with a steam wand that froths on its own
€411.00 in Black
Price verdict from 5 DecWe have measured this price since 5 November (5 days). Lowest measured: €339.07 on 5 November. A price verdict follows on 5 December at the earliest, and only after 2 more readings.
Updated on 10 November 2026Updated on 10 November 2026
Last 6 days
| Date | Lowest price that day |
|---|---|
| 10 November 2026 | €411.00 |
| 9 November 2026 | €411.00 |
| 8 November 2026 | €411.00 |
| 7 November 2026 | €411.00 |
| 6 November 2026 | €411.00 |
| 5 November 2026 | €339.07 |
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The Baristina Latte is the Baristina with milk. You pick espresso or lungo and push the handle to the right: the machine grinds the beans into the portafilter, tamps them and brews. Beside it a steam wand hangs in a jug of its own. A knob picks micro foam, thick foam or just hot milk, and Philips says the wand stops by itself once the foam and the temperature are right.
Frothing and brewing can run one after the other from a single setup, but not at the same time: the machine does one, then the other. Philips lists cappuccino, café latte, latte macchiato and flat white, which you make yourself by pouring the foam onto the espresso. At 25.9 centimetres it is wider than the plain Baristina at 18: the steam wand and the jug stand beside the coffee side.
Who for: Anyone who wants cappuccino from fresh beans on a small worktop, without learning to froth by hand.
Against 22 other manual espresso machines between €299.99 and €579.00, on the specifications the maker publishes.
This is what we know for certain. Dimensions and capacities the manufacturer or the shop does not state are left out rather than estimated. A measurement or a tank volume that is not there is one we do not have.
A worked example, not a specification: 2 cups a day (730 a year), the intervals from the maker's manual, with the water filter the maker recommends, and the lowest price in our catalog today.
We cannot price anything for this machine: what the maker requires is not in our catalog, or the maker gives no interval.
How often you descale depends on your water hardness. Where the maker gives no interval for it, we leave it out rather than estimate it.
6.57 kilos a year at 9 grams a cup: €108.34 with the cheapest kilo in our catalog, €445.45 with the dearest.
As the manufacturer states it. What a shop ships may differ.
Picked on what this machine does and does not do itself

Maintenance
EssentialLimescale is what most machines die of, and vinegar attacks the seals. A liquid descaler declared suitable for espresso machines does the same job as the maker’s own branded fluid, usually for less.
€15.90
Go to bol
Brewing
RecommendedThe puck has to go somewhere, and the bin clogs with wet coffee within a week. A box with a rubber bar is quieter than it sounds.
€21.95
Go to bol
Brewing
Can waitDosing by eye is why the same machine tastes better on one day than the next. A scale accurate to a tenth of a gram, with a timer, turns pulling espresso into something repeatable.
€44.95
Go to bolEvery bean fits every machine. What differs is the order: on a bean-to-cup the 100% arabica beans come first, because dark-roasted blends carrying robusta give off more oil and that clogs a built-in grinder sooner.

Segafredo
€16.49per kilo
Lowest price we have seen€16.49 · 1 kg bag
A blend with robusta, made for the Italian bar. Full and bittersweet, and the kind of bean a bean-to-cup grinder gets through without complaint.

Segafredo
€18.45per kilo
Lowest price we have seen€18.45 · 1 kg bag
Segafredo’s house blend, for anyone who also drinks their espresso with milk.

Lavazza
€19.99per kilo
Keenly priced€19.99 · 1 kg bag
The classic Italian bar blend: arabica with a good deal of robusta, which is where the thick crema espresso is known for comes from. Robusta is a cheaper bean than arabica, and that usually shows in the price per kilo.

Lavazza
€23.99per kilo
Keenly priced€23.99 · 1 kg bag
All arabica as well, like the Oro. The middle path between the soft arabica blends and the firm bar blends.

€299.99 in Milky white
Price verdict from 5 DecW 18 x H 34.5 cm · 1.2 l tank
With essential accessories€315.89
machine + descaler

De'Longhi · EC950.M
A slim portafilter machine with a steam wand that froths on its own
€319.00
Price verdict from 17 NovW 19 x H 32.5 cm · 1.6 l tank
With essential accessories€538.90
machine + descaler, coffee grinder

€386.00 in White Chrome
Price verdict from 5 DecW 24.7 x H 36.6 cm · 1.8 l tank
With essential accessories€401.90
machine + descaler