
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
Hot and cold milk froth from two LatteGo Pro jugs, and cold brew
€999.99
Price verdict from 5 DecWe have measured this price since 5 November (5 days). Lowest measured: €999.99 on 10 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 | €999.99 |
| 9 November 2026 | €999.99 |
| 8 November 2026 | €999.99 |
| 7 November 2026 | €999.99 |
| 6 November 2026 | €999.99 |
| 5 November 2026 | €999.99 |
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The Café Aromis 8000 is a Philips with a long menu: the spec sheet lists 54 pre-programmed drinks, hot and cold, cold brew among them. It comes with two LatteGo Pro jugs, one for hot and one for cold milk froth. Like the regular LatteGo they have no tubes; after every use you run a short rinse programme and the jug goes under the tap or in the dishwasher.
You work it from a 4.3 inch touchscreen, there are eight user profiles and it connects to the HomeID app. The Café Aromis 6000 has the same size, 25 drinks and one LatteGo Pro jug, for hot milk. Anyone with no need for cold milk and cold brew is better off looking there first.
Who for: Anyone who also wants cold coffee and cold milk froth from their bean-to-cup.
Against 27 other bean-to-cups between €699.00 and €1,479.00, 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.
Maintenance a year (the priced lines above)
€65.90
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
Maintenance
RecommendedPhilips counts a considerably longer descaling interval when this filter is fitted. Replace it on time: a saturated filter does nothing, and the machine keeps counting regardless.
€32.95
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.

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.

Lavazza
€24.26per kilo
Keenly priced€24.26 · 1 kg bag
All arabica, and so softer and more acidic than the blends carrying robusta. Anyone who finds espresso too harsh often starts here.

De Koffiejongens
€29.99per kilo
Ordinary price€29.99 · 1 kg bag
Certified organic and medium roasted. Compare the price per kilo with the branded blends: organic need not cost more.

illy
€46.00per kilo
Lowest price we have seen€11.50 · 250 g tin
A blend of nine arabicas, and per kilo a bean from the top end. The 250 g tin looks cheap and per kilo is nothing of the sort.

€749.00 in White Chrome
Price verdict from 5 DecW 25.1 x H 38.9 cm · 1.9 l tank
With essential accessories€764.90
machine + descaler

€592.00
Ordinary priceW 24.6 x H 37.7 cm · 1.8 l tank
With essential accessories€607.90
machine + descaler

€998.00
Price verdict from 5 Dec1.7 l tank
With essential accessories€1,013.90
machine + descaler