
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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Siemens
A Siemens with a milk system, without the newest range's premium
€494.01
Ordinary priceUsually between €474.89 and €509.00 (the middle half of every price we measured)
Updated on 10 November 2026Updated on 10 November 2026
Last 29 days
| Date | Lowest price that day |
|---|---|
| 10 November 2026 | €494.01 |
| 9 November 2026 | €494.01 |
| 8 November 2026 | €502.99 |
| 7 November 2026 | €494.00 |
| 6 November 2026 | €499.00 |
| 5 November 2026 | €494.01 |
| 4 November 2026 | €494.01 |
| 3 November 2026 | €499.00 |
| 2 November 2026 | €499.99 |
| 1 November 2026 | €474.89 |
| 31 October 2026 | €474.89 |
| 30 October 2026 | €384.00 |
| 29 October 2026 | €384.00 |
| 28 October 2026 | €384.00 |
| 27 October 2026 | €384.00 |
| 26 October 2026 | €384.00 |
| 25 October 2026 | €384.00 |
| 24 October 2026 | €384.00 |
| 23 October 2026 | €503.91 |
| 22 October 2026 | €509.00 |
| 21 October 2026 | €509.00 |
| 20 October 2026 | €384.00 |
| 19 October 2026 | €514.00 |
| 18 October 2026 | €508.86 |
| 17 October 2026 | €514.00 |
| 16 October 2026 | €514.00 |
| 15 October 2026 | €514.00 |
| 14 October 2026 | €514.00 |
| 13 October 2026 | €508.86 |
Price alert
Espresso machines drop hardest around Black Friday and in the weeks before Christmas. Leave your email address and pick below what you want to hear about.
The EQ.6 is the generation below the EQ.500 and still widely sold, as the older range usually for less. Milk hose into a carafe, oneTouch for cappuccino, and the same ceramic burrs.
What you give up is mainly the screen and the automatic rinse programme of the newer range. That last one is no detail: a milk system you have to remember to clean yourself is the system that eventually gives up.
Who for: Anyone who wants Siemens build quality without paying top money for it.
Against 50 other bean-to-cups between €331.99 and €731.60, 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)
€49.98
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.
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
RecommendedThe filter Siemens and Bosch share. It stretches the descaling interval and takes the off-notes out of hard tap water.
€24.99
Go to CoolblueEvery 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.

€525.00
Lowest price we have seenW 27.2 x H 37.8 cm · 1.8 l tank
With essential accessories€540.90
machine + descaler

€380.00
Lowest price we have seenW 24 x H 36 cm · 1.8 l tank
With essential accessories€395.90
machine + descaler