Sage Barista Touch Impress SES882BSS Espresso Machine – Cold Extraction, Assisted Tamping, Auto Milk

The Sage Barista Touch Impress SES882BSS is an espresso machine with a built-in grinder, a touchscreen and assisted tamping. This version adds cold extraction, so you can make cold brew and cold espresso as well as hot drinks.

Key features

• Cold extraction: cold brew in under 3 minutes and a crema-topped cold espresso in just under 2
• Assisted tamping: the Impress Puck System doses the coffee, helps you tamp at 10 kg and corrects the next dose automatically
• Touchscreen guidance: step-by-step prompts with live feedback on each shot, 8 preset drinks and space to save 8 of your own
• Auto MilQ milk: textures milk hands-free with settings for dairy, soy, almond and oat, 8 texture levels and temperatures from 40°C to 75°C
• Built-in grinder: Baratza burrs with 30 grind settings, fed from a 340 g bean hopper
• ThermoJet heating: reaches extraction temperature in 3 seconds, so you can start a shot almost straight away

Good to know before you buy

The water tank holds 2 litres and the portafilter is 54 mm. You get single and dual wall baskets for one or two cups, plus a water filter and a hardness test strip to set the machine up for your water. Allow for a footprint of 36 cm wide by 34 cm deep, and 41.5 cm of height under wall cupboards.

In the box

• 54 mm stainless steel portafilter
• 480 ml stainless steel milk jug
• 1 and 2 cup single wall filter baskets
• 1 and 2 cup dual wall filter baskets
• Water filter holder with filter
• Water hardness test strip
• Razor precision trimming tool
• Cleaning tablets
• Steam wand cleaning tool
• Cleaning disc
• Cleaning brush
• Descale powder