> It makes excellent expressos with cream and all (if you buy appropriately ground coffee). Most cheap espresso machines achieve crema and pressure via a press

> It makes excellent expressos with cream and all (if you buy appropriately ground coffee). Most cheap espresso machines achieve crema and pressure via a pressurised portafilter [1]. Nothing wrong with having one as a beginner, but you're stuck with using coarser grinds because of the always-there pressure, and it limits the number of variables you're able to play with to "dial in" beans. [1] https://coffee.stackexchange.com/questions/2641/how-big-of-a-difference-is-there-between-a-pressurised-and-non-pressurised-porta https://coffee.stackexchange.com/questions/2641/how-big-of-a...