You will never need a barista again because you can have your good cup of espresso and other coffee flavors when you have your very own automatic espresso machine at home.
All it needs is to push a couple of buttons, a little extended patience, and you are good with your daily coffee shot. These machines make life simple – the Jura Z8 and Breville Oracle Touch.
But, which of these two is better? Let’s find out in this in-depth comparison review.
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Jura Z8
Breville Oracle Touch
Pre-Programmed and Touch Screen Panels
The Oracle Touch boasts a color touch-screen panel where you have five pre-programmed drinks complete with the information of every drink. Soon, you can create, name, and save eight more additional drinks that you can easily access with a single push of a button.
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The Jura Z8 also follows the user-friendly touch-screen panel with 21 possible drinks to be selected. Yes, that’s more options than the Oracle Touch Base, giving you more variety and new flavors mornings until afternoons.
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Personalization
Both coffee makers provide you with flexibility and control to adjust some critical features in your coffee machine. The modifications that you apply will solely be based on your preference and can be altered as many times as you need.
For the Oracle, you can adjust your coffee strength, temperature, and even your milk texture. All these can be done with a single touch then you can save it with a name you want so you can have these custom-made settings available for you anytime.
The Jura Z8 has the same personalization capabilities. You can customize your machine’s grinder settings, the overall aroma settings, and the water heat level of your Z8. All these improve your coffee’s flavor and the overall experience you get while preparing and waiting for your cup of liquid magic.
Espresso Extraction
Breville’s Oracle Touch boasts the commercial feature of the OPV or Over Pressure Valve that helps achieve a balanced tasting espresso. This feature restricts the maximum pressure applied during the extraction process, thus preventing the flavors from becoming bitter.
Additionally, it works with digital temperature control, so the water being delivered is always at the right temperature during the espresso extraction.
The Z8 works similarly, but theirs is using the elite Pulse Extraction Process or PEP. Again, the goal is to enhance the extraction time to give that additional “pep” in aroma and flavor. This is especially beneficial for short specialty coffees like the ristretto and espresso so that you can have that full and rich coffee flavor.
Maintenance
The Breville Oracle Touch is more prominent in size at 14.7 x 14.5 x 17.6 inches than the Z8 9.1 x 9.1 x 9.1 inches; both are easy to clean and maintain. Both have cleaning cycles integrated within them, so all you need is to do this flush regularly.
Although for the Z8, there are certain drinks where flushing is required before it processes it, this is usually part of the minimal care that it needs.
The usual cleaning routine of emptying the drip tray, flushing the screen, cleaning the steam wand, and washing the portafilter and basket are recommended for both machines. Both don’t require any special tools or processes to keep it clean and well-maintained.
Conclusion
Any of these two is worth your purchase. Sure, the upfront cost, especially of the Jura Z8, may be overwhelming, but it is an investment that you can enjoy and take advantage of for a very long time.
In addition, the different coffee mixes that these two machines can bring you every day in every cup is something that money can’t buy.
Either or, you can look forward to mornings knowing that an excellent cup is waiting for you. And you get to enjoy a machine that can produce satisfying coffee for the next several years.
