PAID PROMOTION: If you love coffee but wonder how you can get better-tasting hot drinks at home, we feel you – many people make do with a substandard coffee when they brew it in their own kitchen, just because they’ve always done it that way.
That’s why it’s great to explore speciality coffees with a fully-featured yet compact maker like the De’Longhi La Specialista Arte Manual Bean to Cup Espresso Machine. This beauty is designed to help you craft coffee at home without having to take hours out from work calls to achieve barista-quality results.
In this video, De’Longhi coffee expert Matt Randle explains the fundamental stuff to bear in mind when looking for a new coffee machine: “No matter what machine you get, whether it’s fully automatic, fully manual or somewhere in between [like the La Specialista Arte], the fundamentals don’t change. You want to grind fresh and dose well, and use great water. Then it all depends on how much you want to engage with it.”
And he adds: “A machine like this one is great if you want to engage a little bit more and spend another five minutes just to get that extra 5% out of the coffee you’ve bought.”
Chapters:
00:00 Welcome
00:13 Introducing Matt Randle
01:13 Types of coffee machine
02:35 The Arte's controls and accessories
04:58 Which coffee beans should you choose?
06:18 Making coffee with the La Specialista Arte