Over the years, I've owned (and still own) many types of coffee maker. My espresso needs have been met, for the last 10 years or so, by a Sage machine but it had become a chore to have to do every single aspect from grinding to pulling, manually. My wife also refused to get involved, so the coffee making always fell to me. As a result I was looking for a bean to cup machine for a while, but hadn't really thought about a fully automatic until I looked at the Barista TS SMART. I compared it to a number of others, and the fact that it was on offer at the time sealed the deal. I'll start with all the good bits, and there are many. Firstly, it makes really great coffee in no time at all, and with almost no input from me. If you're not getting good coffee out of the Barista TS SMART, look for better beans and thank me later. The self-cleaning processes that run at both startup and shutdown mean one of the biggest drawbacks of any espresso machine are removed immediately. Yes, it increases your water consumption but, take it from me, the alternative is much worse. The range of drinks it can make are extensive and, if we're honest, probably overkill. Out of the 20 listed, I've probably not used more than half a dozen of them. Better too many than too few, though. The "obvious" drinks like espresso, cappuccino, and latte are available from a row of buttons on the front of the machine. The rest take a bit of work to get to, but you soon get used to it. The ability to adjust every aspect of the recipes is excellent, and makes a huge difference if you have two people who like their drinks prepared differently. These variations can be stored in up to 4 separate profiles, for ease. Another good example of this being very useful is that we have 340ml cappuccino cups, and the "milk only" programme defaults to 120ml. What I do is set the default cappuccino recipe to get to 220ml total milk/coffee, then simply hit the milk button to top up to the 340ml level. The Barista TS SMART is smart enough to know what needs cleaning and what doesn't. I mistakenly turned it off, and triggered the shutdown flushing process, without running the milk easy cleaning programme first. Not wanting to leave milk in the system, I turned it back on and ran the easy cleaning. When turning the machine off again, it knew it didn't need to run the shutdown flush again, as no drinks had been made. A small thing, but welcome nevertheless. Being able to use 2 different types of coffee beans has been useful, but the ability to turn off the feature and let the machine use whichever side of the hopper has beans in, is very nice if you only tend to use a single variety. The water tank is about as big as it can be without increasing the size of the machine significantly but, as I mention above, you do go through a lot of water so expect to fill it twice a day if you're making 10/12 cups. Cleaning is easy and quick, and the Barista TS SMART prompts you to run the milk cleaning process, both the easy cleaning every time you use milk, and then the full programme with the cleaning solution periodically. It also prompts you to empty the bottom container where the waste water goes, but I'm in the habit of emptying it at the end of every startup flush process. Overall, several weeks in, it's a purchase I'm still really pleased I made, and have absolutely no regrets. But, as the title of this review suggests, the machine is not without its flaws. First, the milk foaming is great apart from the milk is just not warm enough coming out of the machine. This is not unique to this brand/model, it's a drawback of fully automatic machines and the balance between convenience and speed. The solution is just to microwave it for 30 seconds to bring it to the desired temperature. Don't microwave for too long, or you will burn both the milk and the coffee. A bit less is better than too much. The process for accessing the recipes that aren't on the front of the machine is also a little unclear and awkward at first, even with the included card, but a bit of trial and error does get you there in the end. The included milk container has, so far, remained unused, mainly because it's quite big, and doesn't keep milk cool. I simply use a small stainless steel jug together with the optional milk wand that you can buy (£10). You soon learn how much milk to pour without wasting any, and it's much easier. And now I'm going to save you some time. Just ignore the fact there's a Bluetooth app for this. You can't power on the machine with it, and you can't keep your milk cool unless you pay over the odds for the stainless steel model, so you need to go and stand in front of it anyway unless you're making drinks constantly. I've never even downloaded it, and I'm 100% convinced I neither need nor miss it. The only use the app could have, but which is very unlikely given it wopuld need to be built into the machine itself already, would be to update any firmware. The very slight niggles aside, I have no complaints about the Barista TS SMART. Making 2 drinks used to take me about 20 minutes and involved a lot of mither. I can now do it in 5 minutes and without breaking even a mild sweat. The fact the drinks taste so good is almost a bonus, although it's obviously the main point! I highly recommend the Barista TS SMART. Learn to live with the quirks, and you'll love it. Read more

Super. Heb verschillende merken in huis gehad, maar deze volautomatische koffiemachine van Melitta geeft toch de lekkerste koffie! Tevens gemakkelijk in onderhoud. Read more

Perfetto. Come nuova. Per la casa Read more

Funkar precis som förväntat. Read more

J'avoue avoir un peu hésité, après lecture des avis très divergents sur ce produit. J'ai donc sauté sur une "super offre" et plongé. Craintes fort probablement infondées. J'ai préféré attendre deux mois avant de rédiger mon commentaire. Une fois correctement réglée et surtout une fois trouvés les grains adéquats selon votre goût (il m'en aura fallu quatre ou cinq différents), les résultats sont excellents, la machine est simple d'emploi et avertit très clairement lors des (fréquentes!) interventions d'entretien. Je n'ai rencontré aucun problème avec l'application Bluetooth, bien conçue. Je m'en sers à environ 9 mètres de la machine, tous les matins (iOS). Minimes bémols: - la machine est assez lente. Cela peut déranger les anciens utilisateurs de machines à capsules, surtout au début. - la consommation d'eau tient du délire. Je ne vois pas d'autre mot. Cela rend l'usage de cartouches de filtration quasi obligatoire. Elles ne sont pas gratuites... Enfin on peut certes regretter qu'il soit possible de programmer l'extinction... mais pas l'allumage! Un petit effort, Melitta! Read more

I've used many coffee machines before but this is the best. It has so many coffee recipes and has a built-in grinder, and milk system/frother for the best milk coffee. I love that I can control so many things through the Smart App, sometimes from my bed :) Read more

Superb coffee. Easy to use with lots of features. Highly recommend.. Jag it for 1 month so don't know about long-term quality.. But build seems good. Read more

Bought in April, broken in September (((( to fast Read more

it doesn't work after 7 months ....amazon could you help me ? Read more

Best coffee machine you can get for small office or home use. Coffee taste is amazing especially for milk coffees. 2 bean container is very convinient, as you can use 2 different type of beans. Milk froster has flexible sucking hose that can suck the milk from any bottle which avoids extra cleaning and need to use any extra bottle/tank. Only disadvantage is water tank is 1.5l only and because of self cleaning machine always keeps some water in the tank for cleaning and you have to keep feeling up the water tank every 5-6 cups of coffee. If you have a budget it is best machine you can get in the market. Read more