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Easy cleaning

Machines that score highly for easy cleaning, ranked by our score.

MakerFormatTierScore

SageBambino PlusThree seconds from cold to ready, and an automatic wand that textures milk better than most people do by hand. Buy it for the milk and the speed; buy the grinder separately, because there isn't one.EspressoMid-range8.4
JuraE8Sealed, one-touch and built to repeat itself for a decade. The brew unit is not meant to come out, which is the trade: you get consistency and give up the ability to service it yourself.BeanToCupPremium8.1
PhilipsSeries 3200 LatteGoThe milk system is the reason to buy it: two parts, no tubes, and it rinses under a tap in seconds. Note the UK code — the /50 sold here has no iced-coffee function, whatever an American review tells you.BeanToCupMid-range7.9
De'LonghiMagnifica S ECAM22.110Fifteen years on sale and still the bean-to-cup most British households end up with. The brew group comes out for cleaning, which is the feature that decides year five, and the two finest grind settings jam it.BeanToCupMid-range7.8
De'LonghiDedica Style EC685Fifteen centimetres wide, which is the whole point: it fits where nothing else does. It ships with a pressurised basket and a panarello frother, so it flatters the coffee and caps what you can do with milk.EspressoMid-range7.0
De'LonghiStilosa EC230The cheapest way to own a real portafilter machine, and it makes a better shot than its price suggests. What you give up is the milk: the wand is short, slow and the reason nobody makes a flat white on one.EspressoBudget6.8
NespressoVertuo PopThirty seconds from cold to cup, and genuinely decent coffee for a capsule machine. The machine is the cheap part: the running cost lives in the capsules, and the tank is small enough to notice.PodBudget6.5

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