Due to the separate milk preparation system, the coffee machine is always ready to make perfect milk foam. The switch on the integrated milk container allows you to select the desired milk consistency. The Clean function ensures cleanliness of the milk system. When the milk container is not in use, you can store it conveniently in the fridge. All parts are dishwasher-safe. A fully-loaded bean-to-cup machine that tries its best to be compact is always going to have some compromises: this is one of the main ones, and there aren’t many others. Frothing your own milk in a jug only takes about 60 seconds and if you do it yourself you can get it just how you like it and a machine without a milk carafe tends to cost less as well. Normally you can easily find some faults with a coffee machine that would make you consider alternatives. However with the Delonghi ETAM 29.510.B bean to cup coffee machine, there really isn’t much that can be said in terms of negatives. The Autentica range of machines have all the benefits of the Magnifica range but they have built it all into a much smaller footprint so you can fit them into a smaller area if space is tight.

At the lower end of the price spectrum, you can expect to have manual controls to determine the amount of coffee that gets used and the amount of water that gets delivered. To cater to individual preferences, this coffee maker offers 13 adjustable grinder settings, allowing you to fine-tune the grind to suit your taste. It also boasts a self-cleaning function, ensuring that maintenance is hassle-free.The De’Longhi Autentica Plus doesn’t offer a thousand presets, instead offering essentially an espresso and ‘long’ coffee, which can then be tweaked in terms of strength and size. And temperature if you dive into the machine’s system properly. This is only necessary if you’re going to add cold milk to your coffee, though. There’s also a custom My Coffee preset. So the main difference between the Autentica and the Magnifica models is the Autentica comes with more features and functionality. The De’Longhi Autentica Plus is a mid-range bean-to-cup machine. It offers plenty of features and lots of customisation without getting all of the high-end innards we saw recently in machines like the Sage by Heston Oracle: things like a dual-boiler system. There are reasons why hardline coffee snobs might consider this a somewhat ‘basic’ model. However, as a lifestyle machine that gets you coffee shop-grade drinks with none of the fiddle and little of the clean-up, it’s perfect. Perhaps the most notable element of the De’Longhi Autentica Plus is its shape. This is a slimline machine, one that doesn’t command too much space on your work surface. It’s something we’re very grateful of in the somewhat-dinky kitchen we use to test these machines.

Designed to accommodate the needs of coffee connoisseurs, this espresso machine offers a capacity of 2 cups, ensuring that you can brew enough coffee to satisfy even the most discerning guests. It can use both coffee beans and ground coffee, allowing for flexibility in your brewing preferences.If you just want good coffee and you are not bothered by how good it looks then a lower-cost model will work just fine for you. With some machines, you can select the temperature of the water so if you like a really hot cup of coffee then you choose how hot and if you like it so that it’s ready to drink straight away then you can select it just how you like it. Milk carafes sound excellent and they certainly serve a purpose if you are in a rush and you don’t want to get involved in any part of your coffee preparation but it is worth bearing in mind that it does take away some of the personalisation you get if you heat the milk yourself in a jug with the steam nozzle.

For the kind of prices that Delonghi charge for their coffee machines you want to be able to enjoy a cappuccino or latte or espresso or Americano of the same quality that you get in a quality coffee shop. You can pay as little as a few hundred pounds for a Delonghi bean to cup coffee machine and you can pay over two thousand pounds if you really want to.

Customise the prepared servings according to your taste: choose from five levels of coffee strength, four temperature levels, and program your preferred portion size. If you are confused by the difference between a Magnifica vs an Autentica vs a Dinamica Delonghi bean to cup coffee machine you will be surprised to learn how little difference there is between them all. The most interesting thing is they all produce a very similar cup of coffee.

Is it even possible to make that many bean to cup machines available that are different enough that they fulfil a different purpose to each and every other one? It’s going to be made more of plastic than it is metal and will be a square box shape as opposed to tall and elegant. One of the narrowest bean-to-cup coffee machines on the market (only 19.5-cm wide), De’Longhi “Autentica ETAM 29.660” offers an authentic coffee experience. With a single touch, not only will you prepare traditional Italian espresso or cappuccino from freshly ground coffee beans or pre-ground coffee, but you’ll also be able to enjoy double espresso, slow-brewed long coffee (perfect for fans of filter brews!), a trendy flat white or a three-layered macchiato. The coffee machine is extremely simple to operate with a text display and control panel that are a pleasure to use. Automated maintenance programs allow you to focus all your attention on enjoying coffee. It’s not for people who want one-button-press cappuccino, but then De’longhi already makes a machine for that purpose.But if you like design and you want it to stand out because it’s going to be permanently sat on your work surface then you can consider one the of the well designed brushed stainless steel models. Features Those are the main differences between the cheaper Delonghi bean to cup machines and now we will explain the difference between the Autentica, Magnifica and Dinamica ranges specifically. What is the Delonghi Magnifica Range?