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Mid East Info
9 hours ago
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- Mid East Info
Molly-Mae's Go-To Espresso Machine Just Launched in the UAE - Middle East Business News and Information
Sage Appliances – the cult-favourite brand behind some of the world's most iconic home espresso machines – has officially launched the Oracle Jet and Barista Touch Impress in the UAE. Global reality TV star, influencer and entrepreneur Molly-Mae Hague recently brought her love for home-brewed coffee to life with the Maebe Coffee pop-up in Manchester's Lincoln Square. Powered by her new go-to machine, the Oracle Jet, the event served thousands of iced coffees and sweet treats to lucky fans. Now, UAE coffee enthusiasts can elevate their daily rituals with Sage's latest premium machines. Whether it's a bold morning espresso or a cooling afternoon iced latte, the Oracle Jet and Barista Touch Impress deliver precision, performance, and style in every cup. With its sleek design and cutting-edge functionality, the Oracle Jet (AED 6,999) sets a new standard in home brewing featuring dual heaters for fast, stable brewing, a precision grinder, and a large 4.5-inch touchscreen with Wi-Fi updates. The Barista Touch Impress (AED 5,299), on the other hand, is designed for ease and speed, offering step-by-step barista guidance and automation for café-quality results with minimal effort. Part of the Breville Group, Sage Appliances is known for combining thoughtful design with innovative technology to help consumers achieve professional-quality results at home. With a focus on user experience and precision engineering, Sage has built a loyal following among coffee lovers and home chefs alike, offering a wide range of premium kitchen appliances that bring café-quality experiences into everyday life. About Sage Appliances: Over the past 90 years, Sage Appliances has grown to become an iconic global brand, delivering kitchen products to over 70 countries around the globe. The company sells under the Sage brand in Europe, and under the Breville brand in the rest of the world. Sage has enhanced people's lives through the delivery of brilliant innovation and thoughtful design based on deep consumer insights, empowering people to do things more impressively or easily than they'd thought possible in their own home and ultimately allowing them to Master Every Moment™.
Business Insider
4 days ago
- Business Insider
Oracle Jet review: The best Breville espresso machine our coffee expert has ever tested
There's nothing quite as satisfying as enjoying a homemade shot of espresso, but pulling a shot can be a daunting feat if you don't know where to start. It can take hours to research the best espresso machine and learn how to dial in your beans. If you just want to enjoy quality espresso at home without plunging down this rabbit hole, then the Breville Oracle Jet is a great option. With a built-in grinder and automatic dosing, tamping, and steaming, the Oracle Jet comes with everything you need to brew your favorite espresso-based drink at home. It also has a nifty digital user interface that walks you through the entire brewing process, from helping you tune the grinder settings for the perfect shot to steaming milk for your cappuccino or latte. As someone who's worked many busy café shifts behind the bar and has a manual espresso setup at home, I was a little skeptical about testing out a machine that automates so much of the process. But, I was pleasantly surprised by how easy and fun the Oracle was to use, and by the quality of espresso it produced. The Oracle Jet provides a great set of automatic features that make the brewing process approachable for absolute beginners, without taking away the hands-on aspect that makes brewing at home so satisfying. Getting started Setting up the Breville Oracle is quick and simple, and there's a thorough walk-through mode that takes you through each step. Just install the water filter in the water tank and fill it up, run a quick initial rinse cycle, and place the bean hopper on top of the machine. It even comes with a testing strip so you can calibrate your water hardness. This is used to determine how often the machine prompts you to run a descale cycle and change the water filter, which is essential maintenance for your machine's longevity. Brewing espresso Brewing a shot of espresso with the Oracle is as easy as it gets without going fully automatic. You don't even need to worry about how much coffee to grind — the Oracle will dose it for you. First, you insert the portafilter into the grinder. Once you lock it into place, it will grind the coffee and automatically tamp the grounds down. Then, all you have to do is unlock the portafilter from the grinder, lock it into the grouphead, and press a button to brew your shot. The brewing automatically stops once a set amount of water has passed. There are preset single- and double-shot options, but you can also adjust how much water you want in your shot if you prefer. Dialing in As mentioned above, brewing a shot on the Oracle is easy. But really, brewing a shot on any machine is easy, and the general workflow is pretty standard: you grind the coffee into the portafilter and pull the shot. The hard part is getting that shot of espresso to actually taste good. The process of adjusting your brewing parameters to achieve your ideal espresso shot is called "dialing in," and this is probably the greatest learning curve when it comes to brewing espresso. You can picture water flowing through a jar of sand. It will pass quickly through coarse, rocky sand, and slowly through very fine sand. Similarly, if the water passes too quickly through the coffee grounds, then it won't have enough time to extract all the stuff that makes your espresso taste round and full-bodied, and it will end up tasting too sour. This is called under-extraction. Conversely, if the water passes through too slowly, then too much coffee will get extracted, resulting in a shot that is bitter. This is called over-extraction. Dialing in is the process of finding the elusive sweet spot between under- and over-extraction and the focus of many espresso aficionado's obsession (including mine). I was pleasantly surprised by how simple and straightforward the Oracle makes this process. It gives a digestible overview of the concepts of coffee extraction and helps you adjust your grind setting to get within the recommended brewing range. Compare that to dialing in on a manual setup, where you'd have to adjust the grind setting (how fine or coarse you go), coffee dose (how much ground coffee goes into your espresso puck), and the amount of water used to brew the shot. While the Oracle removes much control from the dialing-in process, it also greatly simplifies it, and it's certainly good enough to achieve a solid shot of espresso. Consistency To see how consistent the Oracle is, I measured results across 10 double shots brewed on the same grind setting using medium-roasted espresso beans. Across my tests, the grinder dosed out about 20-22 grams of coffee, the shots took 24-29 seconds to brew, and they yielded 45-50 grams of coffee. All in all, I think this level of consistency is great considering that the dosing process is completely automatic. The difference between shots is pretty negligible, especially if you're adding milk to your espresso. Cold extraction The Oracle Jet offers several different espresso brewing methods — regular espresso, "cold espresso," and "cold brew." The espresso pucks are prepared the same way, but the cold extraction methods use room-temperature water. The cold espresso takes about 1 minute and 10 seconds to brew, and yields about the same amount of water as a hot shot of espresso. The cold brew takes around 2.5 to 3 minutes and yields enough water for a ready-to-drink glass of cold brew — you only need to add ice. I didn't love how the cold espresso turned out. It was really acidic and didn't have much body to balance it out. However, Breville's website recommends this feature for darker roasted coffees, which have less acidity to begin with, and I used a medium roast, so this may explain my results. I was pleasantly surprised with the Oracle's cold brew though. It was crisp, bright, and much less bitter than a regular espresso. It didn't have nearly as much smoothness and body as traditional cold brew, which is brewed with coarsely ground coffee over 12 to 24 hours, but it still produced a refreshing drink that I'd happily enjoy in a pinch. Plus, I think it's an innovative way to make use of the dynamic heating capabilities of the thermojet heating system. AutoMilQ milk steaming The Oracle Jet comes with an automatic milk steaming function, achieving the ideal temperature and foam level based on your selected drink and dairy option. That's right — the milk steaming even accounts for dairy alternatives. You can choose from traditional dairy, oat milk, almond milk, or soy milk, and the steamer will adjust the end temperature accordingly. If you're going for latte art, you'll want to give your steamed milk a good couple of swirls in the pitcher just to help mix the foam in with the rest of your milk, which is essential for pouring art. You can also bypass the automatic milk steaming and pull the wand outward to steam manually. Having more control over the angle of the pitcher and steam wand will allow you to better aerate the milk, resulting in a more even microfoam. Overall experience One thing that really struck me when using this machine is the well-thought-out design and ease of use. The digital interface is easy to navigate, with a slick touchscreen that intuitively breaks down the coffee brewing process. As someone who used to work as a front-end software developer, I have a soft spot for really well-designed user interfaces, and navigating the features of this machine was seamless and intuitive. The machine even has a dark mode — so slick! There are plenty of other small details that make it really easy to use, like a hatch to easily refill the water tank from the front of the machine and a wheel that helps rotate the machine so you can easily turn it around when you need to remove the water tank. I really enjoyed the Oracle's smooth combination of tech and coffee brewing. Cons to consider If you're like me and you want full control over your dialing-in process, you'll definitely hit a wall with the automatic dosing feature. There's no way to dose a specific weight of coffee. Instead, the Breville's built-in grinder fills the portafilter basket until a sensor detects that the grounds have reached a set height. My test doses varied by 1-3 grams, which is pretty consistent, especially when adding milk. However, controlling the exact weight of coffee in the basket is important for a precise dialing-in process, and these small differences are more pronounced if you're brewing lighter roasted coffees (as I like to do). If this is important to you, it's best to go for a setup with a separate grinder so you can control how much coffee you're grinding. You can check out our Breville Bambino review if you're interested in a Breville stand-alone machine. Also, because the auto dosing is based on reading the height of ground coffee, and lighter roasted coffees have higher bean density, significantly more coffee ends up getting dosed when grinding lighter roasts. When I tested pulling shots with lighter roasted coffee, the doses ended up between 23-25 grams. For reference, I typically brew 18-20 grams of coffee for a shot, so 25 grams is significantly higher. When I tested with a darker roast, however, the dose ended up at 20-22 grams of coffee which is more in range for a standard double shot. So, if you prefer to brew lighter roasted coffees then finding the perfect dial will be more challenging. What are your alternatives? If you're looking for a more automatic coffee solution in a similar price range, check out the Terra-Kaffe TK-02. You can adjust the dosage, water, and even brew temperature of your shot, but the grind size control is much more limited with only five coarseness settings. Read our full Terra-Kaffe TK-02 review. For a more affordable all-in-one, you can also look into the Breville Barista Express Impress. This machine comes with a Breville Smart Grinder Pro, which isn't quite as strong as the Baratza grinder on the Oracle, but if fine-tuning your shot isn't as important, then this is a great option to consider. Read our full Breville Barista Express Impress review. The Breville Barista Pro sits somewhere in between the Impress and the Oracle Jet, but doesn't provide as many automatic features (tamping is still manual on this machine), and the Baratza grinder has 30 instead of 45 adjustment steps. Read our full Breville Barista Pro review. For more options, check out our guides to the best espresso machines and best budget espresso machines. The bottom line The Oracle Jet is a great espresso machine that gives you everything you need to craft a high-quality espresso drink at home. It's beautifully designed and easy to use, both in its physical and digital features, and it really simplifies the dialing-in and brewing process, helping anyone get over the intimidating learning curve of pulling a good shot of espresso. This machine prioritizes ease of use over precision, so it's not the best option for espresso nerds like me, but it's a great all-in-one machine that brews great coffee with ease, speed, and consistency.
WIRED
24-05-2025
- WIRED
The Breville Oracle Jet Is Like the iPad of Home Espresso Machines
The Oracle Jet incorporates the tablet computer interface from the Oracle Touch dual-boiler machine, but swaps out the slow-heating dual boiler for a pair of fast-heating ThermoJets that heat water at the steam spout of the brewing head—which means no more waiting for the machine to warm up. Note that the Oracle Jet nonetheless performs better on its second or third espresso pull than its first. For ideal results, you may want to run an empty, no-coffee shot of hot water through the portafilter before your first espresso of the morning. The other trade-off is that you can't steam milk and brew espresso simultaneously. You'll instead have to froth milk beforehand, or wait 30 whole seconds to steam your milk while the espresso brews. In practice, this is a problem that's not much of a problem. Some upgrades have arrived even after the device came out, through a series of firmware upgrades that have added drinks or cleaned up functions. At this point, a year after the device's release, each puck I prepped has been hearteningly on the level. Same goes for the volume controls on the water, which reportedly ran long before some firmware adjustments. On measurements over long manual espresso pulls, I've found the water temperature admirably stable. The milk steaming wand is powerful, especially when frothing manually: You can get some serious bubbles and serious silkiness out of this thing. And, weirdly, the cold espresso is actually pretty good. It's more like lukewarm than cold, a one-minute extraction at just above room temp. But if you dribble it over ice at an extra-fine grind setting, it's a crema-topped, low-acid, cold espresso one might want to mix with either milk or vodka—depending on time of day and who you are. (The three-minute cold brew is a bit astringent and less successful to my taste.) The device also has other little conveniences, like a handy purge function when swapping beans or making your first cup (double-tap the grinder icon and about 5 grams comes out). It has a removable water reservoir in the back, but you can also pour in water from the front of the machine. And there's a little lever that'll lower and raise the whole device, so it can roll around on wheels or stay put. Does it all add up to $2,000? Depends on your budget and what you're comparing it to. But it's all quite nice, it looks nice, the espresso tastes nice, and it's the sort of thing that inspires jealousy in houseguests. The Usual Caveats As with many heavily automated machines, there will be things you cannot easily change, and some specific quirks. The shot size is large by default, around 20 to 22 grams of coffee for a double shot. The easiest way to adjust this is by buying a smaller-dose 58-millimeter basket. And while the Oracle Jet's bean-assist function is quite useful for beginners, it's not overly sophisticated. Mostly it recommends you go up or down by three twists of the grinder dial when changing drinks or if your shot is running long or short. You'll probably find yourself turning this function off after a week or so. Those used to less automated espresso machines may also be irritated by the lack of a visible pressure bar: You're assessing how well your shot's pulling by flow rate, not pressure.
WIRED
11-05-2025
- WIRED
De'Longhi's Newest Super-Automatic Espresso Machine Is Probably Its Best Yet
There are maybe two schools of home espresso people. Some want it perfect, classic, maybe even a little difficult. They want to stick their hands in the gears and make fine adjustments, until the coffee is the most beauteous expression of its bean and its roaster. Some want it nice and easy, with maybe a little frothy milk in the bargain. Photograph: De'Longhi The new bean-to-cup Rivelia machine from Italian coffee titan De'Longhi, which arrived in the United States this month, is squarely meant for those who want it easy. Indeed, the Rivelia immediately ranks among the most modern, impressive, and capable super-automatic espresso machines I've seen—the sort that has you dump a half-bag of beans into a hopper, and will grind, brew, then froth up milk for a flat white with the press of a button. The Rivelia's crisply minimalist design and slim profile—less than 10 inches across—belies a whole lot of functionality. This includes an unholy array of 18 espresso and latte and iced-coffee drink options, a button-press milk frother that makes actual microfoam, and bean guidance that allows you to optimize your strength and grind for each bean. And yet despite the complicated options, the thing is pretty simple to use. I barely needed the manual. Like Breville's excellent Oracle Jet ($2,000), a more traditional pressurized-basket espresso machine that I've also been testing, the Rivelia is a device seemingly made for the generation that grew up with tablets and screens. About the only traditional button you'll actually need is the on switch. Pretty much everything else happens on a touchscreen that remains blessedly impervious to a little water spillage. Photograph: Matthew Korfhage The Rivelia is self-consciously designed to be a friendly little machine, right down to the occasional uncanny use of the first person. 'I'll use some hot water to heat everything up,' reads the screen as you turn the machine on, moments before twin jets of water spurt into the drip tray.
