Eletta ECAM44660B

I had a Delonghi Eletta Cappuccino Top. It only lasted 24 months and 6 days. That’s pretty poor, when the old manual I had lasted 10 years. I’ve gone back to a manual espresso and it outperforms the automatics with consistent hot coffee and great micro-foamed milk, though I need to work on my latte art

I'm a fan of the Delonghi Elatta (I think that's what it's called) as it does iced as well as hot coffee which is great in summer. It's an automatic style one though. Campos beans or Toby's Estate is my pick!

That is what I did. A positive surprise is that a super automatic is much less hassle to clean up. I have a Delonghi Eletta.

Automatic milk frother. Dial from hot milk to heavy foam, works perfectly every time. I own several manual and semiautomatic espresso machines and vote 2x on the Delonghi magnifica evo. He'll love a superautomatic espresso machine, and the Delonghi is the best on the market. On my Delonghi Eletta (about 2x your price point, but same brew group as the less expensive De'Longhi machines), to clean the milk unit, I just pull the milk frother from the machine, pop off the top, wash out the container, pull off three knobs/ spouts and flush under the faucet. ~20 seconds max. If I leave milk in the unit, I turn the dial to flush, it runs hot, clean water through the nozzle to clean it out. ~10 seconds. Then I put the unit with milk in it, in the fridge. De'Longhi makes great espresso, lots of crema, foam is silky smooth and really creamy. Their machines are easy to use, easy to clean. He should be delighted if he likes espresso.

Not sure about all these fancy italian names being bandied about, and probably not BIFL since it's mostly plastic, but we're on our 2nd De'Longhi after the first pooped out right around the 12k drink mark. Second is already up to around 15k drinks. Superautomatic so basically just add beans, push the button, and twice a week or so dump the pucks and fill with water. I think it's the Eletta or something like that and runs around $1500ish.

Get a super automatic and be done with it. I love my refurbished Delonghi Eletta. I buy specialty beans online so my coffee tastes great. Counter Culture, Klatch, Superlost and Color all have great beans.

My delonghi eletta is the best machine I ever bought. Was expensive but worth it