Gaggia Cadorna Barista Plus Bean To Cup Coffee Machine
The Cadorna is one of Gaggias newer, more fancy automatic bean to cup coffee machines, with features such as 4 custom user profiles & a full colour display.
What’s particularly interesting, for me, about the Cadorna Barista Plus, is that it combines a fully automatic bean to cup coffee machine, with a pro steam wand – which isn’t a common combination.
They do other versions of the Cadorna, the “Style” and the “Plus” both have Panarello frothers (turbo wands, good for 90s cappuccino foam).
The “milk” version has a cappuccinatore frother, so you just put the pipe into your milk bottle, or into the provided milk container, the “Prestige” version comes with a one touch milk carafe. Both the Milk and the Prestige versions make one touch milk drinks, the Prestigue just has a couple more one touch options including flat white.
| titlestrong Features and Benefits |
showbullet 1.5 L water tank |
showbullet Pro Steam Wand |
showbullet 10 grind settings |
showbullet 4 custom user profiles |
showbullet Dreg draw capacity for 10 used pucks |
showbullet Maximum cup height 16cm |
showbullet Compact footprint: 24.6cm wide & 42.8cm deep, 38cm tall |
I’m featuring the “Barista Pro” version of the Cadorna, simply because in my humble opinion, if you’re looking for an auto bean to cup machine with a more common milk frothing option, one touch carafe, panarello or cappuccinatore frother, although the Cadorna is an option, it’s just one of many options, all of which are a bit of a “much of a muchness”.
The other versions of the Cadorna do compete well for the price, given the features, but the only compelling reason I think to go for the Cadorna Milk or Cadorna Prestige vs one of the similarly priced options on the market, in my opinion, is Gaggia Direct.
These are the UK distributor for Gaggia, and they’re an old school retailer who give face to face customer support via zoom, or on that old fashioned relic from the 90s known as a “telephone”.
Yeah of course everyone knows what a phone is, but if you recall back in the day when we actually used them to make phone calls with ;-), Gaggia direct will actually have conversations with their customers this way, or via zoom calls if you prefer.
When it comes to the Barista Plus version, though, this does have a clear advantage over just about any other similarly priced automatic coffee machine, which is that it has a pro steam wand.
So this means you have full control over the texture, and the temperature of your milk drinks – which is something you never quite have with one touch coffee machines.
It does take a bit of practise to master using a pro wand, but once you get the skill down, you’ll be able to produce perfect micro foam – next, you just need to learn to pour latte art, which will only take you a few years to perfect ;-).
