- New blue, oatmeal and green colors for the Ninja AutoBarista Pro
- It is an automatic espresso machine with separate user profiles.
- Its list price is $949.99 / £899.99 (around AU$1,735)
The Ninja AutoBarista Pro Fully Automatic Espresso Machine is a multi-talented new coffee maker that offers great espresso, filter coffee, and a quick cold brew sort of thing for making cold drinks, and it’s now available in three new colors.
Versions in Midnight Blue, Oat Milk and Vista Green have been added to the original black and stainless steel finish. They are all fairly restrained colors – for example, Vista Green is a dark, slightly metallic jade green – and that means they look subtle and classy rather than garish, which is appropriate as these are premium products.
The big benefit of the new curtains is that they don’t have the fingerprint magnetism of stainless steel – I’ve had a lot of stainless steel appliances and it’s been a bit of a pain to keep them shiny and spotless.
Aside from the colors, the new models are identical to the original, and that’s not bad at all. This is a smart coffee maker that solves a particular problem for couples and shared kitchens.
A machine of many talents
As my caffeinated colleague Karen Freeman wrote about the Ninja AutoBarista Pro, it’s ideal for people who have completely different coffee tastes. You can easily switch between bean and ground coffee and can create two different user profiles to store your brewing preferences. And setting up profiles is really easy.
We really like this coffee maker. In our Ninja AutoBarista Pro review we praised its “one-touch simplicity,” its good looks, and of course, its coffee. “The espresso is authentic,” we wrote. “An authentic 9-bar espresso with crema.”
The only real drawback is its size: it’s a fairly heavy device, measuring just under 18 x 11 x 16 inches and weighing almost 40 pounds / 18 kg. However, its construction is very solid, so it is likely to last a long time.
I don’t have this particular model, but I do have a similarly multi-talented Philips coffee maker, the LatteGo 5500. I think with machines like these there’s an initial period of novelty where you want to make all coffeesbut after that you tend to settle for a couple of favorites unless you’re entertaining. And that’s why we’re so focused on the quality of Ninja espresso, because of course that’s the core of all of their coffee creations. In our tests, the AutoBarista Pro always delivered excellent espresso, and now it does and matches your kitchen decor, too.
The Ninja AutoBarista Pro currently sells for $949.99 / £899.99 / approximately AU$1,735.
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