00:00This affordable espresso machine just changed the bean to cup game, but I'm not quite sure
00:05it's in a good way. Welcome back to The Coffee Lab, the series where I experiment with questionable
00:10coffee gear so you don't have to. Today we need to talk about the Casabruz Marenza. It's the
00:15cheapest bean to cup I've ever used. So tell me why it's kind of breaking my brain. Espresso
00:22machines with built in grinders usually cost way more, typically like $600-$700 minimum, all the way
00:31to a couple thousand. Being a fraction of the price, how can the Marenza possibly be any good?
00:37Here's the deal, it uses a 58mm portafilter, the coffee snob standard by the way, and it has an
00:43extraction timer built into the display so you don't need a scale. The result is a legitimately
00:48delicious, barista-shocking, certifiably mind-blowing cup of coffee. Yet it's soured by a subpar build
00:56quality. You guys can see it for yourself. In fact, this hopper literally shattered after falling off
01:01my counter. I wish I could say I dropped it dramatically for the video, but nope, it just
01:06broke. The grinder also isn't very consistent and the steam wand is embarrassingly slow. Look, I think
01:13the Marenza makes surprisingly great espresso for the price, but I'm not convinced it's the machine I
01:18would personally buy. I'd recommend saving it for something like the Breville Barista Express or,
01:23easy answer, just go with a separate grinder setup instead. That's what I do. So now I need to know,
01:28would you buy a budget bean to cup as long as the espresso tasted good, even if the machine itself
01:33felt cheap? Drop your verdicts in the comments and follow for more espresso reviews, brewing
01:37experiments and coffee gear chaos here in the coffee lab.
01:40and be careful. You can buy those addresses in the coffee bar wrench
01:40to a coffee diet in the coffee bar. So once you see the heat in the coffee bar,
01:40it's pakai or your practicality in the coffee bar, it's pretty simple.
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