- New blue, oat and green colors for Ninja AutoBarista Pro
- It is an automatic espresso machine with separate user profiles
- Its list price is $949.99 / £899.99 (approx. AU$1,735)
The Ninja AutoBarista Pro Fully Automatic Espresso Machine is a new, multi-talented coffee machine that delivers excellent espresso, drip coffee and a kind of quick cold brew for making cold drinks – and now it’s available in three new colors.
The original black and stainless steel finish has been joined by versions in Midnight Blue, Oat Milk and Vista Green. They’re all fairly sober colours, so for example Vista Green is a dark, slightly metallic jade green, and this means they look subtle and classy rather than garish – which is fitting as these are premium products.
The big advantage of the new screens is that they don’t have the fingerprint magnetism of stainless steel: I’ve had a lot of stainless steel devices and they’ve all been a bit of a pain to keep shiny and pristine.
Aside from the colors, the new models are identical to the original, and that’s not a bad thing. This is a smart coffee maker that solves a particular pain point for couples and shared kitchens.
A machine with many talents
As my caffeinated colleague Karen Freeman wrote about the Ninja AutoBarista Pro, it’s ideal for people who have a completely different taste in coffee. You can easily switch between beans and ground coffee, and you can create two different user profiles to save your brewing preferences. And setting up profiles is really simple.
We like this coffee maker a lot. In our review of the Ninja AutoBarista Pro, we praised its “one-touch simplicity”, good looks and, of course, its coffee. “The espresso is the real deal,” we wrote. “A true 9-bar espresso brew with crema.”
The only real downside is its size: it’s a pretty hefty device, coming in at just under 18 x 11 x 16 inches and weighing almost 18kg. However, it is very solidly built, so it will probably last a very long time.
I don’t have this particular model, but I have a similar multi-talented coffee machine from Philips, the LatteGo 5500. I think with machines like these there is an initial novelty period where you want to make all the coffeesbut after that you tend to settle for a few favorites unless you’re entertaining. And that is why we are so focused on the quality of Ninjaen’s espresso, because it is of course the core of all your coffee creations. In our tests, the AutoBarista Pro delivered excellent espresso every time, and now it does so while also matching your kitchen decor.
The Ninja AutoBarista Pro currently retails for $949.99 / £899.99 / around AU$1,735.
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