Where we land on it Six presets and a color screen against its own sibling's four and a plain one. If you want iced coffee or latte macchiato without building it yourself, this is the one of the two to take.
What the maker puts in writing
6 presets: espresso, coffee, iced coffee, cappuccino, latte macchiato, hot water
Full color display
LatteGo: 3 parts, dishwasher safe or rinsed in 10 s
AquaClean: no descaling for up to 5,000 cups
Adjustable strength, volume and milk level
A dollar, two presets and a screen
The two Philips on this shelf were read a dollar apart. Set their listings side by side and the differences are exactly three: six presets against four, iced coffee and latte macchiato among them, and a full color display against a plain one.
Every other sentence — the milk system, the filter interval, the one-touch sequence — is the same in both. That makes this the simplest decision anywhere on this shelf, and the answer is the one with more on it.
Iced coffee as a program, not a workaround
Two machines here make a cold drink. The Ninja has a cold-pressed espresso mode and a rapid cold brew. This one has a button.
That is a smaller thing than cold brew proper — it is coffee brewed for ice, not extracted cold — and the listing does not claim otherwise.
Where this listing stops short
No grind count, no pressure, no tank, no warranty. On the dearer half of this shelf, four blanks is a lot, and two machines below half this price fill three of them.
Availability
Read on the day this page was built: $550 at the American Amazon shop.
Read from Keepa on the day this page was last revised; stock and price both move without notice.
What it gets right, and wrong
Strengths
Six presets, the second-largest published drink menu on this shelf, and the only one here that includes iced coffee as a program
Adjusts milk level as well as strength and volume — the only machine on this shelf to publish all three
The same 5,000-cup AquaClean interval and three-part LatteGo system as its sibling, with more on top for a dollar less
Compromises
No grind settings, no pump pressure, no tank capacity and no warranty published
A proprietary milk carafe rather than a wand, so there is no manual control of texture at all
The two Philips here are so closely described that nothing but the preset count and the screen separates them on paper
Where this one stands among its neighbors
At $550, it is the 3 cheapest of the 5 models in this category published here.
Least costly of the neighbors$225
Median$550
Most costly of the neighbors$800
Specifications
Type
Fully automatic, bean to cup
Presets
6: espresso, coffee, iced coffee, cappuccino, latte macchiato, hot water
Display
Full color
Milk system
LatteGo: 3 parts, no internal tubes, dishwasher safe or rinsed in 10 seconds
Maintenance
AquaClean filter — no descaling for up to 5,000 cups
Operation
Grinds, tamps and brews at one touch; strength, volume and milk level adjustable
Grind settings
Not stated by the maker
Pump pressure
Not stated by the maker
Warranty
Not stated by the maker
Amazon reference
B0CZ4GN5YT
EAN
0196592000723
What people want to know
Is it really better than the 2300?
On what is published, yes, and for a dollar less at the reading behind this page: six presets against four, with iced coffee and latte macchiato added, and a full color display. Everything else in the two listings — LatteGo, AquaClean, one-touch grind-tamp-brew — is worded the same.
Can I control the milk myself?
Only by the published adjustments: strength, volume and milk level. There is no steam wand on either Philips here. Five machines on this shelf give you no milk system at all; one gives you a wand you work; these two give you a carafe and three sliders.
What is not in this listing?
A grind setting count, a pump pressure, a water tank size and a warranty. Four machines on this shelf publish a grind count and one publishes a three-year warranty, all of them cheaper than this.
Compared with the neighboring coffee machines
These coffee machines share the category and the price bracket. Only what each one states is shown; an incomplete column would mislead.
Specifications: the manufacturer sheet for coffee equipment and the matching Amazon product page. Prices and availability: Keepa. Every figure on this page names its source.
The machine most people should start with. The grinder is ordinary and the coffee is good rather than great — but the brew unit pops out in two seconds, and that single design decision is why these are still running after eight years.
Best for: Someone moving off capsules who wants fresh coffee without a hobby attached.
The best espresso an automatic machine makes, from a company that will not let you clean the part that brews it. Extraordinary in the cup, uncomfortable as a ten-year purchase — and you should know both before spending this much.
Best for: Someone who drinks short black coffee daily, values the cup over the repair bill, and will pay for it.
12-step ceramic burr · 20 drinks · 2-part milk system
LatteGo is the only automatic milk system we do not resent cleaning: two parts, no tubes, both dishwasher-safe. Combined with ceramic burrs that will outlast the machine, it makes this the sensible middle of the super-automatic market.
Best for: A household where two or three people each drink something different, with milk.