Hi, I'm Pedro from Coffee Parts.
And this here is a Nuova Simonelli Oscar Two.
Let's get into it and find out more.
The Nuova Simonelli Oscar Two now this is an entry-level heat exchange
machine, and what's beautiful about heat exchange machines is you can
do coffee and steam at the same time.
Doesn't sound like much.
Well, once you start using coffee machines, you realize how beautiful that
is being able to pour your espresso.
And while you're doing that, you've got your milk going.
Basically your espresso is not sitting in there for too long after while you pour.
And everything's perfect with this particular machine.
It's the baby of the Nuova Simonelli range.
And it's quite neat in that it's only 30 centimeters wide, so it doesn't take
up too much room being heat exchange.
Obviously, you can do your coffee and same at the same time, but on this
case, it's actually also volumetric.
So it's programmable for your dose for your single and double kind of convenient
and generally, probably a little bit more.
Like a situation where you'd use in the office and you've got
multiple people using it at home.
I'm not sure if you need it.
I do like the manual style of an E61 head, but the option is there to use it
now, particularly on this machine has a 2.8-litre water reservoir tank.
That's removable for cleaning.
I like removable all tanks because you can just wash them easier.
Some machines make them hard to remove.
And I just think over time, I get a bit funny knowing that, and
it runs a 2lt boiler.
Once again, I mentioned it's the heat exchange.
What is heat exchange?
heat exchange means it's basically a pipe that runs through the boiler.
So when you do coffee, the water comes through when your reservoir
tank through the heat exchange, out the group head, and it's always fresh.
It heats up while the water travels through the heat exchange.
And then for your hot water in your steam.
The steam picks up from the top of the boiler and your whole
water picks up from the bottom.
In this case actually runs the same arm for both hot water and steam.
And it's a lever actuation to turn it on the difference between hot water and steam,
it depends on which button you press.
Now.
One thing we love and dislike about it at the same time is the drip tray.
It's big and it's nice, but when you remove it, you actually have to lift
it up a bit and it was really full.
It would leak out slightly that's because it's got two little notches here that
helps it keep perfectly in line and looks beautiful when everything's like
flushed and straight by moving it and putting it back in that little, you
could like kind of spill a bit of off the drain water, and that could be awkward.
The power switch is nice and hidden.
That keeps everything like the minimalistic look and the power
and the power cable comes out at the bottom.
And it really has that modern Polish fresh look on your bench.
Looking at the build of this machine is predominantly stainless with
some areas in plastic, namely the drip tray and the cup warm on top
with the top being a cup warmer.
You want to put your cups up here to basically absorb as much
of the temperature as possible as when you're making coffee.
If the cup was cold is going to deplete the temperature of the coffee and bring
it down and change the taste profile.
So you want to have your cups nice and warm before you're running
coffee, or if they're not, you want to heat them up with hot water or
just say water from your group head.
One nice thing about this machine is you can fill up your water tank or
removing clean your water tank without having to remove any of the cups.
As they're independent of the two.
When some machine you have to take the top panel off to fill it.
Which makes it awkward.
It's a bit more work.
So with this one, you can fill the tank up.
You can have your cups here and you can easily activate in the activate the steam.
It's actually a really nice build and typical Italian design.
Another thing on this machine is compared to most domestics. It runs a four-hole
steam tip now, quite fine holes that you are going to slow down your milk.
And it's fine.
Generally speaking though, to hold tends to be the preference for home.
Once again, you can actually replace these quite easy.
They unscrew, you can put another one in, so not a big deal
there to program this machine.
We probably would be wanting to use a scale, just to help really
dial in your weight in weights, out with your grinding, espresso out.
But if you had a scale here, what you would do, you'd hold down the
double button till it flashes.
Once it's flashing, you put your scale in your.
Cup, obviously load your portafilter tamp, your coffee, do all that press thought.
Watch that flow once the sides, peak, tally and kick in, or
depending on your weight ratio.
If you'd just say doing 20 and 40 out, once it hits up 40 grams, press stop.
And now that set, that's your double set.
So simple.
Hold down the button that it flashes press it to start.
Press it to stop.
And it said, what does this machine come with now?
Being an entry-level only comes with one portafilter,
which is at that price point.
So it comes with one double Portafilter, a single basket, so you can
run double a single, but generally speaking, we prefer to always run double.
Cause when you adjust the grind up changing baskets means
you have to adjust the grind.
It.
Kind of slightly just to make it perfect.
And that's a bit tedious.
So we always just run doubles for everything comes with a plastic
scoop, like you've seen at other reviews, I think completely useless.
So I'll Chuck it out and a plastic tamp.
But once again, I'll probably check it out, use the paperweight
somewhere and buy myself a real Tampa.
If you're using a grinder that's grind on demand, you don't needs a plastic scoop
and that'll be the ultimate way to go.
You really don't want to be buying such nice machines and then
using pre-ground or stale coffee.
You'd drive me, grinding on the man.
It's something like this would pair up really nicely.
With something like a Eureka Specialità later or at a lower
price point, maybe you recommend Eureka manuale, but something like that.
So overall, the Oscar 2 is our entry level, heat exchange home coffee machine,
and it represents real good value.
Especially for a heat exchange where most of them are seeing at double the price.
We basically love it.
It's more, it's simple.
It's easy to use, not a machine for everyone.
If you're super enthusiast, you're probably going to go up to a rocket or
La Marzocco or something along those lines, but they definitely have a place in the
market sitting between the dual purpose.
They say Gaggia Classic, Rancilio Silvia and the rocket VBM
La Marzocco's of the world.
Perfect.
In-betweener.
And value for money is definitely there.
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I'm Pedro from Coffee Parts.
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