Delonghi ECAM 22.360 S Magnifica S/B: Delonghi’s starter milk machine

Stylish design for a modern interior

The 1.8 liter water tank is locat­ed on the right, but slides for­ward from the front. Behind it is a remov­able brew­ing unit.

The Delonghi ECAM 22.360.S Mag­nifi­ca S cof­fee machine will not give you much trou­ble with its main­te­nance. If it is nec­es­sary to clean the cap­puc­ci­na­tore or decal­ci­fy, the device will noti­fy you with a spe­cial sig­nal on the mon­i­tor. On a reg­u­lar basis, you only need to emp­ty the drip tray, the cof­fee grounds con­tain­er (holds 14 serv­ings), and occa­sion­al­ly wipe the case and add water. And yet, once every cou­ple of weeks, it is worth wash­ing the brew­ing device under run­ning water.

The styl­ish appear­ance of the cof­fee machine will look great both in a mod­ern kitchen and in an office space. By the way, there is a sim­i­lar mod­el in black col­or — Delonghi ECAM 22.360.B.

How it differs from ESAM 3500/4500

Delonghi ECAM22.360 is the basic mod­el of the milk vend­ing machine based on the ECAM plat­form. In prin­ci­ple, for sim­i­lar mon­ey, you can find cars with a milk jug on the ESAM plat­form. The main dif­fer­ences are the size and appear­ance, the con­trol pan­el. Plus, ESAM has a dif­fer­ent milk jug, not all mod­i­fi­ca­tions have milk foam height adjust­ment, the Clean func­tion is imple­ment­ed a lit­tle dif­fer­ent­ly. But the vol­ume of the jug is larg­er. Anoth­er thing is that this is not nec­es­sar­i­ly a plus, if you drink a lit­tle milk and cof­fee drinks, there will be a dan­ger of milk sour­ing if you pour it into the milk jug to the brim.

What is different from the direct competitor Philips EP3558 Series 3100

Philips EP3558 — sworn “ene­my” DeLonghi ECAM 22.360

These two cof­fee machines — Philips EP 3558 and Delonghi 22.360 — are the main com­peti­tors in the class of ini­tial milk machines with built-in jugs. Prob­a­bly, most of those who want to buy a full milk machine, but at a rea­son­able price, end up with this fork. In any case, in the com­ments I con­sis­tent­ly get this ques­tion: which one to choose from this pair? There­fore, I am post­ing an expla­na­tion in both reviews.

If we con­sid­er the devices from the point of view of the final result, then they are 95% sim­i­lar: both espres­so and cap­puc­ci­no mod­els are equal­ly good, pro­vid­ed they use the same, high-qual­i­ty raw mate­ri­als: fresh beans and suit­able milk.

The min­i­mal dif­fer­ences in taste can be described as fol­lows:

Delon­gi, due to dif­fer­ences in design and basic com­po­nents, brews black cof­fee a lit­tle bit­ter­er and a lit­tle hot­ter

The Delonghi 22.360 uses a ther­mal block as a heat­ing ele­ment. Togeth­er with the fea­tures of the brew­ing unit, this allows you to pre­pare cof­fee a lit­tle hot­ter than com­peti­tors from oth­er brands.

“Hot” is rel­e­vant for many, but per­son­al­ly I like the Philips fla­vor more, it reveals the nuances of “com­plex” vari­eties a lit­tle more sub­tly. In addi­tion, if you approach objec­tive­ly and under­stand that espres­so is not drunk with boil­ing water (then it sim­ply does not reveal the shades of taste), then Phillips’ dis­pens­ing tem­per­a­ture is more than ade­quate.

The milk jug 22.360 has a mechan­i­cal milk foam height adjust­ment. This allows you to make not only foamed milk, but sim­ply heat­ed. A more cor­rect lat­te is also here, since a lat­te should have less milk foam than a cap­puc­ci­no. With Philips, the foam height is always fixed and depends on the milk used.

Plus, the Delonghi milk jug has spout height adjust­ment, while Philips does not. There­fore, when pour­ing into low cups, milk may splash a lit­tle.

The dif­fer­ences in func­tion­al­i­ty and final qual­i­ty of drinks end there. Of course, the devices dif­fer in design, accord­ing to reviews, DeLonghi looks more impres­sive, besides, she has a sil­ver ver­sion, but this is already sub­jec­tive. For­mal dif­fer­ences in hard­ware com­po­nents are pre­sent­ed in the fol­low­ing table: