Review of the Saeco HD8761 Minuto coffee machine. Is it worth your money?

Pledge of pop­u­lar­i­ty: fair price and small dimen­sions for mod­est kitchens

One of the most pop­u­lar grain auto­mat­ic cof­fee machines in the class is the Sae­co HD8761 Min­u­to mod­el. It is per­fect for the home, as hint­ed at by the afford­able price and out­stand­ing com­pact­ness of the device. Thanks to the built-in cof­fee grinder with flex­i­ble man­u­al adjust­ment of the grind­ing degree, it is easy to achieve the desired “basic” strength. Ceram­ic mill­stones pro­vide a uni­form grind­ing, while not over­heat­ing the grain, which guar­an­tees the per­fect taste of the fin­ished drink. The strength of the cof­fee can also be changed, regard­less of the grind, dur­ing the start of the prepa­ra­tion pro­gram. You can brew cof­fee at a time for one or two peo­ple, which helps save time if two peo­ple claim an invig­o­rat­ing drink at once. The mod­el is very com­pact, which is a plus for tight spaces. The ele­gant black case with strict lines will look great in a mod­ern inte­ri­or.

Qui­et oper­a­tion 15 “strong” pumps and mem­o­ry for favorite recipes

The Sae­co Philips HD8761/09 Min­u­to cof­fee machine is always ready to use – wait­ing time before brew­ing starts is kept to a min­i­mum thanks to faster cir­cuit load­ing. Yes, and the cof­fee itself is brewed sur­pris­ing­ly light­ning fast due to the use of a spe­cial tech­nol­o­gy for the rapid heat­ing of the boil­er. So that you do not have to set the set­tings every time, the man­u­fac­tur­er has pro­vid­ed the abil­i­ty to save the para­me­ters, so one press of a key is enough to pre­pare your favorite drink. Dur­ing the brew­ing process, the pump pres­sure can reach 15 bar, but in fact 9 is enough, this is the “gold stan­dard” in the class. The device works quite qui­et­ly, so you can only wake up sleep­ing house­hold mem­bers with the smell of a fresh­ly brewed drink. The only caveat is that the device does not have a hot water tem­per­a­ture con­trol (unlike its ana­logue with an auto­mat­ic cap­puc­ci­no mak­er — the HD8763 mod­el), but the ini­tial val­ue lies in the ref­er­ence range, around 88 degrees. at the out­let of the boil­er.

A man­u­al cap­puc­ci­na­tore is as effi­cient as an auto­mat­ic unit

If you want to make cap­puc­ci­no, then for this pur­pose the Sae­co Philips HD 8761/09 Min­u­to cof­fee machine has a clas­sic cap­puc­ci­no mak­er, which must be used man­u­al­ly by low­er­ing it into a con­tain­er of milk. With its help, a dense and very per­sis­tent milk foam is obtained. It is best to use low-fat milk from the refrig­er­a­tor. Warm, high-fat whipped much worse. Here I also note that the spout of the mod­el can be adjust­ed in height, so you can use cups of var­i­ous sizes up to 15 cm high.