Pro Barista with $400 machine vs Beginner with $30,000 machine

What matters more - your skill as a barista, or the equipment you use? Today, we’re putting a pro barista & a beginner head to head. They’ll both be using the same blend of coffee, but our amateur is going to be using a state-of-the-art $30,000 commercial machine - while our pro is going to be using a cheap and cheerful $400 home machine.

Sections in this video:
0:00 Intro
1:58 Setup / Calibration
5:30 Service Time
9:06 The Results
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[ableaquariums]

The flaw with this challenge was that coffee art was allowed. It clearly points out which coffee is made my the pro, and leads to bias in judging. A more fair challenge would of seen just straight pours of milk with no art allowed.

[RumoHasIt]

I had a crappy cappuccino from a $30k slayer machine, went home and made a great one on my Breville. Its definitely experience that matters!!

[TripleDDDD]

Would be interesting to do the same but with the pro brewing on the 2 machines and then judge the difference.

[kaqqao]

Wait... How exactly do the judges not know which one is which if one has professional latte art while the other had whatever Josh made?
C'mon, keep this fair or the results are bogus.
Also, Bambino is 🔥🔥🔥

[wamrainc]

0:19 I am sorry but did you just refer a $400 coffee machine as “cheap”….wtf

[petejay]

While this was entertaining, you really should try the same experiment with an amateur that actually knows how to use their home machine well.

[fohethe]

Hi, just wanted to say that 400$ is not cheap. Thanks, bye.

[dadjentyboi]

The “cheap” one is still 8x more expensive than mine 🤣

[Trajectoree]

"I've bought and drank plenty of coffee and this wont be different". Lmao that line broke me, the banter is solid

[Pekzr]

It really sounded like they liked Josh's espresso a lot more, but then they ended up with the same score. That was weird.

[Assenayo]

The fact that she had a pressurized portafilter was basically the equivalent of fighting with one hand tied behind your back.
You just can't do really good espresso with a pressurized portafilter. Can't be done.

[JoeyVaracalli]

If she was using a non pressurized filter basket I bet her espresso score could have been higher

[spacekatfpv]

Would love to see this again with the experienced home barista that’s never used a commercial machine, and maybe add a non-pressurized basket to the breville

[Youtuberkt]

There is no incremental tech in the $30k machine that a $3k-$5k machine doesn't offer. The $30k machine is more priced for multi-group heads, having a bigger capacity, being ready to pull shots back to back in a cafe setting and equipment servicing/after-sale support. So, this is more like comparing a $500 vs $3k machine. Though the title serves a good click bait.

[gurumze]

400 dollars is NOT cheap. Just letting you know in case you've been living in a cave for the past 15 years

[systemofapown]

Love this video. Georgia seems cool/professional and Josh is absolutely hilarious! Almost died laughing when he said he was making an NFT :)

[alextaylor]

pressurised portafilter will always lose. unless the novice is beyond terrible

[guering]

the guy is really funny, I cracked when he pretended to reach the trophy at the end rofl

[JoshuaLonsako]

Making her use the pressurized basket was a guaranteed L, the cheap machines definitely need to be modded to be useful.

[AaronEdwards]

I’m by no means a pro, but I’ve been brewing at home for over 20 years. I can’t afford a high end machine, but I’ve learned enough to know that I can get some really good shots with a mediocre machine and a nicely honed set of skills.