Recently I purchase a used Carimali super-automatic machine. This machine has a 3 liter boiler with heat exchanger, full size rotary pump, heated aluminum with stainless steel lining for the brewing group, 54mm flat burr grinder. I completely dissemble the machine, soak all pipes and boiler into citric acid, dissemble the grinder and bought new burrs, clean and check everything else. Then I reassemble all the parts and start the machine and tried it. I was quite surprise by the quality of the extraction that this machine was able to achieve.
In the past 4-5 years I have bought and tried a few super-auto machines, such as the Saeco incanto, Jura e85, and the well known Franke flair/Jura x9 super auto-machine. They were fun to play with, but were not very good at producing any kind of decent espresso. It is quite different with the Carimali super-auto, it does make a very good espresso. Up until recently I never thought that a super-auto could compete with high-end commercial espresso machine, but I must admit that they are getting very close.

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I'm like super-automatic machines when they are designed to make real espresso, specially for a commercial purpose. But in general they are very expensive.

Márcio.