Zulay Magia Fully Automatic Espresso Machine With Grinder - 19 Customizable Coffee Options - Auto-Cleaning For Easy Maintenance - Milk-Foam System For Latte, Cappuccino, Macchiato - OG Black

The media could not be loaded. Updates after one year, my machine still goes strong! 1)Added 3-step chamber hardware cleaning photos step1-remove 3 components and rinse off all powders and THOROUGHLY air dry step 2- vacuum the hardware chamber step 3- put back 3 components and must learn and try for perfect fitting! Remember always have an immediate manual brewer cleaning after each BATCH of brew. 2) upload a delightful latte making video. Latte making for this machine is like an art making!Review after purchase:What a wonderful way to start the day! I like it feasibly using directly milk carton which I can put it back to fridge right after the coffee is made without worrying the leftover. I put it closer to tap water to rinse the exterior part of the milk tube which can be put into water bottle for immediate cleaning. Although it will ask you to thoroughly clean the whole system when it turns off either by itself or manually, I would like to clean the milk system immediately so that no leftover go bad. I wish the water reservoir on the rear side has a transparent side view so that I can monitor the water level easily. I have tried multiple versions of milk system based coffee machine and this works best for me. Diligent washing definitely required since it is so easily cleaned, I don’t mind cleaning it throughout the day.Updates on February 17th, 2024:1) Consistently producing nice milk froth satisfying the daily needs of latte for two or three cups. For a 1K purchase, It has fulfilled its value after two months usage comparing to pay at Starbucks and it is obviously totally worthy it.2) The more I used it, the more I understood the machine.A) it would be nicer if the machine reminds me to have milk cartoon ready before the milk-froth program starts.B) Becaude it is lacking such an important reminder, I ended up to promptly stopping the program just after it is starts. This led to prematurely dumping the coffee cake, and the mechanics did mess up and the dry coffee powder spreading inside the mechanical parts, eventually resulting in the movement got stuck or not in the precise space or alignment. The symptoms won’t show immediately until one day the brew color is lighter and lighter to a clear water flow. No Worry it turned out that after I thoroughly vaccumed and washed and dried the plastic mechanical brewer. It went back to normal.B) One time we put several drops of water accidentally in through coffee bean chamber. This led to coffee powder moistured and got stuck before it free-flows into the brewer chamber. The symptom was the same no coffee brew only clear water stream. Since it is restricted for access, I took the coffee bean chamber apart and had it thoroughly vacuumed inside and out. It then went back to normalC) It is good practice to descale, but it only does to the internal tube for traffic. But it definitely useful to make sure the brewer’s tiny holes cleaned.D) In conclusion, To better maintain the machine is to make sure the mechanical parts working. It requires the coffee powder precise collection, then moving and alignment to the brewer pressing arm. Definitely needs take it out to clean and vacuum the coffee powder routinely so that it is not stuck in between the mechanical moving joints.3) All in All, I love the machine and should enjoy it further years with more and more understanding it!

Let me preface — I love the Magia and you can read my initial review at the bottom. However, ours, at least, has a serious flaw that has remained unaddressed. I wrote the Magia folks about the insane amount of waste the Magia produces because coffee spills all over the inside of the machine, way more than is actually used to make coffee. I wrote the Magia folks and sent them pictures.I quickly got a cheerful reply that answered none of my concerns. In essence, they said it was simply a matter of proper adjustment. Well, I followed every step of the instruction video, to no avail. The Magia continues to blow coffee grounds all over the inside of the machine, necessitating a major cleanup every day. Maybe we have a faulty brewer, maybe the design simply isn’t optimized, but 2/3 of all ground coffee going to waste is really unacceptable.Update May 15, 2025: It's been a year and a half since I purchased the Magia for my husband. And despite its fundamental design flaw -- the huge waste due to a very poor brewer design -- we're still using the Magia every day. Yes, it still works. But ONLY because we now know all the many ways it can be fixed (not by the vendor, by US!), and because we're putting up with its glitches and its huge waste of coffee -- probably at least 2/3 of the coffee that goes in ends up spilled all over the inside of the machine -- by scraping out the wasted ground coffee and use it on an old-fashioned Mr Coffee. As is, it looks like Zulay is no longer selling the machine new. Too bad, because all that needed to be redesigned and fixed is the brewer, which is a separate module. It looks like it should have been an easy re-design fix.—— Below the initial review,If you ever wanted one of those espresso/specialty coffee machines that’s somewhere between low-end (from low $100s) and high-end (thousands), the Magia fits the bill. We’ve had ours for a month and a half, and use it multiple times every day. So here are some of my comments and impressions.First, this is NOT a high-end coffee machine and not even a Mr Coffee replacement. It’s also not for those who drink coffee by the 32-ounce tumbler mug, for the Magia can barely accommodate a US-size tall cup. The Magia CAN make regular coffee (“Americano”), but it’s really for making Italian style specialty coffee drinks: Espressos (very strong), Restrettos (super-strong), Macchiatos, Cappuccinos, Lattes, and other coffee/milk/foamed milk combinations.How well does it work? Very well, but there’s a bit of a learning curve. The instructions that come with it show good effort (the basic setup steps even printed on the box it comes in), but not extremely detailed. Watching the instruction videos helps.The elegant touch screen interface (likely Android-based) makes everything quite simple. You tap to select one of the programmed drinks as is, you can finetune each drink in how strong, how much, how much of what, temperature, etc. Each member of the household can personalize their own favorite drinks. You’ll learn to love the various ways foamy, frothy milk can make for delightful coffee drinks. The machine also contains recipes that include other flavors that you put in manually.The Magia is quite complex, and it cleans and maintains itself. It makes all sorts of preparation and operating sounds, hissing, steaming and disposing of waste water. You need to learn where to place a dish for waste. The Magia alerts when the coffee or water supply is low (calling it a “shortage”), when the coffee grounds waste container (it presses the grounds into little pucks) needs to be emptied, or when the machine should be “descaled” (a process that takes over half an hour). It does most very well, but it can get confused, alerting to no beans when there still are plenty, or sometimes just spitting water instead of milk (reboot).There is considerable waste; a lot of the ground coffee piles up inside the machine, so fairly frequent cleaning is necessary.The way milk is handled is not elegant. You put the milk into a cup next to the machine and insert a flexible tube to suck the milk. Apparently the newer white version of the Magia comes with a nice milk tumbler with the proper tube attachment, but that’s not separately available (yet) for the black version.Cup size is an issue. The coffee/milk dispenser can be adjusted up and down, but even the tallest it goes isn’t enough for many US cups. And the Magia doesn’t tell you what size cup it needs for a drink. Given its sophisticated computer interface, that info should be added. You can, however, stop dispensing during the pouring.Overall, way more fun and way more useful than we expected. It’s complex, though, and time will tell whether the Magia (or its fascination) will hold up.

I had a built-in miele espresso machine before I bought this one. IMO this unit is way better. I see bad reviews but they are complaining about things they don't understand, I bet most of the bad reviews are from first time automatic espresso machine owners. Yes you have to keep these clean, it's not like an ol' coffee pot. The same was true for my Miele unit it it was probably 5x the cost of this one.That said I was able to create a user preset that almost perfectly mirrors my Starbucks white chocolate mocha I used to get every morning. Pretty sure that has already paid for this thing!After I got this, it was way too cool for my countertop, so lol I built a coffee-bar just for this guy! With a pot filler, or rather espresso machine filler faucet, and its own mini cup cleaning station. 😊☕The ONE flaw is that they give you a house for the milk, that's it. So I would suggest you order this: https://a.co/d/bVdqf5e though it's not made for this unit you can use the hose end that comes with this and it works great with this machine. 😀