Breville the Barista Touch™ Impress
Breville the Barista Touch™ Impress
Breville the Barista Touch™ Impress
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Breville the Barista Touch™ Impress

Touchscreen espresso with the Impress puck system, Baratza burrs, and Auto MilQ. Cold Brew and Cold Espresso built in.

$1,499.95

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The Barista Touch Impress

A touchscreen that coaches you through espresso.

The Barista Touch Impress is built around a simple premise: tamping is where most home shots fall apart, so the machine should help. The Impress puck system delivers a consistent 22lb impression with a seven-degree barista twist, automatically, and corrects its own dose based on the last grind.

A Baratza European Precision Burr grinder sits inside, with 30 grind settings and integrated dose control. The grinder, the tamper, and the extraction system all read each other. If a shot runs long or short, the machine flags it and tells you how to adjust.

The result is an espresso machine that doesn't just pull shots; it walks you through the logic of pulling them. That's useful for anyone moving from a Bambino or a Barista Express who wants the next layer of control without the full commitment of a manual dual boiler.

Impress puck, guided touchscreen, automatic microfoam. The machine handles the mechanics.

The touchscreen holds 13 café preset drinks and six customizable slots. Step-by-step guidance runs on-screen with real-time feedback during extraction. Auto MilQ handles hands-free microfoam with settings for dairy, soy, almond, and oat. Temperature adjusts from 104°F to 167°F with eight texture levels.

ThermoJet heating brings the group head to extraction temperature in three seconds, so the machine is usable from first thing in the morning. Cold Brew runs in under three minutes. Cold Espresso pulls a shot with crema in under two minutes at lower temperatures, built for iced drinks that hold flavor.

Eight things to know

A guided espresso workflow for people who want the craft without the full learning curve.

01

Impress puck system

Intelligent dosing with a consistent 22lb assisted tamp and a seven-degree barista twist. The machine auto-corrects dose based on the previous grind.

02

Baratza European Precision Burrs

A hardened steel conical burr grinder with 30 grind settings and integrated dose control. The grinder lives inside the workflow, not next to it.

03

Touchscreen guidance

An interactive display runs step-by-step barista guidance with real-time feedback during extraction. 13 preset café drinks and six customizable slots.

04

Auto MilQ microfoam

Hands-free milk texturing with settings for dairy, soy, almond, and oat. Temperature adjusts from 104°F to 167°F with eight texture levels.

05

ThermoJet heating

Reaches optimal extraction temperature in three seconds. Up to 32% more energy efficient than a Thermoblock.

06

Cold Brew

A preset cold extraction mode brews concentrate in under three minutes. Useful when the weather turns.

07

Cold Espresso

Pulls a shot with crema at lower temperatures in under two minutes. Built for iced drinks that don't taste like warm shots on ice.

08

54mm stainless steel portafilter

Compact portafilter sized for the machine's form factor. Ships with single and dual wall filter baskets.

How it works

Grind, impress, extract, steam.

Lock in the portafilter and the grinder doses based on the last result. If the previous shot ran fast, it adjusts. The Impress system then applies a consistent 22lb tamp with a seven-degree twist, the same motion a barista would make, delivered mechanically the same way every time.

Extraction runs through a ThermoJet group head with low-pressure pre-infusion first. The touchscreen shows live feedback as the shot pulls. If something's off, the machine flags it and suggests a grind adjustment.

Milk steams through Auto MilQ, set to temperature and texture for the milk you selected. Pour, finish, reset.

Who it's for

For the home brewer moving from automatic to semi-automatic.

The Barista Touch Impress is built for coffee drinkers who want to engage with the process without being responsible for every step of it. The tamp, the grind feedback, and the guided interface remove the parts that cause most frustration.

It's also suited to multi-drinker households, where one person wants presets and another wants to tune a dialed-in recipe by hand.

Specifications

Every spec Breville publishes.

Dimensions (W x D x H) 14.2 x 13.4 x 16.3 in
Portafilter 54mm stainless steel
Grinder Baratza European Precision Burrs
Grind settings 30
Heating system ThermoJet, 3-second heat-up
Milk system Auto MilQ, dairy / soy / almond / oat
Milk temperature range 104°F to 167°F
Texture levels 8
Preset drinks 13 plus 6 custom
Cold Brew Under 3 minutes
Cold Espresso Under 2 minutes
Materials Stainless steel

In the box

What ships with your Barista Touch Impress.

Per Breville. The razor tool ships in the box so you can level doses from the first shot.

  • 01 Barista Touch Impress
  • 02 480ml stainless steel milk jug
  • 03 1 cup single / dual wall filter baskets
  • 04 2 cup single / dual wall filter baskets
  • 05 Water filter holder with filter
  • 06 Water hardness strip
  • 07 The Razor precision trimming tool
  • 08 Cleaning tablets, steam wand cleaner, cleaning disc, brush
  • 09 Descale powder

Warranty

Manufacturer warranty.

Breville provides a standard manufacturer warranty on the Barista Touch Impress. Coverage, service, and repair are handled directly by Breville. Full terms live on the Breville support site linked on your product page.