- Sales Rank: #194840 in Kitchen & Housewares
- Color: Titanium
- Brand: Gaggia
- Model: 90800
- Dimensions: 14.60" h x
12.60" w x
16.40" l,
30.00 pounds
Features
- Stainless steel boiler with rapid steam boiler system. 15 bar water pump pressure
- Stainless Steel finished front panel with backlit touch ring control panel. Height-adjustable cup tray. Impact resistant ABS plastic housing
- E-plus beverage strength system. Stainless steel passively heated cup warmer
- Included Aqua Prima water filter and 57 oz removable water reservoir
- 8.8 oz bean hopper capacity with adjustable ground coffee dosage from 7-10.5 grams / Ceramic burr grinder
- Stainless steel boiler with rapid steam boiler system. 15 bar water pump pressure
- Stainless Steel finished front panel with backlit touch ring control panel. Height-adjustable cup tray. Impact resistant ABS plastic housing
- E-plus beverage strength system. Stainless steel passively heated cup warmer
- Included Aqua Prima water filter and 57 oz removable water reservoir
- 8.8 oz bean hopper capacity with adjustable ground coffee dosage from 7-10.5 grams / Ceramic burr grinder
Style and Sophistication meet craft and simplicity in the Gaggia Platinum Vogue. They say fashion and personality go hand in hand, and the Gaggia Platinum Vogue reinterprets that idea in an expertly designed machine, offering an endless range of customized drinks all with the touch of a button. Attractive and durable, the Platinum Vogue features a stainless steel boiler with Rapid Steam system, so there is no wait between brewing and steaming. With an adjustable doser and the exclusive E-plus beverage strength system, you decide the strength and taste of your coffee. The Pannarello frothing wand makes frothing and steaming milk easy, allowing you to create cappuccinos, lattes and more with ease. Of course, it’s the little things that complete an ensemble. A passive heat cup warmer, height-adjustable drip tray, Aqua Prima water filter and hassle-free control panel all lend to your excellent and unique espresso experience.
Customer Reviews
Most helpful customer reviews
11 of 12 people found the following review helpful.
By M. Gonzalez
This machine is aesthetically pleasing and pulls great espresso shots. With good quality beans I am able to make as good a latte as I can find in places like Peets with pleasing frothing and nice crema. But the machine is falling apart! After just 4 months the ball joint of the frothing wand is broken and to have it repaired I was told by the US distributor that I must send it back to NY (at my expense) and be without it for 3 weeks.Bottom line the best machine imaginable if you are ok replacing it reliability and good customer service is not a concern to you. Maurigo
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful.
By Patricia Castillo Hernandez
I agree. Nice looking machine with great tasting espresso but questionable durability. The worst part is that once you send it to New York, Importika - the distributor/importer - is unresponsive and unreliable. My machine arrived at Importika for service on March 23rd and I am still waiting for an ETA. Gaggia has always stood for the highest quality. I am afraid that this awesome machine may fail in the last mile: durability and service from its importer.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.
By Critical Rationalist
(Update as of October 2013: We've had this Gaggia for almost four years now and we're still very happy with it. This is one VERY nice machine and it has been completely dependable. No problems at all; we just clean it now and then. My wife and I work at home and we use it every day to make probably 10 cups a day.)Excellent espresso and coffee, and of course it pays for itself compared to buying by the cup. It has a fairly quiet grinder, and if you want to make coffee while kids are sleeping just put your hand over the single-dose hopper and the sound level drops by about 80%, making it really quiet. It takes about a minute to heat up from standby mode. After that, it produces espresso in 50 sec., regular coffee in 90 sec. We bought the milk island and it works, but isn't worth the effort so we never did use it much: Cleaning it is a major hassle, and it's easier and faster just to foam the milk manually with the steam spout, which you can rinse off in a few seconds while the coffee is brewing. The steam spout has a sleeve so it isn't too hot to touch.There is a much more expensive version of this machine that has more electronics -- save your money and get this one. The coffee produced is exactly the same.The Gaggia is incredibly versatile. You can use the presets, you can adjust the presents to suit you, you can program the machine to brew just the way you want for each type of coffee using "learning" mode, or you can just press the start button again to stop the brewing. You can adjust the amount of coffee. You can bypass the grinder and use single doses of ground coffee -- for example to make a cup of decaf. You can make hot water for tea or steam for cappuccino using the steam/hot water spout.The tank has a water filter that is optional to use and the machine has a descaling cycle that we don't need because we use only distilled water, which I highly recommend. (If you can afford this Gaggia, you can afford a distiller too!) It also has an automatic cleaning cycle for everything but the brew group, which itself is very easy to clean by rinsing it off. Regarding cleaning, you don't need the descaling kit if you use distilled water, but you DO still need the Gaggia "Coffee Cleaning Tablet" -- available at Amazon and elsewhere, see photo. The package has 10 tablets and you'll only need one or two tablets a year; use them when the coffee flow starts slowing down; it will be obvious.The four minor but irritating downsides: (1) A stupid design flaw for such an expensive machine is that the "fill the water tank" message is useless. It OUGHT to display the message when there's not enough water to make the type of coffee you select. Instead, if there's not enough water, the machine doesn't warn you. It will go ahead and start the brewing, abort it in mid-cycle when the water runs out, and THEN display the message (which might as well say "you should have filled the water tank"). The result is wasted time and coffee beans. To prevent this from happening, each time before you make coffee, you have to pull the water container to see whether there is enough water. There's not even a visual water-level indicator. This got to be so annoying that I made my own water-level indicator by drilling a hole through the plastic exterior and into the bottom of the tank, inserting a transparent tube and silicone-gluing it in, and inserting the top (open) end of the tube into another drilled hole in the plastic just above the top of the tank. I marked low and high water levels. Problem solved! See photo. With that one irritating problem solved, the machine is just about perfect. The other downsides listed below are minor by comparison.(2) There is no optional water-feed option similar to a refrigerator icemaker water line connection. The tank has to be refilled a LOT, in part because the coffee is so good that you tend to drink a lot of it. When I was solving problem #1, I added another plastic tube that runs from our water distiller, so that we can manually fill the tank when our homemade water-level indicator shows that the level is low. The photo shows that too.(3) The single-dose unit is very picky; use just a tad more than the standard amount of coffee and it will reject the whole thing, abort the brewing, and dump the wet but unused ground coffee in the dump bin. (Update October 2013: We rarely use the single-dose unit; if someone wants decaf they are usually ok with instant.)(3) Even if you use only distilled water, this machine insists on descaling its boiler every month or so, even when the water-hardness scale is set to minimum. There is no "0" or "distilled water" setting. So you have to let it run the descaling cycle, which takes about 10 min. and half a gallon of water, and it's happy. (Update October 2013: We decided to ignore the "descale" notice since we use distilled water, and the machine doesn't seem to mind. So now running the Gaggia with the constant "descale" notice is kind of like running a car with the "check engine" light on because you know it's just a bad sensor.)
Gaggia 90800 Platinum Vogue Automatic Espresso Machine, Silver
In Stock! Check Price Now !16.40" l,
30.00 pounds
Features
- Stainless steel boiler with rapid steam boiler system. 15 bar water pump pressure
- Stainless Steel finished front panel with backlit touch ring control panel. Height-adjustable cup tray. Impact resistant ABS plastic housing
- E-plus beverage strength system. Stainless steel passively heated cup warmer
- Included Aqua Prima water filter and 57 oz removable water reservoir
- 8.8 oz bean hopper capacity with adjustable ground coffee dosage from 7-10.5 grams / Ceramic burr grinder
- Stainless steel boiler with rapid steam boiler system. 15 bar water pump pressure
- Stainless Steel finished front panel with backlit touch ring control panel. Height-adjustable cup tray. Impact resistant ABS plastic housing
- E-plus beverage strength system. Stainless steel passively heated cup warmer
- Included Aqua Prima water filter and 57 oz removable water reservoir
- 8.8 oz bean hopper capacity with adjustable ground coffee dosage from 7-10.5 grams / Ceramic burr grinder
Style and Sophistication meet craft and simplicity in the Gaggia Platinum Vogue. They say fashion and personality go hand in hand, and the Gaggia Platinum Vogue reinterprets that idea in an expertly designed machine, offering an endless range of customized drinks all with the touch of a button. Attractive and durable, the Platinum Vogue features a stainless steel boiler with Rapid Steam system, so there is no wait between brewing and steaming. With an adjustable doser and the exclusive E-plus beverage strength system, you decide the strength and taste of your coffee. The Pannarello frothing wand makes frothing and steaming milk easy, allowing you to create cappuccinos, lattes and more with ease. Of course, it’s the little things that complete an ensemble. A passive heat cup warmer, height-adjustable drip tray, Aqua Prima water filter and hassle-free control panel all lend to your excellent and unique espresso experience.
Customer Reviews
Most helpful customer reviews
11 of 12 people found the following review helpful.
By M. Gonzalez
This machine is aesthetically pleasing and pulls great espresso shots. With good quality beans I am able to make as good a latte as I can find in places like Peets with pleasing frothing and nice crema. But the machine is falling apart! After just 4 months the ball joint of the frothing wand is broken and to have it repaired I was told by the US distributor that I must send it back to NY (at my expense) and be without it for 3 weeks.Bottom line the best machine imaginable if you are ok replacing it reliability and good customer service is not a concern to you. Maurigo
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful.
By Patricia Castillo Hernandez
I agree. Nice looking machine with great tasting espresso but questionable durability. The worst part is that once you send it to New York, Importika - the distributor/importer - is unresponsive and unreliable. My machine arrived at Importika for service on March 23rd and I am still waiting for an ETA. Gaggia has always stood for the highest quality. I am afraid that this awesome machine may fail in the last mile: durability and service from its importer.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.
By Critical Rationalist
(Update as of October 2013: We've had this Gaggia for almost four years now and we're still very happy with it. This is one VERY nice machine and it has been completely dependable. No problems at all; we just clean it now and then. My wife and I work at home and we use it every day to make probably 10 cups a day.)Excellent espresso and coffee, and of course it pays for itself compared to buying by the cup. It has a fairly quiet grinder, and if you want to make coffee while kids are sleeping just put your hand over the single-dose hopper and the sound level drops by about 80%, making it really quiet. It takes about a minute to heat up from standby mode. After that, it produces espresso in 50 sec., regular coffee in 90 sec. We bought the milk island and it works, but isn't worth the effort so we never did use it much: Cleaning it is a major hassle, and it's easier and faster just to foam the milk manually with the steam spout, which you can rinse off in a few seconds while the coffee is brewing. The steam spout has a sleeve so it isn't too hot to touch.There is a much more expensive version of this machine that has more electronics -- save your money and get this one. The coffee produced is exactly the same.The Gaggia is incredibly versatile. You can use the presets, you can adjust the presents to suit you, you can program the machine to brew just the way you want for each type of coffee using "learning" mode, or you can just press the start button again to stop the brewing. You can adjust the amount of coffee. You can bypass the grinder and use single doses of ground coffee -- for example to make a cup of decaf. You can make hot water for tea or steam for cappuccino using the steam/hot water spout.The tank has a water filter that is optional to use and the machine has a descaling cycle that we don't need because we use only distilled water, which I highly recommend. (If you can afford this Gaggia, you can afford a distiller too!) It also has an automatic cleaning cycle for everything but the brew group, which itself is very easy to clean by rinsing it off. Regarding cleaning, you don't need the descaling kit if you use distilled water, but you DO still need the Gaggia "Coffee Cleaning Tablet" -- available at Amazon and elsewhere, see photo. The package has 10 tablets and you'll only need one or two tablets a year; use them when the coffee flow starts slowing down; it will be obvious.The four minor but irritating downsides: (1) A stupid design flaw for such an expensive machine is that the "fill the water tank" message is useless. It OUGHT to display the message when there's not enough water to make the type of coffee you select. Instead, if there's not enough water, the machine doesn't warn you. It will go ahead and start the brewing, abort it in mid-cycle when the water runs out, and THEN display the message (which might as well say "you should have filled the water tank"). The result is wasted time and coffee beans. To prevent this from happening, each time before you make coffee, you have to pull the water container to see whether there is enough water. There's not even a visual water-level indicator. This got to be so annoying that I made my own water-level indicator by drilling a hole through the plastic exterior and into the bottom of the tank, inserting a transparent tube and silicone-gluing it in, and inserting the top (open) end of the tube into another drilled hole in the plastic just above the top of the tank. I marked low and high water levels. Problem solved! See photo. With that one irritating problem solved, the machine is just about perfect. The other downsides listed below are minor by comparison.(2) There is no optional water-feed option similar to a refrigerator icemaker water line connection. The tank has to be refilled a LOT, in part because the coffee is so good that you tend to drink a lot of it. When I was solving problem #1, I added another plastic tube that runs from our water distiller, so that we can manually fill the tank when our homemade water-level indicator shows that the level is low. The photo shows that too.(3) The single-dose unit is very picky; use just a tad more than the standard amount of coffee and it will reject the whole thing, abort the brewing, and dump the wet but unused ground coffee in the dump bin. (Update October 2013: We rarely use the single-dose unit; if someone wants decaf they are usually ok with instant.)(3) Even if you use only distilled water, this machine insists on descaling its boiler every month or so, even when the water-hardness scale is set to minimum. There is no "0" or "distilled water" setting. So you have to let it run the descaling cycle, which takes about 10 min. and half a gallon of water, and it's happy. (Update October 2013: We decided to ignore the "descale" notice since we use distilled water, and the machine doesn't seem to mind. So now running the Gaggia with the constant "descale" notice is kind of like running a car with the "check engine" light on because you know it's just a bad sensor.)
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- Stainless steel boiler with rapid steam boiler system. 15 bar water pump pressure
- Stainless Steel finished front panel with backlit touch ring control panel. Height-adjustable cup tray. Impact resistant ABS plastic housing
- E-plus beverage strength system. Stainless steel passively heated cup warmer
- Included Aqua Prima water filter and 57 oz removable water reservoir
- 8.8 oz bean hopper capacity with adjustable ground coffee dosage from 7-10.5 grams / Ceramic burr grinder
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