
It’s not often you wait a whole year from first hearing about a product to finally getting the chance to try it, but that’s exactly what happened with the Philips Baristina. I first saw it when it launched in Europe last spring, and after months of waiting, it finally arrived here. You can bet I was first on the list to give it a go.
The Philips Baristina is an interesting hybrid between a manual espresso machine and a fully automatic bean-to-cup model, designed to make real espresso from whole beans with minimal effort.