Philips LatteGo 5400 series initial Review 

Thank you so much 😊

Thank you so much for your kind reply 😊

Thank you very much 😊

Thank you so much 😊 Great to hear that you like it.

@@choschiba are you still happy with it? I just ordered one ! You helped me decide!

@@davidgid Yes, I really am.

Oh, danke vielmals 🤗

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Please let me know what you think about it once you are using it. I’m still very happy with mine

Yes, that would be really nice. Those reviews are a lot of work. Filming and editing is very time consuming

It really is.

Thank you very much 😊

Thank you so much 😊 dear Ayman. That makes me very happy as it is a lot of work to record and edit the videos. And I don’t earn any money with it.

Thank you so much for your kind reply

I had exact the same problem. But then I discovered that you have to push the power cord really firmly inside to the socket of the machine. Now it’s rock solid.

Yes, I do. ☕️😊

Muchas gracias por el lindo comentario. Eso significa mucho para mí. Se necesita mucho trabajo para crear un video de este tipo.

@@choschiba lo fàcil es hacer los 12 tipos café y decir que sale muy rico... pero lo interesante por poner un ejemplo es ver la lista disponibles de idiomas, el problema técnico de la junta del filtro, o que quedan restos de leche en el tubo, esos detalles aportan más de lo que parece, y así asumir lo bueno y lo no tan malo antes de comprar cualquier producto, usuarios como usted hacen que RU-vid siga siendo interesante cuando buscas información detallada, great job 👏🏻😜

Muchas gracias. Siempre me gusta ser realmente honesto cuando pruebo y reviso cosas.

Thank you so much 😊

☺️ Oh, thank you so much dear Nick!

You are right. That’s why I have covered it in my next video where I show the maintenance of the machine: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-TRoSHSsijBY.html

Please take your time to fine tune the different settings for each coffee composition. And initially brew about 3-4 coffees that you just pour away without drinking them. Looking forward to hear how you like the machine.

Great to hear. I enjoy drinking my coffee every morning.

How are the milk-based drinks? Is the milk hot enough? How's the milk foam? Can you adjust the amount of foam? Thanks!

​@@H-RutherfordHill I usually drink my coffee with a lot of milk, it's hot enough for my taste. You can adjust milk dosage in every recipe. The foam depends on the recipe. You can not adjust it directly, but the cappucino foam is a bit different from the latte foam, I think. Could be wrong. I usually start the day with a Caffe Latte, with extra shot (double) coffee, on very short water and a lot of milk.

For my taste it’s hot enough. We are even using the lowest temperature settings as the higher ones are to hot for us.

We do, however miss a touch-display, and like you, we miss navigation scrolling without repeated key-presses. PS: We have gotten 1 (the included) used-water tray exchanged through Philips support - because of a small hole, causing it to leak water - so if anyone has problems with water leaking,it can be due to this!

Looking forward to hearing how you like it.

It seems the gaggia' s are quiter overall, most likely due to built quality and the grinder

Thank you very much for sharing the information 👍🏼😊

Would you happen to know how to emulate a caffe latte?

standard measurements for a latte on the 5400 would be 60ml coffee and 140ml milk. and you can up the coffee length to 75 or 90 ml, and milk amount to 200, 270 or 340 ml. I think you don't get those exact ratios on the 4300, but can probably get pretty much the same thing by adjusting the cafe au lait preset, or doing an epresso and then milk froth seperately

Thank you for sharing. I’m not a Latte Macchiato fan. So I‘ve never played around with those settings

Thanks a lot 😃

Hey cool. Hope you like it as much as I do.

Здравей Ваня, доволни ли сте от Philips 5400 до сега? Някакви съвети, проблеми забелязани? Предстои ми покупка и се насочвам към нея. Благодаря.

@@amkprofile Здравейте Александър. Много съм доволна от машината. В къщи сме големи любители на кафето и си търсехме нещо ,което да задоволи нуждите ни-хем хубаво едпресо,хубаво мляко за капучино хем сами да избираме какво кафе ще пием. Пяната за кафето става много креместа и хубава. Съветът ми е да използвате стандартно прясно мляко ,а не тези които ги водят “истински” от малки млекарници като Вършец-не става пяна с тях,което е доста странно. Ако използвате разтителни млека ползвайте тези на които пише barista. Относно кафето-гледайте да е малко по-висок клас ,защото ако е по-евтините арабика те са “мазни” и стоят самите сърна лъскави,а това пречи в един момент на мелачката. Иначе за почистването-на 3-4 месеца я почиствам ,има таблетки на Phillips . Ако изпускам нещо пишете. Хубава машина,излиза евтино когато си home office и пиеш много кафе 😁 Хубав ден

@@gucmanka благодаря за отговора. Имало ли е някакви проблеми със сензорните бутони например за включване изключване да не реагират, или с каничката за мляко да поддава уплътненето и да трябва да се сменя защото тече например? Изобщо някакви гаранционни услуги налагало ли се е да ползвате за нея?

@@amkprofile не,до сега не е имало проблеми от такъв характер.

The coffee tastes much better than with the old machine. The water was already so hot on the middle settings that it was to hot for me and my husband. So we are using the low setting in the meantime. I guess the three settings will suite everyone.

@@choschiba check in with us again when you change beans, use the pre-ground coffee or major greasing and cleaning. Keep up the good work!

@@likha2010 I will

Thank you so much for your nice post 😊 Mine doesn’t have any water leaking. Can’t understand how this could happen as my tray is made out of thick rigid plastic. 🤔 Who knows if they might offer a Pro version with a touch display one day. But I guess that would increase the price a bit.

@@choschiba also my thought. The only explanation I have for the hole, is that the tray has weak/thin spots. I can send pictures of the hole and tray, if you want it (when discovering the water-leakage, I thought that I would need pictures, to document this strange fault to Philips (and to help them improve their design), but the person didn't want this). Again, our second tray, is not leaking - so maybe it is a "one and only" case. But it did make us think: "what if other "design-flaws" exists inside the machine - and we later will experience water/grind-leakings? [so far, we have decided to pay for an extra insurance, securing us 4-years of use - which then hopefully will cover us, if other design-flaws etc. surface!)]

(the hole: is quite small - and as such, it wasn't leaking all the time! .. 3 days passed, after installing the machine, before water leaked - and when we "(immediately) tested to find the leaking-cause" the leaking stopped before the tray did empty! (strange, because when I discovered the leak in the morning, the tray was all emptied from water!).. And, it was first when we put light from a pocket-flashlight, that we saw "light coming in", and could "see" the hole ... funny though, is that the hole is "at bottom-level" .. so water should leak "all the time" / after the first day! ... but, pressure etc. could be an explanation). ... [And, as a positive thing, such a fault will/should show itself quickly - and we didn't have the machine on a wooden-table ... so no damage, in our case! .. and machine-warranty is then a sure thing! ... but I did have to go through all the "standard-questions" by a sceptical support-worker! (have you "over-filled the tray"?, "did you wave it, while removing water?", "have you over-filled the water-tank?", etc. etc..)..]

Ensuring against water-damage: After this experience, we luckily found a tray, that measures appr. 35x50cm, which secures us from any water-leakage to the kitchen table, from the machine (up to appr. 0,5L). The solution could be "better looking", .. but a solution was needed! ... and the metal-tray makes "the coffee-place" look "industrial" or like we have a "coffee-shop" .. And, daily use is now a breeze .., for instance "taking out the tray" and "putting in the water-tank" - without worrying about spillage ....

I always buy an extended warranty nowadays. So I also did when I bought this machine

The microphone of the camera was set up to sensitive. The machine isn’t louder than other machines I guess. Maybe you have the possibility to check out the machine at a local store before buying it.

It’s hot. Not that you burn your lips though. There are three temperature levels to choose from in the main settings. But I guess that it refers to the coffee temperature. Inbreeding basic settings it is set to middle. For my husband and I that felt to hot. We are running it now on the low level. And it’s still hot enough. No matter if we use a thermo glass or regular coffee mug.

There are 12 steps. So you can fine tune it well

I have my setting on 5 1/5 (grind settings). The coffee pads are compact. But in the beginning I had the same issue. They were wet and non compact first. I guess it takes some coffees until everything works properly

once you have adapted it in your profile it is automatically stored. So lets say you are using the blue profile and one day you want to have a stronger recipe you use the blue one with less milk and on the other day you could use the green one where you have programmed the same recipe but with more milk.

@@choschiba Thanks that's big help!

You adjust the coffee in that function. So you don't choose the coffee type and then press the travel mug function.

After you’re finished you simply unhook it and put it back in the fridge so the milk stays cold.

Yes. And it works in "daily life". One can just clean the "thing" once a day .. and adding milk is much simpler, that on a Delonghi (where the top has to be removed, with the rubber-pipe leaking milk - etc" ... plus all the cleaning...

Only thing is, that it makes more noise - the thing happens "nearly all the way out in the open (no "sound-damping"). And, the pressure-pump sounds crazy!!

I have never heard about that. So I don’t know 🤷🏼‍♀️

Get a semiautomatic for the latte art. No way around it!

I‘m still very satisfied. I’ve bought it the old fashion way at the MediaMarkt shop where I included an extension of the warranty.

Yes, that is supposed to be like that. Every coffee machine I have had so far in the past does that.

Thank you so much for sharing. I didn’t even know that they sell them in China.

Yes, that’s really a pity. Everything else is really great. So at least you can solve the problem using my rubber band trick.

I will give it a try and inform you.

@@choschiba thank you!

I will try to create a hot chocolate this afternoon and then let you know how it came out

@@choschiba thank you! We are thinking of getting this machine but don’t always want too much froth with our milk, just for it to be hot, so your test will be so helpful.

So I tried to make some hot milk. The mug was half full of milk. The other half was froth.

You‘re welcome

You can choose the amount of water that you want to use. I have never checked how much cups of coffee I can get out of 1kg. But it’s really a lot!

Ave 10g per full bean max setting 1000g divided by 10g = 100 cups of aprox 10g shots.That is double amount of freshly ground coffee than any stale pod at 1/3 of the cost. B2Cup Bean Coffee is the cheapest and freshest coffee ever...machine pays for itself after a year....

Thank you so much for doing the math for me. Yes, much cheaper than those crappy capsules

I will make a hot chocolate to tell you. Normally I always drink cappuccino or coffee with froth. We had to put our machine to the lowest temperature setting because the higher one was to hot for us. I don’t have a thermometer 🌡 to test the exact temperature.

I don‘t have any experiences with the Delonghi Magnifica Evo, as I have never used it. A month ago I have mine at the service to get the O-Rings exchanged. But other than that it is working absolutely flawlessly.

I have the feeling that the ml of water is right. But the milk froth isn’t. I guess there they rather measure in volume. Please take a measuring cup and test. Then you get a feeling how much it is. I found out that I generate different volume depending which brand of milk 🥛 I use and how much % fat it contains. The more % the better the quality of froth. I use one with 3.5%

@@choschiba thank you for your reply. I haven't bought the machine yet but when I have it, I'll measure it. It seems that milk with high percentage of fat is better to make coffee with milk. Do you frankly suggest this machine when the general performance, temperature of coffee and milk are considered, or would it also be good to consider other coffee machines from different brands?

@@hayatnrenkleri9857 I‘d love to recommend further coffee machines. But as I haven’t tried any other one than my old one it’s not possible. If there is a company willing to send me a machine to review I would love to do that.

@@choschiba I finally bought the same machine. It is smaller in size than I expected. It looks cute but it is little bit loud. But it is still okay. It is easy to use and to clean. The milk system is fine, too. I selected extra shot for all the drinks I have drunk so far. I think I will keep it like this because preparing drinks with less amount of coffee in this machine does not seem to satisfy me with the taste in my cup. I like strong coffee. Thank you for your videos and information you gave. They helped me a lot. I couldn't find any review videos in English, except yours. I will also shoot a video for this coffee machine in my native language because there is no youtube video for this product at the moment. I may also be helpful to others.

Maybe you have to buy a coffee that is roasted darker. Then it will also taste stronger.Regarding the setting of the grinding. I‘ve set up ours now to 9 on the scale. What is your native language?

No, unfortunately this machine that I am using is only available for 230V if you can’t find it for 110V yet.

@@choschiba Does it say on the box or in the owner's manual that it's a 220V only appliance? The reason I'm asking is because a lot of appliances these days are made with power supply in them able to work at 220V as well as 110V as long as you use and adapter for the wall outlet.

@@DjWr00m media.flixcar.com/f360cdn/Philips-66160780-ep5447_90_pss_.pdf please read here. It clearly says 230V.

Yes, that’s normal. The water is rinsing the sieve with high pressure. Otherwise the sieve would get blocked.

I think 8.5oz would be better. In order to create a chilled coffee with a milk foam topping I guess would be best to create a bunch of espresso which you cool down in the fridge. Then you put one espresso serving in one of those cups and run the milk foam program on top of it. You will have to test the amount of milk foam until you are happy with the size of the end product and the taste. Normally you add some ice cubes. The longer you wait after producing the milk foam, the more the foam will collapse. I have personally never tried something like that. But now you made me curious.

I have no clue. You will have to contact Philips directly. I’m just an enduser like you are.

I have tried to choose what you have asked me to test and it says that you can only produce an espresso with an extra shot at a time. So two unattended in a row aren’t possible

No, only if my hands 🙌🏼 are very dry. Then I sometimes have a problem with touch sensors in general. Not only with the coffee machine. Please test if it works better after you have applied hand cream

Yes, you just have to use the last button on the very right for further drinks. There you can create milk froth by itself. You can adjust the amount.

It also stops in the middle of the preparation and tells you to add water. But then it resumes to finish it. Only if you have stepped away and didn’t recognize it in a certain amount of time the machine won’t resume after adding water anymore. I guess that’s okay because then the coffee wouldn’t taste good anymore.

On th e 5400 the medium setting was already to hot for my husband and myself. We set it to the low position now. And it's will hot enough

I'm using medium. I think it's perfect for me not to hot so you can drink it right away, and not to cold. There are three levels - low, medium, high. I think medium is about 70•C

That would be indeed a cool idea.

Ok, jetzt habe ich den Vanillezucker gesehen und bestätigt bekommen, dass du wohl Deutsche bist 😁

Also die Milch wird erst im Ansaugkanal erhitzt. Nicht im Behälter in dem sich die Milch befindet. Wenn man den Kaffee gemacht hat gibt es dieses Kurzreinigungsprogramm bei dem der Kanal mit heißem Wasser durchgespült und somit gereinigt wird. Die Mich im Kännchen wird dabei nie erhitzt. Ich bewahre es dann im Kühlschrank auf. Aber nicht länger als 3 Tage. Dann reinige ich es komplett. Dabei zerlege ich es und reinige ich es mit Spüli.

@@choschiba wow, das ist ja wirklich super praktisch. Vielen Dank 😊

@@Arabella-nd9kn Ja, das ist es wirklich.

I haven‘t tried unsweetened almond milk yet. My brother in Germany is using Oatly barista edition. He has experimented a lot and says that this comes closest to normal milk and it produces really nice froth. He has also tried almond milk and personally doesn’t like it that much. Mostly it is sweetened to much. www.oatly.com/int/products/oat-drink-barista-edition

The milk gets hot enough. But the machine creates lots of foam. So if you optically create a cup of hot milk half of it will be foam and half of it would be liquid milk.

Ok thank you so for one Chocolate it is perfect thank you

You will have to go into the extended settings and manually add more milk. Or you create a single or double espresso and add milk manually in the extended manual

@@choschiba I went into the settings and couldn't find anything about Milk volume or adding more milk. 😕

I mean the extra drinks section. It’s the last button on the drink selection. In there you can choose hot milk

@@choschiba OH the Froth Milk selection! Lol I didn't even think about that. Thanks !

@@Atljeepboy Exactly 😉

The more fat a milk contains the more it is able to produce foam.

What a pity 😏 Hope the 5400 series will be available soon. Should be the same as mine then. International versions might have different numbers 54xx

Thank you so much 🤗 Whoot, there you go. Subbed 😊

No extra shot function, Flat White, Caffee Latte, Espresso Lungo. The body part is made out of plastic whereas the 5400 is a combination out of plastic and stainless steel. The 4300 only has 2 personal profiles. The 5400 has 4. Simple looking display layout. The 5400 has a nicer looking touchscreen layout.

I’ve recently cleaned it and everything is running perfectly. I’m really happy 😃

I have never made one. But I can give it a try for you tomorrow morning. I will let you know how it came out.

@@choschiba thank you very much. I'm interested in buying this amazing machine but cortado is a favourite drink and I need to see if it can be made in the machine.

@@donaldmalander4741 how much ml is the amount of Espresso that you need for it!? And how much milk is added? I’m asking because you can adjust the amount on the display and then store it as an individual one. Okay, I‘ve searched the internet. I will give it a try.

ko-fi.com/cat3d/posts Please look 👀 for the post that shows the coffee cups. Yes, it’s possible. I have used the Cappuccino button. There you can choose „double shot“ and then adjust the amount of milk and how strong you want the coffee to be by adjusting the ml.

thank you for looking into this for me. I'm very keen to buy this coffee machine now.

Grzechoczący dźwięk jest całkowicie normalny. Urządzenie musi wytworzyć ciśnienie, które jest potrzebne do wytworzenia mlecznej pianki. Ten dźwięk jest całkowicie normalny.😽🌼

Not until now.

@@choschiba Thank you!🙏

So far everything is really fine. We drink between 2-5 coffees a day. And of course you have to stick to a maintenance routine in order to keep it clean.

@@choschiba how often do you need to do the cleaning? what's the routine like?

@@ameliabuns4058 you can watch my video about the maintenance

@@choschiba oooh nice thanks :D

If you have the chance to test a coffee full automat at a local store, I guess it would be better for you in order to check out which one is the most silent one.

Yes, other people have already written that it’s not available yet. Hope they will sell it soon.

I just bought the 3241 used for $580, it was hard to find but I love it!

Please send it back for replacement . As you are covered by warranty you will receive a new one. The electronics seem to be faulty.

@@choschiba all good from now. turns out they test every machine with coffee to see if it works properly and clean it afterwards before selling, and there was a warning that some coffee residue might be left unseen, uncleaned unintentionally by mistake. mine was clogged up from it and any liquid couldnt get through properly. i just wasnt cleaning all the places i was supposed to. now its all perfect

Great to hear. Really hope that everything works good now in the future just like on mine.

@@timergent We ordered a new one, but we see residue coffee inside. So we wonder if this is a used product and they resold to us. I mean it seems they have sold a returned product! which gave us a very nasty impression. But on the other hand as you said can it be the result of a test? I wonder where did you read about it? Residue powder is inside the bypas.

@@sdmnan it was written in the manual i think, that the product is first tested and cleaned before being sold, but sometimes they might miss something, so that was just a heads up of whats possible. it was noted that some old coffee residue doesn't mean that its used and resold, philips specifically said that company just test them before selling. and i mean, thats a good thing, you get 100% working product, and if some manual cleaning might come up, thats a fair price considering they just doesnt blindly give their products out without making sure it works

Williams - Sonoma sells the 4500

Oh, thank you so much 😊. That makes me very proud. I really hope that one day all of my efforts will pay off and that it will create a bit of revenue. Right now I'm not earning anything. Creating these videos takes a lot of work.

The milk function creates 50% foam and 50% hot milk

Sie haben recht. Ich bin Deutsche. Ich habe beschlossen meinen Kanal auf Englisch zu machen um ein breiteres Publikum zu erreichen.

I'm planning to buy Jura E8, do you know about it, is that worth buy it, I can get for 35% off.

@@dumdumreviews7436 i have Jura Z8 for 4 years now and its very good machine, good quality. It needs to be cleaned often but its very easy. Newer machines have cleaning tables and it cleans machine from inside itself so yes i think they worth it. You can do more research.

Keine Sorge, ich werde demnächst wieder Videos zum Thema 3D Druck veröffentlichen.