The Oscar II Is Amazing At One Thing [Review] 

Great I'll try that!

How do the shots compared between the 2

I like it! Of course there are better machines out there, but for the price this has amazing steaming performance. I can't believe I bought this brand new for £700 😁

Yeah the espresso won't be as good as something with more control of temperature/flow etc but for the price this machine slaps for milk based drinks 😎

I have a 2 hole now with the Nurri Leva. The biggest thing is integrating and counting air time. Inject less air than you think you need, then bring the wand to the centre and get that roll going. Watch my video with Emilee Bryant cos that has some killer advice that should help

Not sure, check the actual machine. There are OPV kits you can buy that are supposedly easy to fit. Would need to do some research

First I would ask the place you bought it from. I'm not an expert on OPV valves or what it might look like or other ways to tell. The only solution I've seen from pros is buying a pressure gauge portafilter adaptor that screws into the bottom, but you probably don't wanna buy that cos they aren't cheap...

You just need to buy one for a Simonelli group. Not just any 58mm PF will fit. I already had one for my E61 group machine but it didn't fit, and it's annoying to need to buy another PF 😅

Thanks for telling me. I haven't had it that long, but haven't had any problems yet. Hopefully it keeps working, but for sure it isn't as strongly built as some of the other machines I've reviewed. A bit plasticy as I mentioned in the review.

I'm using oscar 2 for a year and mainly use for my small car boot set up with event up to 300 shot of espresso it perform well so far without any issue . I think it may not be perfect but still a great machine for it's price range.

I have had this machine for almost 7 years and I have only had to change the group gasket. The buttons you have to disassemble the soft key pad and clean them with deoxit or crt or IPA then glue again with silicone glue. If anything fails I will mod it, I love it very much. Stays forever with me.

Oh the Pro X is definitely the better machine. The shots were much better, as it's a dual boiler not HX, so much more consistent temperatures and a PID to control.

@@homecafecharlie Hi Charlie, how about their new model Mood versus Por X?

Really why? I want to buy one of them. Probably I will chose the Bianca v3

@@TheRockyBalboa100 go for the bianca the machine with 2 boiler are better than any HX machine in the market and the bianca are the best E61 you can get i have the Oscar 2 for 1 year and planing to get bianca or ascaso DOU PID PLUS

No hot water tap so you'll need to boil the kettle separately

Ability to pull a few shots back to back: not that I drink that many, but about every other week I switch to a different coffee and need to dial in a good recipe, and it shouldn't take too much time to pull 3-5 espressos. Temperature stability, because I can't be bothered to do temperature surfing: "wait until the lamp turns off, then count 20 seconds and then pull your shot" PLEASE NO. Repeatability and automation, because once I've settled on a recipe, I want to be able to rely on it (at least for the current bag) by merely pressing buttons. The reasons above led me to quickly add a PID to my first machine (an old Gaggia Classic I got for an outrageously low price, these things can last for decades). Then, preinfusion with ability to fine-tune. I was curious and considered doing the dimmer mod on the GC, until I got a great deal on a refurbished Elizabeth. Now I'm convinced that it's very useful, and wouldn't want to go back. Then, warm up time. I did compromise here with the Elizabeth, it needs about 20 minutes to be fully warmed up, by contrast the GC took only 7 minutes. C'est la vie. Milk steaming comes pretty much after everything else, for me it's just a bonus. I never drank coffee with milk until I got the GC, and even now it's still rare. Initially I didn't want a dual boiler, and made an exception for the Elizabeth just because it uses pressure from the steam boiler for a softer (1 bar) preinfusion (steam pushes water from the brew boiler onto the puck).

Lol it's my problem, I do it even if the machine doesn't need it cos of habit. My third machine was an old Rancilio Silvia V2 and the gasket was crap, I had no idea at the time and just thought it needed to be locked in tight. Got a new gasket and everything was fine haha

Should be higher now, I guess YT took longer than usual for processing...

@@homecafecharlie All good now!

Easy, Oscar 2 every time

@@homecafecharlie oscar 2 or Breville Dual Boiler?

Mine had the OPV done out of the box, didn't need to do anything! I like it, crazy good performance for a cheap machine

But so so good for latte art 😉

@@homecafecharlie that i have to give that the steam of this machine is pretty strong.

Flowmeter for what? To Break or needs a expensive replacement? A Vibration pump has a Set flow. cm3/s flowrate. So Timing a shot in sec is the same AS flow. And poor water quality will cause leaks. Its a Thermo Block system Not a Heat Exchanger. Wich behavior is normal and expected in a Thermo Block. Their Quality Made. In Europe they sell for 730€ with 9 bar valve. A ECM will start at 1000€ and Rocket at 1200€.

@@analphabet1996 Flow meters are reliable. My machine is 20 years old and still running with no problems. The Oscar II is an Heat exchange machine; even their website says that. The flow rate of the vibratory pump is only constant through the group head when there is no resistance; once you put coffee grounds on it, some of that flow goes through the OPV and is drained to the drain tray not through the portafilter. The problem is that when you don’t have a flow meter and you are trying different coffees and recipes, your shots are not going to be consistent. Each one makes their own decision about what machine they prefer; this is only my opinion as an espresso machine mechanic and what I have seen in the past. I apologize for not including every currency in my suggestion. I am sure they are priced differently in each country, but for someone buying a prosumer espresso machine, an extra $200 dollars is not a big difference once you get into those high prices, but for some it may not be the case.

Hard to say because the Pro X I had in Japan, where the power is 100v and this one in the UK is 240v. Makes a big difference for staying power with steam. They are probably both comparable.