Ninja Luxury Café Premier test: a remarkable entrance in the world of coffee

You just have to take a look at the machine to realize that the luxury Café Premier is much more clarifying than the famous Japanese shadow soldiers who give their name to the manufacturer of this device. As we have said, the chrome reigns supreme and when it is brought under tension, the numerous indications on the brilliant black upper part light up for even less discretion.

We like, or not, but if it is a point on which the luxury coffee first is unassailable, it is its quality of construction: the different wheels and buttons are made of metal – it is not so common -, the junctions between the elements are clear, the very rare plastics seem solid … of the beautiful work! The same care has been taken to accessories; The cup support, for example, is made of metal, which is not commonplace. Be careful, all chrome that it is, the luxury Café Premier holds the fingerprints and the splashes very easily and therefore risks losing its superb fairly quickly if it is not regularly wiped.

Less complicated to take in hand that she seems

With all these knobs, all its buttons, the multiple indications on the control screen, luxury Café Premier may intimidate novices. What is more, as often in Ninja, moreover, multiple arrayed screenplay indications on the machine still come to complicate the table.

We are very far from the sobriety of a Philips Baristina for example. It will take a little time to tame the luxury coffee first, but after a few tests and the reading of the user manual, the operation is ultimately not so complicated as that.

The first step is to choose the recipe thanks to the rotating wheel in the center of the control panel. With eight preparations which range from classic espresso to the preparation of Cold Brew via coffee or Americano, Luxe Café Premier offers a fairly rich range, especially for a percolator machine.

From this initial decision stems the choice of filter (single, double or luxury) that will have to be placed in the filter holder: the operation is not so simple since it is often necessary to pull strong enough to extract the first from the second. Once this is done, the guide can be placed on the filter holder and insert everything under the powder distribution nozzle.

Thanks to the Barista Assist function, an adapted level of milling finesse is offered to the user who keeps the possibility of modifying it if it feels the need using the wheel placed on the left side of the device. Good point, the machine seems to take into account a change in the latest recipe prepared so that coffee is ground at the right size: as you go, the proposed setting changes to approach as closely as possible. The grinding begins by pressing the key placed above the general food.

The Ninja Luxe Café Premier is not equipped with an automatic tasting system that is found on the Sage Barista Touch Impress in particular. We will therefore have to play the tape manually, but the famous guide facilitates the operation and we have a well -filled and well -packed filter in a few seconds, without complicated manipulation.

Note that this is valid regardless of the amount of ground coffee. Then place a filter holder, filter and coffee under the water distribution nozzle before locking everything by performing a small rotation to the right. While some percolator machines sometimes deliver a little too much coffee and that, even after tutting, it is difficult to block the portfilter, this has never happened to us with the luxury coffee first despite our many preparations.

The last step of a coffee concocted in the rules of the art can be the heating of milk and its emulsion to make it an essential ingredient of a cappuccino or a latte basket worthy of being served at Taveggia in Milan. And once again, Ninja simplifies things thanks to an ingenious milk jar, completely devoid of an electric connector but yet equipped with an automatic fader which complements the classic steam nozzle to dive into the liquid to warm it. Finally, three benchmarks on the container allow you to dose the milk to the fairest according to the recipe chosen: a frank success!

Full of tips

As often at Ninja, the Luxe Café Premier percolic machine is full of small tips that will simplify the life of the user. We have already talked about the milk jar and the famous guide that is tasting child’s play, even if we would have preferred a system similar to that of the Sage Barista Touch. But we can also quote the harvesting tank in several parts: the smallest and therefore the easiest to empty, which takes the form of a square of 10 cm by 10 is directly under the cup, where the liquids are most treated to flee.

Ninja has also planned storage on Luxury Café Premier to store accessories. On the left, simple footprints welcome the taper and the guide while at the right, a real retractable compartment is used to hide the filters when they are not used. The tasting enhancement, for its part, will naturally find its place just above the harvest-drop. It’s stupid, still had to think about it.

Like those of the Full-Auto Kitchenaid machines (the KF6 or the KF8 in mind), the Luxe Café Premier grain tray can be extracted from its accommodation to facilitate filling and not spread coffee everywhere. We put it in place in two stages three movements.

Finally, only the water tank shows some limits since, even if a footprint serves as a makeshift handle, it is not so simple to remove it to fill it with the tap.

Compared to their Full-Auto counterparts, the machines with percolator are demanding an interview after each coffee and this luxury coffee first is no exception to the rule.

After the extraction, the filter door is removed before hitting it with an august gesture on the Marc tank to eject the coffee pancake: too bad that the tank is not provided with the device. Be careful, even if the filter is firmly inserted into the filter holder, we have seen him go in the trash in the place of coffee alone. However, the ideal solution does not exist and we have encountered a problem comparable with other models of coffee machine with percolator.

As we said, the Luxury Café Premier Luxury Drolts Bac is a bit special. We appreciate emptying the smallest part very simply but, reverse of the medal, we must not forget to empty from time to time the entire used water tank. When you dismember the entire machine to clean it as much as possible, it must be recognized that it makes it a lot to clean.

The most tatillon can also have access to the wheel when needed when a suspicious noise is heard – which would not really be lucky – or to degrease it.

Finally, we appreciate that cleaning and descaling operations can be launched thanks to a touch with direct access, without having to make an obscure combination of buttons support.