Consumer Reviews of the Jura-Capresso ENA3

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Review By Mary A. Romeo

I purchased this machine for my husband and myself after Christmas to replace our 2 yr. old Gaggia Coffee Deluxe. We had so many problems with the Gaggia we gave up on making a good non stove top espresso. We found it in the Jura-Capresso ENA3. We chose the ENA 3 because it was affordable and we really didn’t need the express frother and the few other features the ENA 5 had.

We are thrilled with the ease of use and the easy to follow instructions. We have tried several different beans and they have all produced a great cup of espresso with great crema. We have made espresso, cappuccino, lattes and hot chocolate. They have all turned out superb. The machine is almost self cleaning. It rinses after heating just before making the first cup and when you shut the machine down. You only have to dump the grounds and clean the drip trays from the rinsing. A very easy process. The unit came with a great DVD, clearly water filter and 2 cleaning tablets.

We now start our day with an espresso and another in the afternoon. It is just so simple to use and we are really enjoying our cups of coffee.

We would highly recommend this machine.

Review By Omar Shahine

For the past two decades my wife and I have been replacing our coffee machine every few years. They eventually break, wear down, get grimy and are hard to keep clean. We were looking at the many “one cup” coffee options and never really considered a super automatic espresso machine.

On recommendation of a friend, we tried the Jura-Capresso ENA3 for making coffee. that’s right, we use this to make our morning cup of joe, not shots of espresso, lattes or anything else. This machine is a SUPERB coffee machine replacement if you are like us and have a cup each in the morning about a half hour apart. Each of us get a piping hot, consistently good cup of coffee.

Basically you just program your machine to brew 8 oz of espresso, and set the strength to strong, and you will get a great cup of coffee each time. The taste is very rich, almost like a cafe americano (shot of espresso with hot water).

The trick is that you need to get good beans. Nothing from Starbucks or Peets. We get our beans from a fantastic place in Seattle called Espresso Vivace ([...]) and it’s hands down the best tasting stuff.

The machine is really fully automatic. It even keeps itself very clean. And no need to descale it as long as you use the Jura Capresso filters.

The only downside to this machine is that the water reservoir is small if you are like us, brewing 8oz of coffee at a time.

Review By pc_seattle

I have been drinking french pressed coffee for many years and recently bought a Jura-Capresso ENA3 so I can make latte and other milk/soy milk based drinks.

I bought my ENA3 from Bed bath and beyond with the 20% off coupon; wish Amazon do price matching.

What I like about this machine:

1. Small (9″ width), takes up less less counter space than any other super automatic machines on the market.

2. Ease of use-can be as easy as press one button to make a cup of coffee

3. The coffee/espresso taste great and reasonably easy to make a milk/soy milk based drinks

4. Easy to clean and maintain

Dislike:

1. As the other reviewer noted, the rotary button can be a bit confusing. Take a few practice run to get it right.

2. Wish the water tank is in the front

Update:

After six weeks of use, I am very very happy with the machine. The machine makes better espresso drinks(way better than Starbucks). I tried Lilly but moved on to try Lavazza espresso beans due to price.

Review By Michael Miller

After weeks of research we ended up selecting the Jura-Capresso ENA3.

I was a bit skeptical that this small little super automatic could really replace our larger manual and brew quality espresso. I went to a local retailer and was fortunate enough to be able to use a demo unit. I was amazed by how simple and intuitive the ENA 4 is to use; while at the same time provides a level of flexibility and control well beyond my expectations.

The Jura-Capresso site has some great video demos as well as other info that is worth checking out. http://capresso.com/automatic-coffee-centers-ena3-4.shtml

If you’re looking for a super automatic, I highly recommend you take a look at the ENA. Our unit has exceeded our expectations. Great espresso and lattes!

Review By Richard Evans

I purchased the ENA4 2 years ago, actually I purchased the Jura-Capresso ENA3 which is black, but I was given the ENA4. The only difference is the color. It has never failed to produce an excellent shots of espresso. Generally, I make lattes or cappuccino.

Performing the routine maintenance, when indicated, produces the best results.

This is a home unit, not designed for power users. Wouldn’t recommend it for an office or high volume household.

Review By Chris Engst

I bought the Jura-Capresso ENA3 for Christmas 3 months ago. I make only lattes so can’t comment on its espresso. After following directions, which were very good, the milk frother exploded off the machine the first time I used the machine – splattering milk around. Upon calling the company a month later when I was fed up with the problem, they sent a new frother, which did not come off.

One day, when I attempted to steam milk, smoke arose from the back of the machine. I unplugged the machine and called the company, and they sent a new machine, postage paid both ways. The new machine works fine without blasting off the frother. The customer service is very good.

The ability to use decaf grounds when your beans are regular works very well. It warns you when you need to add beans, add water or empty grounds.

My complaint with the machine is that it does not make better foam than my old Krups Il Primo, which costs under $100. The foam is not as fine as the Compresso that my daughter owns which is 6 years old and is no longer made. The water container is small, and needs refilling more than once a day for my 5 cups. The taste is not the knock your socks off latte that one gets from the better cafes or that my daughter gets.

Review By Emar

I had high hopes for the Jura-Capresso ENA3. Did some research, read a bunch of reviews, dismissing as novices (I’ve been a home ‘barista’ for 9 yrs) the people that had negative comments. Well, they were right.

This is not an espresso maker. My first clue was the unit comes with an 8oz ‘shot’ programmed as the default setting. Yes you can change it but nothing you do this unit will get it to make real espresso-not the grind setting, not the shot size, not the strength setting, not amount of coffee, nothing (using Illy beans). Luke warm shot without any true crema. Besides that, there are little annoyances resulting from design errors – e.g. unless the frother wand is cocked off to the side (as shown in the photos) you will knock it off every time you open the garbage drawer. As mentioned previously the water tank is too small, if you make more than 1 a day you will be filling it daily but hey, what do you want there are trade-offs to get a small footprint.

I did like the ease of cleaning the frother and you can’t argue that its not a good looking unit. Also, I don’t know why others comment on poor foam. Another thing the Juras do really well is put on a head of micro foam. You need to both steam the milk and also extend the wand to get a true latte or cap; frothing alone will not get the milk hot enough.

Bottom line: it does everything well except its prime mission — making espresso (sort of like phone calls on an iPhone 4). I’ve already sent mine back and replaced it with a Rancilio Silvia.

Review By Carrie Jones

I love that the Jura-Capresso ENA3 doesn’t take up any counter space. It’s small, sleek, very compact, and makes any kind of coffee drink imaginable. I also appreciate its energy-saving features.

Review By J. Plant

This is our third Capresso (or Jura Capresso) super automatic coffee machine. In our experience these machines last only a few years before needing repair but they make such good coffee, so easily and quickly, that we keep coming back to them. We’ve tried other brands and none rivals Jura Capresso’s coffee. This is our first machine of the ENA generation, however. We just bought a Jura-Capresso ENA3. While the coffee is as good as that of previous models, the new design is disappointing. The rotary dial is a pain but it is tolerable once you master it. The water tank, on the other hand, is an absolute nightmare. We can only make three mugs of coffee before it must be refilled, and the rear location of the tank makes that task very difficult, especially since our machine must be located on a kitchen counter top beneath upper cabinets. In addition we have under-cabinet lighting, and it’s hard to remove the water tank for refilling without bumping into the lights and burning your hand. In my opinion the few inches reduction in the width of the machine is insignificant compared to the inconvenience of the new water tank’s size and location. Unless Jura redesigns the water tank, I doubt we’ll be buying a fourth coffeemaker from them. Maybe we’ll just have our old one repaired and use it for a few more years!

Review By Amateur Baker

The Jura-Capresso ENA3 is a well built machine that looks handsome in the shop but when you use you discover a bunch of silly design mistakes that make your experience of using it quite deceiving, I’ll try to list them:

Rinsing: the Jura has a rinsing program, it’s fine it has this! the problem is that it is badly designed: when you stop the machine it will automatically rinse, fine! when you start the machine it won’t rinse automatically it will tell you to touch the button so that it rinses, why? It is very irritating to start the coffee machine in the morning, go to wash your teeth and when you go back to the machine it’s not ready, it’s asking you to push a button to get it rinsed.

Energy savings: it’s also badly thought. You can ask the machine to automatically get in a saving mode so that it’s on but it doesn’t consume so much electricity. That’s a very good idea but it’s not well implemented. When it’s in saving mode you can’t make coffee, you have to wait to get it hotter, that’s OK except that you don’t know if it’s in saving mode or not, you see that it tells you it’s “ready” you push the button and then… it doesn’t make your coffee, it tells you “please wait while i heat up”, then you have to wait and push the button again. It’d be fine if it made the coffee directly after heating up, but it won’t, you have to push again. In the end I don’t use the energy savings.

Spit in your coffee: every time it makes a coffee it spits a little bit of (dirty) water before making the coffee why? irritating anyway.

The rotary switch: this machine pretends to work as a sort of iPod, I would like best to have several buttons and know what it is for each one, because that only button may be a little puzzling.

Cappuccino: I don’t like cappuccino so I don’t care much, I only tried once to make one and the result had nothing to do with what you see in the video.

I think this machine is designed to make coffees in pairs, I only made two coffees at a time once, and they looked better, it’s probably a bad idea to make a home machine so that it can make two coffees at a time as most of the time you make only one coffee.

So my conclusion is that despite this coffee machine makes a correct coffee its processes (start up, rinse, energy savings etc.) are not well thought so it causes you a lot of very silly problems when using it in a home, probably all day long started without savings (an office and not caring for the electricity bill) would be acceptable but for a home user that tries to save electricity is a nightmare.

I don’t recommend you this coffee machine.

Review By ulysses4

On a small piazza, in a lesser known Northern Italian town, someone is brewing the perfect cup of espresso. That is my working fantasy. Having traveled around Italy for more than 25 years, it seems quite plausible. In the town we regularly visit for a month at a time, I have sampled perhaps three dozen cafes. Their coffee runs from good to superb, with a couple of clunkers, presumably due to stale or inferior quality coffee.

At home, many Italians make do with a little mechanical machine that goes on the top of the stove. It’s drinkable coffee, but nothing to write home about.  Why bother, when a superior cup is available just down the street.

The prospect of having a high quality espresso maker in my house has been on my to do list for a long time. Other priorities and expenses came first. Of course, to replicate the machines found in the great cafes, one needs an art deco double brass boiler behemoth, of V-12 proportions. All it takes is the price of a small car, a high pressure boiler license and enough electricity to light the neighborhood.  With the small footprint of our kitchen and a much more modest budget, there are still plenty of options to consider.

If you have done any browsing on this subject, you will know that there are manual, semi-automatic, super-automatic and prosumer machines, and they largely increase with price as you move to the right on that scale (although there are some high end machines in the first two categories). There are far better resources to parse these differences than I can provide.

Suffice it to say, I chose a low end super-automatic for convenience, for something that would fit comfortably in the counter space available and within the constraints of our purse.

WHY THE JURA-CAPRESSO ENA3?

In the United States, there are approximately a dozen brands and three or four dozen models to consider. While you can find a sparse number of rants and raves on various websites, to some extent it boils down to a reputation for reliability, good service, and the production of quality coffee and coffee drinks. I know of no place where you can take several competing brands for a test drive, although some commercial outlets that sell competing brands may or may not tell you frankly about their experience-third hand. There may be some professional testing reviews, but the coverage is spotty considering how much you will have to pay for a good machine. In a way, choosing one of these machines is like picking a sports team or a car: there are rabid and sometimes lifetime fans out there.

We chose the ENA-3 because (1) Jura-Capresso appears to have a good reputation for standing behind its products; (2) we have several friends who have been happy with their units; (3) I know of no comparable machine with a smaller footprint, (4) I Was not as comfortable with the reliability and service reputation of some of the Italian brands.

WHERE TO GET ONE

A quick visit to Jura-Capresso’s website will reveal that their machines are sold through some specialty (usually kitchen) shops, department stores and on-line espresso-machine dealers. The company seems to ride herd on its distributors and the odds are the price will be virtually identical everywhere. Some of the on-line folks may throw in a pound of coffee and/or some other extras. Most likely, whoever you order from, the machine will be shipped to you or the dealer directly from Jura-Capresso. Not many places keep a large inventory of these models.

ENA-3, 4, and 5

The guts of all three machines are essentially the same. I believe the ENA-4 is being discontinued, and it is very much like the 3 with a different outer shell. The ENA-5, for about $300 more has a rotating spout, and both the FrothExpress and Dual Frother Plus devices for coffee/milk drinks such as lattes and cappuccinos, the ENA-3 has only the latter, a small metal rod with a rubber ring, small holes and it can be used in both a steam or froth position. From looking at both in the store, the FrothExpress uses a siphoning plastic tube to expedite the process of making these types of drinks, but it may well be harder to keep clean. Great if you have to make a whole bunch of lattes in a hurry, but buildup of milk residue, according to some owners, can cause the tube to come flying off and spraying hot liquid in all directions. I suspect, if you use it according to directions, it would work fine. According to my manual, you can buy the attachment for $100 and change and attach it to the ENA-3, but the store I bought it through advises that the attachable version is being discontinued. There may be some units out there in internet land. The faux platinum metallic finish of the 5 and the second frothing system didn’t seem worth the extra price to us.

OUT OF THE BOX AND IN THE KITCHEN

Several weeks into using the machine (thirty or forty espressos and a dozen cappuccinos), I am generally pleased. Instructions come in the form of a CD, a Quick Reference and a 32 page manual. All are straight-forward for us technically challenged folks.

The 37 ounce water reservoir is quite sufficient for a couple who rarely have more than three or four guests for dinner. Larger and fancier machines have 60-100 ounce capacities for the price differential of a couple of round trip tickets to Italy. The reservoir is in the back, so you need enough space to be able to get to it.

This is a single boiler machine, but has 18 bars of pressure, plenty to coax the flavor out of your beans.

The grounds are deposited in a lower tray assembly of three parts, four with a little metal tray stand in front. These need to be pulled out and cleaned fairly frequently, but it is not a difficult task.

The Jura-Capresso ENA3 has a large commercial grade conical steel grinder. You can adjust the grind to fine, medium or coarse, and possibly something in between. You can bypass the grinder and pour a small amount of pre-ground coffee into a side chute for the occasional cup of decaf or perhaps flavored coffee.

The machine is programmed to make 5 ounce cups, but you can  change the setting from half an ounce (for no rational reason) up to eight ounces per cup, and you can move the rotary dial to two cups, placing two cups side by side on the stainless steel front grid.

I have tried my hand at cappuccinos, and the dual frother works fine. You place it in a small milk pitcher, first in steam position, and then move it to froth. Quite quickly, the milk rises in the pitcher, so leave plenty of room.

De-calcifying, clearyl filters and other long term maintenance are down the road. The instructions are straight forward.

Changing the settings on the rotary dial while the machine is working takes a little practice. There is a rinse cycle both before you start making coffee and when you turn the machine off. Be sure to have a cup under the spouts.

BOTTOM LINE

The ENA-3 makes silky smooth espresso and coffee/milk drinks. You can adjust it to mild, medium and strong. We use strong and take our coffee black, and are generally pleased. My only quibble is that I would prefer the drinks to be hotter. There are two temperature settings, and hot is not hot enough. Jura suggests that you run some steam water into the cups to get them hotter. I do that, and am annoyed that I have to. Some Swiss engineer must have decided what temperature was best for maximum flavor. Since I’m not gulping down my espresso, it is a little annoying that it needs to be consumed immediately or goes luke warm quite quickly. Still the flavor is excellent.

While the machine does most of the work for you, you still need to choose quality and fresh beans from a skillful roaster, determine whether your tap water is suitable, or needs to be filtered, and for the milk drinks perform some manual labor. But you are a step closer to the cafe ideal.

Review By maromeo

We bought the Jura-Capresso ENA3 to replace our Gaggia Deluxe. It was the best decision. It is the easiest bean to cup espresso/coffee maker. The grinder is excellent and produces a good crema even from grocery store beans.  There is no bitterness to the coffee, very smooth.  We couldn’t get that from our Gaggia no matter what the grind, beans or how we tampered. We have made espresso, coffee, lattes and cappuccinos with the ENA 3. All have turned out very well.

The ENA 3 came with a clearyl water filter and cleaning tablets. It was nice you have everything except beans to get started.

We had a question regarding our unit and called Capresso Customer Service located in NJ and they are very knowledgeable and helpful. Great customer service.

We checked the differences in the features of the ENA 3, 4 and 5. For the price differences and features the ENA 3 was great for us. If we made more cappuccinos or milk coffee the ENA 5 with the express frother and 1 or 2 cup dial would have been a choice for us.

We currently have a Capresso Coffee Maker MT-500 with the stainless steel carafe. It has been wonderful for 4 years everyday and still going strong.

Review By Dusty

I’m a little reluctant in giving 5 stars, but still what a nice machine.

I like:  Good coffee drinks, good design aesthetics, helpful display, adjustable settings, seems to self rinse well, reasonable price for super-automatic, somewhat smaller counter top footprint.

What is rough?  I do like the simple interface for low effort mornings, but for two users – I sometimes get unexpected results.  The water tank needs frequent refills and may direct placement in kitchen.

All in all a great first impression.  I haven’t had my unit long enough to judge quality or wear.

Review By donthave1

I have had THE Jura-Capresso ENA3 for about a month at the time of this review. The machine has been very handy in the mornings. Making my coffee quickly. giving me time do do other thing while the machine does the work.

Review By CoffeeJunky

I bought THE Jura-Capresso ENA3 almost 6 months ago, and waited to review it, so I could see how reliable it was going to be, and what kind of coffee it would brew over time. I’ve been extremely impressed, and recently crossed the magical point where cost of the machine is now below the cost of buying lattes at an un-named worldwide chain of coffee houses. I keep decaf beans in the hopper for my wife, grid my regular beans separately, and put the ground coffee in the manual chute. The machine seems to press a designated amount of water through the grounds, regardless of the settings (espresso, “coffee”, etc), and adjusts the strength of the brew by adding more, or using less water after the initial shot.

I think the machine came set by default to produce 6 oz cups of coffee, but the user essentially sets the amount of water that follows the shot, so the ‘regular’ cup of coffee is actually a pressed shot, with extra water pushed through. It’s easy to tap-back the amount of water following the shot, so you only get the shot itself with no extra water, but this is a global setting that applies to all shots thereafter unless changed again. The machine cleans up quickly and easily, tells you when it needs de-scaling and/or cleaning, and when its water-tank is getting low.

It’s too big to store away at the end of every use, and since the water reservoir is on the back and slides directly upward, you can’t keep it below any cabinet that would block easy access to removing and refilling the reservoir. The only issue is that it requires cleaning every few weeks, and the manufacturer (of course) wants you to use ONLY their de-scaling and cleaning tablets, and OF COURSE, the supplies are hard to find. I live in a major metropolitan area, and am reduced to ordering the stuff online. The de-scaling process involves dropping tables in the water reservoir with some water, pressing a button, and letting the machine suck the water through it’s system, before you rinse out the reservoir, replace it with fresh water, and let the machine suck the fresh water through. The cleaning process is simpler, and involves only dropping a tablet into the manual coffee chute, where it’s ground up, and soapy water is pushed out of the proper spots. The used coffee “pucks” are automatically deposited discreetly on the bottom of the machine, which is hidden from view, and easily removed and cleaned.

Milk is frothed via a manual process, and the heating element for the steam wand takes about 15-20 seconds to heat up properly. Frothing is a breeze, though I do notice milk doesn’t get as frothy as the milk at that un-named worldwide chain of coffee houses. It’s not a problem for me, as the milk still gets a little foamy, and as hot as you want it.

I found a tiny coffee/tea specialty shop that has been using this, and one of the more expensive JC machines for several years now. I was surprised to see this machine in a business setting, but he said he’s had no trouble with either machine, and said I shouldn’t either, with regular cleaning. The bottom line here is: Fill the hopper with beans, fill the reservoir with water, and press a button. That’s it! The machine grids some beans, presses the grounds, spits out the coffee, deposits the puck, and is ready for another round. All in about 20-30 seconds! I’m very pleased with my purchase, and if I ever upgrade, I’m darn sure buying another JC.

Review By GeekDan

Net-net: Super convenient, very good coffee, better than franchise/corporate coffee stores, less expensive than a kick booty grinder/semi-auto solution.

Some folks mention the steam nozzle flying off. This has occurred for me when the holes in the tip are obstructed. Once cleaned, the nozzle stays put (and clear of disgusting cottage cheese!)

In the end…. How much is a great cup of joe worth? Obviously, quite a bit.

Review By merlin1

We had a Bosch that worked through 6000+ brews. The Jura-Capresso ENA3 is a better design. Very EURO style so it looks good on our counter. Easy to program so we can get 1 cup strong with medium grind and hot temperature. Must keep steam nozzle clean. Clean after each use. Blew off once to remind me.

Oprah magazine recommendation worked on my wife.

Review By CaseyC

We purchased the Jura-Capresso ENA3 in early Sept. 2010. It replaced a Gaggia Synchrony Compact that we had had for over 4 years. We love this new machine. It looks sleek and clean with a design different than most of the other super-automatics. It is very well designed with a wheel that you turn and push to choose most options (choices appear on an LCD screen). It keeps track of when you need to change the water filter and add cleaning tablets to remove coffee oils. Yes, those products are not inexpensive, but when you compare that to the convenience and price of drinking lattes out, it is worth it. Our old machine did not tell us when to clean the machine and had no water filter, and that is what eventually led to its breaking down. The espresso/latte quality is much better than most of the chain coffee places.

Compared to our old machine, this one easily allows you to change the strength of the coffee as well as the amount of water per shot. That way, you can easily make an 8-oz. coffee for someone who doesn’t really like espresso and go right back to your default settings. Yes, you should read the manual and watch the DVD, but it’s not difficult. The one thing that I did have some initial difficulty with was the steamer/frother wand coming off. I called Jura’s customer service, and they immediately sent me a replacement wand for free. What I have found is that the frother wand will come off under the steam pressure if it is at all loosened (during wiping it off, etc). I have just gotten into the habit of pushing it up with a twist to make sure it’s fully on its base each time before I use it.

Review By jctmomof3

My husband bought the Jura-Capresso ENA3 for me for Mother’s Day 2010. Love this machine. Haven’t been to Starbucks since (hardly). The instructions are a bit dicey, but we got through it. I haven’t had any issues with the frother. The maintenance is pretty easy. The crema coffee is DEVINE!

Review By debbieg

We owned a Saeco for about 5 years, and were pretty happy with it. When we needed to replace it, we purchased the Jura-Capresso ENA3. It has given us nothing but problems.

The two biggest problems are :
1. the water reservoir is VERY SMALL- needs to be refilled frequently.
2. When steaming milk, the capello often pops off- and could cause a burn, and makes a mess.
we are going to return this machine ASAP.

Not happy at all with it.

Review By Seattle

we have had an issue with the frother popping off since we purchased the Jura-Capresso ENA3 in May 2010. It has continued to progressively get worse. Each time use the Frother it pops off, creating a mess.

Review By mjepk

Pros: great convenient coffee for the price, very strong customer support (called them twice), two year guarantee (others only offer 1 year)

Cons: beans need to be jiggled to fall into grinder

I previously owned a gaggia, but with three teenage kids that have developed a taste for Starbucks, i decided to go super automatic. After reading many reviews both on Costco and elsewhere, I opted for the Jura-Capresso ENA3. Costco’s price is very good. For our small kitchen, the machine fits nicely. It is true that if you put this on counter underneath upper cabinets, filling the small water container can be a hassle. We were able to put in on a counter with no overhead obstacles.

With good beans, the coffee from the ENA3 is very good, better than Starbucks. The crema is fairly thick. Emptying the grounds is very easy (slides out from the front. I used the cleaning cycle once so far and that too was very easy.
My kids and I love the Ipod-inspired control knob. Very easy to follow the directions and easy to deviate from the pre-programmed cup size. I set the default to make a great espresso, but my wife enjoys a regular cup of brew — easy to do.

My one little complaint is that the beans can fail to fall into the grinder without some juggling or swirling from the user from time to time. I suppose if the machine vibrated more, it would shake the beans into the hopper, but it is fairly quiet and solid. However, for the price, I can’t imagine a better deal

Review By calgal81

I owned a Saeco for 9 years, and loved it. The Jura-Capresso ENA3 is my replacement and the verdict is still out. It is the low end of the automated espresso machines. Hard to get steam sometimes and there does not seem to be any consistency as to why. Also hard to get the strong brew of coffee with just a push of the button. I love the streamlined design

Review By HabsFan

Pros: great crema very smooth

I couldn’t be happier. I waffled buying the Jura-Capresso ENA3 after being very satisfied with a Saeco Easy for 3 and a half years. But the upgrade is great, super quiet, very programmable and user friendly, out of the box and making coffee in minutes.

I’ve already trained my 12 year son to make shots for our guests!

Like another reviewer, i am a little confused about the tablets and stuff, but will call Jura for direction.

Review By Arajis

Jura is not exactly winning the transparency award by confusing consumers with ENA3/4. However, I got the Jura-Capresso ENA3 after returning the woeful SAECO Espresso Italiano.

I am very impressed. I just wish they would be a little more clear (or clearyl) on whether you need both the cleaning tablets AND the filter (you don’t) .

Coffee is excellent and maintenance is a cinch.

2-year warranty and so far it works beautifully and great coffee.

Review By np10s

We have a Jura-Capresso ENA3 I got my husband for his 60th birthday he says it’s the best coffee ever. We can hardly drink anyone’s coffee but ours. Follow the directions and you will have great coffee. The company Jura is very helpful if you call them about anything. Buy it

Review By TarponSprings

Pros: machine looks nice

Cons: limited functions

When I received the Jura-Capresso ENA3, it came with a video that didn’t include this model at all. The ENA3 is very limited as to function. I couldn’t get steam out no matter how many times we read the instructions just hot water. The ENA5 which was on the video and the machine we thought we were buying for the price has many more functions. We will bring it back to Costco for return and hope to get a more versatile Automatic Coffee Center