Lelit Elizabeth

The Elizabeth is a compact dual-boiler machine: one boiler for coffee and one for steam, so you can steam milk while the coffee runs without one disturbing the other. The group is the café-standard 58 mm, and at the end of each shot a three-way valve releases the excess water and leaves the coffee puck dry, easy to knock out.

The display sets pre-infusion, automatic purge, standby and a group-cleaning cycle, and the steam boiler can be switched off when you only want an espresso. The back-lit gauge has a green band between 8 and 12 bar that tells you at a glance whether the steps before extraction, grinding, dosing and tamping, went right.

The steam wand swivels in every direction and stays cool; the hot-water wand is fixed. The box includes a tamper, a softener filter for the tank and a first cleaning kit. Only 38 cm deep, it fits on a shallow counter: it is for someone who wants a dual boiler and the full espresso ritual without giving up kitchen space.