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  • [[#Breville Rundown + History Breville Rundown + History]]
  • [[#General Type of Machines by Heating Element General Type of Machines by Heating Element]]
    • [[#General Type of Machines by Heating Element#Dual Boilers with Group-head Boiler Dual Boilers with Group-head Boiler]]
    • [[#General Type of Machines by Heating Element#Thermoblock Thermoblock]]
    • [[#General Type of Machines by Heating Element#Thermocoil Thermocoil]]
    • [[#General Type of Machines by Heating Element#Thermojet Thermojet]]
    • [[#General Type of Machines by Heating Element#Note Note]]
  • [[#Portafilters et al Portafilters et al]]

Breville Rundown + History

from wikipedia

Breville Group Limited or simply Breville is an Australian multinationalmanufacturer and marketer of home appliances, headquartered in the inner suburb of Alexandria, Sydney. The company’s brands include Breville, Kambrook and Ronson (outside of North America). In the UK and Europe the company, firming as Sage Appliances, goes to market as the Sage brand (because the name Breville is taken by the unrelated Jarden company in the UK) and as the Breville brand in the rest of the world. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breville_Group

As of 2022 Breville Group owns Baratza and Lelit.

Per the above, and in general, Sage is the name in the UK/EU whereas Breville in the majority of the world.

General Type of Machines by Heating Element

Dual Boilers with Group mounted Brew Boiler

The Breville Dual Boiler system consists of a brew boiler mounted over the BrewGroup with water being fed to it from a coil surrounding the steam boiler to allow it to preheat it.

  • Oracle line (not including the jet)
  • Dual Boiler line

    Thermoblock

    For breville; generatlly speaking it is two slices of aluminum sandwiching a gasket and water path. Integrated heating element in the block.

  • The Duo-Temp (800esxl) and Die Cast

These are generally very old and should not be considered for use. The failure model can be catastrophic; especially with age involved.

Thermocoil

This is a coiled tube of steel embedded into an aluminum block with heating elements throughout.

  • Barista Express and Duo-Temp Pro
  • The Infuser

The Thermocoil allows unlimited pre-infusion

Thermojet

A thin heating element embedded a PCB or substrate that routes water in a maze like shape to flash-heat it.

  • Used in the Bambino and Bambino Plus
  • Barista Pro
  • The Oracle Jet as of 2024
    • Contains a grouphead mounted secondary thermocoil.

      Note

      The Breville Ikon may be a single Boiler. It is an older and relatively rare. If you have any information feel free to share.

Portafilters et al

  • 58 mm
    • “Professional” sized portafilters; can generally fit standard 58 mm accessories
    • 2~eared portafilter is unique to breville. Not compatible with standard1e61 portafilters
      • Ignore product images that show a 3 ear portafilter
  • 54 mm
    • 3-eared portafilter; again is unique to breville. Plenty of accessories available due to the proliferation of breville 54mm machines.
  • 51 mm
    • Generally no longer used by Breville; Duo Temp used it along with other older models.
    • Generally DeLonghi 51mm 3-ear portafilters and accessories work with this size2.

  1. For whatever a standard an “e61” is. Most e61 portafilters are interchangeable with each other with exceptions. For example LaMarzocco portafilters have slightly different lug sizes and may not take some e61 portafilters. ↩

  2. Based on personal experience with an 800esxl and third party and delonghi 3-ear portafilters. ↩