I keep a towel under my ninja because the tray stopped telling me when it’s full. Unfortunately sometimes I don’t notice the towel is soaking wet. I’m thinking that some sort of stand/tray/riser made of plastic or metal with holes at the bottom and then a towel under that would be perfect for me. Does this exist? Does anyone know someone that can make me one if it doesn’t?
It escapes me why they would make this machine with all these bells and whistles and not provide one simple, necessary feature: allow the user to hold down the extraction button to customize their extraction time for a double/single etc.
I called Ninja and they confirmed there is absolutely no way to change the extraction time from the built in system other than changing strength, which does not change dramatically at all.
I would rather have a $100 machine that allows me to customize the extraction strength.
Anyways, I thought I'd share. Ninja support was quite good, and i quite like their products in general. But this is a very stupid oversight on their part.
Hello coffee botherers, I've recently upgraded to the Ninja Luxe Pro version (701) and I'm enjoying it but finding that my espresso mugs while tiny are a little wide to fit two under the group head and filter in a way that they both catch coffee without spilling.
Video attached to make up for my poor description.
Can anyone recomend some UK sourced coffee glasses that can fit for espresso two at a time? (such as an Amazon link) or offer any other solution to pour two espressos at once.
Hi,
I’ve had a De’Longhi Dinamica Plus ECAM370.85.SB for a few years. I’m not really into the whole coffee-making process, ratios, dialing in grinders, etc. I like the coffee my Dinamica Plus makes, and I’m sure my current grinder settings would probably make some coffee enthusiasts cry 😅
I wanted to get a little more into coffee and potentially improve the quality without turning it into a full hobby, and the Ninja Luxe Café ES601EU caught my attention.
I was seeing a lot of positive reviews, but then I found this subreddit. I understand that people with problems are much more likely to post than people whose machine works perfectly, but the number of posts about machines developing issues that couldn’t be fixed and eventually had to be returned is a little scary.
So my main question is about coffee quality.
Has anyone here used both the Ninja Luxe Café and a Dinamica Plus, or a similar higher-end bean-to-cup machine?
I understand they are very different machines, since the Dinamica is fully automatic and the Ninja is semi-automatic. I'm changing cause I'm interested on that semi automatic workflow. What I really want to know is whether the Ninja would actually produce better coffee once i learn the setup, or whether I could end up downgrading from the Dinamica Plus.
If the coffee quality is at least as good, and ideally better, I’ll probably give it a try since I can currently find an ES601EU for around €230.
Thanks!
Recently got an es701eu from a friend of mine. The machine had an issue with the water extraction or whatever and she had hers replaced with an entire replacement machine by the ninja customer service.
Since the replacement was bare bones, she migrated all the loose parts to the new machine and gave me the broken one.
Are there any quality 3rd party accessories and parts or are used parts any good?
tldr: I‘m missing water tank, beans compartment, basin, milk can, adjustable grill thingy, portafilter and all other accessories. Buy used/new/3rd party?
The regular basket, etc is a double shot.
Is there a quad shot option? If so, do you have any links, etc as I can’t seem to find one.
so my wife and I recently got the Ruta Maya medium blend coffee beans and the Ninja Luxe Premiere from costco.
The settings it is recommending is 14 for grind size, but we have played around with it and it still keeps coming out bitter any ideas?
Hi all,
I've had my ninja a few months now and I just wanted to share the daily cleaning brushes I picked up that work really well.
I found these in a dollar store so nothing special or expensive but they are just the right sizes for a couple of things/places that are awkward to clean.
First is the small round headed brush that fits perfectly in the portafilter, it's great for cleaning the basket and fully inside the handle.
Secondly was a 2 item thin brush similar to a large toothbrush, I generally use the double brush for cleaning the milk jug after use because it's good for cleaning around the spring spinner, but I also just found it's just right for getting into some of the channels of the drip tray.
Hopefully this is good info for some of you guys 😁
Just got my Ninja lux pro and I’m loving it the only problem is it puts out too much
I always thought 18grams of ground coffee would yield 36 ish grams of espresso yet I get about 60 ish
It’s not the end of the world I just stop the shot around 25 and it lands about 40 but still it would be great if I didn’t have to do it
Any tips?
I have tried both strength and temp currently it’s at strength 3 as apparently that’s a 1/2 ratio?
At this point, I genuinely don’t know what to do with this machine.
This is my third Ninja AutoBarista Pro. After having similar issues with the previous units, Ninja support sent me another replacement under the manufacturer’s warranty. With the previous machines, I dealt with inconsistent espresso shots and Grind iQ requiring 5+ calibration attempts every time I switched beans, wasting a significant amount of coffee in the process.
I unpacked the brand-new replacement today, filled the hopper with fresh, expensive beans, and started the setup/Grind iQ process.
Not a single espresso shot was ever produced. The machine just kept grinding fresh beans over and over again and dumping them into the grounds container. The photos show how much coffee it wasted basically straight out of the box. An entire hopper of good beans went straight into the trash.
This is now the third unit, and I’m experiencing the same fundamental problem: excessive bean waste and an unreliable Grind iQ/calibration process.
Unfortunately, my original Best Buy return window expired while I was dealing with the issue, so now I’m stuck going through Ninja’s manufacturer warranty and receiving replacement machines instead of being able to get my money back.
Edit: One thing I want to address because I’m seeing people downvoting others who report similar experiences or questioning whether what I’m showing here is actually happening: this is my personal experience with this specific model. I’m not posting this to convince anyone not to buy it. I actually like Ninja as a brand and own several of their other products that work perfectly fine. But if your contribution is to imply that I’m making this up or that something “doesn’t smell right,” get the fuck out of here. This issue has already been documented directly with Ninja support, including an hour-long video call where they had me reproduce the problem for them. I don’t need Reddit detectives investigating whether the issue is real.
Edit 2: Clarification about the ground coffee in the photos: I did not put any pre-ground coffee into the machine or move grounds from the waste container into the bypass section. I don’t even have or use pre-ground coffee. All of the grounds you see in the photos came from the whole beans I put into the hopper. After I selected Espresso and started Grind iQ, the machine kept grinding continuously. As more and more coffee was ground, it started pushing its way up into and overflowing through the pre-ground/bypass section, while also ending up throughout the inside of the machine and in the grounds tray. That is the malfunction shown in the photos, not coffee that I manually put there. The machine eventually jammed and displayed ER32. This exact behavior was reproduced multiple times during a video call with Ninja support, and they confirmed the unit was faulty.
Hi everyone,
I’ve been running a Rancilio Silvia V3 with an ITO PID controller and a Eureka MCI grinder for a while now, and honestly, I’m very happy with the espresso quality. My setup is dialed in, my shots are consistent, and I have full control over temperature and extraction.
That said, I’m considering switching to the Ninja Luxe Café Pro (ES701EU), purely for convenience reasons. My main goals are:
• I mostly drink quick, straightforward espresso, Americano, and milk coffee – I’m not chasing extreme nuance or competition-level shots.
• I’m honestly a bit sloppy with dosing most of the time, so a machine that handles that automatically would help me.
• More importantly, I want my family to be able to make their own coffee without needing to learn tamping pressure, grind adjustment, or dialing in like I do. Right now, the Silvia setup is basically “my machine” and nobody else in the house touches it.
• Automated milk frothing is a big plus for me, since the ITO doesn’t help at all with that – it’s still fully manual steam wand work.
My concern is durability. The Silvia is known for lasting 15-20+ years with basic maintenance, and mine has been rock solid. The Ninja is a much newer, more complex product (grinder, scale, pump, touchscreen, auto-frother all integrated), and Ninja itself is brand new to the espresso machine category (their first coffee machine only launched in mid-2024).
So my questions to anyone who has actually made this switch, or who has owned a Luxe Café Pro for 6+ months or longer:
I just got a new replacement-under-warranty machine (I had an issue with the magnets that sense the basket size on my first machine). I’ve set it all up, filled the reservoir, and am trying to run the water flush as instructed but I keep getting an “add water” message after about 15 seconds. No water is coming through the machine at all. I TRIED REMOVING AND SHAKING THE RESERVOIR. Of course, the help line isn’t available on a Sunday. Any suggestions, Ninja friends?
Don’t know much. I just follow the setting recommendation and that’s about all. What can I do to get the most crema? I’ve been using these Beans and it has my recommended setting at 21. Have not been thrilled with my shots lately looking to improve
I bought a used Luxe Pro yesterday, i get shot times(First drip to last drip) of around 5-10 seconds at grind size 2.
Potential Problems:
Long buildup before it starts to flow
Ting of grounds around puck when tamping
Old beans the last owner gave me
Cant turn it down to drind size 1(Doesnt click)
Please help me fix these problems!
If anyone is having trouble with the machine failing to detect the filter baskets or misdetecting them, this is the culprit!
Does anyone know where I can buy this exact magnetic sensor? Alternatively, if anyone has worked with this sensor before, do you happen to know its precise dimensions?
A temporary workaround I found is using a strong magnet: while the portafilter is seated in the cradle under the grinder, move/swipe a strong magnet along the side of one of the arms until the machine detects the basket again.
I've had water leaking from my Ninja Luxe Café ES601EU since day one. I ignored it at first, but it got annoying enough that I started digging into it.
My first guess was that I wasn't emptying the drip tray often enough, so I started emptying it more frequently. That wasn't it. I've since inspected the tray and everything around it closely, trying to find where the water actually comes from. I can't see anything wrong. No cracks, no missing or misaligned parts, everything seems seated properly.
Yet water still ends up underneath the drip tray and spreads all over my counter. It makes no sense to me. Anyone else dealing with this?
So I've been eyeing an espresso machine for a while, maybe a year. A friend was selling this brand-new, sealed one. They got two as wedding presents, so he sold it to me for 450. I buy my beans directly from Guatemala, and they make amazing cappuccinos; I need to explore and learn how to use it 🙌
I got my machine in May. My coffee was soo good from the start. This week however, it is horrible. The 1st day it was sour, today it is soo bad. I cleaned, descaled, changed out beans. Will resetting help?? It tastes soo sour!
Very watery but strong! Better than what my old ec685 did
Anyone out there experienced with coffee/espresso machines who tried the Ninja Luxe Cafe Mini Pro and who did not get paid or given incentives by Ninja to just write good stuff about it?
Looking for an honest opinion here.