NEOUZAEspresso Bottomless Portafilter 51mm Compatible with DeLonghi Dedica EC680/EC685/EC785/EC820/EC850/EC860 Smeg Coffee Machine, Stainless Steel,Premium Rosewood

Works very well with Delonghi Dedica Arte.No leakage and a solid fit when placing into machine.Portafilter handle comes off for cleaning without affecting the real wood handle, seems well put together.Freshly roasted beans are a must to take full advantage of this open portafilter to get a good crema and flavour.

Looks good and of good quality. But I tried to make esspresso on our SMEG coffee machine and used grinder at esspresso setting. I also tampered it with around 15kg and used mash on top of it. It creates to much pressure and by now I destroyed two gaskets already. I think SMEG or me are not compatible with this item. Also when I got a good result (meaning it didn't sprinkle everywhere) it still didn't make a foam as good as in Smeg pressurized portafiler. Basket that comes with is for double esspresso. Or by smeg standards almost three.I don't dare using it anymore with SMEG, hence will try to return it.Update (10 Dec 2023) from 3 to 5 stars:Coffee tastes much better. I read more about it and SMEG IS giving too much pressure at 15 bars. For esspresso ideal is 9 bars. So I discovered a hack. When I press coffee button on SMEG it starts with pre- press and what I do is turn the button immediately after this and then repeat until I get perfect amount of water trough. Compared to pressurized smeg original basked it tastes much deeper.

I got this for my swan retro machine as I had seen various other reviews saying it fits. These people must have been deluded because yes it fits but it doesn’t go in all the way. You are left with coffee spilling round the outside as the pressure tries to escape. I am a barista so I know what I’m talking about please don’t get this for your swan! Mine broke in half because I had to hold it in place due to the pressure coming out the sides because it doesn’t fit. It’s a beautiful handle but not made for swan machine.

The portafilter fits well to the machine EC685 and appear solid in the few uses it has had so far, however the basket that came with the unit has a stamp in the side wall which protrudes to the inside and jams a 51mm tamper.

It is a huge improvement from the cheap pressurised portafilter that came with my espresso machine.Massively improves the workflow, taste and over all experience, very happy.Fits perfectly.Nice look and feel in the hand.Great value for money.

This product looks great and feels very high quality but please spend a little more or look a little further. There is a fundamental flaw which sadly makes this unusable if not supervised. Now three times the portafilter has undone itself from my Dedica Arte machine - resulting in a dangerous and hot mess.

fits very tightly to 51mm basket the handle screws off but overall it looks sturdy and works as a replacement I had bought a special 51mm basket which goes with this filtering the coffee through a smaller opening which seems to work very well producing sweeter coffee

Purchased this as it was fit for my coffee machine, it does function but not well enough, I have only tried it a couple of times but the pressure of the coffee machine creates a lot of spilling onto the handle and then spits around the surface which requires cleaning up after it’s finished which isn’t great. I’m normally someone which can makes things work and find a solution. On this occasion I can’t. Only way potentially is to keep the tray plate on and the mug doesn’t have any gap to leak out. Good luck.