Bambino is $150.00 cheaper today, and has been the cheaper of the two on all 28 days we have held a price for both. They differ on milk, as Breville lists them on breville.com. Every figure below was read from the retailer by us. A dash means we have no current figure for that one.
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How they differ
Specs as Breville lists them on breville.com, the differences first.
Milk
Bambino: Manual steam wand
Bambino Plus: Automatic or manual
Grinder
Bambino: None
Bambino Plus: None
Heating
Bambino: ThermoJet, ready in 3 seconds
Bambino Plus: ThermoJet, ready in 3 seconds
Impress puck system
Bambino: No
Bambino Plus: No
BambinoBambino Plus
high $499.95low $249.95
Both lines are the best price we recorded on each day, on one money axis. Our record for each starts when we started watching it, so a shorter line is a shorter record and not a cheaper history.
How the gap has moved
Across the 28 days we have held a price for both, the gap between them was widest at $200.00 on Sep 13 and narrowest at $150.00 on Sep 27. Bambino has been the cheaper of the two on every one of those days. Today it is $150.00.
Measured from our own readings, carried forward day by day — a price stands until we record a different one. It starts on the first day we held a price for both, which is later than the day we began tracking one of them.
What they are
5 attributes the retailers describe differently, first. These are their words, not ours — we record prices, we do not test products.
Size
Small
—no figure
Weight
10.9 pounds
11 pounds
Dimensions
12.6 × 12.2 × 7.7 inches
12.5 × 12.2 × 7.6 inches
Model
BES450BSS1BUS1
BES500BSS1BUS1
Warranty
1 Year Manufacturer
2 year limited warranty
Color
Brushed Stainless Steel
Brushed Stainless Steel
2 products compared on the record we keep. Nothing here is ranked by what pays us, and neither of these placements was bought. Other model-against-model comparisons.