If you love a latte, but don’t have the time to spend preparing milk with a manual steam wand, then good news – there are lots of excellent home coffee makers that can handle the foaming for you, so you don’t have to pay ever-increasing prices for takeout drinks.
I’m TechRadar’s resident coffee expert (and a trained barista), and here I’ve chosen the three best coffee makers for preparing luxe lattes, whether you prefer to use dairy or plant milk, want to infuse your drinks with syrup, or just want to make your life as simple as possible.
Best for ease of use
Philips LatteGo 5500 Series
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If you’re looking for a mid-range coffee maker that will prepare consistently creamy drinks, the Philips LatteGo 5500 Series is well worth a look. The best thing about this particular machine is that its milk system is totally self-contained and dishwasher-safe, so there’s no need to spend time cleaning tubes with a tiny brush, waiting for it to rinse through with hot water, or having to clean milk residue out of the drip tray.
Instead, the milk carafe comprises two parts of hard plastic, which can be disassembled in seconds and cleaned in the top drawer of your dishwasher. Quick, convenient, and hygienic.
The LatteGo 5500 Series isn’t intended for preparing creamy drinks for a crowd, but is perfect for households with just a couple of coffee drinkers. Attach the carafe to the front of the machine, then pour in only the amount of milk you need to make one or two drinks. It all gets used up at once, so you don’t need to worry about storing leftovers in the fridge afterwards.
The LatteGo 5500 Series also has a relatively small bean hopper and water tank, which work to your advantage if you’re not making dozens of drinks per day. You won’t have lots of unused water or beans hanging around in the machine going past their best, so your coffee will always taste fresh.
The only disadvantage of this machine is that you can’t change the angle of the milk spout, so you have to be careful exactly where you place your cup on the drip tray. Position it too far back, and you’ll end up with milk running down the side, but you’ll soon get the hang of it.
Read my full Philips LatteGo 5500 Series review
Best for flavored lattes
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Jura J10
If your usual latte order is so complex it strikes fear into the hearts of baristas, the Jura J10 is the coffee maker for you. It has a system called SweetFoam that infuses your milk with syrup as it’s dispensed, and it’s much better than pumping or pouring the same syrup into the bottom of your cup.
During my testing (which I thoroughly enjoyed), I discovered that having the syrup incorporated into the milk means it’s dispersed evenly throughout your drink, so you don’t need much to get an intense flavor in every sip. Just pour a little bit (it can be regular or sugar-free) into the SweetFoam container, push it onto the milk dispenser, and away you go. The container is easy to wash, too, which is a bonus.
Another surprising advantage of SweetFoam is that the syrup makes the milk foam more stable, which is particularly handy if you’re using a type of milk or dairy substitute that tends to collapse easily.
As you’d expect from a company with Jura’s heritage and experience (much of its business is in commercial coffee makers), it nails the espresso as well. The J10’s interface makes it easy to configure brew settings to suit your beans and your taste.
Like most of the espresso machines I’ve tested in 2025, the J10 also has a cold-brew mode, which infuses your ground coffee over a longer period of time, using water direct from the tank and bypassing the boiler. The result is a mellow, smooth-tasting drink that has a very similar profile to traditionally-made cold brew when enjoyed as an americano, and makes a superb foundation for an iced latte or cappuccino. The J10 can produce cold milk foam, which can also be infused with syrup, so the iced vanilla latte of your dreams is only a couple of screen taps away.
Read my full Jura J10 review
Best for dairy milk
Siemens EQ900
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The Siemens EQ900 is another premium automatic coffee maker, but I’ve found that it’s often available at a discount if you shop around. In the UK, for example, the Siemens EQ900 is currently on sale for £899 at Marks Electrical (was £1,499), which is a remarkable saving of £600.
The EQ900 is a great machine for beginners or advanced users, offering a choice of two interfaces: Comfort Mode, which simplifies options and gives you just a few variables to tweak, and Barista Mode, which hands over the reins and lets you tinker with everything from brew temperature to pre-infusion times.
It’s easily one of the best coffee makers I’ve tested for milk-foaming, accurately recreating the texture of milk that’s been expertly prepared with a manual steam wand. There are even two texture options to choose from, which is excellent; most machines don’t give you the option of a ‘dry’ foam for cappuccinos, but select Barista Mode, and you’ll find that this one does.
During my tests, I found that it worked particularly well with full-fat dairy milk, producing thick and stable foam, though it handled semi-skimmed, oat, and almond with ease as well.
Another big advantage of the EQ900 is that it has two bean hoppers on top, each of which has its own grinder, so you can choose different settings and there’s no cross-contamination between the two. When you want to switch between them (if you feel like a different flavor, for example, or you want to swap to decaf in the afternoon), you can do so with a tap of the control panel. It’s a superb feature that I wish were more common.
Read my full Siemens EQ900 review
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