Jura Giga 5 Review

October 4, 2021February 4, 2020 by Kate Carrey

Review Summary

Editor’s rating:

For many people, the quest for the perfect coffee maker ends well with the Giga 5 by Jura. This espresso machine sits somewhere around the throne of the coffee maker kingdom and is of exquisite quality. It offers you great programmability of drinks (not only coffee drinks), comes with two bean hoppers, a humongous water tank, and other perks that will make you fall in love with the machine.

On the other hand, the Giga 5 is very, very pricey, and it’s also not the most compact coffee maker out there. So, does it really pay off to buy it or should you go and buy a used car instead of getting the Giga 5?

Key Features:

Is super-automatic
Makes 19 different products
Drinks are programmable before making or on the fly
Gives you recipes on how to make different drinks
Uses a TFT display
Has two 9.8 oz bean hoppers
Has a bypass doser
Uses an 87-ounce water tank with a water filter
Has two ceramic grinders
Has a 15 bar pump
Comes with two heating systems
Has a rotary switch for maneuvering through the menu
Has two adjustable butterfly coffee spouts
Comes with a hot water spout
Uses night light
Uses Jura’s most recent coffee maker technologies

Pros

Makes exquisite coffee

Works fast

Quiet operation

Easy to use

Great for your office or home

Looks great

Cons

Expensive

Very big and heavy

Some people might not like that the frother is automatic

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Everything Is Big on the Jura Giga 5

One of the things you need to be aware of before you go get your Jura Giga 5 is the fact that this is a very large coffee maker. The Giga 5 measures 20 x 15 x 13 inches and weighs 40 pounds. Therefore, it is not very compact for smaller kitchens or counters that don’t have much space on them.

However, what is bad in one situation is good in another one, and the Jura Giga 5 is great for offices and larger families. If you tend to work or live with people who can’t imagine letting a day go by without drinking coffee, the Giga 5 could be the coffee maker to serve you well.

It is not just the size and the weight of the Giga 5 that are large when it comes to this coffee machine. This espresso machine has two 9.8-ounce bean hoppers, so a bean capacity of 19.6 oz in total. Furthermore, the coffee machine has a very big water reservoir with a capacity of 87 oz and a large drip tray. Therefore, with the Giga 5, you’ll get a big machine, but you’ll also get a machine with great capacities.

What Else Does the Giga 5 Have to Offer?

Aside from its large water, bean, and waste capacities, the Giga 5 offers you two ceramic disc grinders that keep the natural aroma of the coffee for a great coffee flavor. In case you want to use pre-ground coffee, you can do so by pouring it in the bypass doser of the Giga 5. Furthermore, there are also electronically controlled motors in the machine that adjust the consistency of the grind.

There are two coffee and two milk spouts on the Jura Giga 5, and the milk spouts are close to the coffee spouts. The machine has two separate heating systems, one for brewing the coffee and another for frothing and steaming the milk. Furthermore, there is also a hot water spout in case you want to make yourself some tea or get some hot water.

The coffee and milk spouts are adjustable, and so is the hot water spout. You can put cups from 2.7 to 6.2 inches tall under the dual spout system, and these are also butterfly spouts, so they will work well with wider cups too. When it comes to the water spout, all cups that measure from 2.7 to 6.4 inches can fit underneath it, so the machine gives you great flexibility with that too.

The Jura Giga 5 uses many of Jura’s coffee brewing technologies, such as the Pulp Extraction Process, the Intelligent Pre-Brew Aroma System, and Jura’s Fine Foam technology. All these technologies make sure that the coffee that gets extracted in your cup tastes great, smells fresh, and that it’s prepared as it should be prepared.

The Sky Is the Limit When It Comes to Programmability

This coffee machine is very easy to use and it has a colored TFT display. The display shows you pictures of the coffee drinks and the non-coffee products that it can make. To pick a drink, you can use the rotary switch on the top of the machine or one of the buttons next to the display.

The Jura Giga 5 makes as much as 14 different coffee drinks, but it also comes with recipes on how to make even more coffee drinks. However, this is not the only flexibility in drinks that the machine has to offer you. The Jura Giga 5 also lets you control the strength of the coffee, the amount of the water, the brewing temperature, and the temperature of the hot water.

What is nice about these features is that you can program them on the fly as well. This is great, and it lets you prepare each drink by the standards of different people.

The Jura Giga 5 also gives you the option to mix the coffee from the two bean hoppers when making a drink. The machine will let you pick the percentage of coffee from each hopper that you want in your drink. Therefore, you can combine just the right amount of coffee from each of the bean hoppers to get that perfect flavor that you want.

On the Downsides of the Giga 5

High-end coffee machines are not ‘immune’ to downsides, and the Jura Giga 5 is not an exception to this. For starters, it is a very expensive coffee maker. Then, it is very big and heavy. Furthermore, the machine has a fully automatic milk frother, which some people might find limiting.

However, Jura claims that the Giga 5 will save you some money in the long run and that buying it is actually less expensive than drinking coffee at a café every day. Also, the Giga 5 is as big and as heavy as it is because it is a coffee machine designed for larger families or for people to use at their workplaces. Furthermore, even though the frother is automatic, it does make great milk foam for each of the coffee drinks available on the machine.

But, people who buy high-end coffee machines have good reasons to be picky about them. The Jura Giga 5 is not a bad coffee machine, but some people decide not to buy it because of its downsides.

FAQ About the Jura Giga 5

1. Can you froth flavored almond or soy milk on the Jura Giga 5?

Yes, you can.

2. Can you install a different bean hopper to the Jura Giga 5 if you want that?

No, the bean hoppers on this machine are fixed.

3. Does the Jura Giga 5 have an integrated milk container?

No, but you do get an external stainless steel vacuum milk container with the machine.

What Are Some Alternatives to the Jura Giga 5?

Jura Giga 6

In case you’re having doubts about the Giga 5, maybe you should check out the Jura Giga 6 coffee maker and see whether you like it. This coffee maker offers you 28 programmable coffee drinks, has two bean containers, and works very fast.

Conclusion

We think that Jura Giga 6 is a nice high-end coffee machine. Does it meet your needs, though, or do you need a similar, but smaller-capacity coffee machine like the Jura Z6 or maybe even the Z9?

Well, now that you have the information on the machine, you’ll have to answer those questions yourself.