Description
The De’Longhi Magnifica Plus ECAM32070SB is a fully automatic bean to cup machine that pushes the Magnifica platform toward the higher end of the range. De’Longhi specifies 18 or more one touch and customisable recipes, a conical burr grinder with 13 settings, the LatteCrema Hot milk system, a 3.5 inch full colour touch display and four saveable user profiles. It measures 17.5 inches deep, 9.5 inches wide and 14 inches tall at 21.2 pounds.
The distinguishing features here are the display and the profiles rather than the brewing hardware. The grinder, the milk system and the underlying brew group are shared with the rest of the Magnifica line. What you pay extra for is a colour touchscreen that makes 18 recipes navigable and the ability for four people in a household to keep their own settings without renegotiating them each morning.
The 18 Recipe List and the Touch Display
Eighteen recipes covers espresso, latte macchiato, cappuccino, americano, flat white and a range of iced drinks. Whether that breadth is worth paying for depends entirely on how many drinks a household actually makes; for many people a machine with seven recipes covers everything they will ever order, and the extra entries go unused.
Where the recipe count does earn its place is combined with the four user profiles. A saved profile stores coffee quantity, milk quantity and strength, so a household where one person drinks a strong short cappuccino and another a mild long latte stops adjusting settings twice a day. The 3.5 inch colour panel is what makes that practical; the same recipe list on a button interface would be tedious. The Magnifica Evo offers seven recipes and one custom setting for less money and is the honest comparison for most buyers.
Grinder and Extraction
The conical burr grinder offers 13 settings and doses into the internal brew group. On a bean to cup machine grind adjustment is a coarse tuning tool rather than the fine instrument it is on a portafilter machine, because dose and tamp are handled internally and cannot be changed. Thirteen settings is enough to move between a light and a dark roast sensibly.
What no bean to cup machine offers is control over the extraction itself. Dose, tamp pressure, pre infusion and shot timing are all fixed by the machine, and the operator adjusts only strength and volume. That is the fundamental trade of this category. Published owner feedback on this model raises one recurring point that follows from it: coffee temperature can arrive lower than expected, particularly on milk drinks where hot milk is combined with a small volume of espresso, and there is limited scope to fix it beyond preheating the cup.
LatteCrema Hot Milk System
LatteCrema is De’Longhi’s removable milk carafe. Milk sits in a sealed jug that attaches to the front, is drawn and textured automatically, and lifts out to go in the fridge between uses. De’Longhi states it handles milk alternatives as well as dairy and that the froth level is adjustable.
The refrigerator storage is the practical advantage over systems that draw from an open jug, since it removes both the daily cleaning obligation and the sour milk problem. Note that the system is described as LatteCrema Hot, which distinguishes it from De’Longhi’s cold milk variant found on other models; this machine textures hot milk only. Owner feedback commonly observes that the carafe is plastic and feels less substantial than the machine around it, which is true of almost every automatic milk carafe on the market.
Cleaning, Consumables and Daily Handling
De’Longhi supplies a carbon active filter, a total hardness test, a measuring scoop, a cleaning scoop and a removable water spout, and states that removable parts are dishwasher safe. The hardness test exists so descaling frequency can be set correctly for local water, and it is worth doing properly at setup rather than skipping.
The carbon filter is a recurring cost, as is descaling solution. Owner feedback identifies two daily annoyances: the water tank and the used grounds container both fill faster than expected, which on a machine making several milk drinks a day means more frequent attention than the capacity figures would suggest. The Magnifica architecture uses a removable brew group that lifts out for rinsing, which is the design feature that keeps these machines serviceable over years and is worth more than any of the recipes.
Footprint and Where It Goes
At 17.5 inches deep this machine needs a worktop that can take it, and depth is the dimension people most often fail to check. Standard kitchen counters are around 24 inches deep, which leaves usable room, but a machine this deep pushed back against a wall puts the water tank and grounds container out of easy reach. Both need daily attention on a machine making several milk drinks.
Height matters too. At 14 inches tall the bean hopper lid needs clearance above it, which rules out positions under a low wall cabinet. The 9.5 inch width is the one forgiving dimension. Anyone planning a permanent position should measure all three and add room to lift the tank out, rather than working from the width alone.
What the Specifications Do Not Settle
The water tank capacity, the bean hopper capacity, the grounds container capacity and the milk carafe capacity are all absent from the data. On a machine where owner feedback singles out the tank and grounds container as filling quickly, those are exactly the figures a buyer needs and none of them are published in the listing.
Also missing are the pump pressure, the brew temperature, the wattage and the warranty term. The operation mode field is empty entirely, and the recipe count is given as 18 plus rather than a definite number. The model reached the market in September 2024 with a modest published review count, so the long term picture is less settled than for the older machines in the same family, such as the Magnifica Start.
Who It Suits
The Magnifica Plus suits a household of several coffee drinkers with different preferences, where a colour display and four saved profiles genuinely reduce daily friction, and where milk drinks are the main output. The removable brew group and the fridge storable milk carafe make it practical to live with, and 18 recipes give it range if you want it. Households that want a second milk system and a larger tank can compare the De’Longhi Dinamica Plus ECAM38085SB.
It is poor value for a single person or a couple who drink the same thing every day, where the Philips 3300 Series or a lower Magnifica delivers the same coffee for considerably less. It is also the wrong machine for anyone who wants control over extraction rather than over recipes, which means a semi automatic from the espresso machine category, and it needs 17.5 inches of counter depth, which rules out shallow worktops. The De’Longhi Magnifica ECAM22022SB is the plainer machine in that direction.
