Mar 18 2024
JURA occupies a distinctive corner of the home espresso market. While many espresso machines ask you to grind beans, measure coffee, tamp a portafilter, time an extraction, and steam milk manually, JURA takes almost the opposite approach. Its automatic coffee machines are designed to turn whole beans into espresso, coffee, cappuccino, flat white, latte macchiato, …
Mar 17 2024
La Marzocco occupies an unusual place in the home espresso world. This isn’t a company that started with inexpensive countertop appliances and eventually moved into premium espresso. La Marzocco built its reputation making professional café equipment, and its home machines bring much of that commercial engineering into the kitchen. That means features such as: It …
Mar 16 2024
A stovetop espresso maker is one of the simplest ways to make strong, concentrated coffee at home without buying an electric espresso machine. Usually called a moka pot, this compact brewer uses heat and pressure to push hot water through ground coffee and into an upper chamber. The result is richer and more concentrated than …
Mar 15 2024
Gaggia is one of the most recognizable names in home espresso, but choosing a Gaggia machine can be surprisingly complicated. That’s because the company doesn’t make just one type of espresso machine. On one side are manual and semi-automatic machines such as the Gaggia Classic E24, Classic UP, and Classic GT. These machines are designed …
Mar 13 2024
Philips espresso machines are built around a very different idea from traditional home espresso. Instead of asking you to grind beans, dose a portafilter, tamp the coffee, time the extraction, and steam milk manually, Philips’ fully automatic machines handle most of the process for you. Fill the bean hopper. Fill the water tank. Choose your …
Mar 12 2024
Lavazza is one of Italy’s best-known coffee companies, but its approach to home espresso machines is very different from brands such as Gaggia, Philips, JURA, or La Marzocco. Most Lavazza home machines aren’t traditional espresso machines with portafilters. They aren’t bean-to-cup machines with built-in grinders either. Instead, Lavazza specializes in single-serve espresso systems designed around …
Mar 11 2024
Buying an espresso machine is only the beginning of a home espresso setup. A good machine provides hot water, pressure, and—in many cases—steam. But consistently good espresso also depends on everything that happens before and after the machine’s brew button is pressed. You need coffee ground finely and consistently enough for espresso. You need to …
Mar 10 2024
The Farberware Espresso Maker is an interesting option for anyone who wants to experiment with homemade espresso without spending several hundred dollars on a machine. The model covered in this review—the Farberware 15-Bar Espresso Machine, model FW61100042872—is a compact semi-automatic machine equipped with a stainless-steel boiler, pressure gauge, removable 47-ounce water tank, single- and double-shot …
Mar 09 2024
French press coffee is one of the simplest ways to make a rich, full-bodied cup at home. There are no paper filters to fold. No complicated pouring pattern to master. No pump, capsule, or electronic brewing system. At its simplest, you need only: But simple doesn’t mean foolproof. French press coffee can taste wonderfully sweet, …
Mar 06 2024
The Zulay Magiá Manual Espresso Machine occupies an interesting place in the home espresso market. It combines several pieces of equipment that beginners would otherwise need to purchase separately: That puts the Zulay Magiá Manual Espresso Machine, model SOS100, in the same broad all-in-one category as machines such as the Breville Barista Express. You fill …
