14 Best WIRED Tested and Reviewed Espresso Machines (2024)

There’s ever country to up your game, and determination are rather a fewer further tools that tin assistance you marque the champion espresso possible. These are each tools you’d employment before the brew, mounting the signifier for the cleanable extraction.

Fellow Atmos Canister for Coffee Beans ($40): A vacuum canister is simply a large mode to store your java beans. By vacating the enclosure of each aerial each clip you adjacent it, the Fellow Atmos slows down the degradation of each those flavorful oils and chemic compounds wrong your freshly roasted beans.

Oxo Conical Burr Grinder ($100): This is 1 of our apical picks successful our Best Coffee Grinders guide, and it's a bully prime for espresso. Espresso requires a good and accordant grind, the likes of which you tin easy get retired of a burr grinder. Just beryllium definite to get successful determination and springiness your burrs a expanse present and then—maintenance that the Oxo makes easy, with a legume bin that snaps isolated without immoderate fuss.

Bottomless Portafilter ($50): Nothing volition amended your acquisition of watching espresso brew similar a bottomless portafilter. Not due to the fact that it volition marque your java better; it’ll marque you amended by making you much alert of your mistakes and inconsistencies. Bottomless portafilters are finicky, and erstwhile your grind is disconnected oregon you’ve over-tamped your grounds, the bottomless portafilter lets you spot that successful however the espresso coats the bottommost of the filter and pours down into the cup. Be definite to double-check the circumference connected your espresso machine’s radical head, though (the spot the filter attaches). There are a fig of modular sizes, truthful you request to marque definite you bid the close one. The astir communal are 53 mm and 58 mm, and astir each bottomless portafilter comes successful each of these sizes.

Crema Distributor & Tamp ($39): Once you enactment your grounds into your portafilter, the adjacent measurement is giving them a good, adjacent tamping. You privation to usage astir 30 to 40 pounds of pressure, and portion you tin usage a standard to find precisely what that feels like, I find it’s amended to conscionable property with your precocious body, past extract a changeable and spot however it went. If it’s excessively bitter, you tamped excessively hard; if it’s excessively watery you didn’t tamp hard enough. A distributor (also called a leveler) makes it casual to get an adjacent aboveground for you to tamp, and this 1 has a tamp connected 1 broadside and a distributor connected the different truthful you tin level disconnected your beans, past flip this instrumentality implicit and springiness 'em a bully tamp. Just marque definite you get 1 that fits the circumference of your machine’s portafilter!

Duralex Picardie Shot Glasses, Set of Six ($20): These are my favourite changeable glasses successful general, but they’re besides large espresso changeable glasses—tall and constrictive capable to let a wonderfully aerated crema to signifier connected top, and made of tempered solid truthful they tin basal up to the heat. They’re besides large for serving up smaller drinks similar macchiatos—a changeable of espresso with a dollop of froth connected top.