The coffee catalogue
Coffee gear
Brewers, grinders, accessories and roasters: what each one does, what it costs and what to use instead.
Italian coffee maker (moka)
The life-long stove coffee maker: the steam pushes the water through the coffee. Intense, with body and very cheap.
€20–60French press
Total immersion: the coffee rests in the water and a plunger with mesh separates it. Round body and almost nothing to learn.
€20–45Hario V60
The most popular drip cone of specialty coffee. Clean, bright and aromatic, in exchange for a little technique to the verter.
€7–30Chemex
Glass jar with sand watch and thick filter. Very clean coffee, almost like a tea, to share.
€45–60Kalita Wave
Flat bottom drip with three holes. More tolerant than V60: balanced and sweet cup even if the spill is not perfect.
€25–45Cone Melitta
The life-long filter holder, with wedge background and easy to find filters. Simple, cheap and very reliable.
€5–15Drip coffee
The electric filter coffee machine: hot water dripping over the coffee. Comfortable for several cups; good ones compete with manual drip.
€25–350AeroPress
A plastic cylinder with plunger: immersion and a soft pressure. Versatile, resistant and almost unbreakable. Ideal for travel.
€35–55Clever Dripper
A drip with a valve: coffee infuses as in a press and, when supported in the cup, is filtered by paper. Easy and constant.
€20–45Sifon coffee
Two glass balloons, a flame and a little physics: the steam rises the water and the vacuum returns it filtered. Clean bowl and a lot of show.
€60–110Cezve (ibrik)
The small narrow-necked bowl of Turkish coffee. Grilled coffee like flour, slowly heated and served with its pose and foam.
€10–40Jar for cold brew
Jar with inner filter to infuse cold coffee for hours. Cold brew soft, sweet and with very little acidity.
€25–60Kyoto drip tower
Ice-cold water that falls drop by drop on the coffee for hours. A clean, sweet and almost liqueur concentrate.
€60–600Vietnamese Phin
The Vietnamese metal filter dripping directly on the glass. Very strong coffee, perfect with condensed milk.
€5–15Napoletana (cuccumella)
The Neapolitan coffee machine that is turned around: the water boils down and, when it is turned, dries by gravity over the coffee. Smaller than moka.
€25–45Percolator
The camping coffee maker that makes the water boiling over and over again through the coffee. Strong and rustic, but easily passed.
€25–60Cazo
The oldest and most simple method: coffee and water in a bowl, rest and decantation. It serves for the puchero coffee, the cowboy coffee and even the Turkish.
€10–30Filter from southern India
Two-story steel filter that slowly drips a concentrate with chicory. It's the base of the kaapi filter, with milk and a lot of foam.
€8–20Wave of mud
The Mexican coffee pot: water, piloncillo, cinnamon and coffee that are infused together. Always use lead-free mud.
€15–40Jebena
The Ethiopian mud coffee maker, with a long neck and round belly. Starring the coffee ceremony and its three rounds.
€15–40Espresso coffee maker
Water to 9 bars of pressure through fine and pressed coffee. Here are the machine types, from the lever to the double boiler.
€150–3500Lamp espresso
Hand-made espresso: you, or a pier, generate the pressure with a lever. A lot of control and no bomb.
€150–1500Espresso of a boiler
A single boiler for coffee and steam, one behind the other. The classic entrance door to the serious espresso at home.
€400–900Thermoblock espresso
Heat the water by passing through a metal block: ready at a time and affordable. The usual in domestic machines.
€150–600Espresso with heat exchanger
A steam boiler with a tube that heats the water from the coffee as it passes. Coffee and milk at the same time, ideal if you make many coffees with milk.
€900–2000Double boiler espresso
Two independent boilers, one for coffee and one for steam, with temperature under control. The most precise domestic machine.
€1200–3500Superautomatic coffee maker
It grabs, doses, press and extracts when pressing a button. Total comfort with coffee in grain, in exchange for control and some taste.
€300–2000Capsule coffee maker
Coffee dosed into capsules that the machine perfuses and extracts. Quick and clean, but face by cup and with a lot of waste.
€80–300Portable espresso
Hand and compact equipment, type Picopresso or Flair, that reach the pressure of the espresso without electricity. To travel or to begin.
€130–350Knife mill
A propeller that beats the grain. Cheap, but the milling is uneven: for trouble only or for spices.
€15–40Manual milling of teeth
Conical teeth and a handle: uniform milling and adjustable for little money. The best investment to improve your coffee.
€60–300Electric milling of teeth
Moulds with motor: uniform grinding without effort, for several cups per day. Chronicles for more body, flat for more clarity.
€150–700Espresso grinder
Electric grinder with very fine adjustment, designed for espresso. It matters more than the machine itself.
€150–7000,1 g base
A scale with precision of 0,1 g and timer. Weighing coffee and water is the easiest way to repeat a good cup.
€15–250Swan-neck kettle
A kettle with a long and fine beak to pour slowly and accurately. Almost essential for manual drip.
€25–200Breast
The usual electric kettle. It heats up the fast water for almost any method; with a bit of water, it even serves the drip.
€15–50Milk jar
The steel pitcher with peak to vaporize and texturize the milk. It helps you get microfoam and draw in the cup.
€10–30Milk spumer
Milk spuma without espresso machine: with a hand-to-battery mixer or an electric pitcher that heats and beats at the same time.
€10–100Tamper
The espresso press: compacts the coffee in the basket for the water to pass through.
€20–80WDT tool
Fine needles to remove the ground coffee in the basket and unmake grumps. A cheap accessory that reduces the channelling.
€5–30Thermometer
To know what temperature the water, milk or grain are at. Useful if your kettle does not regulate and almost compulsory to toast.
€8–30Sifon of cream
Pressurised bottle with gas loads to mount cream at the moment or prepare a home "nitro" with cold brew.
€30–60Cocktail
To shake with ice and get cold drinks with foam: shakerate, espresso martini or espresso fredo.
€10–40Batidora
Of glass or hand, emulsione butter in the coffee, prepare frappés and mount foams. A kitchen joker.
€20–80Poultry
A fine mesh strainer to separate the pores, strain the cold brew or filter cocktails. Cheap and indispensable.
€3–15Fabric filter (sleeve)
The fabric sleeve of the kitchens from before: it covers the pot coffee and leaves a clean cup, with more body than paper.
€5–15Glass jar
A glass jar with a lid serves the cold brew, to shake drinks and to save coffee. The cheapest accessory.
€2–10Sartén
Tasting coffee in a thick pan is free and teaches a lot. Tweet goes unevenly, but you see and hear every stage.
€0–30Oven with perforated tray
Toast in the house oven with a sturdy tray. Easy and hands-free, though hard to hear the cracks.
€10–20Hot air palomiter
A hot-air pallet is 75-100 g in a few minutes and fairly uniform. A classic from home-made.
€25–40Decaper and panifier
A classic home apiece: the panifier removes the grain and a heat gun annoys it. Good control and big tongs.
€45–90Fogon toaster
Manual toasters for kitchen fire: a ceramic saucepan or a handle pot. Cheap and fun.
€20–60Fluid bed toaster
Electric toasters that float the grain in hot air. Quick, uniform and with a shell.
€200–1300Electric drum toaster
A rotating drum with resistance, like a professional miniature toaster. Tanks of up to half a kilo, programs and less smoke.
€400–700Semi-professional toaster
High-end drum toasters, with data and profiles. For those who touch a lot and want to repeat it with precision.
€3000–4000
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