Independent, Australian-tested guides comparing espresso, pod, bean-to-cup and budget coffee machines, so you can buy with confidence.
A DeLonghi coffee machine is any of the Italian brand’s home espresso or bean-to-cup machines, ranging from a ten-centimetre-wide manual pump machine you dose by hand through to a fully … Read more
A milk frother is the appliance that turns cold milk into hot, silky foam without a steam wand, and it’s the single easiest upgrade for anyone whose coffee machine, pod … Read more
A moka pot is a stovetop coffee maker that forces boiling water up through ground coffee using nothing but steam pressure: no electricity, no pump, no boiler to fail. That … Read more
A coffee grinder is the appliance that turns whole roasted beans into the loose grounds your machine actually brews with, and it changes what ends up in the cup more … Read more
A Nespresso machine is a single-serve capsule coffee machine that pierces a pre-portioned coffee pod and forces hot water through it under pressure, and in Australia that one brand name … Read more
A coffee machine with a built-in grinder means whole beans go in one end and ground, dosed coffee comes out the other, with no separate grinder to buy, calibrate or … Read more
A commercial coffee machine is built to pull espresso shots back to back for hours without the temperature, pressure or shot quality drifting between customer one and customer one hundred. … Read more
A French press, what most Australians actually call a coffee plunger, is a cylindrical jug with a mesh-and-rod plunger that steeps ground coffee directly in hot water before pressing the … Read more
