The 4 Best Espresso Machines for the Perfect Cup

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The 4 Best Espresso Machines for the Perfect Cup

Americans drink 650 million cups of coffee each day. And while some sleep-deprived folks are just looking for a jolt of anything caffeinated, many of us prefer to savor the good stuff. 

Ivica Cvetanovski, the founder of Coffea Circulor, one of the world’s finest coffee producers, roasters, and labs, notes a significant “increase in consumer demand for ultra-luxury coffees, some of them produced in very small quantities.” Coffea Circulor’s small-batch productions of competition-grade Panama Geisha coffee, for example, can cost as much as $1,000 per kilo—and are so sought-after, they were sold out at the time of writing. With this caliber of beans, espresso isn’t something you toss back on your way out the door in the morning. Cvetanovski recommends leaning into the ritual. “Take your time to prepare them for yourself in a manual fashion,” he advises. “This can contribute to a sense of recreation.” 

For true coffee lovers, “a manual fashion” means ditching pod machines: Coffee tastes best when the beans are ground seconds before preparation. A coffee grinder and a manual portafilter machine open up a wide sensory world, from smell to sound to sight, that an automatic appliance simply can’t match. Think vintage Ferrari versus modern-day Toyota. 

For aficionados, the trickiest part is choosing which manual model to buy. To get the best results, espresso machines must be nimble, offering both infinite variability and incredible precision. There’s a lot of science to making good coffee—and a fair bit of art, too, from grinding and puck preparation to tamping force, flow rate, water pressure, temperature (in increments as small as 0.1 degree), and grams in versus grams out. Luckily, the market has responded to the demand for extremely capable appliances that are also countertop-worthy. 

We picked the finest in the world, then asked for input from Cvetanovski and Lance Hedrick—a two-time Coffee Fest Latte Art World Championship Open winner, coffee trainer, and YouTube host—about what makes them so special. 



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