Buying guides
Coffee gifts at every budget
Coffee gifts from about $25 to a real treat: a V60, a proper scale, a hand grinder, a kettle, and what to find out first so the gift gets used.
Equipment
Scales, distributors, WDT tools, baskets: what earns its counter space.
Buying guides
Buying guides
Kettles and scales: what actually matters
A spout you can aim, water at a repeatable temperature, a scale that reads 0.1 g fast enough. What to pay for in kettles and scales, and what to skip.
Buying guides
The milk kit: jugs, thermometers and frothers
Which jug for which drink, whether a thermometer earns its place, and what a frother can and cannot do when the machine has no steam wand.
Articles
The barista kit worth buying, and the kit that is not
Six pieces of kit change what comes out of your machine, and a long list of accessories does not. Here is the order to buy in and what each one actually fixes.