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EspressoGoods' catalogue and guides are compiled by the site's editorial team from espresso machine and grinder makers' own product pages, spec sheets and manuals, plus standards bodies such as the Istituto Nazionale Espresso Italiano. We do not test machines or taste shots, and we never claim to: every spec on the site links to the page it came from.

Why an espresso site that reads spec sheets

EspressoGoods compares home espresso machines and grinders by what their makers actually publish: the heating system, whether temperature is PID-controlled, the portafilter size, the baskets in the box, the milk system, the warm-up time the maker claims, the water tank, the footprint on your counter and the price. Those are the facts that decide whether a machine suits the drinks you make, the space you have and the amount of fiddling you are willing to do each morning.

The trouble is that those facts are scattered. One maker lists the tank in ounces and another in liters. One gives dimensions in centimeters, width first; another gives inches with height first. A “15 bar” pump rating on the box says little about the pressure at the coffee, and “ready in seconds” can mean a flash heater or a boiler that still needs time to settle. Most buying guides pick a handful of favorites and leave the specs out. We collect the specs makers publish, put them in one format with one set of units, and let you filter and compare machines on them side by side.

What is on the site

• A catalogue of home espresso machines and grinders. Semi-automatic, super-automatic (bean-to-cup), manual lever and portable machines, from makers such as Breville, De’Longhi, Gaggia, Rancilio, Philips and Jura, plus espresso grinders such as Baratza’s. Every entry links to the maker’s page or manual it came from and shows the date we read it.
• A machine finder. You answer a few questions: budget, the drinks you make, how hands-on you want to be, whether you want a grinder built in, how much counter width you have, and whether a fast heat-up, PID temperature control or a 58 mm portafilter matter to you. It lists the machines whose published specs meet every answer, with the reason each one fits, and shows near misses that fail on exactly one point.
• A side-by-side compare for up to four machines, with a link you can share, and a shortlist that is saved only in your own browser.
• A home-versus-café cost calculator that works out the cost per drink at home and how long a setup takes to pay for itself, from prices you type in.
• A grinder matcher that lists grinders their makers position for espresso, within your budget, and separates the ones sold for drip or pour-over.
• Guides that explain the choices behind the specs: machine types, heating systems, what a pressurized basket does, and how to make espresso at home.

Who “we” are

EspressoGoods is written and maintained by its editorial team, credited on every page as EspressoGoods editors. The team compiles the catalogue from makers’ product pages and manuals, keeps the tools’ rules in line with the data, and writes and edits the guides. When a page here says “we,” it means that editorial work and nothing more.

We are not baristas, a testing lab or an appliance retailer, and we do not present ourselves as any of those. We do not claim café experience, a coffee certification or years behind a machine. The reason to trust a page on this site is that you can check it: each spec links to the page it came from, each source carries a read date, and the rules behind every tool are published on the editorial process page.

What we do not do

We do not test machines, pull shots or taste coffee, and we never write as though we had. You will not find “after a month of daily use” impressions, taste notes, shot-quality scores, steaming verdicts or durability claims of our own anywhere on the site. Nor will you find first-person stories about a machine we owned, because there are none to tell. Where a maker makes a claim, such as a warm-up time, we quote it and say it is the maker’s claim.

We show no star ratings, no review counts and no “best-seller” badges. No maker can pay to be listed, to be listed higher or to be described differently, and we run no sponsored placements. We sell nothing. There is no cart on EspressoGoods; a buy link takes you to Amazon or to the maker’s own site, and the purchase happens there, under that store’s terms.

Where the information comes from

Sources are ranked by who is accountable for the fact. When two disagree, the higher one wins and the entry notes the conflict.

• The maker’s own product page, spec sheet or user manual comes first, because the maker is responsible for the machine and what it says about it.
• Where the maker no longer lists a model, its own brand listing on Amazon is used as a fallback and labelled as such. For a few brands sold in the US through an official distributor, that distributor’s spec table can fill a gap, also labelled.
• Review sites, forums, retailer copy written by third parties and memory are never used as a source for a spec. If a figure is not published, the catalogue says so instead of guessing.
• Amazon’s official API supplies price, availability and the product link only. It is refreshed daily and every price is shown with an “as of” date.

How the site is paid for

As an Amazon Associate, EspressoGoods earns from qualifying purchases. It costs you nothing extra and never decides which machines we list. Machines that are not sold on Amazon, or that earn us nothing, are still in the catalogue when their makers publish enough to list them, with a link to the maker’s own page. The finder and the compare tool have no commission input of any kind; their results sort by price, lowest first. The site carries no advertising today.

AI assistance

Articles on this site are researched with AI assistance and edited by EspressoGoods editors before publication. Specs and prices are checked against the sources listed on each page. AI tools help gather and organize research and draft explanatory text. Every spec and price is checked against its source before it is published, and anything we cannot trace to a source is taken out.

Corrections

Makers revise models, change what comes in the box and update their pages, and sometimes we copy a figure wrongly. When we find or are told about an error, we check it against the maker’s page, fix the entry, and move the page’s “last updated” date. That date changes only when the content does.

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Get in touch

Spotted a spec that does not match the maker’s page, a price that looks wrong, or a machine you think belongs in the catalogue? Write to our contact email (being set up; it will appear on this page shortly). The contact page lists what to include so we can check it quickly. How the site handles data and links is covered in the privacy policy and the terms of use, and the tools themselves are on the EspressoGoods home page.