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Bean & Burr
Espresso pouring from a machine into a glass

Independent · Amazon-funded · No testing lab

Coffee & espresso gear, reviewed on the numbers.

Live prices, a published scoring rubric, and the honest "skip this" on every pick. We read the manuals and run the math — and we say when the cheap one is the one to buy, even though the expensive one pays us more.

Best espresso machines →How we research
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Products with live prices
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Prices last verified
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Then the price disappears
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Products we claim to have tested

Where to start

Shop by category

Six things we cover properly, each ranked with live prices. The top pick's current price is on every card — no digging required.

Gifts & deals

Buying coffee gear for someone else

Gift guides written for someone who doesn't drink the stuff — what to buy, who it suits, and what to check before you click. Black Friday is November 27 — the deals hub covers what historically discounts in this category and what doesn't.

Every coffee gift guide →·Gifts under $150·For the person who has everything

The difference

What we do that the others don't

Prices that are actually live

Every price comes from Amazon's API and is stamped with the date we checked it. If our data is more than 48 hours old, the number disappears and the button says “Check price” instead. It never shows you a stale figure — and almost nobody else in this category does that.

We publish the rubric

Every score breaks into named metrics, and How We Research explains what each one means. If you can't see what a number is made of, it's decoration.

We run the numbers

What a shot really costs to pull. Why your fast grinder isn't the problem. We do the arithmetic and show our working, so you can check it — that's the whole brand.

We do not run a testing lab

And we're not going to write “in our testing” as though we do. We compile the published specs, cite the manufacturer, and tell you plainly when we couldn't verify something.

Read these first

The pages we'd point you to

Just published

Latest guides

The most recent additions to the site. Every one is ranked on live prices against the same published rubric.

Every guide we've published →·Full sitemap·Atom feed

How this is funded

We earn a commission. Here's exactly how that works.

Bean & Burr is funded by the Amazon Associates program. When you buy through one of our links we earn a small commission, at no extra cost to you. No brand pays us for placement, no manufacturer sends us products, and no commission rate has ever changed a ranking — which is why you'll find a $150 machine recommended over a $700 one, and a $13 scale beating a $150 one, on this site.

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