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.
- 90
- Products with live prices
- Jul 21, 2026
- Prices last verified
- 48h
- Then the price disappears
- 0
- Products we claim to have tested
Where to start
Shop by category
Five things we cover properly, each ranked with live prices. The top pick's current price is on every card — no digging required.
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
Roundup
The Best Coffee Beans for Espresso
Five whole-bean coffees ranked for espresso, from forgiving Robusta crema blends to specialty mediums that reward a dialed-in shot.
Top pick: Lavazza Super Crema Whole Bean (2.2 lb)
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.