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Gear,routed by recipe.
Every guide starts from the numbers in our brew guides, then reads manufacturer spec sheets against them. Pick how you brew: the routes light up, the numbers change, the right gear surfaces.
Every dossier, fit-checked
The guides.
Grinders · fits Espresso + Pour-over
KINGrinder K6 Hand Grinder
KINGrinder lists a 48mm stainless steel burr, a 30-35g hopper and Fine and Medium setting ranges that cover our espresso and pour-over guides, but its adjustment is 60 clicks per round at 16 μm per click, so it misses the espresso guide's stepless preference.
5/6 recipe checks
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Grinders · fits Pour-over + AeroPress
Baratza Sette 270
Baratza lists a 40mm conical burr set, a 120g grounds bin and stepless micro adjustment that clear our dose and fine-tuning numbers, but it publishes no grind range for medium or medium-fine and doses by time, so it suits someone who treats pour-over and AeroPress as a side job for an espresso grinder.
4/7 recipe checks
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Espresso machines · fits Pour-over
Technivorm Moccamaster KBGV Select
The spec sheet puts the KBGV Select's water at 196°F - 205°F, inside our pour-over guide's 195 to 205°F window, but its 4-6 minute saturation time and automatic drip brewing sit outside the guide's 3:30 total and hand-poured five-stage method, so it serves a hands-off drip routine rather than our V60 recipe.
4/8 recipe checks
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Espresso machines · fits Espresso
Flair Neo Flex
The retailer listing states a 12-18 grams dose, a Bottomless 2-in-1 Portafilter and an included pressure gauge, which meets one of our espresso guide's requirements and only part of its dose range, and no fetched source states a bar figure or brew temperature, and the box has no tamper or grinder, so this suits a buyer who already owns a burr grinder and a tamper.
1/6 recipe checks
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De'Longhi Dedica EC685
De'Longhi and its retailers list a 15 bar pump and a pressurized 53 mm portafilter, but none of the fetched pages state a brew temperature, a basket dose in grams or a 9 bar extraction figure, so it suits a pressurized-basket, push-button routine better than the by-weight 18 to 19g in, 36 to 38g out recipe our espresso guide teaches.
1/9 recipe checks
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Espresso machines · fits Espresso + Cold brew
Ninja Luxe Café Premier Espresso Machine (ES601)
Ninja's listing shows a conical burr grinder with 25 grind settings, a built-in scale and an assisted tamper in one unit, but no fetched sheet states extraction pressure, brew temperature, basket dose or a shot-cutoff weight, and its cold brew is a rapid mode rather than our 12 to 18 hour steep.
1/8 recipe checks
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Fellow Aiden Precision Coffee Maker
The published specs show an automatic brewer with a bloom stage and a single-cup size, but no sheet we fetched states a water temperature range, a brew time, a scale or a hand-pour spiral, so it suits someone who wants pour-over numbers without the pouring.
2/7 recipe checks
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Espresso machines · fits Espresso
Breville Dual Boiler
The spec sheets clear our espresso guide's 9 bar pump, spouted portafilter, tamper and dose needs and add a shot clock, but there is no grinder or scale in the box and the shot volume controls are not weight based, so it suits someone who already owns a grinder and a 0.1g scale.
5/8 recipe checks
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Wacaco Picopresso
Wacaco's spec sheet lists a hand-pumped 18 bar peak, a 52mm naked portafilter basket that holds 18 g and a tamper in the box, which meets three of our espresso guide's requirements, but it states no tamper diameter, ships without a grinder or scale, calls for an ultra-fine grind and states no brew temperature to check against our guide's window.
3/8 recipe checks
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Espresso machines · fits Espresso
Profitec Go Espresso Machine
Home Coffee Solutions lists an OPV-adjustable brew pressure of roughly 8.5 to 12 bar, an adjustable-PID temperature, and a two-spout 58mm portafilter, clearing our espresso guide's 9 bar floor and spouted-portafilter requirement, but the box ships with no grinder or scale.
4/6 recipe checks
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Espresso machines · fits Espresso
Wacaco Nanopresso
Wacaco's own spec sheet lists an 18 bar peak pressure, comfortably past our espresso guide's 9 bar requirement, and its published brew water range matches our guide's window almost exactly, but its 8g fixed basket, 16g only with the separate Barista Kit, falls short of our guide's 18 to 19g dose, and the base box ships without a grinder, a scale, a tamper, or a bottomless or spouted portafilter.
2/8 recipe checks
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Espresso machines · fits Espresso
Breville Barista Pro
Breville's own spec sheet clears our espresso guide's 9 bar pump requirement and pairs a 54mm portafilter with a matched magnetic tamper, but the integrated grinder runs 30 fixed settings rather than stepless, the shot buttons cut espresso by volume rather than weight, and the box ships without the 0.1g scale our guide's gear list calls for separately.
2/6 recipe checks
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Eureka Mignon Specialita
Eureka's own spec sheet confirms a stepless 55mm flat burr with a dedicated, slower grind rate for espresso and a 300 gram hopper that comfortably outlasts an 18 to 19 gram dose, though the touchscreen's dose counter is timed rather than weight-based, so the precise gram target our guide calls for still comes down to a separate scale.
6/6 recipe checks
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Grinders · fits Pour-over + AeroPress
Comandante C40 MK4
Prima Coffee and Voltage Coffee Supply's spec listings put the C40 MK4's conical steel burr at a stated range of espresso to cold brew, wide enough to clear the medium grind our pour-over guide calls for and the medium-fine grind our AeroPress guide calls for, with bean jar capacity well past either guide's per-brew dose.
6/6 recipe checks
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Grinders · fits Pour-over
Fellow Ode Gen 2
Fellow's own spec sheet builds the Ode Gen 2 around 64mm flat burrs, an 11 setting, 31 step dial, and a 100g single-dose hopper aimed squarely at filter brewing, and Seattle Coffee Gear's product guide settings table places V60 (grouped with Chemex) at settings 10 to 20, comfortably inside the medium grind our pour-over guide calls for.
7/7 recipe checks
Read the fit report →Grinders · fits Pour-over + Cold brew
OXO Brew Conical Burr Coffee Grinder
OXO's own build lets you grind straight to a gram target on a built-in scale, matching the exact 15g pour-over and 125g cold brew doses our guides weigh out, but the stated grind range tops out at a French press setting and the 110 gram grounds container falls short of a full 125 gram cold brew dose in one pass.
4/6 recipe checks
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Brewers & presses · fits Pour-over
Hario V60 Switch 03
Hario's own spec sheet confirms this glass, size 03 Switch dripper (SSD-360-B) fits our pour-over guide's five-stage pour method and single-cup 15g to 250g recipe inside its stated 360 milliliter capacity, but that same capacity rules out the guide's per-cup scaler pushed to two cups in one brew.
5/7 recipe checks
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Kettles & scales · fits Pour-over + AeroPress
Acaia Pearl
Acaia's own spec sheet lists a 2000g capacity, 0.1g readability, and a built-in Auto-Start Timer Mode, which together cover the 15g/250g pour-over dose and the 18g/210g AeroPress dose our guides call for, and the digital-scale-with-timer both guides list as required gear.
6/6 recipe checks
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Espresso machines · fits Espresso
Breville Barista Express
Breville's own spec sheet clears our espresso guide's 9 bar pump requirement and bundles a matched 54mm tamper and an on demand conical burr grinder, but that grinder runs 16 fixed settings rather than stepless, the shot buttons are volumetric rather than weight based, and the box ships without the 0.1g scale our guide's gear list calls for separately.
4/7 recipe checks
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Grinders · fits Espresso + Moka pot
1Zpresso JX-Pro S
1Zpresso's own manual describes the JX-Pro S as a fixed click adjustment, 40 clicks per rotation moving the burr 0.5mm (12.5 microns per click), not a stepless one, so it fails our espresso guide's stepless preference outright, but its 48mm conical burr and 30 to 35g capacity comfortably cover the weighed doses both our espresso and moka pot guides call for.
5/6 recipe checks
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Grinders · fits Pour-over + French press
Baratza Virtuoso+
Baratza's own suggested settings place Hario V60 at grind 15 and French Press at 28 on the Virtuoso+'s 40 step dial, matching both of our brew guides directly, with one gap: the grinder doses by time, not weight, so our guides' gram targets still need a separate scale.
5/6 recipe checks
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Brewers & presses · fits Pour-over
Chemex Classic Series, 6-Cup
Chemex's own spec sheet confirms a single-vessel, 30 ounce borosilicate glass brewer built around a 5 fl oz cup and proprietary Bonded filters, numbers that satisfy our pour-over guide's rinse step and near-boiling heat needs but don't match its named V60 dripper or its 250 g gram-based scaling.
4/7 recipe checks
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Kettles & scales · fits Pour-over + AeroPress
Bonavita 1.0L Variable Temperature Gooseneck Kettle
Bonavita's own manual lists six factory presets, 60C to 98C, that hit or bracket every water temperature our pour-over and AeroPress guides call for, backed by an up to one hour heat-and-hold, though it ships with no integrated scale and a power rating that Bonavita's manual and its Amazon listing state differently.
7/8 recipe checks
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Kettles & scales · fits Pour-over + AeroPress
Hario V60 Drip Scale
Hario's own product page confirms a 2,000g capacity scale with 0.1g resolution from 2g to 200g and a built-in timer, precise enough to weigh the 15g pour-over dose and 18g AeroPress dose our guides call for while timing both brews on the same device.
6/6 recipe checks
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Espresso machines · fits Espresso
Gaggia Classic Evo Pro
Gaggia's own spec sheet calibrates the OPV to the 9 bar our espresso guide requires and Home Coffee Solutions lists a 58mm double spout portafilter with a plastic tamper in the box, but the included filter baskets cap out at 14 to 18 grams, short of the 19 gram top of our guide's dose range, and neither a grinder nor a scale ships with the machine.
3/6 recipe checks
Read the fit report →Grinders · fits Espresso + Pour-over + French press + Cold brew
Fellow Opus Conical Burr Grinder
Fellow names all four of our brew methods directly on the Opus's spec sheet, but the 110g hopper and catch bin undersize our cold brew guide's full one liter batch, and the timer doses by seconds, not the grams every guide on this site measures by.
6/8 recipe checks
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Brewers & presses · fits Cold brew
OXO Compact Cold Brew Coffee Maker
Seattle Coffee Gear and Stumptown both put this brewer at a 24 oz capacity run on a 1:4 ratio over a 24 hour steep, a smaller batch, a stronger ratio and a longer steep than our cold brew guide's 1 litre, 1:8, 12 to 18 hour numbers, even though its coarse grind and mesh filter line up with our guide directly.
4/7 recipe checks
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Brewers & presses · fits Moka pot
Bialetti Moka Express, 3-Cup
Bialetti's own product page rates this 3-cup Moka Express at 4.4 oz and Whole Latte Love lists a 5 minute brew time for that size, in line with our moka pot guide's own ~5 minute stovetop window, but the 13 g dose and 4.4 oz capacity both run below the 15 to 17 g dose and roughly 180 g (6 oz) yield our guide's own numbers imply for a pot this size, so it fits a single small serving rather than the 4-cup routine our guide's dose figure is built around.
5/7 recipe checks
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Brewers & presses · fits French press + Cold brew
Bodum Chambord French Press, 34oz
Sweet Maria's and Target both list this Chambord at 8 cup, 34 oz, with a high-heat borosilicate glass carafe that clears our French press guide's near-boiling water and 3-to-8 cup range, but its rated capacity runs tight against our cold brew guide's full 1 litre batch, and its 8-cup rating does not map to our guide's own 12 oz cup math.
4/6 recipe checks
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Espresso machines · fits Espresso
Rancilio Silvia
Whole Latte Love lists 15 bar of pump pressure and Rancilio's own spec sheet rates the portafilter to 21 grams, both clearing our espresso guide's 9 bar minimum and 18 to 19 gram dose, but the box ships with no grinder or scale.
4/6 recipe checks
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Brewers & presses · fits AeroPress
AeroPress Original
AeroPress's own spec sheet puts scoop dose at 16 to 18 grams and brew temperature at 185F (85C), both matching our AeroPress guide's recipe, while the box ships with paper filters and a stirrer but no scale, timer, or grinder, gear our guide lists separately.
7/8 recipe checks
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Brewers & presses · fits Pour-over
Hario V60 Dripper, Size 02
Hario's own spec sheet confirms this plastic, size 02 dripper carries the spiral-ridged, 1 to 4 cup body our pour-over guide's five-pour, centred-spiral method and per-cup 15g to 250g scaling are written around.
6/6 recipe checks
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Espresso machines · fits Espresso
Breville Bambino Plus
Breville's own spec sheet clears our espresso guide's 9 bar pump and tamper requirements and matches the low end of its 18 to 19g dose range, but the one-touch shot buttons are volumetric and the box ships without a grinder or scale, so hitting the guide's 36 to 38g by-weight target means bringing outside gear and cutting the shot by hand.
3/6 recipe checks
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Kettles & scales · fits Pour-over + AeroPress + French press
Fellow Stagg EKG Pro
Fellow's own spec sheet gives the Stagg EKG Pro a 40C to 100C, to-the-degree range that covers every water temperature our pour-over, AeroPress, and French press guides call for, with two honest gaps: no built-in scale, and a 0.9 liter capacity that clears our French press guide's two-cup, 800 gram example by a narrow margin.
6/7 recipe checks
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Grinders · fits Espresso + Moka pot
Baratza Encore ESP
One burr set covers our espresso guide's fine window and sits inside the coarser macro range our moka pot guide needs, with one honest gap: bring your own scale.
6/7 recipe checks
Read the fit report →Every guide above is built from manufacturer spec sheets read against the ratios, grinds and temperatures in our brew guides. New dossiers land weekly. Product photos come from each manufacturer's own product page; the two dossiers without one cover models their makers no longer picture.
How every guide is made
No stars. No scores.
Countable checks.
Read the recipe
Our brew guides already fix the numbers: temperature, ratio, and a grind window that flows in a stated time.
Read the spec sheet
Manufacturer specifications, fetched and cited: burr geometry, temperature control, pressure, basket size.
Count the matches
Each spec either meets the recipe or it does not. The fit meter is the count, and every lit segment carries its citation.
5 of 6 recipe checks pass, from the KINGrinder K6 Hand Grinder dossier · every segment cited
The library
Four shelves, one system.
Shelf
Grinders
The one purchase every method shares. Burr type, micro-step range and retention, read against the grind window each of our brew guides calls for.
10 guides live, fit-checked against 6 methods
Shelf
Espresso machines
Pressure, thermal stability, portafilter size.
13 guides live, fit-checked against 3 methods
Shelf
Kettles & scales
Hold accuracy against our temperature windows; 0.1g resolution.
4 guides live, fit-checked against 3 methods
Shelf
Brewers & presses
Drippers, presses, moka pots, cold brewers.
8 guides live, fit-checked against 5 methods
The rule
We own the recipes, not the warehouse.
Fit notes come from published specifications, never invented bench tests.
The promise
Scores are never for sale, and a claim we cannot cite is a claim we do not make.
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