But you can't just pour water over coffee and expect to get the delicious elixir. The thing most necessary to bring espresso into existence is the tamper. A common tool you may have seen your ...

Tamping is an unnecessarily complicated word that basically means ‘squashing the ground coffee down before you put water through it’. Coffee people love their jargon. There’s actually ...

Making espresso drinks brings in a slew of other variables: monitoring water pressure, tamping coffee grounds, steaming milk. But as the editor of Wirecutter’s kitchen coverage, I’ve tried ...

However, its pièce de résistance is undeniably the spring-loaded tamping lever which applies precise pressure to the coffee grounds ensuring perfect extraction time after time. Once you’ve ...