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Barista Accessories

Click Tamper

The Click Tamper was designed for your hand, with a stainless steel base and an anodized aluminum handle. You can feel the balance and durability. It also fits both your machine and your tamping style, with a variety of bases in both flat and convex.

Thermometer

It is common practice for baristas to be taught to use their sense of touch and sound to determine when a pitcher of milk has reached the correct heat. While these are important skills to have, this opens the door to inconsistency. When serving coffee (especially in a commercial setting) it is imperative that you serve a consistent product, that way customers can come to rely on you to serve them the same brew each time.

Knock Box

This oversized knock box is made with heavy duty stainless steel featuring a welded metal bar for stronger sides combining with the long time industry standard to create a drawn pan with an improved look and build. Each basic knock box has a replaceable rubber bar cover. Knock boxes are designed for commercial use.

The durable knock box holder completes this set adding stability to your knock box while giving your counter a completed look. This attractive knock box holder is made of light colored finished maple wood.

Stencils

Latte, cappuccino, or just a crazy mash-up of coffee and milk - this is just for fun and to add sparkle to your entertaining and Choose fun stencils that will fit on the top of your coffee. Gather colorful sprinkles, colored sugars, or cocoa powder to create your designs.

Latte Art Jug

Pouring an elegant tulip across a latte is a beautiful addition to your morning coffee and a benchmark achievement for budding baristas. But without the proper equipment, you’ll be seriously lacking in your latte art.
The best milk frothing pitchers are specifically crafted to make frothing milk, create great micro-foam, and pour latte art as easy as possible.

 

Urnex Cleaning Tablets Bottle

Designed especially for use with espresso machines, Urnex 12-E31-UX100-12 Cafiza espresso machine cleaning tablets offer a concentrated formula that eliminates residue in group heads, valves, and machine lines for a more efficient machine and better tasting product. Integral to any daily back flush cleaning regimen, this product is simple to use and yet provides powerful cleaning results.

Head Cleaning Brush

Keeping the coffee machine group head, grinder and bench clean is an essential parts of the espresso making process. The group head brush keeps the group head seal clean and prevents leaks between the porta filter and group head, while the grinder brush helps clean ground coffee from the grounds chamber and bench.

Blind Filter

The blind filter is used for back flushing on espresso machines that have a pressure release mechanism. This is a standard - and necessary - part of cleaning your machine to keep the channels in the group clear, which makes the extraction pressure uniform.

Milk Frothing Jug

A milk frothing jug is essential when making certain types of coffee such as latte or cappuccino or for drinks such as hot chocolate.

Tamper

Tamping is the act of compressing the coffee grounds into a "puck" of coffee in the filter basket prior to extraction. You should learn to tamp to produce uniform results in a reproducible way. Since proper tamping is essential to making excellent espresso, we recommend that tamping be done by hand using a coffee tamper in accordance with the following procedure.

Teflon Coated Jug

High quality stainless steel Teflon coated and quick and easy to rinse and clean. Ideal for the busy coffee shop.

 

Tamping Mat

Tamping mats are an essential must-have accessory for every barista, be it in a busy commercial setting or at home. Sure you can buy a flat square of rubber in any hardware shop that would achieve a lot of the aims of our Cafelat mats, but more often than not these are smelly old bits of rubber that look awful.