coffee machines

Everything from a £3,000 monster to a big plastic syringe

1 DE’LONGHI DEDICA STYLE

Affordable and compact, the Dedica Style Pump Espresso has a matching grinder, so you have bean-to-cup convenience with less complexity. With the right grind and extraction time, you can get great results, and the milk frothing nozzle is just fantastic. £199, delonghi.com

2 JURA Z8

Almost £3,000 worth of cutting-edge beverage-making tech, the latest Jura machine offers just about any coffeeflavoured drink you can think of, at the prod of a touchscreen. Minimum effort but maximum result. And, to be fair, maximum cost as well. £2,595, uk.jura.com

3 SAGE THE ORACLE

This pulls off the rather clever trick of looking and behaving like something a barista would use, but with a consumer-friendly layer of idiotproofing, thanks to automatic grinding, tamping and milk frothing. It’s built like a Panzer tank. £1,699, sageappliances.co.uk

4 AEROBIE AEROPRESS

It might look like something you’d take camping, but the Aeropress isn’t just highly portable, it also makes coffee of a quality to set purists purring. Here, ground coffee is forced through a paper filter using the power of air pressure, and your well-toned forearm. £30, aeropress.co.uk

5 HARIO COFFEE SYPHON

Over in Odd Corner, we have this Japanese lab equipment. Water is heated in the bottom bowl until it is forced up a pipe to the top chamber, where ground coffee is added. The heat then drops, with the resultant vacuum sucking the coffee down through a filter. Ah, science! £100+, hario.co.uk

6 KITCHENAID COLD BREW

Bang on trend for summer 2017, this is the simplest of all the machines. Put an entire bag of very coarsely ground beans in the mesh container. Add cold water. Leave for 1224 hours. The result is, as you’d imagine, a highly flavourpacked drink that you quaff cold. £129, kitchenaid.co.uk