The 13 Best Black Friday Coffee and Espresso Deals

Black Friday is a perfect moment to update your coffee game with the best new gear and accessories at discount prices. We’ve sorted through a storm of Black Friday deals on espresso machines, grinders, French presses, and cold brew to find the absolute best buys on our highest-rated coffee gear. Check out our live blog for more live Black Friday deals and our tips for navigating Black Friday.

For other coffee recommendations, check out our guides to the Best Espresso Machines, Best Automated Espresso and Cappuccino Machines, Grinders and Kettles, and Coffee Mugs and Pour-Over.

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Coffee Machine Deals

The Fellow Aiden drip coffee machine is probably the most talked-about device this year among coffee heads, in a year full of hype. The Aiden looks fancy, and it kinda is fancy. But the Aiden is less about hype than simple ease. “A coffee machine’s ability to brew delicious coffee with as little friction as possible should be the primary yardstick of greatness,” wrote WIRED contributor Pete Cottell in his rave review of the Aiden (8/10, WIRED Recommends). Its real strength is that it makes beautiful, café-quality drip or pour-over without being any harder to figure out than than a grimy old Mr. Coffee from the 1970s. Pair it with the WIRED Gear team’s favorite bean grinder, the Opus, and you’ve got a powerhouse brewing setup at a steep Black Friday discount. (You can also just spring for the Opus, a terrific grinder, and get the same 20 percent off discount.)

Espresso Machine Deals

Photograph: Breville

The Breville Barista is the WIRED Gear team’s favorite premium all-in-one espresso maker that’s priced within reach for mere mortals—and this weekend it’s significantly below list price, with potential rebates that could push the price down still further. What do we like about the Barista? It’s a sturdily constructed, mostly metal machine that’s easy to use and easy to froth your milk with. It’ll grind your beans for you, and it’ll produce consistent water pressure you can watch on its included pressure gauge. It’s also durable: It’s lived happily on WIRED reviewer Julian Chokkattu’s shelf for more than five years.

Every espresso lover with a spouse or a roommate knows the score: The grinder on your espresso machine might as well be an alarm clock for the whole house. What a delight, then, to hear the gentle spin of this KitchenAid machine (8/10, WIRED Recommends), whose burr grinder is like a susurration of the leaves. We can’t promise a light sleeper won’t stir, but it is the quietest such device our Gear team has tested. The KitchenAid is full of such considerate touches, whether its an astonishingly compact profile, wheels that let you tuck it away when not in use, and its intuitive operation. Note, however, our reviewer lamented it took a few more tries than expected to dial in the device to get a great cup.

Photograph: Mr. Coffee

The WIRED Gear team has long loved Mr. Coffee’s automated latte and cappuccino devices, and The Cafe Barista is already our budget pick in the category, often clocking in with deals below $200. The device’s low price comes with a trade-off: It’s a bit plasticky and lightweight. But for that, it makes rich single or double espressos, cappuccinos, and lattes with no fuss and a single button push. Milk comes out quite foamy, which is a plus or a minus depending on what you like.

Wacaco’s Picopresso is the overall best portable espresso maker that the WIRED Gear team has tested: compact, lightweight, and solid, with excellent extraction. It’s a tiny device with delicious results, offering very little bitterness and a nice crema. Caveats are that you’ll need to use very fine grinds, and you’ll have to be able to apply quite a bit of manual pressure to get good extraction, making this a difficult device for those with joint pain or repetitive stress injury. We also had good results, though not quite as good, with the previous (and less expensive) Nanopresso.

Coffee Grinder Deals

Photograph: OXO

In the price range under $100, no automatic grinder beat Oxo’s Brew in our testing. The Brew offers a balance of features, the solid precision of a conical burr grinder, and a surprisingly large range for a bean grinder with a price in the double digits. Just take note: Its slim profile means it’s not a space hog. But it’s tall, about 16 inches, which pretty much matches the standard clearance for cabinets—and it loads from the top, meaning you might have to find counter space with open sky.

We won’t oversell this blade grinder: It won’t give you the uniformity or the fineness of the high-end conical or flat burr grinders we’ll recommend to those looking for the very best. But if you’re a default drip or French press coffee drinker whose eyes cross whenever you hear someone talk seriously about “evenness of extraction” or “separation of flavors”? Well, this sturdy little KitchenAid will grind your beans without complaint. Pro tip, if it won’t make your eyes cross: Pulsing will yield a more even grind than just holding the button down.

French Press and Cold Brew Deals

Photograph: OXO

This is a solid deal on a terrific cold brew maker. The Oxo Compact is my favorite device to make classic cold brew—the sort that brews for most of a day atop your counter. Why? It’s easy to use and elegant of shape, and its combination of mesh and (optional) paper filter makes for clean-tasting and fine-free coffee. The Compact evinces a firm respect for scarce counter and fridge space. And most important, the coffee it makes tastes delicious. Coffee I’ve made with the Oxo is the closest I can get to the best packaged or café cold brew.

The French press is an essential and portable tool in any coffee lover’s kitchen, a low-tech default for countertop or camping. The Secura’s biggest sell versus many other French presses is that it’s sturdy, stainless steel, and insulated. Which is to say, the hot stuff stays hot and the cool stuff stays cool. Is this the right time to mention it’s the WIRED Gear team’s favorite French press to make cold brew?

Coffee Accessories Deals

Photograph: Pete Cottell

File this into the “you didn’t know you needed one till you got one” folder—a sweet spot that makes this smart warmer a nice stocking stuffer for the caffeinated people in your life. This mug warmer isn’t “smart” because you need an app to use it, or because it records your conversations. It’s smart because it’s smart. The device registers when there’s a flat-bottomed mug on top of it, and responds by keeping it warm at about 130 degrees Fahrenheit—thus saving you the endless dance of either chugging down your coffee or topping it off to keep it hot. Remove the mug, and the device turns off. Easy is underrated.

Vacuum bean storage makes coffee taste better, longer. If you’re using fresh, premium beans from a local roaster, a vacuum storage container will better preserve the investment you’re regularly making in your beans. Drop your bag into this container, then turn Atmos’ twist-action pump. The device will remove all air and thus all oxygen, freezing the sad oxidation process that would turn your once delicately aromatic coffee into acrid cardboard. This is the lowest price we’ve seen on the Atmos this year, and it’s a great gift for the coffee-obsessed.

For the Aeropress lover in your life, even if it’s you: Swap out the cap on your Aeropress for a thicker Prismo, and you’ll drastically increase the pressure you exert on the resulting brew. During testing, the WIRED team found this offered a cleaner cup, a bit of aeration, and even more satisfying cold brew. Science! Though this Black Friday deal isn’t a whopper, it still matches the best discount we’ve seen this year.