Your guide to espresso machines, grinders and coffee at home

Camille Laurent September 29, 2026 5 min read

Coffee Gift Ideas for Christmas 2026: What to Buy on Any Budget

For Christmas 2025, French shoppers planned to spend €243.60 on gifts on average, €17 less than in 2024, according to the Havas Market study reported by CB News on 28 October 2025. Coffee didn't get the memo: whole-bean coffee sales in France rose 31.6% in value over a year, per Crack Cafés' 2026...

Élodie Fontaine September 27, 2026 4 min read

International Coffee Day 2026: the UN made it official, here's what that changes

International Coffee Day falls on Thursday 1 October 2026, and it's the first one since the UN General Assembly put the date on its own calendar, on 10 March 2026.

Julien Mercier September 25, 2026 4 min read

French Days bean-to-cup coffee machine: should you buy now or wait?

France's French Days bean-to-cup coffee machine deals shut down on 14 September at 23:59: the window's missed. So the real question becomes whether those eight days were worth waiting for at all.

Élodie Fontaine September 23, 2026 5 min read

The 2026 electronic component shortage: will your next coffee machine really cost more?

Between 2021 and 2023 the chip shortage kept people waiting months for a new car, and everyone remembers that story. Since January 2026 the same headlines have come back around: electronic component shortage, memory prices through the roof, supply chains under strain. Standing in front of a €500...

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Coffee prices 2026: record Brazil harvest, Colombia shortage, relief at last

Élodie Fontaine Oct 01 4 min read

Coffee Gift Ideas for Christmas 2026: What to Buy on Any Budget

Camille Laurent Sep 29 5 min read

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Espresso cup size: ristretto, espresso and lungo in ml

Ask several websites about espresso cup size and you'll probably get a different set of millilitres from each. No international standard fixes how much a ristretto or a lungo should be, or how big the cup should be. What exists are conventions, and they don't measure the same thing.

Élodie Fontaine Oct 13 6 min read

What to Do With Used Coffee Grounds: Compost, Garden, Scrub

Your machine's grounds drawer fills up every day, and each time you empty it the same question comes back: what to do with used coffee grounds, apart from binning them? Short answer: compost first, everything else with limits. Here's how to recycle coffee grounds properly, with sources and dates....

Julien Mercier Oct 11 4 min read

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Bean-to-cup coffee machine warranty: what it really covers (and what it doesn't)

"2-year warranty." It's printed on almost every spec sheet, and on its own it tells you very little. What a bean-to-cup coffee machine warranty actually covers depends on which of three protections you mean, and they share neither a duration, nor a counterparty, nor a price. Two of them are free....

Élodie Fontaine Sep 14 8 min read

Water hardness, alkalinity and TDS: coffee explained

Your water has to do two things that pull against each other. Enough minerals to actually drag flavour out of the coffee, and few enough that the machine doesn't scale up. Because those two demands run in opposite directions, the numbers you find online never line up: a filter brand quotes °dH, a...

Camille Laurent Sep 13 9 min read

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Espresso cup size: ristretto, espresso and lungo in ml

Élodie Fontaine Oct 13 6 min read

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What to Do With Used Coffee Grounds: Compost, Garden, Scrub

Julien Mercier Oct 11 4 min read

Élodie Fontaine Oct 09 15 min read

Coffee machine bean hopper size: the formula and table for how much you drink

Search for "coffee machine bean hopper size" and you'll mostly land on product pages: 110 g here, 250 g there, a 1.8 L water tank in bold. None of them tell you what those numbers mean for you, in the morning, with your cup and your dose. So let's do the division the spec sheets never bother with.

Élodie Fontaine Oct 07 14 min read

Ceramic vs steel burrs: which material should your coffee grinder have?

Search for "ceramic vs steel burrs" and read the first few results back to back. One retailer tells you ceramic lasts far longer. The next one says steel is much tougher. A third adds that ceramic doesn't heat up at all. You close the tab fairly sure at least one of them is making things up.

Élodie Fontaine Oct 05 15 min read

Bean-to-cup coffee machine lifespan: how many years, and when to replace it

Nobody searches for "bean-to-cup coffee machine lifespan" out of idle curiosity. Usually the machine has just made a noise it never made before, the coffee tastes flat, or a repair quote is sitting on the kitchen counter. Underneath all of that there's one question: does it still have years left...

Camille Laurent Oct 03 14 min read

Which Bean-to-Cup Coffee Machine to Choose Based on Cups per Day

Two cups. That's how much coffee the average French adult drinks a day, and 81% of them drink it daily, according to an OpinionWay survey for Delta Cafés run in June 2025. So before you ask which bean-to-cup coffee machine to choose, I'd start with a far less exciting question: how many coffees...

Élodie Fontaine Oct 01 4 min read

Coffee prices 2026: record Brazil harvest, Colombia shortage, relief at last

Camille Laurent Sep 29 5 min read

Coffee Gift Ideas for Christmas 2026: What to Buy on Any Budget

Élodie Fontaine Sep 27 4 min read

International Coffee Day 2026: the UN made it official, here's what that changes

International Coffee Day falls on Thursday 1 October 2026, and it's the first one since the UN General Assembly put the date on its own calendar, on 10 March 2026.

Julien Mercier Sep 25 4 min read

French Days bean-to-cup coffee machine: should you buy now or wait?

France's French Days bean-to-cup coffee machine deals shut down on 14 September at 23:59: the window's missed. So the real question becomes whether those eight days were worth waiting for at all.

Élodie Fontaine Sep 23 5 min read

The 2026 electronic component shortage: will your next coffee machine really cost more?