Cafelat Robot is a small, high-quality manual coffee maker that makes real espresso. It uses a few parts, no complicated electronics and only premium materials like stainless steel - it is completely plastic free.
Cafelat Robot is another good choice for you to make espresso manually and portable. The classic futuristic design and sleek shape make it suitable to be placed in bars, coffee shops and your home without consuming a lot of space.
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True 9 Bar Espresso At Your Fingertips
If you can supply fresh ground coffee, hot water, and a little strength to provide pressure, you can make cafe quality espresso at home, in the office, or anywhere you like with the Cafelat Robot. Though its appearance might seem unconventional, the Robot is straightforward to use and provides you with all of the control you could expect from a manual espresso maker; you can experiment with long, short, or no preinfusion, varying brew ratios, temperatures, and with the attached pressure gauge on this Barista version you can explore different brewing pressures and profiles to your heart’s content.
Undeniable Style
It’s easy to focus on the practical design and exceptional espresso that you get from the Robot, but it’d be a disservice to this little espresso maker to not mention its delightful design Seemingly pulled from a classic black and white science fiction movie this little machine comes in colors to match that aesthetic perfectly, including cream, powder blue, and a satisfyingly retro green.
Build Quality You Can Trust
Cafelat put serious care into selecting the materials and planning the construction of the Robot. The body and base are die-cast aluminum with a robust feel, while the other metal parts—the portafilter, basket, dispersion screen, and brewing arms—are all stainless steel. The gaskets on both the piston and portafilter spouts are FDA approved silicone, and you’ll find no plastic anywhere in this machine. Every Robot is hand built and tested before it leaves the factory, and thanks to the simplicity of its construction you should have no problem with maintenance should the need ever arise.
Cafelat Robot Barista Manual Lever Espresso Maker
- 58mm filter baskets. The same size as professional semi-automatic machines. Our baskets are extremely high quality, they are made by the same factory that makes all the best baskets in the world.
- Stainless Steel Tamper 1 piece stainless steel tamper designed and machined to precisely fit snugly in the basket and has tapered side walls to prevent ground being sucked back when you lift the tamper.
- Pressure gauge. Our Patent Pending system takes the pressure reading from inside the basket. Add to that the manual pressing of the lever arms, it enables you to manipulate pre-infusion, flow and pressure in real-time to get the best from your coffee.
- Extraction pressure Ignore the magic 9 bar, that figure originally referred to the pump output pressure of a Faema E61 machine, when in actual fact the pressure at the group will be lower, maybe even 1-2 bar lower. Traditional lever machines (as measured by us) typically extract at 6-7 bars, and since the basket and piston on the Robot are the same size, we suggest you initially aim for 6-7 bars as well and adjust as preferred.
- Temperature management. The Robot is clearly not going to give you a La Marzocco type flat temperature profile. But water off the boil poured into a gently pre-heated basket will yield approx 95 deg c water, and will give you up to 88 deg c coffee output from the basket.
- Extraction ratios. Certainly a 2:1 ratio of beverage mass to ground coffee is possible i.e. a 16g coffee dose can easily yield a 32g beverage weight. You can increase the beverage weight up to 40-45g if needed.
- Bottomless is best. For best results we recommend using the portafilter without the spouts - but when using the pressurised basket it is best to use with the spouts attached.
- It's a lever machine Lever machines can be very forgiving thanks to their gentle pre-infusion and the soft ramp up to full pressure.
- Weight. Approx 2.8kg (6.2lbs), including the tamper
- Material. The main body and bases are aluminium. All other parts are stainless steel. The piston seal is FDA approved silicone. It is completely plastic free.
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