Manual Coffee Machines

Unleash your inner cafe barista with a manual coffee machine, enabling you to craft delicious coffees to help get you through the day.

With an assortment of popular brands including Delonghi, Breville, Sunbeam, and the retro-styled Smeg, you can find the ideal coffee maker for your needs.

An essential kitchen appliance for many households all around Australia, a manual espresso machine can be a path to a delicious cup of quality coffee. Providing complete control over the coffee making process, manual machines require a more hands-on approach when compared to automatic machines.

Favoured by traditional coffee lovers, manual coffee machines can be used with both ground coffee and coffee beans, depending on whether your chosen machine features a coffee grinder. With built-in steam wands/milk frothers, you can sate all your frothing needs, whether you're making a flat white or a macchiato.

If you want the best of both worlds, some machines like the Barista Touch are semi-automatic, performing most of the grunt work so you can enjoy a delicious cappuccino, latte, or espresso.

With a wide selection of different coffee machines, each bearing their own unique set of functions and features, you can find the best coffee machine for you. With espresso coffee machines including the La Specialista, Sunbeam Torino, Breville Barista Express, Breville Dynamic Duo, and many more, an amazing cup of coffee is closer than ever.

While a manual espresso maker can turn your morning coffee into an experience, an automatic coffee machine or Nespresso capsule coffee machine can be a time-saving way to enjoy a delicious hot beverage. If you've got your sights set on a manual model but wonder how the other types of machine stack up, this article compares manual, capsule and automatic coffee machines, looking at speed and convenience, consistency, freshness and flavour, authenticity, artistry, cleaning, reliability and price.

If you need a little more assistance in choosing the best coffee machine for your household, feel free to read through our Coffee Machine Buying Guide.