omgogoCalibrated Tamper Pressure 53mm for Coffee and Espresso

Perfect item!

I bought this to use with my breville espresso machine, I don’t like the plastic one that came with it so this is a great alternative. Nice and heavy feeling. I haven’t had any issues with it so far.

Excelente calidad

Much better than the Breville tamper. Better fit, deeper sides (insures flat puck) and 30# spring works perfectly. There is a little internal roughness as you press but not a functional issue.

I have a Breville Barista Express which is a nice machine (see my separate review for it) and it comes with a tamp that is held into the machine by a magnet. To be able to have the tamp fit into the machine and have it held in by magnet until you need it the tamp has a very small handle. The handle is too small for my large hand and I am not able to grip it well enough for it to be useful. I was not able to use the Breville tamp to press hard enough to make a decent espresso. I looked at a number of tamps on Amazon and this one looked like it would do the best job. I have been using it for several months and I am very pleased with it. The design is well suited to applying enough pressure to compact the grounds and its heavy weight disk and comfortable handle make it easy to use. The spring loaded handle lets you know when you have applied enough pressure. I am very pleased with this tamper and highly recommend it.

Like others have said, the main two problems are- it 'sticks' when you press it in. This isn't actually a problem in use, because it only does this if you're not pushing down straight. You can also fix the issue by disassembling it and putting a bit of canola oil or similar on the sliding parts to lubricate them.- it's not calibrated correctly. I tested mine by just pressing it into a bathroom scale. I was getting ~35 pounds upon fulling pressing. You don't need an exact 30 pounds for tamping, you just need consistency, which is what you'll get.

This tamper feels good in the hand, hefty and solid. Has a spring inside to help smash the grounds. The size is 49mm and works well with my Mr. Coffee Espresso.

Comfortable to use and gives a uniformity and leveling while pressing the puck. Is it 30 lbs? Not sure, and really, don't care - to dial in, getting the coffee, grind, and dosage right seems prime - with pressure on the puck consistent, that parameter is held consistent. Quite happy with this product.

Not enough precise. This tamper is cheap, good looking and is a real 58mm. But not precise enough. Between the moment where to piston start to kick in and stop while touching the bottom, there is a too much wide range of pressure. Mine start kicking at around 9lbs of pressure to end somewhere between 28 and 45lbs. Very difficult to be precise and everytine I tested it, I ended up a different pressure measure, which defeat the purpose of buying this. Good product if you don't care about the pressure output consistency.

Great press, better than normal press that has no calibration.Nice and firm makes it easy.

Great tamper, helps create great espresso.

Really helped me get a feel for tamping pressure and has improved the consistency of my shots dramatically