De’Longhi DLSC058 Coffee Tamper

For context, I have the Delonghi Dedica Style coffee machine. Since I bought it I used the plastic tamper/scoop that came with it and though it (just about) does the job, it’s really not that great.
So I found this one by the same brand (hoping that would avoid any size mismatches) and couldn’t be happier with it. It’s sturdy (got some weight to it), works smoothly even without applying lots of strength, and super easy to clean.

If like me you’ve been using that flimsy plastic one that came with your machine, give your hand a break and get this tamper.
Hope this helps =)

It weight about a 290gram which helps to properly produce 30 pounds pressure to create seamless shot of espresso. Although this is not as fancy as several others but it is simple and built to deliver the right pressure.

I was using the plastic one that came with the machine for many months and thought that it worked just fine, but a friend recently encouraged me to up my game if I’m making coffee every day, which I am, so this felt like an indulgence but it does make a difference. It is extremely well crafted and applies force more effectively.

Having just spent four precious hours of my life steeped in the sordid world of professional barista-level coffee tampers, researching and analysing all aspects thereof in tedious depth and detail, I am seriously beginning to regret the day I chanced upon Mr James Hoffman’s ruinously excellent channel on the Tube of You. Until recently, I have managed to live my life blissfully free of the need for a precision-machined stainless steel tamper with seasoned olive wood top. The simple though admittedly ugly plastic tamper supplied with my DeLonghi has been making a perfectly acceptable job of compressing ground coffee into a compact disk since 2009. But since making the dreadful mistake of watching one of Hoffman’s manipulative mind-game videos extolling the virtues of these devices, and the meaningless of life without one, I became a man obsessed. My every waking hour was consumed by covetous thoughts about them. Worse, I have been suffering nights more disturbed than usual, with what scant sleep I enjoy interrupted by vivid dreams in which Hoffman himself is chasing me through a coffee plantation in the small hours, his Espro Calibrated Convex Base tamper glinting in the moonlighty night, berating me for my tamperless life and threatening to haunt me for evermore, causing me to wake violently in a cold sweat. Obviously, this unhealthy state of affairs could not continue, so as I am sure you have guessed already, I have capitulated and one of these now reposes seductively next to my espresso machine as I type these very words. Apart from the bizarre blue colour other’s have bemoaned, it is, I think, a most excellently made instrument, and since it arrived I have used every opportunity to caress the curves of its smooth wood handle and feel the heft of its precision engineered stainless steel body while marvelling at the mirror finish of its perfectly flat base, and launch myself into a tamping frenzy!

The Italians did it right! This little beauty is well crafted and sturdy. It’s surprisingly weighty making tamping a dream. Bought it to replace the crappy plastic tamper that came with our De’Longhi espresso machine and couldn’t be happier. Highly recommend.

This is a solid well made tamper. Wood and stainless steel. Bought to replace flimsy tamper that came with coffee machine. Lovely weight makes tamping fool proof.

Nice weight, feels professional. Perfectly smooth, flat, stainless steel base, decent wooden handle. Now if I can just learn to have a perfect horizontal tamping technique, I’ll be all set.