With the leaves turning and the first chill creeping into our mornings, there’s never been a better time to upgrade your at-home brew ritual.
As the aroma of fresh espresso promises comfort and reassurance, savvy shoppers are keeping a keen eye on Amazon’s much-anticipated October sale — the perfect moment to snap up deals on coffee machines from sleek pods to bean-to-cup baristas.
Whether you’re after a compact espresso maker for your work-from-home desk or a fully automated grinder-and-brew powerhouse for weekend indulgence, this sale is shaping up to be a coffee lover’s playground. We’ve already been stalking price drops and flash discounts, so you don’t have to. Read on and get ready to sip with satisfaction when that deal alert arrives.
When does Amazon’s sale start?
Amazon’s autumn Prime Big Deal Days sale in the UK will run from October 7 until October 8. The two-day event gives Prime members access to exclusive deals across home, electronics, and kitchen appliances.
Can anyone join in?
To access the full suite of deals during Prime Big Deal Days, you’ll need to be an Amazon Prime member. Non-Prime users may see some limited offers, but the deepest discounts and early “lightning deals” are reserved for Prime.
Is Amazon Prime worth the cost?
For many bargain hunters, yes - especially around big sale events. Prime gives you access to exclusive deals you’d miss otherwise, plus perks such as fast/free delivery, streaming through Prime Video, music, photo storage, and more.
If your calendar includes multiple big sales or you often order online, the value of those perks can quickly offset the membership fee. That said, if you’re buying just one item infrequently, you’ll want to consider the maths.
How much does membership cost?
In the UK, Amazon Prime costs £8.99 per month or £95 a year. There’s also a discounted rate for students and 18–22-year-olds, which is £4.49 per month (or the equivalent annual discount). New users can typically sign up for a 30-day free trial to test Prime before being billed.
Are there coffee machine deals live now?
But of course. Even ahead of the October event, Amazon is already listing discounted coffee and espresso machines under its deals section. Fear not, for we’ve already curated a selection of the best on offer right now.
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Russell Hobbs Distinctions Espresso Coffee Machine
Best: automatic espresso coffee maker
The new Distinctions Espresso Coffee Machine is an ideal worktop machine for the domestic espresso expert.
The Distinctions has distilled the espresso maker down to some highly useful core functions, accessed by satisfyingly clicky buttons on the front of the unit. You can use presets to deliver one-touch espresso shots, or command your own coffee-making destiny with a manual mode that puts you in charge. Either way, the unit boasts a 15-bar pressure pump for concentrated espresso-pulling power.
The steam wand is situated on the right-hand side, and controlled by a side-mounted dial; potential pitfalls arise for the left-handed, but if you perch your unit just right in your kitchen, this becomes a non-issue. The wand is easy to manipulate, and the steam easy to control – giving you every opportunity to perfect your latte art without flat milk to contend with.
Between the simplicity of the unit’s operation, the creaminess of its end results and the reasonable RRP, the Distinctions Espresso Coffee Machine is a winning choice for domestic barista-style coffee.
Was: £199.99
Buy now £149.98, Amazon
Breville Barista Max Espresso Machine
Best for: turning your kitchen into a cafe
The Breville name stands in high repute amongst other consumer brands across the country. Its mastery of the humble kettle was sure to lead it to the more complex demands of the espresso machine.
The Barista Max is a bean-to-cup affair, featuring a bean grinder with 30 coarseness settings and a controlled heating system that also services a ‘keep-warm’ area atop the unit. There’s a pre-infusion cycle to bloom the coffee in the portafilter, two presets for single and double espresso shots, and a manual mode for the scales-wielding coffee purists amongst us. The temperatures are consistent, and the steam system is surprisingly effective; the steam wand is long and articulable enough to make steaming your milk as easy as anything. The results are practically barista-quality.
Was: £461.99
Buy now £329.00, Amazon
Swan Nordic Pump Espresso Coffee Machine - Gray
Best for: hygge vibes
Swan’s quintessential Britishness pervades even in its recent line of stylish pieces inspired by Northern European. The Nordic range is chock-full of matte colour-ways and wood-effect detailing, reaching for a hygge-ish feel that brings comfort to the kitchen – and includes the Nordic Pump Espresso Coffee Machine amongst its numbers.
This espresso maker has distilled its functionality down to three buttons, a dial, and a temperature gauge. One button turns the unit on, another engages the espresso maker, and a third pre-heats the milk steamer system; the dial controls the steam release valve. Between these simple controls, making a foamy, rich cappuccino is a breeze. The Nordic also comes with two sizes of portafilter basket, so you can make coffees for one or two with ease – and there are no drink presets to contend with, so you can choose whether or not you’d like to over-extract for a longer coffee.
The Nordic Pump Espresso Coffee Machine is simple to use and produces a fine coffee. It doesn’t hurt to look at, either.
Was: £119.99
Buy now £90.00, Amazon
Lavazza A Modo Mio Desea Coffee Machine
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Lavazza started in the 19th century as a Turin-based coffee roastery. Its swift ascent to the global coffee market made it a household name, forever attributed with great-quality at-home coffee – and great, accessible barista coffee, too. Lavazza’s A Modo Mio pod coffee products have been lauded since 2007, and continue to be, with new coffee makers greatly expanding the versatility of the brand.
This is the Desea, its latest pod coffee maker and a significant upgrade on its legacy coffee maker devices. Its simple touch-sensitive interface belies a much niftier functionality, which makes this a particularly fun form of pod coffee maker.
One-half of the unit’s interface is devoted to drawing espresso, with four pre-set lengths for a one-shot, double-shot, long coffee and a manual pour mode. The other half is dedicated to an exceedingly smart milk-frothing system, with three coffee presets – short cappuccino, long cappuccino and latte macchiato – and a just-milk frothing option. A further button for each section boosts the water temperature and foam amount respectively.
The milk-frothing system is smart on account of its intuitive design. A milk-frothing jug is supplied with the unit, which mates to the machine via a lid with an attached steam wand and frother. When you insert the jug, the Desea detects it and enables only the milk settings; when the jug is absent, only the coffee settings can be accessed. This makes using the Desea foolproof, even groggily-eyed at the crack of dawn.
The smart, all-in-one functionality of the Desea makes it a phenomenal entry in the pod coffee space, and a mightily satisfying machine to use too. Well-built, sturdy, easy to use and uncompromisingly good at everything it’s designed to do: at this price, the Lavazza A Modo Mio Desea is quite simply a steal.
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Was: £249
Buy now £185.18, Amazon
AeroPress Coffee and Espresso Maker
Best for: versatility
The AeroPress is an iconic entry in coffee-making history, having partially ushered in a new era of considered coffee brewing. The AeroPress is an ingenious thing, comprising two cylindrical pieces – one, the coffee reservoir with a screw-on filter section at its base, and the other a plunger with a snug-fitting rubber bung at its base. The reservoir is placed over a mug, filled with your dose of coffee and then again with your hot water. The fits over the top, and is pressed downward to extract your finished coffee.
This method is simple, elegant, and multiply versatile. The hybridity of immersion brewing and pressure-led extraction make it possible to select for different flavour profiles in your brew, being unfussy as it is over the size of your grind. The portability of the AeroPress is another boon, allowing you fine control over your coffee wherever you are. As far as completely unplugged coffee makers go, you can’t get much more versatile than this.
Was: £39.99
Buy now £34.38, Amazon
Bialetti Moka Express (2-Cup)
Best: stovetop coffee maker
Bialetti is, essentially, the moka pot brand. Bialetti was the first manufacturer of such stovetop wonders, having bought the original patent from its inventor Luigi Di Ponti in 1933. With a history of metalwork, design and innovation stretching back over a century from now, it is no surprise that Bialetti moka pots are the moka pot of choice for most Italian households.
Thanks to the distribution efforts of Brew Italia, we are able to enjoy this quintessential staple of stove-top coffee-maker on British soil. The item under review here is the 2-cup edition of the Bialetti Moka Express, the original, essentially-unchanged and immediately-recognisable moka pot design – with enough capacity for two short, strong licks of black coffee.
The build of the Moka Express is sturdy, and its constituent parts feel good going together. Loading it up and setting it on the stove as an almost-meditative practice, and the resulting nectar unsurprisingly delicious. It is hard to beat the original and best for stove-top coffee.
Was: £29.99
Buy now £26.18, Amazon
