Producing a rich flavor-packed cup of coffee at home has never been simpler, thanks to the many manufacturers offering a home espresso coffee maker. Is your morning coffee beginning to lose its edge?

The Indians of South America first discovered the coffee bean well before the discovery of the New World. Its invigorating properties helped them deal with high altitudes and became very popular.

Tobacco, chocolate and coffee were swiftly embraced across the continent. Seemingly overnight coffee houses sprang up, serving coffee beverages hot with a side dish of politics or gossip.

Today, the espresso coffee maker is available in many configurations from small, single-cup units to high-end and high-priced imports better suited for busy coffee shops than a home kitchen.

Picture a machine that at the touch of a button grinds the beans, tamps them, brews the coffee, dumps the leftover grinds and even froths the milk. As far as the espresso coffee maker goes, the super-automatic is the pinnacle of innovation that is gaining worldwide acceptance for ease of use and quality of coffee.

The Gaggia New Baby Home Espresso Machine displays traditional styling but remains always up-to-date, in three sharp new colours: white, black and ivory. The updated control panel on this Gaggia espresso machine is simple and elegant. All functions are controlled from just three buttons.

The steam wand has a turbo frother attachment to make frothing easy and you’ll be able to whip up cappuccinos or lattes in no time.

The Gaggia New Baby espresso machine has received rave reviews from multiple users. The only complaint from coffee lovers who owned the original model is that the steam wand on the New Baby is perhaps not as good as on the original model.

Most companies aren’t interested in creating maker-friendly products, but sometimes, apparently by accident, a product comes off the assembly line that way. The Rancilio Silvia espresso machine is one such product

It was introduced in 1997, not as a commercial product but as a thank-you gift to importers and vendors of Rancilio’s expensive restaurant-grade espresso machines.

When Rancilio decided to offer the Silvia for home espresso use, the coffee hacking community quickly adopted it as a platform for all kinds of experimental modifications. The folks on alt.coffee, the early hangout for espresso geeks, ran Silvia through her paces, carefully recording and reporting the data they collected.