Buy a tee box and upgrade your home kitchen
A real home barista also prepares his espresso or cappuccino at home using a portafilter machine. A knock-out box is the perfect addition for disposing of the coffee grounds in the portafilter!
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If you are not yet a barista when it comes to making your coffee, you can become one in the future. Since the machines for home use are usually not used as much as commercial machines and therefore produce less coffee residue, no drip tray is needed and for many people a knock-off box is sufficient. A portafilter knock-off container is used to store the coffee grounds, also known as a coffee puck. The coffee puck can easily be knocked off in this knock-off box after the extraction phase.
These are advantages that speak in favor of an espresso knock-down container.
The knockbox is a miniature waste bin that catches the daily coffee grounds and only needs to be emptied at the end of the day. This means that after each brewing process on the portafilter machine, you don't have to run through the entire kitchen to the organic waste bin to dispose of the leftovers with the hot, possibly still slightly dripping portafilter. Your kitchen stays clean and tidy and you save yourself pointless trips. You can buy the various knockboxes in different materials, regardless of whether you prefer wood, hard plastic or the stainless steel versions. Some of the boxes are also provided with a rubber coating, for example a rubberized knockbar protects the material of your portafilter and knocking can be done very quietly. A rubber coating on the underside of the knockbox ensures that it does not slip and at the same time offers a firm stand.
In addition, a knock box is probably the easiest way to remove the coffee puck. Since most knock boxes are quite small, they take up little space in the kitchen and are quick and easy to clean. An espresso knock box is therefore a wonderful alternative to a drip tray if the portafilter machine is not to be placed on the drip tray. Along with things like a tamper and a base for the tamper, a knock box is one of the most important tools for a home barista.
What you should pay attention to when buying a tee box
A knock box not only has the task of storing the coffee puck, it should also be very quiet and easy to use. At Aromatico, we have Joe Frex knock boxes, Motta knock containers and ECM knock boxes in our range, among others. The heavier the portafilter knock container, the higher the quality. The bottom of the box must be well dampened so that the noise is not transferred to the worktop or table top, but rather dampens it. The most important thing of all, however, is a high-quality rubberized knock bar, which is therefore particularly quiet and also easy to remove and clean. This means you can prepare an espresso in the morning without worrying that all of your housemates will wake up when you knock the coffee puck. Cleaning the knock bar in particular is an important point that you should not neglect. This is because the coffee grounds can get stuck on the knock bar and after a while they start to mold.