Tampers & Tamping Mats

58mm is the standard commercial basket size, and a tamper that doesn’t match your basket within a millimetre will leave an unpacked rim that channels water straight through. Measure before you buy.

For hand tamping we stock the Motta Black Wave in 58mm, whose rippled base helps distribution, and the wooden-handled Bezzera tamper. High-volume sites should look at the Puqpress Q2 — an automatic precision tamper that applies identical pressure every time, which removes the single biggest source of shot-to-shot variation when several staff are on bar.

Protect your worktop and your portafilter with a Crema Pro Premium Commercial Tamp Mat or a silicone tamper seat. If you’re kitting out a new bar from scratch, the Motta Napoli Barista Kit bundles the essentials — see the rest of our barista gear.