Tamping cradle
Beautiful, yet functional. Never again will you worry about slipping and hurting your wrist.
Decent Espresso Tamping Cradle
Decent Espresso Tamping Cradle
Prevent injury with this safe and secure place to tamp
Why do you need a tamping cradle?
Injury easily happens
A spouted portafilter is angled on the bottom, so that when you press down to tamp, it's all too easy for the portafilter to slip and for you to slam your hand into the table.
It happened to us
Decent Espresso founder John Buckman hurt his wrist this way, and Equator Coffee barista trainer Alexandra LittleJohn shattered her wrist.
Avoid these risks
Our tamping cradle was designed to hold your portafilter in place, keep it level, and prevent it from rocking or sliding. Injury avoided.
Works with all portafilters
Our double-cupping design holds both spouted and bottomless portafilters in place. Smaller portafilters work by rotating the stand and using the smaller secondary cradle shape.
Store your tamper
The rear slot holds your tamper, either on top, or with an inside grip on the tamper shaft.
Slides right in
We purposely left the top as uncoated metal, so that you could easily slide your portafilter in and out quickly. We found that a rubber coating slowed us down and was messy to clean.
Sloppy is fine
The rounded opening guides the portafilter into place, and the inset causes a pleasing "plop" sound as the portafilter falls into place.
More level tamping
If you tamp on the edge of the table, you're never quite sure if you're holding the portafilter level. Our fitted notch makes it easy to be square.
