How we rate turkish coffee machines
Every turkish coffee machine on this site is scored on the 6 criteria below, weighted to 100 points. This page is generated from the same rules that produce the numbers, so it cannot describe a system we are not using.
Each criterion says what it measures, why it carries the weight it does, and what the evidence actually is — which is often the more useful half. A score read without knowing that grind consistency comes from burr geometry rather than a measured particle distribution is a score taken on faith.
Brewing & Foam Control
26 of 100 pointsTurkish coffee is made or ruined at one moment: the rise of the foam. A machine that watches the foam is doing the thing a person stands over the pot to do. A machine that watches a thermometer is approximating it.
What we can actually read: How the machine judges the brew is published, and it is the most useful single fact in this category. Foam sensing, temperature cut-off and plain manual are three genuinely different products.
Scored directly from published figures.
The 4 rules below score this criterion out of 10, and they add up to 10 exactly. That result is then worth 26 of the category's 100 points.
- How it judges the brew7 of 10
- foam
- 7 pts
- temperature
- 4.5 pts
- automatic
- 2.5 pts
- manual
- 1 pt
- Ember mode1.5 of 10
- present
- 1.5 pts
- Strength modes1 of 10
- present
- 1 pt
- Milk frothing0.5 of 10
- present
- 0.5 pts
10 of 10
Overflow & Safety
20 of 100 pointsThese boil over by design if unwatched, and the whole point of the machine is not watching.
What we can actually read: Overflow prevention, auto shut-off and boil-dry protection are published.
Scored directly from published figures.
The 3 rules below score this criterion out of 10, and they add up to 10 exactly. That result is then worth 20 of the category's 100 points.
- Overflow prevention5 of 10
- present
- 5 pts
- Automatic shut-off3 of 10
- present
- 3 pts
- Boil-dry protection2 of 10
- present
- 2 pts
10 of 10
Capacity & Servings
16 of 100 pointsHow many demitasse cups in one brew. Turkish coffee is served to a table, so one or two cups is a real limit.
What we can actually read: Cup count and millilitres are published, though cup here means a demitasse and makers are not consistent about it.
Scored directly from published figures.
The 2 rules below score this criterion out of 10, and they add up to 10 exactly. That result is then worth 16 of the category's 100 points.
- Cups per brew5 of 10
- 2 or less
- 1.5 pts
- over 2, up to 4
- 3.5 pts
- over 4
- 5 pts
- Pot volume5 of 10
- 250 ml or less
- 1.5 pts
- over 250 ml, up to 400 ml
- 3.5 pts
- over 400 ml
- 5 pts
10 of 10
Handling & Cleaning
16 of 100 pointsWhether the pot lifts off to pour, whether it tells you it is done, and whether it can be washed.
What we can actually read: Cordless, removable pot, one touch and audible alert are published.
Scored directly from published figures.
The 5 rules below score this criterion out of 10, and they add up to 10 exactly. That result is then worth 16 of the category's 100 points.
- Cordless serving3 of 10
- present
- 3 pts
- Removable pot3 of 10
- present
- 3 pts
- One-touch start2 of 10
- present
- 2 pts
- Ready alert1 of 10
- present
- 1 pt
- Dishwasher safe1 of 10
- present
- 1 pt
10 of 10
Materials & Warranty
12 of 100 pointsMostly what the pot is made of, since that is the part that meets the coffee.
What we can actually read: Pot and body material and warranty are published, though few makers here publish a warranty at all.
Scored directly from published figures.
The 3 rules below score this criterion out of 10, and they add up to 10 exactly. That result is then worth 12 of the category's 100 points.
- Pot material6 of 10
- stainless steel, copper
- 6 pts
- aluminium
- 3 pts
- abs
- 2 pts
- plastic
- 1.5 pts
- Body2 of 10
- stainless steel
- 2 pts
- chrome
- 1.5 pts
- abs, plastic
- 1 pt
- Warranty2 of 10
- none
- 0 pts
- up to 1 yr
- 0.7 pts
- over 1 yr, up to 2 yr
- 1.4 pts
- over 2 yr
- 2 pts
10 of 10
Value for Money
10 of 100 pointsPoints per pound against the category median.
What we can actually read: Almost nothing in this category publishes a price, so this criterion is usually neutral and says so.
Computed from price, not from a rule list
Value is the only criterion here with no thresholds of its own, because it cannot be read off one product. It asks what else the same money buys in this category, so it needs the category. That result is then worth 10 of the category's 100 points.
- Points already earned on everything else
- out of 10
- Multiplied by the category median over this price
- median ÷ price
- Capped at
- 10
- No price published, or fewer than 3 priced rivals
- 5 of 10
Half marks is not a verdict, it is a refusal to guess: with nothing to compare against, a product is neither good value nor bad, and scoring it either way would invent a finding. It corrects itself as the category fills.
This category is too small to judge its own silence
We hold 7 turkish coffee machines here. Everywhere else on this site, an input fewer than one maker in four publishes has its weight taken out of the total, because at that point we are measuring the market rather than the product. That rule needs at least eight products to mean anything — on a handful, one maker's silence looks like the whole market's. So nothing is struck out here, and scores in this category are out of the full 100.
7 inputs are thin enough that it would have been struck out in a bigger category. Read the scores here knowing that:
- body material
- boil dry protection
- capacity ml
- cordless
- dishwasher safe
- milk frother
- removable pot
How we rate everything else
- Accessories
- Bean-to-Cup Machines
- Coffee Bags
- Coffee Beans
- Coffee Pods
- Coffee Subscriptions
- Drip Coffee Makers
- Espresso Machines
- French Press
- Gift Sets
- Grinders
- Immersion Brewers
- Instant Coffee
- Kettles
- Moka & Stovetop
- Pod & Capsule Machines
- Pour Over
- Scales
- Turkish Coffee Pots
The rules that apply to every category, where specifications come from and why blanks stay blank, are on how we score.