Hugh Leverpresso

A manual espresso machine, using two levers to create the requisite 9 bars of pressure.

Something about the process of using this helps me wake up in the morning, and I think it's more effective than the actual caffeine from the coffee. It isn't possible to cheat: any failure in paying attention, will mean I don't get my coffee. Something about applying a great deal of physical force on an object for 30 seconds really wakes me up.

It has only a few downsides:

• it can only make double shots of espresso, and I generally have single shots.
• It takes more overall time than using an electric machine, but much less time than other mechanical espresso machines I've tried, such as the Flair Neo.

Other than that, this item is basically perfect, and at only around $105USD, far better value than many other espresso machines.