The Spiral Luxe Auto Pour Over combines a coffee grinder with a rotating water jug.
What Breville did for toast and soda, the company now hopes to pour-over for coffee. The new Breville Spiral Luxe Auto Pour Over is a decidedly premium $600 kitchen appliance that makes pour-overs from scratch. Machines that turn the somewhat fussy process of pour-overs into something as simple as a Mr. Coffee have been around for years, but Breville’s device goes a step further by adding a built-in coffee grinder.
Typical pour-overs require you to grind coffee to the right consistency, dump it into a filter and manually add water at timed intervals to brew it. The Spiral Luxe Auto Pour Over is designed to completely automate the process. The machine has a grinder with “bespoke 40mm flat burrs” for grinding beans, a conical drip that holds them when you start brewing and an articulating water spout that moves in a spiral pattern like a human barista. Breville says the machine’s heating system can get water to the right temperature in seconds, and it’s able to maintain its heat throughout the pour, so you hit a consistent beer temperature.
BrevilleThe Spiral Luxe’s built-in display and controls allow you to choose the amount and strength of your pour-over coffee before brewing, but the interface can also be used to store custom recipes. The machine’s Advanced Edit mode lets you adjust things like the grinder, brew ratio, water temperature and even the length of time between pours. The machine also has a Delayed Auto Start feature that allows you to program your coffee to be ready at a specific time, such as when you wake up.
For coffee aficionados, the Breville Spiral Luxe Auto Pour Over seems like a potentially promising way to turn pour-overs from a time-consuming treat you enjoy on the weekend into something you drink every day—provided you’ve got $600 lying around and enough counter space. For everyone else, there are cheaper machines that can work just as well, even if they don’t have a spiral layer or a built-in grinder.
The Breville Spiral Luxe Auto Pour Over is now available for purchase for $600 from Breville and Williams-Sonoma.