Kottea Oslo Review & Test: A Customisable Bean-to-Cup Machine
Written by Alice
Reading time 4 minKottea is a brand of small electrical appliances created by MaxiCoffee for coffee lovers. Let’s take a closer look at the brand’s story, values, and iconic products.
Kottea is a French brand that caters to coffee and tea lovers. It has been offering appliances designed for everyday use since 2018, with a focus on ease of use and durability. Their goal isn’t to pile on features, but to make brewing coffee or tea enjoyable and accessible.
The range includes several types of products:
The brand’s values are embodied in this pursuit of efficiency and comfort. Kottea emphasises reliability, simplicity and quality, all while keeping in mind the importance of creating opportunities for people to enjoy a moment of well-being and connection over a hot drink.
The reliability and precision of these products have been tested and validated by our MaxiCoffee testing protocol.
Kottea’s philosophy is simple: to enable people to enjoy their hot drinks in the best possible conditions, without having to worry about the technical details.
Kottea was founded in France in 2018. The brand was conceived within MaxiCoffee’s research and development incubator, a workspace where baristas, technicians, engineers, designers and coffee equipment specialists collaborate. Years of accumulated expertise have enabled the team to develop a very precise approach to what makes a good machine in terms of ease of use, performance and durability.
Kottea was founded on this knowledge of the field and close ties with suppliers. Each product undergoes a rigorous selection and optimisation process to ensure it meets users’ needs. The teams focus as much on design as on functionality and reliability, with the aim of offering equipment that is user-friendly and a pleasure to use on a daily basis.
Although the brand was created within MaxiCoffee, the same standards apply as for other manufacturers. The machines and accessories undergo the usual testing, which allows for critical evaluation and continuous improvement of the user experience.
Kottea works with various industrial partners specialising in small electrical appliances. The products are developed and adjusted in collaboration with these manufacturers, based on feedback from the MaxiCoffee teams and user expectations. This approach results in appliances that are suitable for everyday use, robust and designed for simple, no-frills operation.
Kottea currently offers a wide range of equipment to suit all tastes: manual, automatic and capsule coffee machines, kettles, filter coffee makers, grinders, professional machines and even cleaning products.
Kottea offers three ranges of domestic coffee machines: bean-to-cup coffee machines, manual coffee machines and capsule coffee machines.
Kottea offers a range of bean-to-cup coffee machines designed to produce high-quality espresso at home. The range offers a comprehensive selection of easy-to-use, affordable machines for making espresso to suit your tastes.
Kottea also offers a range specifically designed for professional use. It covers a variety of needs, from low-volume use to much more intensive operations.
The brand offers capsule machines that are ideal for small offices or hotel rooms. They are compact, fast and easy to maintain.
Kottea also develops more advanced automatic machines. These models can prepare many different drinks, with up to 30 customisable recipes. They are designed to withstand a more intense pace while remaining easy to use.
This professional range is well suited to small and medium-sized businesses with up to 50 employees, who are looking for reliable equipment that can cater to all preferences.
Kottea also offers small appliances that are useful for everyday use. The range includes a coffee grinder that is ideal for slow coffee brewing as well as for espresso with pressurised filters. The brand has also developed two kettles, including a model with adjustable temperature settings that allows you to adapt the brewing process to the requirements of each type of tea.
Because maintaining your coffee machine is essential, Kottea has thought of everything by offering a range of products specially designed for its machines. There are two filter cartridges available: one for professional models and one for domestic machines, as well as cleaning tablets for the coffee unit, which are ideal for both manual domestic machines and professional automatic machines.
Simply put, Kottea is a brand that’s accessible to everyone and that rounds out the range of products offered by our top partners. They offer stylish products made from high-quality materials.
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