Five Fellow tools that turn a stretch of counter into the best café on your street. No line, no tip screen, and nobody spelling your name wrong.
Every good café runs on a routine. Yours starts at 6:40 and takes about forty minutes, most of them spent drinking coffee.
Your kettle can open before you do. Schedule the Stagg the night before and the water is at temperature when you walk into the kitchen. The gooseneck pours a slow, steady stream, which is most of the trick to good pour-over.
The smell that hits you when you walk into a good café is coffee being ground. Opus 2 has 48mm steel burrs and a stepless dial, so you can set it anywhere from espresso-fine to cold-brew coarse.
Four minutes, one plunge. Clara's ratio lines take the guessing out of the dose, the improved mesh filter keeps grit out of the cup, and the vacuum-insulated steel body keeps the second cup hot.
Coffee tastes better from a real glass, held in both hands, next to a window. Pirch is heavy at the base and curved inside for pouring latte art, and the tinted glass glows when the light comes through it.
For the cup that leaves with you. The ceramic interior means it tastes like coffee instead of like a thermos, and it stays hot for 12 hours. You'll forget it in the car and find it still warm at lunch.
Nobody's waiting on your table. Clara keeps the pot hot, the kettle holds its temperature for an hour, and refills are on the house.
Move the slider to match your habit. We'll count the beans you'd still buy.
$1,560
a year at the café.
The whole bar pays for itself in about 5 months.
Home cost assumes about $0.90 a cup: an $18 bag of good beans makes roughly 20 cups. Your café, your beans and your math may differ.
All five, everything on this page. Kettle, grinder, press, glasses and a mug for the road.
Variable temperature, schedule, one-hour hold, gooseneck spout.
48mm conical burrs, stepless dial, espresso through cold brew.
24 oz, vacuum-insulated, walnut stirring paddle.
Weighted tinted glass, curved inside for latte art.
Ceramic interior, hot for 12 hours, fits a cup holder.
The questions people ask at the counter before they buy.
No. For French press, Opus 2 and Clara are the core, and any kettle will do. For pour-over, you want Opus 2 and the Stagg, plus a dripper you may already own.
Pirch and Carter are for how the coffee feels in your hand once it's made. Start with the tools that matter for your brew method and add the rest later.
Yes. The stepless dial runs from espresso to cold brew, and it ships with a dosing cup that fits 54mm and 58mm portafilters, plus a 100g catch cup and a magnetic cleaning brush.
They're the same Stagg EKG Pro kettle. The walnut version swaps the black handle and lid pull for walnut and costs $20 more. Both have the color screen, schedule, guide-mode temperature presets, altitude adjustment and a hold mode of up to 60 minutes.
The latte size, sold as a set of two. It's the tallest of the four Pirch sizes and good for lattes, flat whites or a long pour of black coffee. Choose Smoke, Amber, Garnet or Woodland.
Pirch glasses and the Carter Move mug are dishwasher safe. On the Clara, only the mesh filter goes in the dishwasher; hand wash the body, which is easy thanks to the non-stick interior. The Opus 2 comes with a magnetic brush for the burrs and chute.
Rarely processes orders in 1 to 3 business days. Standard shipping takes 5 to 8 business days, and expedited (2 to 4 days) is offered at checkout. Rarely currently ships to the contiguous United States.
Inspect your order when it arrives and email hello@rarely.co right away if anything is damaged, defective or wrong. Return windows are set product by product; each product page lists its own policy. See Rarely's return policy.
Glasses drying, kettle on its base, lights down low. The café opens again at 6:40 tomorrow, if you'd like it to.