Brooklyn Steel enters home coffee with Talos 20 espresso machine
Brooklyn Steel priced Talos 20 at $499, under Breville and Gaggia, and packed in a grinder, PID heat control and a 58mm-style workflow.
Brooklyn Steel Co. moved into home espresso on April 28 with the Talos 20, its first espresso machine, and set the price at $499 with free shipping and a one-year limited warranty. That lands it just under the Breville Barista Express at $549.95 and the Gaggia Classic Pro E24 at $549, a clear signal that Brooklyn Steel is aiming at the crowded middle of the home-barista market rather than the budget aisle. Allison Picard, Brooklyn Steel’s product development manager, said, “We designed this machine to deliver consistent, café-style performance at home in a way that is straightforward and easy to use.”
The Talos 20 is built as a one-box setup for beans-to-espresso brewing. Brooklyn Steel says it combines an integrated conical burr grinder with 27 settings, programmable grind, extraction and temperature controls, a 20-bar Italian pump, PID temperature control, a dual thermoblock system, a 360-degree steam wand and a real-time pressure gauge. On the product page, the company also says users can customize grind time for single and double shots, save those settings, and move from espresso to milk drinks in one workflow without adding a separate grinder to the counter.
That puts Talos 20 in the same conversation as the machines home-espresso buyers already know, but with a different tradeoff. Breville’s Barista Express also bundles grinder and machine, but it uses 16 grind settings, a 54 mm portafilter and Breville’s 200°F Thermocoil with PID temperature control, while Breville backs the line with product hubs, troubleshooting, spare parts and warranty support. Gaggia’s Classic Pro E24, by contrast, is a semi-automatic machine with a brass boiler, a 58mm stainless steel portafilter and a service structure that includes manuals, parts diagrams and North American support contacts. Brooklyn Steel is trying to match convenience and control in one chassis; Breville and Gaggia already have the deeper support ecosystems that matter when you keep a machine for years.
Buy Talos 20 if you want a compact, all-in-one espresso setup for lattes, cappuccinos and daily shots, and you care more about a streamlined workflow than about piecing together a grinder, machine and accessories. Skip it if you already own a good grinder, want a more modular path into espresso, or prefer to buy into a machine family with a long-established parts-and-service culture. Brooklyn Steel has made a confident first swing, and at $499, the real test now is whether the convenience of one box is enough to pull buyers away from the machines they already trust.
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