- Breville has launched a new Brass Accents range of kitchen appliances
- The kit includes our top-rated espresso machine, the Barista Touch Impress
- It’s part of a general shift away from clinical stainless steel in the kitchen
Breville has given several of its best kitchen machines an overhaul for 2025, including our top-rated espresso machine, the Barista Touch Impress. Instead of clinical stainless steel, which has long been the standard color for coffee machines, the Barista Touch Impress is now available in warm-toned metal, paired with soft shades of blue, olive green and off-white.
The Breville Barista Touch Impress has long held the top spot in our guide to the best espresso machines thanks to its effortless automated dosing, grinding, tamping and milk frothing, which helps create consistently great coffee time and time again.
“Even for experienced baristas [who] are tight on time and space, the compact form and simplicity of dialing in different coffees make the Barista Touch Impress a highly desirable machine,” wrote our reviewer Joel Burgess, who awarded the machine a full five stars.
The Brass Accents collection also includes the Breville Toast Select, Smart Oven Air Fryer and Juice Fountain Cold. The series can now be purchased directly from Breville and from Williams Sonoma in the USA.
A natural touch
Breville’s new appliances are part of a trend for warm, natural hues that we first saw last year when KitchenAid launched its hugely popular (and somewhat controversial) Design Series Evergreen stand mixer. The machine features a sage green body, brass accents, leaf decals and a real walnut bowl.
Some bakers expressed concern that the bowl (which requires special care to keep it in good condition) would be impractical, but Wired writer Kat Merck found it worked fine for everyday baking, including whipping egg whites and cream.
Recently, KitchenAid announced that their entire range of espresso machines is now available in a subtle cream color called Porcelain White. The last coffee machine to get a new look was the KF60 bean-to-cup machine, which I’ll be reviewing for TechRadar in a few weeks.
