The glamorous part of coffee roasting tends to be everything that happens around the roaster, or perhaps around the espresso machine. When people go into the coffee business, they picture, profiling and sampling, not to mention breathing in that smell of freshly roasted coffee. Of course, as all professional roasters know, the rubber hits the road (so to speak) in the packaging and distribution. After all, that's how you actually make your money.

Packing dozens of precisely weighed bags of coffee (whether green or roasted) is painstaking, and time consuming, so anything that can make it a little easier is a great thing. That's where this bean scoop comes in. It's designed to hold as much as two kilograms of coffee. It has a flat bottom, made for sitting steadily on a scale and avoiding any spills. Its handle doubles as a tube for pouring into bags. What more could a coffee packer want? Maybe a machine to do the whole thing, but until you buy one of those, this scoop is bound to come in handy.

Coffee bean scoop specifications

• Material: polyethylene
• Capacity: up to 2kg roasted coffee beans
• Length: ~42cm
• Width: ~17cm
• Depth:  ~15cm
• Colour: black
• Weight: ~250g