How the Five Compare on the Numbers
When the machine cannot move because the socket will not, the mat has to be chosen around the machine rather than the other way round. Two of these five are cut for one machine each and name it: Aolaike for the Breville Barista Express 870 and 880, LERSAISFANY for the Ninja Luxe Cafe ES601 and ES701. Neither publishes a size in its own words.
Two more are fitted by diameter instead. Kaffe states its silicone mat at 60mm and lists the tamper sizes that covers, 49mm, 51mm, 54mm, 58mm and 60mm. Apexstone publishes a hole diameter of 63mm, or 2.48 inches, alongside a stated mat of 8 by 6 inches. Espresso Parts is the fifth and fits nothing in particular, stating that its mats work with any type of portafilter.
What the table cannot tell you is whether a mat cut for one machine will sit under another. Neither of the two machine specific sets publishes a size in words, so a reader with a different machine has only the dimension fields to go on, and on one of those two every field is in the wrong slot. The two diameter fitted mats are the only picks here a reader can measure against.
Two Mats Cut for One Machine Each
A Set Shaped Around the Breville
Aolaike publishes three pieces for the Barista Express 870 and 880: a large base mat, a detachable tamping mat and a custom fit top mat. The base mat carries a 0.4 inch raised edge to hold spills, and the listing states the top mat weighs up to 148 grams, which is about 0.33 pounds, and uses nearly 50 percent more material than many competing mats.
That 148 gram figure is the only weight anywhere on the listing, and it belongs to one of the three pieces rather than the purchase. The set is also the only pick here to make a noise claim, stating that the high density base mat helps absorb vibration and reduce operation noise. Its size slot reads Extar Large, which is a spelling rather than a measurement.
A Set Shaped Around the Ninja
LERSAISFANY publishes the same three part idea for the Ninja Luxe Cafe ES601 and ES701, and one detail sets it apart: the top mat is stated to be shaped so it does not block the grinder opening, and the bottom mat is stated to grip the counter while still letting the machine slide. On a counter where the machine lives in one fixed place, sliding it out to clean behind it is the useful part.
Its figures are thinner than Aolaike’s. It publishes 1.8 pounds and fields of 15 by 23 by 0.4 inches, and its size slot holds a compatibility sentence rather than a size. Nothing in its five bullets gives a rim height, a thickness or a weight for any single piece, so the three pieces cannot be separated by any published number.
Two Mats Fitted by Diameter Instead
A Mat Sized to the Tamper
Kaffe takes the opposite approach and publishes the figure that matters to a tamper rather than to a machine. Its silicone mat is stated at 60mm, and the listing names the sizes it is meant to cover: 49mm, 51mm, 54mm, 58mm, 60mm and anything in between. That is the clearest compatibility statement of these five, because a reader can check it against a tamper already on the counter.
The rest of the listing is sparser. It names premium grade stainless steel for the frame and food safe silicone for the mat, states an anti slip base and a detachable design where each piece is cleaned separately, and publishes no weight and no size in words. Its only size figures are the fields, which read 5.6 by 3.6 by 2.3 inches.
A Published Hole and Three Heights That Disagree
Apexstone publishes more figures than any other pick here and they do not all agree. Its third bullet gives a mat of 8 by 6 inches, a hole diameter of 63mm, a thickness of 0.35 inch and an overhang of 1.2 inch by 0.4 inch. Its dimension fields read 5.8 by 8.4 by 1.4 inches, so neither 6 nor 8 appears in them and the height matches neither the thickness nor the overhang.
The 63mm hole is still the most useful number on the page for anyone matching a portafilter, because it is the only hole figure published by any of these five. The listing also states the mat suits right angle countertops, which is what the overhang figure describes, and its size slot reads Single Slot rather than any size.
The One That Fits Nothing in Particular
Any Portafilter, Stated Plainly
Espresso Parts refuses the compatibility question and is better for it. Its listing states that the mats work for any type of portafilter, naming bottomless and triple spouted outright, and it is made of food grade NBR rubber rather than silicone, which the listing calls safe to eat off and highly resistant to heat, oils and water. It publishes 0.7 pounds and fields of 5 by 11.75 by 0.35 inches.
It also publishes a small rim around the edges without a figure for it, and clears both a rinse and the dishwasher for a deep clean. Its name says 5X12 and its depth field says 11.75 inches, which is the name rounding up rather than a contradiction, but it is worth knowing before a reader measures a shelf to the nearest quarter inch.
Where These Fields Cannot Be the Mat
Aolaike has the worst of it. Its fields read 0.66 by 24 by 16 inches, and 0.66 inches is a thickness sitting in a width slot while the 24 by 16 is the base mat footprint. The fact sheet flags the 16 against a median of 1.4 for this shortlist. With no size in words anywhere on the listing, there is nothing to correct those three numbers against.
Kaffe has a subtler version. Its height field reads 2.3 inches and its own bullet states the silicone mat at 60mm, which is 2.36 inches. Those are close enough that the field labeled height is probably the mat diameter rather than any height at all. Espresso Parts and LERSAISFANY are the two picks here whose fields read like a mat and not like a part of one.
Which One Fits Your Kitchen
Your machine is a Breville Barista Express. Aolaike publishes three pieces cut for the 870 and 880, a 0.4 inch raised edge on the base mat and the only vibration claim here. Read its fields with care, because all three are in the wrong slot.
Your machine is a Ninja Luxe Cafe. LERSAISFANY publishes three pieces for the ES601 and ES701, with a top mat shaped to clear the grinder opening and a bottom mat that lets the machine slide out. It publishes 1.8 lb and no size in words.
You want the fit stated as a tamper size. Kaffe states its silicone mat at 60mm and names 49mm, 51mm, 54mm, 58mm and 60mm as covered. It publishes no weight and no size in words, and its detachable pieces wash separately.
You need to match a portafilter exactly. Apexstone publishes a 63mm hole, a mat of 8 by 6 inches, a 0.35 inch thickness and a 1.2 inch overhang for a right angle counter. Three of its published heights disagree with each other.
You change machines or own more than one. Espresso Parts states its mat works with any portafilter, bottomless or triple spouted, in NBR rubber at 0.7 lb and 5 by 11.75 by 0.35 inches. It is the only pick making no compatibility claim at all.
What We Could Not Verify
Six things a reader would want and no listing among these five supplies.
- Any size in words from Aolaike, LERSAISFANY or Kaffe, which leaves their dimension fields as the only description.
- Whether either machine specific set will sit under any machine other than the one it names.
- A weight for the Aolaike set, which publishes 148 g for its top mat and nothing for the purchase.
- A weight from Kaffe or Apexstone, neither of which publishes one at all.
- What the Apexstone height field of 1.4 inches is measuring, since it matches neither the thickness nor the overhang.
- A temperature figure from any of the five, all of which call silicone or rubber heat resistant without one.
