Rattleware Grinder Tray with Tamping Mat - Mess-Free Coffee Experience, Easy Clean, & Sleek Design for The Espresso Enthusiast (13" x 9.75")

The tray and mat arrived in good condition. As others have noted, the mat will off-gas for a while.What I didn't expect, as the stock picture doesn't show it, is that the tray is stamped with the Rattleware logo in such a way that it warps the tray and creates an unsightly blemish on the top of the tray. The logo is stamped on the bottom, so you have to turn the tray over to read it, but the imprint comes through the top. In the stock picture the logo is hidden under the tamping mat. I had wanted to use the tray oriented the other way, but found that I was not happy looking at the distorted metal of the tray where the logo was stamped.The tray and mat work as intended, and I find them useful for prepping the coffee and keeping things a bit neater. I was disappointed with the bent shape of the tray and the marring of the surface caused by the stamped logo.If the tray had been unblemished by the branding I would have given the product 5 stars.

We had two problems - I wanted a tamping mat and something to make it easier to clean up spilled/overflow grinds. The counter that the grinder used to be on was tile, which I found especially frustrating to clean spilled grinds from. The Rattleware grinder tray solved the problem. We no longer have that problem with our new granite counter, but now we have the grinder on a slide-out tray. The Rattleware grinder tray enables the grinder to fit well and securely on the slide-out tray, and makes it very easy to clean up. And this size tamping mat is perfect for us. It's all we need, and we use it both to tamp and also to knock the grinds out - I usually have no trouble getting the flick of the wrist just right to get the grinds out but for some of us it's easier to knock the basket against something. I used to worry the basket would get damaged or dented, but now we just take the tamping mat and place it next to the sink or trash can and knock the basket against it. perfect! The mat and tray fit perfectly with our Gaggia burr grinder on our Milen Handy Caddy slide-out tray, so I couldn't be much happier with this purchase.

I also received this without a tamping pad. The item was originally in a plastic sleeve with label, but obviously had been opened prior to shipment so may have been one that someone had previously returned for the same reason. Will be returning this one. I ordered this tamping pad mostly for the tamping pad, the grinder tray was bonus for me.

Love it!

Plenty wide and long (see photos) for both capturing coffee grounds at the grinder and keeping the portafilter from marring a counter top. The tamping pad does not slide and is particularly thick, ensuring no dings. Excellent execution.

This certainly makes clean up of grounds much easier and the packing mat is much more friendly on my portafilter.

Purchased this in March 2012 when I moved all the coffee equipment to an oak topped cabinet. Works great under the espresso grinder, catches all of the stray grounds from the grinder. I do get a few specks of coffee in the locale of the tamping mat, no big deal. The tray slips out from under the grinder easily, dump the stray grounds in the trash and rinse it and the rubber mat. They clean very easily.The tamping mat is a nice thickness for a bottomless portafilter. Let's say I forget to grab the tamper before I make the grinds, the bottomless portafilter stays put on the mat with zero problem.Visitors are often impressed with the overall appearance of the "coffee center". It just looks clean, thanks in great part to the tray/mat setup.

Only 3 stars because it arrived with a large scratch on stainless steel. Since it is covered by grinder, I didn't send back. I could not tell if it was a packing error or a quality control error.