Breville’s new $2,000 coffee machine brings café-quality drinks to your countertop

For coffee drinkers, a cold, caffeinated afternoon pick-me-up in the summertime is a welcome indulgence. For those who are also juggling a toddler and a newborn and a full-time job and several family members visiting from out of town while being ambushed by a heat wave that’s also packed with humidity, an afternoon pick-me-up is more like a resuscitation: necessary to stay alive. The new Oracle Jet espresso machine from appliance maker Breville steps into this very particular scenario...