Koryaiko 120ml glass espresso cup with wooden handle review

A 120ml glass with a wooden handle, at around ₱250 as of August 19, 2026. The handle is not styling.

Wood is there because glass conducts heat

Espresso leaves a machine at around 90 degrees. Pour that into a small glass and the glass is the same temperature within seconds, because glass moves heat readily and there is not much of it in a thin wall.

Wood does the opposite. It is a poor conductor, so a wooden handle stays comfortable while the vessel beside it is too hot to hold. The same principle is why saucepan handles are not made of the same metal as the pan.

For a cup you pick up immediately after a shot, that is a genuine functional difference over the brand’s plain 100ml borosilicate cup, which you either hold by the rim or wait for.

A hundred and twenty millilitres is generous

A double espresso is roughly 36 to 40g of liquid out of an 18g dose. So this holds about three doubles.

That headroom is useful rather than wasteful. You are watching the flow arrive and judging where to stop it, not filling to a brim, and a taller glass gives the crema somewhere to sit while you read the liquid underneath it.

It also makes the cup usable for a small milk pour or a measured splash in cooking, which a 30ml jigger cannot do.

The glass spec worth confirming

The listing states glass and does not say borosilicate. For a vessel whose entire job is receiving something very hot, that distinction is the one that matters: ordinary soda-lime glass expands as it heats and can crack under a sudden change, while borosilicate barely expands.

The brand’s 100ml cup names borosilicate explicitly. This one does not, so it is worth asking the shop before buying. In the meantime, rinsing the glass with warm water before pulling a shot into it removes most of the risk, and is a habit worth having with any glass anyway.

Look after the handle

Hand wash, and dry the wood rather than leaving it to sit. Wood swells when it soaks and cracks as it dries out, and a handle that has been through a dishwasher a few times will start to work loose.

Who should buy the wooden-handle cup

Buy this if you pull espresso and want to pick the glass up straight away, or you like the look of wood on the counter and will hand wash it.

Skip it if you want a stated borosilicate spec, where the brand’s 100ml cup is cheaper and clearer.

The alternatives on this page

For stated borosilicate at a lower price, see the Koryaiko 100ml espresso cup. For measuring in a kitchen rather than at a machine, the Eurochef 250ml borosilicate jug is the cooking equivalent.