Manual Espresso Portable Capsule Coffee Machine

Lightweight, does what it's supposed to do perfectly and looks nice too. Too bad the case is not included as standard, I have now bought it separately.

The downside: it does take strong hands to use it. The good side: beautiful, compact, well crafted, good coffee.

Unit built robust, it fits Nespresso small pods. Pumping water thru pod is somewhat tense, but that is expected, so with each espresso you'll get a bit of workout for your hands and fingers. Even dripping cup provided to rest unit after making coffee - good thinking of customer. Unit is smaller than I expected, but works like a charm. We'll see how will it perform overtime - not planning to use it at home, but when go to office, cause latter doesn't have good espresso machine

I'd heard about these from friends - that they were great, though not perfect. After a recent trip to Italy - yes ITALY - where there was absolutely no decent coffee in the hotel and none within reasonable walking distance (only an INSTANT machine in a 4* hotel!!!!) that was the final straw and I thought I would give this new model of this device a go. I must say - it's genuinely life changing! Much as I'll still hunt out a good coffee shop - when my options are limited (I'm in rural Japan right now) - this is an absolute life saver. (No offense Japan - you have some pretty great coffee here and I'm a bit of a matcha addict too. In fact I carry a tin of that around with me as well where ever I go. ) As for the device itself - it's a lovely item. It's built very well and clearly high quality. It makes an excellent single shot expresso - the tank holds enough to make a double in my opinion - though I've always leaned toward the ristretto so maybe I'm not the person to ask. As per my friends advice - I warm the tank up first with boiling water before refreshing with new hot water and operating the device. The coffee comes out at the perfect temperature with an excellent cremma. I've used Starbucks capsules so far and they fit well with no leakage or issues. (Note - do not judge this device if you use it with poor quality capsules I would say - they often fail and leak in counter top machines so I would assume they would in this. Stick to the better brands!) To improve the experience - next time I travel I will bring a small expresso cup with me as well - though the plastic one supplied is adequate for it's purpose. Anyway - signing off - I'm in need of another expresso fix. Enjoy!

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