It's 2025. We don't have flying cars, but we do have this. A portable espresso machine the size of a thermos that even heats up the water. When you think about it, it's actually incredible. This is a completely revolutionary piece of coffee equipment. Now you can have coffee literally anywhere. Just take it out of your backpack, pour water from a bottle, insert a capsule, press a button, and in two minutes you have coffee. It's crazy. Imagine telling someone this 10-15 years ago. They would have looked at you like you were crazy.
A revolutionary piece of coffee equipment that lets you enjoy coffee anywhere
You can use capsules or ground coffee
Unlike other travel coffee makers, it also heats the coffee.
If you use select capsules, you have the potential to make really good coffee.
Tried many times with ground coffee, and if you use medium-dark roast specialty coffee, the coffee that comes out is really good. Better than I expected. This indicates that the coffee maker actually reaches a relatively high temperature for coffee preparation during heating, and at the same time, the pump must be relatively powerful to push the water through the coffee puck. The taste of the coffee is enhanced by the fact that the ground coffee chamber has a diameter of only about 39 mm, which gives you a very good bed depth, resulting in high-quality extraction.
Surprisingly light and compact
For future models, it might be worth increasing the battery capacity, even if this means making the device larger and heavier. Currently, you can make 3-5 cups of coffee from cold water, depending on the amount of water heated. This is enough for a two-day trip.
If you use ground coffee, the chamber is very small. You can fit a maximum of 6 grams of ground coffee in there, no more. And 6 grams is really not enough—to make the coffee strong, you need to add at least 30 ml of water. And to get me going in the morning, I would have to drink at least two cups in a row, which is obviously not very practical. I know you can buy a better attachment for more coffee, but having to buy it separately is not ideal.
The long-term battery life is, of course, a question. Will it last for several hundred coffees? I don't know yet. And once the battery dies, it probably won't be replaceable. Even so, it's worth it.