You know the story -- your daily craving for a shot of
espresso hits right around 7:30AM local time, and if you don't have it in your grasp by 0800 hours, you're likely visiting the slammer for at least a day or two for barista battery. In a beautiful effort to keep addicts far away from prisons and ever closer to their productivity machines,
Espressi has unveiled the mypressi TWIST, which is described as a truly portable espresso maker that delivers top-notch goods without the wait. The secret to the one-pound device is the pneumatic engine that provides constant pressure throughout the extraction cycle, and we're told that a single CO2 cartridge can provide around eight shots. It'll hit American shores this fall for $129 -- 'til then, it's on you to keep a local shop on retainer.
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posted Apr 27th 2009 8:53AM
I need a coffee maker that will clean itself and add fresh coffee every night. :)
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Thanks but I have a truly portable espresso maker already. It cost $40.00 and does not need C02 cartridges (seriously? C02 cartridges?). I have been making the best coffee of my life with the Aeropress
I don't work for the company and I'm not a shill just a fan.
Aeropress does not make espresso. Maybe it makes nice coffee - I don't know, I've never used it - but not espresso.
Actually, with the amount of air pressure it applies, you do get an espresso, with some crema on top too.
I use one and the results are phenomenal.
Ehh no the Aeropress does not make espresso. It doesn't come remotely close to providing the kind of BAR required for proper espresso extraction. It's does however make an excellent cup of coffee. This device on the other hand claims to make 9 BAR, plenty enough power. If it lives up to it's claims it'll sell like hotcakes.
Whether or not the Aeropress makes true espresso, the Handpresso most certainly does: http://www.handpresso.fr/index.html
Instead of a CO2 cartridge, it uses a bike-pump style pressurizer to get 16-bars. I've never used one, but at €100 - about the same price - I think I'd go for the Handpresso over something that requires me to buy CO2 cartridges.
Makes sense to me andrew. They are the same price and you don't need CO2- Handpresso seems like a winner to me.
True espresso or not, the Aeropress makes a wonderfull concentrated coffee that makes lattes better than 95% of the ones I order from Starbucks. Cleanup takes 10 seconds. I bought mine on a lark because of all the buzz I read about it online. My $400.00 Italian Gaggia espresso machine is now off the countertop and living under the sink.
I'd say the aeropress produces an "old-fashioned" espresso, like what you'd get from a moka pot (the predecessor to pump-driven machines). It's great though and I use mine at work every day.
Thanks for the recommendation, but I think the downside to the aeropress for me is buying the replacement filters; otherwise I would get it right now. It sorta reminds me of the steel coffee filter thing I use for my Vietnamese coffee. It doesn't use any paper filters, but the bad part is that some grit always ends up in my coffee when I use it.
The handpresso on the other hand ... wow, I've never wanted anything so badly.
eww CO2....
think about the...TOXINS...
I'm with you there. I can't see how adding the flavor of CO2 to my esspresso will tasty...
At least it's not nitrogen. Think of how that will taste! Like tires!
Umm, toxins? CO2 is CO2, kids, a colorless, odorless gas. If you inhale it in high concentrations, it can cause a sour taste in the mouth, but I doubt that, considering the convection off a hot cup of joe, you'll have anything over atmospheric concentrations hovering over your cup.
That being said, I wouldn't doubt if the cartridges it's stored in could impart a nice metallic nastiness to the CO2 and the coffee. Nope, it's the vile office drip coffee for me. I get to act superior, not because of my coffee snobbery, but because I'm saving the 129 and the recurring cost of the cartridges. Cheap-asses rule!!
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Nespresso baby, nespresso. No fuss no mess, just great espresso in under a minute.
Agreed. The only way to make better espresso is to buy an expensive machine ($1000+), spend a full year learning how to pull a perfect shot then 3-5 minutes for each drink you want to make fpr the rest of your life.
My Nespresso D290 will pull a (better than Starbucks) shot in about 30 seconds and cost about $0.60 per double shot.
But the Nespresso is massively wasteful (who actually recycles nesperesso pods?), as are CO2 cartridges. Further Nespresso supports Nestle, who continue to be an ethically dubious company - the Nestle baby milk scandal just runs and runs (although most have forgotten about it).
http://www.babymilkaction.org/pages/boycott.html
The Handspresso, by contrast, looks like a fantastic idea. Get your coffee as beans. Grind it fresh and use it with the Handspresso (or just use a caffettiera). You'll save money and have a cleaner conscience.
The CO2 has to make the espresso acidic (water plus CO2 makes acidic water). Nitrogen would be better - it's tasteless. You breath a ton of it all day long. It wouldn't taste like tires.
Isn't the co2 just used to move the press/extractor? Never coming in contact with the water.
I don't know how all this fancy-nancy espresso stuff works, but I cant see why they would ever want co2 to mix with the water used for your pretty coffee.
The handpresso is similar to this but uses a hand pump instead of CO2.
http://www.handpresso.fr/products/wild-EN.html
Give me some whole-bean Birds and Beans coffee, a $9 electric grinder, and a $15 french press from Ikea and I'll give you a coffee that'll blow away anything this can produce. If you really want to enjoy coffee, you gotta do it right.
Ugh french presses. People keep giving me these damn things for Christmas and Birthdays. I prefer my coffee without a half inch of mud at the bottom of the cup.
1) A proper grind consistency can go a long way to minimizing sediment
2) A bit of sediment is a small price to pay for a cup of coffee with flavour that no other device I've met can duplicate
Here's how to really do it right: http://coffeegeek.com/guides/presspot
*I'm in no way associated with coffeegeek or anyone else. I just like a nice cup of the stuff now and then.
The CO2 cartridges are rechargeable? I really, really want one of of these, but I don't want to spent a fortune on CO2 canisters to have espresso everyday.
Meh, let us know when it's modded into a weapon or illicit drug delivery system.
Where does the heat come from?
Another vote for the handpresso. I too have the aeropress...and it isn't espresso...its kind of like what you would get if you merged espresso with french press coffee.
Although I would wait on the handpresso. There is a new one coming out next month that takes ground coffee instead of those ESE pods.
Although if you look, and I have, you can find the handpresso for about $100
This is maybe the lamest appliance I've ever seen
People stop dissin unless you have seen and tried...I saw and had an espresso at the show. it makes a bloody good expresso, beautiful crema. I can't wait to buy one.
Exactly,
that's why it got the "best new product award" at the show!
I will reserve judgment, but it is hard to imagine a device this small producing the pressure and heat needed to make even a small amount of crema.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IG-Yk0mGKFE
I don't know but it looks like a giant bluetooth headset to me :) (not a bad looking design actually).
A CO2 powered one, too. The first thing I was looking for was noise cancelling and battery life. This is a revolution.
As if the Handpresso crap wasn't junk enough.
Haha, if it does actually use the gas directly, use the little canisters that are used for whipped cream - they're full of nitrous oxide! Happytime coffee!
--neg
Mypressi makes a superior espresso, bar none. The water is on top, grounds on the bottom. The gas pushes from the top of the water (whether it is CO2 or NI2, doesn't matter). There is no mixture, no added acidity, no kidding. Handpresso has no flow control, it simply dumps hot water on grounds or pod, it makes a dirty cup of coffee, forget finish or flavor - Handpresso stinks.
I think that I am more than an espresso addict, so this is something that is totally on my wish list. I thought I was doing good is my current espresso maker http://www.thecoffeebump.com/la-pavoni-europiccola-espresso-chrome.html, but I was so wrong because I can't carry it everywhere with me!