I'll admit, I might get a little cranky if I don't have my morning coffee (in part because I get headaches without my caffeine fix). This looks great for camping, but as far a I can tell, it doesn't heat the coffee and for the use cases this hopes to serve, hot water is rarely accessible.
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@rrhoover hot water is always accessible. As a frequent backpacker and rock climber, you always have a portable mini-stove and a camelbacks of water.
@alexhorre "rarely accessible" was a bad choice of words. You're right that a well-prepared camper/backpacker will have a stove or access to hot water but that does take a bit of effort and the Minipresso's primary value prop (imho) is ease of access.
Maybe a future version will also heat the water through battery power or kinetic energy. :)
@rrhoover@alexhorre Not sure how many campers would be serious enough to have this problem, but not have solved this problem for themselves already. "Glamping" IS catching on, so... maybe!
But it seems like this is one of those services that touts aspirational use cases, then in reality mostly serves the busy yuppie crowd :)
It may be more expensive, but I prefer the handpresso. That looks a lot stronger especially the way you build the pressure up: http://www.handpresso.com
@hsl By comparing the two videos alone, I think I'd prefer the Minipresso solution.
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@bswen Sure the videos of handpresso are VERY bad. For me the biggest advantage is that you build up the pressure first and than press the water through the grinded coffee at once. With the minipresso it only goes through when you're pumping, so if you are pumping to slow you will burn the coffee.
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It's a great device coffie-wise but my first purchase had to be returned because it started leaking (near the water reservoire). Sending it back to Hong Kong was prohibitively expensive from the Netherlands so when my second recently started leaking (from the pump) I've decided that it's not worth the price and will keep using it leaking. Maybe they have since last year improved the material, fit and durability but I thought I share.
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Over 110psi / ~8bar that's at least somewhat close to a solid Espresso...not as the many competitors that claim to create Espresso, but actually create just slightly tickled drip filter coffee.
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So cool...but one of the things they say it's for is the hotel and I just keep thinking "Yeah right like anyone is letting me get on a plane with that in my bag.." :-)
Worth checking out Aeropress as well—thoughts device looks aesthetically better, and probably makes a fairly different cup.
Also, how lame is it to open a webpage on a 27" iMac and see a poorly scaled image that says "turn your device to landscape."
Very lame.
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