Can you make espresso by hand? How do you make espresso manually at home?

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Can you make espresso by hand? Of course. You only need to buy a manual espresso machine at home for one day. So, how do you make espresso manually at home? Qianjie Coffee recommends some of the most popular manual unplugged espresso machines on the market.

Portable manual unplugged espresso machine

Many coffee lovers like hand-held unplugged espresso machines. Making a real espresso is a challenging task in a cabin on weekends or when traveling and staying in a hotel.

For a long time, coffee lovers had to rely on "quasi" espresso devices, such as moka pots, to get the experience of making espresso outdoors; then, in mid-August 2005, a device called Handpresso was launched, which is essentially similar to an E.S.E pod brewing system (developed by illy, pre-ground coffee powder bag + powder bowl + filter paper + hot water + manual extraction). The problem with Handpresso is that you need to grind your own coffee, the powder bowl is small (less than 7 grams), and the espresso is light and cold.

At about the same time, a product called Presso Espresso maker was launched; it had a manual extraction design for butterfly wings, and it did make drinks similar to espresso, and it has developed since then and is still on sale today.

Presso Espresso maker

The next major development in portable unplugged espresso is Mypressi, which uses nitrogen bombs (the same principle as the cream gun used to make whipped cream) to provide pressure to extract espresso. Mypressi failed in the end, but its eye-catching appearance, portability and extraction effect are excellent. There are some problems with Mypressi, mainly due to the high cost of coffee due to the frequent use of nitrogen bombs.

Since then, equipment manufacturers have launched a number of portable espresso machines, but none of them are very conceptual. Until the emergence of Flair Espresso Maker, this is also the theme of this article.

Flair espresso prototype

The Flair espresso coffee maker is one of the few successful coffee projects on Kickstarter. The Flair manual coffee machine was first crowdfunded on Kickstarter, with a crowdfunding target of $45000 and eventually raised $58000. At that time, Sergio Landau, the inventor, had already built a prototype with equipment and moulds for production when Kickstarter launched crowdfunding, and it only needed money to produce 800 Flair espresso immediately.

Sergio Landau

Sergio Landau is an inventor. This espresso machine comes from his love of coffee and his desire to make better espresso at home.

He has been a mechanical engineer in the medical device industry for nearly 40 years, and his professional background provides all the manufacturing experience and networking resources needed to quickly produce a relatively simple coffee machine, including precision parts development, injection molding, machining, die casting and other fields.

Flair espresso minimalist style, strong structure, no electronic equipment, can be quickly assembled and disassembled, easy to transport and storage. The Flair espresso consists of three simple parts: a base, a hand lever made of die-cast aluminum, and a sturdy stainless steel head.

Basic parameters of Flair espresso

Height-25 cm

Weight-1.95 kg

Occupied area-30cm x15cm

Water supply container capacity / boiling head-65ml

Pressure caused by handle press-8 BAR-16 BAR

Extraction time-ideal time is 25 seconds (8 BAR) / 45 seconds (16 BAR)

Powder bowl capacity-17g-28g

Extraction amount-about 50ml

FLAIR Signature manual drawbar espresso machine adopts metal combination bracket, with portable bag, convenient to carry, durable leather, brewing head adopts socket connection mode, it is very simple and quick to assemble coffee and disassemble powder bowl. Press the lever manually to make espresso, and in five minutes you can go from grinding beans to producing a strong Espresso.

Now manual espresso coffee machine is also the focus of many outdoor enthusiasts and coffee lovers reference object, in fact, for the manual version of the espresso coffee machine there are many kinds of design, but I think the lever manual concentration will be more convenient and faster, extraction effect is better.

Leverpress is inspired by the classic manual lever machine to create the Leverpress espresso machine. The previous version 1.0 won good results in the US and Japan fundraising platforms and won the praise of the 2018 Best Portable Coffee Machine. This year, the overall design has been upgraded and optimized. The upgraded version of Leverpress 2.0 espresso machine makes the extraction coffee flavor simpler. In fact, the earliest contact lever unplugged coffee machine, the most famous of which is Nomad, but this is obviously more compact and portable than Nomad.

Let's take a look at this 2.0 upgrade in a video:

It took the Leverpress design team more than a year to develop the device, and the initial prototype took three to four months. But after the prototype came out, it was discovered that things were not so simple. Because Leverpress needs the exact pressure to make a truly good cup of coffee. So it took more than two years to make more than 20 revisions.

The Leverpress is a compact, portable espresso machine equipped with a stainless steel 50mm diameter basket filter and a manual lever press to extract espresso at a pressure of 9Bar. It takes only 3 minutes to make double espresso of high quality.

Hong Kong MINIPRESSO Hand Pressed Mini Portable Coffee Cup

product characteristics

1. Beautiful and generous in shape & full of creativity

Only 6.95 inches, about 18cm. Small, lightweight, multifunctional, hand-pressed coffee maker.

2. Lightweight and portable & powerful

Space and weight are two of the most important factors in choosing initial travel gear. MINIPRESSO implements the easy-to-use design concept, and only presses the semi-automatic piston to extract a delicious espresso.

3. Efficient and practical

In addition to the visual beauty of the modern sleek design, it also contains a unique core part, a push-type semi-automatic piston that rotates to unlock and easily controls the amount of coffee extracted.

4. Convenience & Innovation

MINIPRESSO does not require any kind of compression, nitrox acceleration or electric device, whether it is at the airport pick-up, or wilderness hiking, satisfy your coffee addiction anytime, anywhere, experience different luxury, press different times to press different types of coffee.

use method

1. Material placement: [CA capsule model] Put the coffee powder into the coffee powder holding cup/[GR coffee powder model] capsule system cup, then put it into the cup body of the piston, tighten the cup body and filter head.

2. Pour water: Pour the right amount of hot water into the hot water holding cup and tighten the hot water holding cup and cup body.

3. Turn upside down and unlock the piston.

4, press the piston, start extraction, press directly into the cup lid, a cup of smooth alcohol is concentrated coffee is finished!

Press 13 times: Ristretto

Press 18 times: Expresso

Press 28 times: Double Expresso

It can also be made into American, latte or mocha with water, milk or chocolate according to personal preference.

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