Minipresso experience: a close-fitting coffee machine anytime, anywhere

Source: intelligent things

By Phil Newell / Floyd

The article will be very long, let me first sum up: this is a portable coffee machine with low price, good workmanship, exquisite design, simple operation, no electricity or extra supplies, and the coffee is not bad.

In fact, I saw minipresso's product introduction online in 2014, but it wasn't officially available at that time, and the video should have been made when the product was still in the testing stage. The final product package is very simple:

A corrugated box with minipresso body and product manual fixed in the drawer type inner box.

The all-black minipresso doesn't stand out, but the overall feeling is good.

It is worth mentioning that this is an official offer of US $49 or about RMB 304. Held in the hand, the frosted plastic shell feels good, heavy but not heavy, and the workmanship quality is also good (but Taobao sells ¥499 for nearly 200 yuan more, which feels a little more expensive).

The rubber material with the skin texture of the round area in the middle of the Minipresso body feels good to the touch, but it gives people an old feeling that the words above cannot be read clearly without careful reading.

Remove the lid on the top of the minipresso, and the inside is the hole that will eventually make the coffee, and the lid used to prevent dust is actually a coffee cup.

I have to say that this is a very clever second design, as a portable coffee machine, minipresso does a good job of saving space. The cup is buckled at the top of the minipresso in the form of a buckle, and a circle of rubber material on the cup body makes it intimate and intimate when taking the cup.

Continue to unscrew the rest of the top: minipresso's coffee powder cartridge and brewing cartridge.

The coffee powder spoon supplied with the product contains a full spoonful of ground coffee powder is about 7 grams. Here is the process of loading coffee powder:

Pick up minipresso's coffee powder compartment and buckle it on the spoon.

Flip up and down and vibrate a few times

Put the powder spoon away and gently press the coffee powder in the powder bin with the bottom of the powder spoon.

Put the installed powder cartridge back into the minipresso body for backup:

The concave and convex structure of the product design can well sense whether it is placed in the right position, and the sealing is also very good.

Re-tighten the upper part, disassemble the lower part and fill it with hot water. After a few days of trial, a little experience is, (at this time it is not too late ) before making coffee, it is best not to put coffee powder, just add hot water to empty operation, warm the whole machine. Then load hot water at a high enough temperature. Because the taste of coffee made when the water temperature is not enough is obviously much lighter.

Of course, as a portable, convenient for the selling point of the small minipresso, too much attention to the quality of coffee, more or less suspected of picking bones in eggs.

The lower half of the Minipresso uses a push-in bayonet with a tick mark, which can hold about 60 milliliters of hot water below the tick line.

Install the hot water, reinstall the machine, and pay attention to whether it is installed in place, because the water tank will be pressurized later, if it is not installed, the hot water will leak out and be careful to burn!

Flip the fuselage up and down, and you can make coffee soon! As we mentioned earlier, the text on the button in the middle of the fuselage is not clear. Looking very carefully, there are instructions written on it. It turns out that it is not a button that can be pressed:

If you turn it a little, a piston push rod will pop up.

After the putter is pushed into the fuselage, it will automatically eject again, press repeatedly, and the delicious coffee will come out.

According to the structure, the process is analyzed: pressing the piston push rod can pressurize the water storage. under the pressure, the hot water is pressed into the cooking chamber, and the end of the tank is a pressurized valve. When the water pressure in the coffee powder chamber reaches a certain value, continue to enter the water. Coffee will flow out of the small hole at the end of the fuselage.

With the frequency of pressing once a second, repeat all the time, you can complete the process of making coffee, the operation is very simple.

The quality of espresso made by Minipresso is reasonable.

Although the booster valve at the end solves the constant pressure of extraction to some extent, because there is no external consumables such as electricity or gas cylinders, but manual-driven pistons are used to pressurize the water supply, so the extraction process is carried out many times in stages. The interval between multiple stages depends entirely on the frequency of human pressure. this cup of coffee is actually a mixture of several stages of coffee water with different degrees of extraction.

So, just like the cup in my photo, the color is not very uniform. Of course, I should also consider the factor that I am not skilled in operation. Because the photo was taken when the coffee was made for the first time, the height of the machine from the cup was not well controlled, and there was some spatter, so some extra bubbles were produced.

The coffee produced is rich in oil, and it is not sour if you sit for half a minute before drinking it. Therefore, as a whole, in addition to the more professional semi-automatic coffee machine, the taste is too light and the flavor is insufficient. It's quite satisfying.

To sum up.

At a price of about 300 yuan, such a coffee machine with compact and lightweight design, good workmanship and materials, and simple and fast operation flow. It's a surprise to be able to make a cup of espresso at this level!

And because minipresso's whole body is made of plastic, you can wash it with water under the faucet and wash it inside and out in less than a minute. Don't worry about it.

Although thanks to excellent portability, you can take it anywhere you want, but you must remember to bring the hot water necessary for making coffee and try to keep the temperature around 90 degrees. So from this point of view, the best use scenario is probably on a variety of vehicles with boiled water, in a hotel or in an office without a coffee maker.

As long as you bring a little coffee powder, you can use minipresso to make espresso and add some milk. Well, even thinking about it is much higher than drinking instant coffee!

P.S. Advanced explanation, the rich oil to a certain extent due to the booster valve, booster valve is actually used in some household semi-automatic coffee machine handle, the purpose is to increase coffee oil to improve visual performance. But if the coffee powder you use is not fresh, the fat will not last as long as mine. Therefore, the premise of enjoying a good cup of coffee is to buy fresh and high-quality coffee beans or coffee powder.

Source: NetEase Science and Technology report