mypressi a sulawesi
April 27, 2009 – 12:15 am
injection-molded spro.
then there was the mypressi twist, revolutionary espresso device of simplicity and ease. or so they said.
without question, the idea of brewing espresso with the punch of a nitrogen cartridge in a hand-held portafilter amounts to heretical folly of the most rankling sort. what will all those la marzocco factory workers do when we replace them with the injection-molded pocket BICs of espresso making?
and so, this blog can’t really blame that curmudgeonly tom — who definitely didn’t put the “sweet” in “sweet maria’s” — for lathering himself up with a bit of belligerent zeal soap. “best new product” inDEED.
and yet: the espresso, we insist, tasted non-horrible.
first we heard of the device in atlanta last week, helfen was waving a flyer and talking about how nine bars of espresso brewing pressure was somehow coming from the handle of this thing. turns out your basic whipped cream nitrogen cartridge supplies the oomph. you grind and pack a regular portafilter basket, fill the chamber just above with boiling water, and pull the trigger.
and then spro happens.
it’s tempting to imagine an application in which, just after hitting the snooze button, this blog could roll over, pull a shot INTO ITS BED MOUTH, and be quasi-juvenated from the comfort of our sheets. alas, the craftsmanship and theater of espresso is part of what pulled us in. also, there would almost certainly be some splashing. we don’t mind brown-flecked pillows so much, but the blogwife might.
the shots of hairbender we had from the mypressi convention booth were actually passable, if somewhat sour. this is likely because the boiling water had obviously been poured in far too long before “brewing.” also, it seemed kind of insane to demonstrate such a product with an espresso as demanding as hairbender.
we ended up thinking that, if we could figure out a way to duct-tape it to our mazzer for safe travel, it wouldn’t make a bad camping brewer — for lazy louts. caffeine addicts, in other words. sold on the virtues of industrialized user ease. with a gamer’s weakness for pressurized gas and triggers. yeah, them.
target demographic = perfectly clear.
Yeah, the bottom line is that it should be a lot more horrible that it actually is. That’s got to be worth something.
good luck bz…hold on for the ride
i’d love to play with one, actually.
Mypressi is just a poor copy of Handpresso. It probably delivers sour coffee beacause of the CO2 cartridges (which only make 4 shots each…). Shame on copyers!
whoa. 1: we have french people reading this blog? 2. where did THAT device come from? this requires a separate post, for sure.
How is mypressi a poor copy of handpresso, the handpresso is not even drinkable. The effort to get a single shot is noncomparable. Essentially it would be like upgrading from a Kia to a BMW.
Inno, you have a pretty skewed frame of reference. First of all, the mypressi is the first of its kind, not a copy. Who wants to spend time pumping when you can have 8 shots of coffee with one little push of a button after quickly popping in a CO2 cartridge? I’ve had at least 10 shots of coffee from one of these and I can easily say it rivals most coffee shops. Also, poor copy? The design aesthetics alone puts it leagues above the handpresso. The handpresso looks cheap and tacky and it will probably break with one drop. There is really no comparison. Wait until September, and you’ll be completely proven wrong!
Shimya, how can you claim it is the first of its kind? I bought my handpresso wild more than one year ago – and it continues to make excellent espressos – with a nice thick crema! Mypressi is still just showing prototyepes…
And poor Ryan and Shimay, if the American car industry had been in a better shape, we could maybe take your quality remarks seriously!.
LOL! Battle of the stealth marketers from both companies!
Fight, fight!
oh no…another cause of the coffee addiction…
i think i really need to go to a rehab…
I’ve been using my Handpresso for about a year now. I’ve dropped it several times on mountain biking trips, once even down a hill covered in rocks. As I watched it bounce, I thought “There goes $100″, but I was wrong. It is made of quality materials if If can’t break it. And the hand pump, shame on the outdoor enthusiast who doesn’t like physical work! I have no interest whatsoever in the other model. CO2 does not belong in my espresso, just in a BB gun. You’ll shoot your eye out!
People keep saying it uses CO2. It uses N2O. Like for whipped cream.
Inno, I think mypressi has clearly won the battle :(. Coffee Geek agrees, Home Barista agrees, handpresso has no crema and is a joke. Might as well use a bike pump, I wonder why huffy didnt take them to court over using a bike pump for espresso LOL!
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