Was it just for the cinematic shots for YouTube?

Well, no, no, it's for a perfectly good reason.

It was for this review, which is for the work car Co nan oppressor.

And I have no idea if I'm saying that right now This is a brewer that I bought for about £70 for that I get the standard in an oppressor and I get this, which is the espresso pod adapter for it, which actually might be quite a good thing, will come to that in a second now.

This has been heavily requested by people in the comments section of various videos on Instagram and on Twitter, and that can send you in two different directions.

One you can think lots of people want to see this.

I should get one of these.

I should do a review.

But then part of you is aware that many, many companies pay people to go to comments of people like me and YouTube and ask them to review a product.

It's kind of part of ST teaming part of marketing, so there's a little bit wary they had actually sent me one in the past on.

I just I don't think I tested it that much.

I didn't really focus on it at the time.

It wasn't really that interesting to me, But so many requests have had me circle back and do what I hope is justice to a review.

So let's just quickly run through how this thing works.

You have a water chamber here at the back that holds 50 to 60 mils or grams of water.

That's gonna be hot water that you put it just before you brew and close it out.

And then into this section here is where coffee goes.

Now you does your coffee into this little section here, and when you brew, the coffee will be underneath.

And this will actually be your shower head on top here, and it'll be filtered like the bottom of the basket through here on its way to the cup.

And when it's time to brew, you pop out this little plunger going to use this and pump it to build up the pressure to brew the coffee.

Now they say, you're gonna brew more than enough pressure to brew espresso on.

I think that's probably true from using it.

That's been my experience.

If you want a brew espresso capsules and it doesn't have to be Nespresso brand, it could be anything compatible with that.

You just take out this brewing section, and then this one comes with a silo adapted filter section that their tests.

It appears the foil on, then the capsule holder with the spikes at the bottom to pierce the capital, where the water flows in pretty easy, pretty simple to use lots of little pieces that screwed together.

But how's the coffee?

That's what you think he has what you want to know.

Well, this brew some coffee and talk about it.

Now this thing does come with a scoop that is, frankly, a better temper than it is a scoop.

Really, this is a strong indication that this product is designed for people who are gonna buy pre ground coffee to make espresso with, and you'll know if you know a supermarket and buy coffee that's ground for espresso.

It's not ground for espresso.

It's usually much, much much Course X is going to go into a mock apart looking a bruise filter coffee so they go for that kind of only grind middle of the roadway that's important to realize this brewer is a little bit finicky to dial in with fresh ground coffee.

Because of this, it's designed to work with course of coffee than you were typically used for espresso.

That makes it a little weird to brute with.

Now it does have inside it a little pressurizing device that takes apart the second that adds extra pressure.

Where the course he ground coffee, maybe cant similar to a pressurized port, a filter.

So as I'm building pressure now, I get what looks like espresso coming out of here.

You can see this on Cramer.

Not much is pretty pale, but at this point, this was ground nearly at kind of pour over coarseness.

If you go find in this, it doesn't work well.

It's all it seems.

My coffee is a little fine this time, even though I got a bit coarser, have a little leakage if you take out the pressurizing device that little spring inside there, which they say you can do.

I had bad results with that as well So here you've got some kind of wispy Kramer.

You have a kind of okay drink.

But it's not a patch on what a good manual espresso machine can make.

Regardless of that, the claims to the pressure it can build and they say things like 18 bars the same way that manufacturers will say it'll do.

15 bars of pressure.

18 bars of pressure.

Who cares when you want?

Nine.

Most of the time, they're just leaking that pressure out the side.

Just so you hit that rough kind of nine bar number assuming mess it up, right?

So more bars is not good.

Bragging about doing 18 is just weird.

The end result of this course of ground coffee that you sort of need to use with this as it set up.

No, great.

Not great at all.

Maybe we should try the pod.

Maybe a pod would be better.

So a little Nespresso capsule into our little device.

And now that's all ready to go.

And actually compressing that into place pierces the capsule with the Little forks, or I don't know what the word you'd use is Time's almost that that sit inside this unit where the water will flow in, and the way an espresso capital typically works is that you inject water in the sort of narrow point of it, and it flows through, and once it hits the foil, it blows the foil out until it compresses against a crisscross pattern, piercing the foil.

So you have this addition capri infusion, pressurizing moment before the coffee starts to flow, even in a device that may have an additional pressurizing unit like a spring in there as well.

In a way, we pump.

I could hear the pod first, and that's only a bit of work to push and lo and behold, creamy, creamy crema, his looks much more akin to something that you might expect as espresso.

So this espresso is 25 grams of liquid from about five and 1/2 grams of coffee.

So that's a 5 to 1 ratio, which is well outside the bounds of espresso beings from the region of 1 to 2 lingo.

123 would afford.

This is coarser again, bigger again, weaker again.

But it will likely be very well extracted, which it is.

It's also pretty dark roasted coffee in this particular part which is what I had your hand here right now, but I'm left unsure about how you really feel about this thing On paper, it should work fine.

You can build nine bars.

Wilmore of pressure.

Here, though I find the sort of pumps per second thing a little fuzzy as a way to build pressure.

There's not really much feedback beyond the physical feedback of it becoming harder to compress the little pump brew.

Temperature wise, you're unlikely to be in the mid nineties because you're just gonna lose too much heat.

There's no enough thermal mass in the liquid here.

It's gonna be a lower temperature brew, and so probably does better with slightly darker US two coffees that it would do light arrested coffees.

But I'm left with the question of why, and that's kind of why I went up a hill and I took some pods with me upheld and I sat and I brewed coffee in the great outdoors on I took a thermos of water and actually what cocker will sell you their own brand of thermals to take water with you and with a pod and water, it's reasonably practical to be almost anywhere and to brew an espresso.

And so I sat in the morning in the quiet of the forest that I made myself a espresso, and I sat there on I drank it, and I thought, Is it worth it?

Is it worth the effort to bring this thing with me?

Is it worth it to make coffee this way?

You know, is this the kind of camping travel device that I would want?

And while the coffee's brewed wasn't bad by any stretch, and while it was extremely pleasant to sit in the forest, sit on a hillside and enjoy an espresso, what I really wanted was a couple filter coffee because my espresso was gone on my moment of savoring.

It was very short, and I I wanted to serve, Linger.

I wanted to take my time.

I wanted to enjoy a coffee, and the problem with espresso is that it's this brief moment and we have to taste, lasts and lingers, and that's pleasant.

But I wanted to spend some time with a cup of coffee.

I'd worked hard to climb.

The little hill was tired.

I was out of breath.

I wanted to sit down on my tree stump and relax when I found myself after five minutes, thinking about packing up, cleaning up and moving on.

Maybe you're not like me.

Maybe you do want espresso in that moment.

And actually, I think if you're using a good quality pod, let's not talk about pods right now.

That's a whole other subjects.

But if you're using something like that on a thermos of hot water, then short.

That's pretty easy.

You can have an espresso anyway.

You want now with fresh ground coffee from an espresso grand.

I actually found this thing fussy and irritating.

To dial in on the dose also is kind of an issue.

You can get six or seven grams of coffee in this thing.

I think I just want Maur.

You know, I'd probably frankly have to brew twice toe, have enough caffeine in my system to feel human in the morning.

And, hey, maybe that's just me.

It's just me.

But I don't want a brew twice with this.

It's It's not a joy to take apart and play, and it's not super simple.

It's not difficult is you knock the puck out, give the whole thing, Lawrence.

It's pretty easy, but it's not fun for me.

I didn't have a huge amount of fun with this.

Now I'm sure what people do.

But I think the use case for this where this really shines is actually really pretty narrow.

If you've got a decent enough espresso grounder home, you may as well have a good espresso machine at home built for finely ground coffee to get true riel, Delicious espresso, something like the Flare or the rock.

And I'll be reviewing the cafe latte robots soon.

You know something like that if you want to go purely manual and there's a ton of options beyond those as well, I feel like this isn't really a device for the home.

I feel like if I'm taking it outside, I'm definitely using pods.

It's just easier and certainly much easier to brew a second or third or fourth time if I'm with people and just less mess, fuss and all that sort of stuff.

But for me, I don't really want a drink.

An espresso in those environments.

I'd rather take a travel.

Brewer would rather take a thermos of coffee up the hillside with me that I brewed at home in the morning and sit and enjoy something really well made.

But that's just me.

Maybe that's just me.

Your experience may differ on.

I'd be I'd be interested to hear your experiences with this thing.

Do you have it?

Love it.

Um, I Am I missing something really obvious here.

You grinding finally for it as you granting reasonably course.

What were you doing with it?

Tell me in the comments below, I'll be really interested to see what people have to say about this thing.

That's £70.

It seems pretty well made.

There's lots of little parts.

It seems to be, you know, pretty well put together pretty durable.

I have no real complaint about that.

I just I just didn't love it.

If I'm honest, Thank you.

I'll wrap it up here and I say, Thank you so much for watching.