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The Outin Nano Espresso Machine is EXACTLY what I've WANTED! (A Review)
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Jan 25, 2025
I've been wanting a portable espresso machine for years that acts just like a normal espresso machine, but you know, portable. However, it isn't until now that that finally is the case. The Outin Nano Espresso Machine not only pulls shots, but it does it automatically AND heats the water for you, which is the first of its kind! In this video, I'm going to tell you everything you need to know about it: what I like, what I don't like, and who it is for! Use discount code "GEAR43" to get 10% off the espresso machine here (Paid Link): https://outin.com/GEAR43
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all right so ever since I really started
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getting into coffee makers I really
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really wanted a portable espresso
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machine that you could kind of take with
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you but that also heats up the water
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because one of the biggest issues with
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most travel espresso machines is that
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you have to boil your water which means
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that it's not really a travel coffee
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maker because you had to find somewhere
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to heat up that water well Alon gave me
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this espresso machine and it promises to
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do just that which fixes a lot of things
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so in this video I'm going to tell you
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everything that I know about it I'm
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going tell you what it is I'm going to
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show you how to use it but also what I
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like about it what I don't like about it
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and exactly who it's for after a couple
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months of testing this thing so let's
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get right into it all right so this is
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the Alton Nano espresso machine now
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there are a couple different things we
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should talk about so up top is where you
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basically put in your water you can see
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there's different fill lines there uh 70
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ml is kind of right below that MAX Line
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I have put it in a little bit higher
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than that up to that MAX Line um and
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made some good shots you can go down to
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30 ml and so this is where you put it in
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you can see there's a little filter
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right there and it brings the water down
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in to heat it in this chamber here down
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below here you have a handy dandy little
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cup and it also makes it so that water
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and stuff doesn't go away and then right
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here you can unscrew this I personally
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use the Porta filter for using your own
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ground coffee but it does come with
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another little canister to use like
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espresso style pods and then right here
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you can see basically that's kind of
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your uh like little puncture thing when
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it pressurizes obviously this isn't
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going to puncture it's more for like the
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Espresso capsules and of course on the
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inside this is where you put your coffee
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here in a minute I'm actually going to
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make an espresso shot and show you guys
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exactly how to use all this but these
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are all of your different components
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basically you just fill it
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up screw it on
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and then you can basically just you know
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make your espresso right into there now
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as for specifications if you want it to
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heat your own water it makes about five
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espresso shots on a single charge
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however if you heat up your coffee
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without it without the actual heating
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elements or anything like that you can
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make up to 200 shots and I have to say
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it holds up to around there I'm I've
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been pretty impressed with that but
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we'll talk about that a little bit later
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now I like to keep my sticker on here uh
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basically you press this button twice to
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heat and extract so that's where it
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Heats your own water and then if you
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double press you can extract directly so
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that's for people like me that like to
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you know heat up the water ahead of time
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and then press wants to stop so if you
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want it to stop for some reason it was
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like a little emergency op button you
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just press it once while it is brewing
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and it'll stop it and as for sizing you
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can see it isn't huge but it definitely
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isn't small by any means it's h it's
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something you can throw into your p pack
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and with that said let's go ahead and
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brew a shot now I'm going to brew a shot
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just using heated up water it takes
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about 3 minutes to boil it and it does
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work but I I'm just going to go ahead
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and put boiling water in there so you
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guys can get an idea of how it all works
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so here is some kind of medium fine
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coarse ground coffee so let's go ahead
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and pull everything apart again and I'll
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show you how to fill that now of course
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I'm probably going to make a mess on my
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desk here but I guess that's okay it's
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for science all right so this is a scoop
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specifically from outin that came with
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it and it's the right size basically to
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put all of this in so you're going to
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take some coffee you're going to take it
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in
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there and then Tamp it down a little
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bit and then you want to make sure that
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you clean off this Edge as you can see I
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have it kind of up there at the top it
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is a little messy and I found that
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honestly that has been pretty okay so we
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just put that little cap
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right on there see now it's its own
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little pod we put it up here and
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then just like that now in this process
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I actually like to put this kind of
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little cut back on it just so I don't
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have to worry about it and then what we
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have here is some boiled water I just
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boiled this it should and then I kind of
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you know preet it for heat and we're
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going to go ahead and pour it up to the
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slide where I've never never done this
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on camera so this is kind of weird and
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as you can see I put it up to about that
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70 ml line and so this is boiled water
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and again I'm not doing this where it
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Heats its own water it takes about 200
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seconds or so to do that uh which is a
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little while but if you think about all
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the other things you have to do in the
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meantime it can kind of boil while
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you're working on other stuff all right
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and now I have here a clear glass so I
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am going to do that I'm going to remind
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myself exactly how many times I need to
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press so this is the double press to
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extract directly so I'm gonna go that
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and you can
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hear I just realized it's probably cuz I
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have it up
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directly so you can see it is extracting
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this is probably a terrible ankle for
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you guys but you'll get the idea when
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it's
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done and there it is it is
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done and as you can see the shot it does
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have the crma on top and uh we're going
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to get into to how forgiving it is uh
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but you can see it made a really good
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shot man I really should not have done
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this as a top angle but I don't have any
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other way to shoot this but that is a
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good shot and let's go ahead and talk
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about the things that I do like and
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don't like about this coffee maker all
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right so now that we know what the
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espresso machine is and how to use it
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let's talk about the things that I like
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about it and then we'll jump into the
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things that I don't like about it but
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stay tuned for that of course the first
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thing that I really like about this
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espresso machine comes down to the fact
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that it's fully battery operated
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rechargeable battery so let's get into
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that so most travel coffee makers or
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espresso makers like this are actually
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manually operated there's a little pump
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on the side that you kind of pump with
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your finger maybe on the back here uh
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and that builds up the pressure manually
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however this being battery operated it
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builds up the pressure for you not only
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Heats it up for you but builds up the
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pressure for you uh and I really like
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that because not every coffee maker is
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that way in the travel side of things
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and I really like that next thing is
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it's still on the battery operated side
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of things is honestly its battery life
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has been pretty impressive now the
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battery life on this is pretty
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impressive now it's not impressive say
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if you have it heated up for you every
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single time it only makes about five
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shots if that is something that sounds
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like you however if you boil the water
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ahead of time say you use this in your
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own kitchen instead of a standard kind
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of countertop espresso machine it can
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make up to 200 espresso shots just by
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you know kind of causing the pressure
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not doing the heating element portion of
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it and that is impressive so this can
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actually replace a countertop espresso
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machine I actually have an espresso
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machine I'm thinking about getting rid
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of because I prefer to use this right
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here so you can throw it into the
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cabinet it doesn't sit on your
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countertop and that's really nice number
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three thing that I really like it's
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pretty forgiving when it comes to like
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coffee grind size now this is the coffee
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that I primarily use this is actually
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going through a Mr Coffee coffee grinder
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uh now it's a bur grinder of course but
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it's not super nice so the you know the
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grinds are not super consistent or
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anything like that and this is a medium
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kind of fine coffee normally you want a
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super fine coffee for espresso however I
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use this for my arrow press as well
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which is also my other coffee maker that
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I primarily use and I don't really want
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to change up the coffee grinds depending
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on the coffee maker I use so I just use
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this and it still makes a really really
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good shot now the fourth thing that I
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really like about it is that you can use
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your own coffee grind now of course this
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little unit comes with both the ability
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to use espresso pods or you can use your
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own coffee grinds I really really do
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like that because it comes with both
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options in the box and I appreciate that
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cuz I personally prefer going cheaper
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and using my own coffee grinds instead
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of using an espresso pod which is
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considerably more expensive but I like
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that it comes with both options for
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whatever people want to use and then the
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last thing is honestly it's build
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quality as you can see I mean this is
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plastic uh but it is a really hard
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plastic it keeps really clean all the
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components even the electronics in it
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right there are super high-end uh and I
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have no complaints this is something I
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can drop and I don't have to worry about
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the metal in there feels really really
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nice all the components feel really
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Stout um and I have no complaints on
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build quality I am not worried about
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this thing breaking or getting damaged
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if I throw it in my backpack or any of
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that kind of stuff it is super
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impressive I have no complaints when it
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comes to build quality all right so we
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talked about all the things that I do
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like but of course it's important to
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know what I didn't like about this
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portable espresso machine so let's get
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into that now now the first thing that I
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really really wish it had is two Porta
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filters why is that let's get into it
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now when you take this off and unscrew
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it you can see your little Porta filter
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in there I wish there were two of these
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why is that because Normal espresso
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drinks require two shots and this makes
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one shot at a time as you can see it
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doesn't have a massive capacity in there
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and the Bummer with that is you have to
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then take all of this apart after your
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first shot you have to take it all apart
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you have to clean it all out and then
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you have to put new coffee in there Tamp
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it down put it all together it's not
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that bad when you're doing one shot but
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if you're wanting to make a latte with a
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double shot it's a whole process to be
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able to do that I wish you could set it
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all up ahead of time uh so that you can
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make two shots pretty quickly instead of
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being like 20 seconds it's going to take
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a couple minutes to make sure that you
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are getting your shots set up correctly
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so I wish it came with two Porta filters
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when it comes to the pre-round coffee
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and then the only other thing that I
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didn't super like about it is the
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cleanup process I think it's important
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to have coffee makers that are easy to
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clean up so let's talk more about that
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now this is an issue with most espresso
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machines especially in the travel space
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is there's just a lot of different
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components and when you come through
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here and you take this all apart and
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then there's coffee on the inside right
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there this actually doesn't even like
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kick out into your garbage if you just
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like shake it or like Tamp it or
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anything like that and so it's kind of
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annoying to do cleanup most of the time
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you end up just washing most of it down
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the sink and down the
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drain and so I wish it was a little bit
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easier to clean up I don't know how they
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would do that with this machine but it's
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something I wish was the case is just
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easier cleanup but it's something you
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just kind of live with with portable
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coffee machines and who is this for if
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you're somebody that wants to make a spr
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esess so on the go I have yet to find a
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better option than this I have tried
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some competitors and I have to say just
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being able to heat up your own water
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whether you need to do it or not is
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really nice because then you can just
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take some ground coffee with you
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wherever you go and you can make coffee
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wherever you need you don't have to find
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a hot plate you don't have to find a
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stove it really really is impressive but
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of course if you're worried about a
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messy cleanup experience and you really
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need that double shot this may not be a
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great solution for you it is also a
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little bit heavier than I would prefer
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it's something that is going to weigh
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down your backpack if it's something
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like you're taking hiking if you're
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looking for a good portable espresso
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machine I have yet to find a better
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option so if you found this review in
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