Hi,

Anyone tried the Portaspresso? Looks like a fairly new portable device, similar to the mypressi twist, but with a hand crank to pressurize, which allows you to manually profile for pressure. It's got a high price tag ($400). I'd love to see a comparison against the Mypressi. http://portaspresso.com

Gives me pause that the guy (owner/designer I think) in the video is so cavalier with his preparation.



Best,
Marc
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Holy sh** - if you don't have them already, after a few of these, you'd have arms of steel. The design just looks wrong to me. Handle throw distance is too short, and the shaft too high. I'd rather get a Handpresso as it is way cheaper and easier on the wrist/arm. Shot looked OK though.

Anyone else watching that hear Popeye saying, "Guyeh gug guh guh,,, Me thinks espresso is neatsky."

So you hold it upside down, and hoping your aim is good, you pour near-boiling water into a 2.25" hole...? No thank you.

You also need to have a very good puck after tamping and a precise and delicate hand if you don't want the grounds to fall in the water when reassembling the device before extraction. Probably good intentions... but poor design.

What's old is new again. This reminds me of the screw piston design that Achille Gaggia tried to perfect, then abandoned in favor of the spring lever. I see now why he found the lever more appealing.

IMO, to upgrade this for the 21st Century, I'd motorize the thing, with a motor like the one on a cordless drill, perche no? OK, it might not be as elegant as a Mypressi Twist.

Looks like a solution looking for a problem, or second degree burns looking for a victim.

Ignoring the demonstrator's pretense of 'mastery', it looks like quite a usable device.

The amount of force needed to turn the screw should increase as the pressure builds, and should be quite low at the beginning when the two hands are far apart.

Watching the build up of pressure and extraction reminds me a lot of using the Presso. It also wouldn't start flowing until the handles were all the way down, and the extraction would also last about 15 seconds. That kind of extraction produces a shot that would taste familiar to home spring-lever users - very 'blurred' and comfortable.

Perhaps the operator was just trying to do a neat demo?

I'm not saying it isn't cool, or doesn't work well - but the ergonomics of it are so far from being right, you have to question it. It would be like using my Kyocera hand grinder without the catch cup attached and sitting on the table, trying to grind into it.

Now if the device had a way to "crank" it and hit a release button, that would be another story as you would be able to steady the device over the cup and it could do it's thing.

I think the biggest problem is what Randy said... it needs to be able to free-stand perhaps, then you can pour the water more safely.

The work, some people will be willing to do for a portable device (with a plus side of not having any CO2 cartridges to buy, etc) -- just need to alternate hands so you don't get buff just in one

One of the youTube comments mentioned he'll have a video with naked extraction, this shall be interesting... not so sure how you crank and watch it...