hey guys welcome to planning with crystal so today I'm gonna do an unboxing of the
Nespresso creatista Pro coffee machine so I'm gonna get out the box unpack it
all with you and then I'll give you a quick tour of the machine so this is the
other side of it and it's pretty heavy it's got like a handle on top and stuff to kind
of help you with carrying it and yeah you just pull up these little tabs out here a
little bit of a fan with at the moment so as usual it comes pretty well packaged first of
all they have included some capsules here which will just be like a little
selection hopefully off their range we want to register open it without
destroying the box that was good so this is the selection that they've
included the sixteen in here I believe a range of Longos decafs and stuff so
this is the little drip tray leaflets so there's no way it was coming out of
the box at the angle I was doing it with all my camera equipment setup so I just
pulled everything out so we get a milk jug like this so this is just the jug that they
included it's got a Max and min line on the outside so you can see where to kind of fill
it you do go up to it's got little notches in there as well but when you're making your milk
recipes and then we've got the drip tray that I mention here Scott I had a little
serial number and all that I've just taken off and it's just sort of taped down here
just see that's what it kind of looks like underneath there and that hole there will be
so that it matches up with the sensor I want to think and then there's also there's plastic you
stuff all over the machine itself to protect even the cord has its own little plastic you think okay
it's really really quite heavy I usually use the nespresso create sister Plus which is the model
that came out before this so I've just upgraded to this particular model but I do still have you
can see in the craziness over here this is my creative plus model which is extremely similar
this one is slightly larger and slightly heavier and does more things so I'm going to finish
this kind of unboxing with you now give you a quick look through and then I do plan to film
a separate creative surplus versus creators to pro video so you can see the difference between
the two machines because there is a 250 pound difference between those two if you're buying
in the UK so it's quite significant for two very similar machines of all they do do some
things differently but I'm going to play around with it anyway and I'll do that review once I've
out a bit longer to use this so again they just kind of have these little bits stuck down just
to keep everything safe in transit I love the kind of chrome design this particular model
actually only comes in this wrong color whereas the creative step plus version does that so come
in a few different colors if that matters to you so I thought rest like this if you're making like
a smaller cup size drink and that's what you do to just eject the little capsule folder and so
obviously you got your little steam wand here there is actually a little sensor there if you
can just about see that that little metal sensor when you're actually making the milk based drinks
you just have to make sure that is actually on the sensor so that it picks it up and does
the kind of heating up and stuff let's have a little tour around what this machine was like
so it is in this lovely kind of stainless steel design and then on the back we've got a 2 litre
water jug which is 2 liters is actually quite a lot and my other machine I think it's only
a litre and a half and even that's quite a big so this again is just taped down you just lift
that off when you want to fill it with water and other sort of way just kind of like this
it's all a bit stiff because it's brand-new and there's also actually under here there's right
this little tool that lives under there and and that is just so that you can help to clean the
little holes that are in your steam wand and this bit is to just like loosen and tighten the
mechanism inside the steam one for when you're doing a bit of a clean that just locks back in
there when you've got your water in and then it's like flush to the design of the machine and again
nice down the steel side there and this is just a little sticker here so I'm going to plug it in
and then I can show you a little bit more about the screen here and what that offers this is
the way your capsules go as well there's that little sensor I was talking about making sure
you line up there with your little jug this here is just like a plasticy mechanism and that is so
that when this fills with water that will rise up and stick out and then you will know when
you need to empty it this little tray here and again there's just a little space there because
that lines up well with the spout so if there's any dripping it will just drip down into that
hole just in case you wondered what that was all about okay let's switch this machine on
so let's look a few seconds and then set your machine up well let's go remove the water tank
rinse it I've done that fill the water tank up to the maximum level and attach its back to the
machine we've done that and then it says would you like to set your machine water hardness I'll use
a default setting so we'll just use the default setting for now but in your instructions there is
a little card that allows you to set the water hardness it's like a little test testing thing
just to test how hard the water is in your area if you're not sure ok so then it says place the
empty milk jug under the coffee spout so I guess it's gonna run some water through
or something just to make sure everything's nice and clean before we use that and then
it's social machine will automatically stop rinsing when the cycle is complete
okay and then it says remove the milk jug and the drip tray and discard the contents so I'm
going to do that and then we're going to have a look at some of the different drinks we can make
okay so it says let's make your first drink so you just press that there it says with the lever and
insert the capture well and then close the lever so for a ristretto I'm just going to use this
capsule here this one is the Inspira sone Venezia and probably not in that rug I was going to pop
it in and click ristretto and this one is just going to be a 25 ml size so pretty small really
just to then compare this to the espresso size
using the same capsule as before this is the standard 40 mil size
so they are the two different sizes and then for longer this is Lindsay out longer
next up is the long black so we use an arpeggio for this one so this is essentially water and
coffee and you can also control how much cuff it goes in and you can control how
much water goes in as well so we're going to leave it at the current settings click Play
so now we're going to have a flat white and I'm going to use one of the cart or
capsules these ones are made specifically for milk recipes and these work really well
this is the stronger of the three that they offer so I'm just gonna click play
up here and then I've got my milk jug on the sensor there and I was my cup
so just rinse stuff from one side and then we're just gonna cut the milk in obviously
just out of the amount that you want to taste so next up I'm going to make the next one on
the list which is the cappuccino and just to let you know in case you're wondering with
these recipes and the amounts of milk I put in the jug I just tend to go to the minimum
level and it's max inside the jug as well just because I find in fact that even with
the minimum level there's actually too much milk for just one cup unless I'm
making a really huge latte or something so I just tend to keep it on the minimum so I'm
gonna be using a volatile capsule for this particular one and we're gonna press that
ken of course met this milk as kind of fluffy as you'd like as for me as
you like you've got options on the settings there for that but that is
my little cappuccino now let's do a latte so I'm gonna use this capsule
is actually a Starbucks Capshaw profit espresso one and what's hit polite me
then again it's kind of had as much milk as you would like to test
and finally the latte Mattia macchiato button again I'm gonna use a carto
capsule for this got my little milk joking everything filled up
so for this one it hasn't actually he said the milk and cut and dispensed a coffee at
the same time because the idea with this one is you pour the milk into the glass
and then put the glass under the spout and then start the espresso so let's do
that just cleaned off the milk spout so I'm just gonna call the drop milk in and then
so you get the really nice mix there of the coffee in the milk
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