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hey guys welcome to planning with Crystal today's video is an unboxing of the Nespresso
virtual pop which is one of the newer virtual machines in espresso has released it's on
offer right now for 49 pounds and you get five boxes of capsules with it as well which
we'll have a look at shortly so in this video we're going to unbox the machine we're going
to use it for the first time and I will tell you all its features we'll look at the size
weights and all that good stuff so first of all let's have a look at the box and see what's
inside so briefly sort of hints at some of the different coffees you can make but we'll
cover that shortly
there are a few of the features and things listed here on the box so it automatically
turns itself off after two minutes it only takes 30 seconds to heat up and it makes these
four different coffee sizes now I will be doing separate comparison videos to compare
this to my other Nespresso virtual machines if that's something you're interested in I'll
be comparing it in future videos to Virtual next and virtual plus so any specific questions
anything like that do let me know so there's a bit more information here all about the
sustainability commitments and the packaging things relating to this particular machine
but let's see what's inside [Music] so when you open up your lid you've got some instructions
and things as you would expect
cup holder this is a little drainy thing so the selling point with this particular machine
is how compact it is I'm gonna look at it from a few different angles in just a second
however you are kind of sacrificing a couple of other things when you consider obviously
to make it smaller you're going to lose out a little bit it depends on your point of view
but I'll show you what I mean in a second so height wise this is 9.8 inches or 25 centimeter
the width is 5.3 inches or 13.6 centimeters and your depth on this is 16.7 inches or 42.6
centimeters Weight Wise obviously without the water it weighs 3.5 kilograms or 7.7 pounds
it does have Bluetooth connectivity I will put a card here to my virtual next video which
includes how to do the Bluetooth connectivity it's identical exactly the same as this one
your water tank here at the back holds 600 milliliters of water or 20 fluid ounce so
this is one of the sort of little sacrifices you have to make by having a smaller machine
is isn't going to hold as much water so if you're making a few drinks you're going to
have to keep kind of filling it up some of my other virtual machines hold twice as much
water as that the card on this is really quite short so it measures in around just under
80 centimeters or around 30 inches on this side of the machine you can see we've got
the capsule holder here so obviously this is going to be smaller because the machine
is smaller so how this works for start cleaning purposes it's got this little insert here
that you take out it's got holes in the bottom you can give it a good clean you can clean
at this bottom bit and then it just slides back in together but you can see that is not
going to hold many capsules so we'll see how many it holds and then at least that will
answer that question when you get a new machine Nespresso includes a box of different capsules
for you to try and kind of sample and see what you like this just kind of gives you
a bit of a clue about what's in here and it talks about the different sizes and just one
thing to mention this particular machine will only do espresso double spray special Grand
logo and coffee mug size it will not do the carafe the only machine that Nespresso make
that will allow you to make a carafe of coffee is the virtual next all of the other virtual
machines cannot do that so just bear that in mind so this is a current selection at
the time of making the video which is February 2023 so there's a few different sizes you've
got your smallest size which is an espresso size like this so that is 40 mL of coffee
this is a double espresso so twice as much coffee this one will make 80 mL of coffee
you've got a grand Longo size so this one is 150 ml of coffee and finally you've got
mug size which is the biggest one this coffee machine can make which is 230 ml obviously
you could make milk separately and increase the size of your coffee that way in terms
of actual coffee 230 ml or 7.77 fluid ounces is the largest you're going to be able to
get from this machine unless you use multiple capsules we'll come back to Coffee size when
we make some drinks shortly so getting back to how many capsules can we actually fit in
this thing let's have a look so we're gonna put a big one which is your mug size then
we're gonna put in the Double Espresso and we will put in granongo and we will put in
an espresso sorts of Four capsules I've shown you and that's pretty almost kind of full
already I'm gonna pop in another Double Espresso and I'm gonna pop in a grand lungo and to
be honest I think that's going to be about as much as this is going to hold the only
way to know 100 is to keep brewing coffee until this is full but it looks like about
six capsules depending on the size is going to be about your maximum for this particular
machine now if you're just making one or two coffees that is probably plenty but if you're
trying to make you know lots then you just need to be aware you're gonna have to keep
filling up your water tank you're gonna have to keep emptying the capsules out of the machine
so just a little thing just to mention the only other thing I've noticed is slightly
compromised by the size of this machine is the little cup holder at the front so at the
front here you have got the little cup holder now of course the distance between the actual
cup holder and the spout where the coffee is coming out is quite short you can hopefully
see that but I just use my hand there and to demonstrate in it so what you're going
to have to do if you want to make a bigger coffee with a normal sized mug you're going
to have to remove that so it's just got a little kind of cut out here and a little lip
there that that just Clips onto now it's not a massive issue but I think it's going to
prohibit you from using certain cups probably not Nespresso cups let's just grab one and
check so this is your virtual mug size so for 230 ml coffee so it's the biggest kind
of cup apart from the travel mugs that Nespresso makes so that will obviously only fit by removing
the cup holder obviously smaller Cups espresso Etc will work with that in place it's just
something I wanted to mention so if you're making an espresso or something like that
you're not going to have a problem cappuccino will fit Grand [ __ ] just about fits to
that particular cup just just fits but like I said for the mug you would need to remove
it so we are going to move on to these different cup sizes I've got the relevant cups and things
here but we're going to make coffees in them when we get to the coffee making stage which
is something I wanted to mention is it's something I've noticed with how small that little section
is under the spout so just something else to bear in mind certainly if you were making
yourself a coffee in the morning in a travel cup you would probably struggle to fit your
travel cup under here you probably have to kind of hold it on an angle which isn't ideal
I like to press the button when I get down to the kitchen in the morning while I'm making
my breakfast and I like it to do its thing I don't want to have to kind of stand there
while it's you know dispensing my coffee if I'm taking it on the go it's just a little
thing to think about so now we're going to move on to the actual operation of the machine
we're going to start making some drinks so the way the Nespresso virtual system works
is it scans the barcode of capsule to tell the machine how much water it needs and what
size coffee it's making so it does that automatically if you're familiar with like the original
line machines it would have potential two buttons maybe more depending on the model
so how you would operate this is you would generally put your thumb here on this twist
it and open it now I can do that one-handed but it's not the easiest movement it would
be a lot easier to use two hands so this might also be a consideration if you need to operate
this machine one-handed I'm aware for certain disabilities it might be helpful to operate
things with just one hand so in that case I don't think this is necessarily the best
model if you do need to operate it one-handed or if you have any difficulties with opening
and closing things I would definitely recommend the virtual plus I think that would be much
more suitable I've done a separate video on that if that is of interest but I just wanted
to mention it because it's a real consideration you don't want to buy a machine that you're
going to potentially struggle to operate okay so we're going to go smallest to largest we're
going to start it off with our espresso coffee so I'm just going to pop that there under
the spouts this is the coffee we're making this one is altisser so you're just going
to pop it in it's going to go down face down so the flat shiny surface is on the top there
you're going to push the machine down I find it easier to kind of pull this to the right
and then lock it in place on the left and that's what I was talking about in terms of
it being helpful if you can do this two-handed like I said I think that's a little bit of
a disadvantage having to use two hands like I said when some of the other machines are
a bit easier to operate so you wait for it to light up it's lit up it only takes 30 seconds
to heat up which is really good really fast press the button on the top and it's going
to start to spin at the capsule it's going to start to make that noise and hopefully
it's going to start to dispense a little bit of coffee here thank you
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I will speed the process up otherwise we will be here all day
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okay so that didn't seem like the smoothest operation it seemed a bit sort of reluctant
to dispense the coffee so hopefully that's just a blip because it's the first coffee
we've made we'll see how we get on with the rest and then we can compare and contrast
but that is the espresso I will put on screen how long it actually took to dispense this
coffee from the time I press a button like I said it was the first one hopefully it will
speed up but we'll see so we've made our coffee to get the capsule out you would twist it
to the right release and then it's got this almost like a ski lift that's what it reminds
me of where the coffee capsule is pushed back into there which is where it's going to go
into our little holder which will obviously empty one that gets full so we're going to
make our next coffee this one is a double espresso so this one is called Double Espresso
Charro um you can use this with or without milk as you can with all the coffees again
pushing it down twisting it pressing that button
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okay so overall that did seem a lot smoother than the previous coffee so maybe it is just
getting used to making coffee for the first time so that's our Double Espresso 80 mil
Cafe I'll put on screen how long it took to dispense moving on to our next coffee this
is your grand lungo this one is Costa Rica one of my favorite Grand Mongols in fact
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so that is our grand longer so again I'll put on screen how long it took to make so
I'm gonna have to fill this up or it isn't going to have enough water to do a mug-sized
cafe so it's done with those other three okay but getting to this point of this size it
just needs a bit more water okay so we're gonna have to remove that little cup rust
and a mug there the mug size Cafe we're gonna make melosio one of my personal favorite mug
size coffees so this is the size I use the most in my machines foreign
okay let's go
so that is the mug size let's have a look at them side by side so these are the four
coffees that you can make with this machine starting off we've got an espresso coffee
that is a 40 mil coffee we've got double espresso which is 80 mil Grand Monger which is 150
ml and mug size which is 230 mil like I said this machine is not able to make the craft
size that is only possible with the virtual next so like I said the machine at the moment
February 2023 is 49 pounds I will link it below now whether you buy it from Nespresso
or even if you buy it from another retailer they're currently doing an offer where you
can claim 50 free capsules I'll show you exactly which capsules they are in just a second and
that's in addition to the little box you get that gives you the kind of 12 different coffees
to try as well so if you do buy it from a different retailer you can then go on to an
espresso's website to claim your capsules so the capsules I received and I got the machine
I got a box of altiso so this is a 40 mil espresso size coffee I also got Furtado but
the decaf version these are a grand lungo size I got stormio which is mug sized milosio
also mug size and Ethiopia which is a grand lungo size each box contains 10 capsules so
that's 50 in total so that's a nice little bonus if you're able to get the coffee machine
right now so let me know in the comments what do you think of this machine did you get it
attempted to what do you think let me know what you'd like to see in any future videos
like I said I want to do some more comparison videos you guys seem to like that from the
Nespresso series I have done previously thank you so much for watching my video today I
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