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you might have a pretty reasonable
question which is why was I on the side
of a hill drinking coffee was it just
for the cinematic shots for YouTube well
no no it was for a perfectly good reason
it was for this review which is for the
Wakako nano press oh and I have no idea
if I'm saying that right now this is a
Brewer that I bought for about 70 pounds
and for that I get the standard and an
oppressor and I get this which is the
espresso pod adapter for it which
actually might be quite a good thing
we'll come to that in a second now this
has been heavily requested by people in
the comment 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 in YouTube and ask them to review a
product it's kind of part of Street
teaming part of marketing so it was a
little bit wary they had actually sent
me one in the past and III 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
your coffee goes now you dose your
coffee into this little section here and
when you brew the coffee will be
underneath and this will actually be
your showerhead
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 and
you're gonna use this and pump it to
build up the pressure to brew the coffee
now they say you're going to brew more
than enough pressure to brew espresso
and I think that's probably
from using it there's been my experience
if you want to brew an espresso capsules
and it doesn't have to be an espresso
brand it can be anything compatible with
that you just take out this brewing
section and then this one comes with a
slightly adapted filter section that
their tests sort of pierce the foil and
then the capsular holder with the spikes
at the bottom to pierce the capsule
where the water flows in pretty easy
pretty simple to use lots of little
pieces that screw together but how's the
coffee that's what you're thinking
that's what you want to know well let's
brew some coffee and talk about it now
this thing does come with a scoop that
is frankly a better tamper than it is a
scoop really this is a strong indication
that this product is designed for people
who are going to buy pre-ground coffee
to make espresso with and you'll know if
you go to a supermarket and buy coffee
that's ground for espresso it's not
ground for espresso it's usually much
much much coarser cos it's gonna go into
a mock apart some people like a new
Brewers filter coffee so they go for
that kind of omni grind
middle-of-the-road way 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 coarse a coffee than you would
typically use for espresso that makes it
a little weird to brew with now it does
have inside it a little pressurizing
device that I'll take apart in a second
that adds extra pressure where the
coffee ground coffee maybe can't similar
to a pressurized Porta filter so as I'm
building pressure now I get what looks
like espresso coming out of here you can
see this on Chrome herb not very much
it's pretty pale but at this point this
was ground nearly it kind of pour over
coarseness if you go finder than this
doesn't work well at all it seems my
coffee is a little fine this time even
though I got a bit coarser we have a
little leakage if you take out the 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 crema
you have a kind of okay drink but it's
not a patch on what a good manual
espresso machine can make regardless of
the the claims to the pressure 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 9 bar number
assuming they're set 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's set up not great not great
at all maybe we should try with 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 tines almost that that's it
inside this unit where the water will
flow in and the way a Nespresso capsule
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
additional kind of pre-infusion
pressurizing moment before the coffee
starts to flow even in a device that may
have an additional pressurizing in it
like a spring in there as well and the
way we pump you could hear the pod first
and there it certainly would have work
to push and lo and behold creamy creamy
crema this looks much more akin to
something that you might expect as
espresso so this espresso is 25 grams of
liquid from about 5 and 1/2 grams of
coffee so that's a 5 to 1 ratio which is
well outside the bounds of espresso
being so when the region of one to two
lungo one to three or four this is
coarser again bigger again weaker
again but it will likely be very well
extracted which it is it's also a pretty
dark arrested coffee in this particular
pod which is what I had your hand here
right now but I'm left unsure about how
I really feel about this thing on paper
it should work fine you can build 9
Basel more of pressure here though I
find the sort of pumps per second thing
a little fuzzy as a way to build
pressure and 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 90s because
you're just going to lose too much heat
there's not enough thermal mass in the
liquid here it's gonna be a lower
temperature brew and so probably does
better with slightly darker roasted
coffees than it would do lighter roasted
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 up a
hill and I sat and I brewed coffee and
the great outdoors and I took a thermos
of water and actually what cocoa will
sell you their own brand of thermos to
take water with you and with a pod and
water it's reasonably practical to be
almost anywhere and to brew an espresso
then so I sat in the morning in the
quiet of the forest and I made myself an
espresso and I sat there and 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 I 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 cup of filter coffee
because my espresso was gone and 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 you 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 I 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 and 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 subject but if you're using
something like that a thermos of hot
water then sure that's pretty easy you
can have an espresso any way you want
now with fresh ground coffee from an
espresso grinder I actually found this
thing fussy and irritating to dial in
and 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 more
you know I'd probably frankly have to
brew twice to have enough caffeine in my
system to feel human in the morning and
hey maybe that's just me that's just me
but I don't want to brew twice with this
it's it's not a joy to take apart and
clean it's not super simple it's not
difficult as you knock the puck out give
the whole thing or rinse 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 that's 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
grinder at home you may as well have a
good espresso machine at home built for
finely ground coffee to get true real
delicious espresso something like the
Flair or the rock and I'll be reviewing
the cafe lat robot 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 to drink an espresso
in those environments I'd rather take a
travel brewer I'd 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 and I'd be
interested to hear your experiences with
this thing do you have it love it am I
am I missing something really obvious
here are you are you grinding finally
for it are you grinding reasonably
coarse what are 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
at 70 pounds
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 complaints about that I
just I just didn't love it if I'm honest
there you go
I'll wrap it up here and I'll say thank
you so much for watching I hope you have
a great day
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