hey guys welcome to planning with crystal so today we're going to be doing a comparison between the
Nespresso virtual + machine and the Nespresso virtual next machine which they've just recently
released so what I'm going to do is I'm going to show you each side of each machine we're going to
have a look at things like the cup rest size and also the watts of capacity so that you can see
every kind of angle and the difference between the two I'm going to talk to you about the different
capsules that it accepts I'm also going to tell you about a lot the features and things are the
features and things that are included with these different machines and we're going to make a
drink where they check the temperature and see if there's any difference between the two drinks that
it produces so to start with there is slight size differences between the two and the virtual plus
is a slightly heavier machine nothing massive this is 4.6 kilograms whereas the next machine's only
four kilograms not allowed to make a difference who is carrying their machine around with them
but I just thought I would mention that to you in terms of the width of the machine they're
exception with similar 14.2 two centimeter so on this one I'm 14 centimeters - this one's a
very very similar obviously they look slightly different and it's it's personal choice isn't it
which one you prefer so well that's all put each machine so the way that the machines open is very
different so the virtual plus you just press under there and it lifts itself whereas the virtual next
you actually have to twist this handle and it opens like that so this one's a lot more kind
of automated in that way you can see it's taking quite a while to actually kind of warm up kick in
and open itself but at some point it should do now if you're somebody who struggles with the hands
or the wrist maybe you have arthritis that kind of thing then you're probably going to be better with
the virtual plus because obviously this requires and in terms of closing it it requires a little
bit of kind of pushing it down and wrist strength and things so that's a consideration for you then
you might want to go for this one okay so now I've said that it hasn't actually come up on the first
touch I think that's just actually heated up the machine but if you press it again that is how it
opens and rejected the last capsule so you can see now when they're open this one's a little
bit taller which again could be consideration if it's going under kitchen cupboards or something
you might want to think about the very slight kind of height difference so virtual plots and
the virtual necks they're quite a bit taller I guess a lot of thats down to the kind of size
of the lid on there different shapes and stuff like that and in terms of while we're still at
the front the the mechanism in which they throw out the capsules which you'll see when we make
a drink in a little bit is exactly the same it's almost like a little bit of a slide the capsule is
lifted up when you finished with the drink and the capsule and it just slides down and drops
into that capsule container there at the back and we'll have a look at the capsule container
sizes as well if you so you can see there's quite a difference between the two not so much in terms
of capacity but very different shapes and things to go with the machines so looking at the front
of the machines themselves the actual copper s are very different so this is the one that obviously
belongs here to the virtual plus and this is the one that comes with virtual next now you
can see straight away this one is it's stainless steel it's metal anyway it's obviously it really
well made and it's just got this grille on top and then the one that they've included with the
next is a lots more chili made it's like a plastic it's much much smaller just a little plastic that
goes on top and the virtual cloth also has two hooks so what you do is you move it up according
to the size drink you're gonna make so if you're gonna make a big drink you'll probably put your
cup rest at the bottom and if you're gonna make really smoking you move it up and I'm conscious
the size of your cups if you're making an espresso and you're probably going to use it right there
and this is similar it does have only three cup sizes which to be fair fine I've never used all
four and but it is obviously a lot more cheaply made and it this one is quite a bit smaller now
using it so far I haven't noticed any difference it's not like I've had a couple that hasn't fits
on but if you had a particularly large cup like a large base perhaps this would be a bit better just
a consideration I mean in terms of craftsmanship materials things like that bear in mind when this
machine was first purchased it was 199 pounds it's currently 99 pounds and this machine is 150 now
they do have a more kind of upmarket version of the next machines they have one that's the thing
hundred seventy-five and one that's two hundred and if you go for the one that's two hundred
there are some slight differences I think it uses more stainless steel and things like that so that
could be a consideration so it isn't necessarily a direct comparison in that way due to the cost
and whatnot so let's have a look at the sides of the machines so here you can just see the side
of the machines so the virtual plus has it got a depth of thirty two point five one this one has
got a depth of thirty-eight so you can sort of see that in terms this was also a bit longer and
you can just see the little water tank sticking out of the back I'm just trying to kind of fit
them on on the worktop and everything at the moment and so it's not too different but again
it could depend if you are looking at trying to fit it into a particular space you might with a
lock of the measurements and I will put all the measurements under the video as well so that
you can see the difference is there when you're trying to make your decision I'm just going to
flip to the other side because the virtual next machine actually keeps its capsule container on
the other side of the machine I'll just show you now now one thing to just mention with this is
with the virtual plus machine you can also twist your water tank at the back so you can have it so
it's in a straight line or you can kind of tuck it so it's again if you're looking at fitting it in
a particular space might really be a consideration for you so in terms of the kind of capsule holders
that I was talking to you about in the virtual next machine it sits there on the side about
Scott capturable in here and it comes apart just slides out like that so you can clean in there
and you can clean inside the little capsule container bits this again is a consideration
because if you think about it because you have to pull it out of a particular side it affects where
you position the machine because you have if you have this say against a wall or against another
appliance or something you have to have the space to be able to tip that out so then pull it out so
again if you're looking at certain spaces this probably isn't going to be the machine for you
whereas the virtual cloth you can just pull it out like that and you can pull it out on either
side it's not restricted to which side it pulls just as well from the other side and in terms of
the capsule containers they are both said to hold ten large capsules Tufts of those different sizes
that these machines hold what ten of the large ones and this again is the one that came from
the plus and this is the next machine in terms of the water tank you can see the plus there on
the left has got a much larger water capacity at 1.8 liters whereas the next version only has
a lot of capacity of 1.1 litre so I do find out I'm having to keep refilling the newer model if
I'm making a few drinks in a day okay so another thing that I wanted to mention the card length
on both machines is exactly the same I don't think it's particularly long unless your machine happens
to be sat right next to plug socket or something it's 75 centimeters I would prefer if they were
much longer but the both exactly the same both 74 centimeters and another consideration now to
think about when buying between these two machines this one is made out of recycled materials not all
of it but quite a bit of it they've really focused a lot more on that when making this
machine where else they haven't so much with this because this is an older machine and if
you've watched my unboxing video of the virtual next and if you have a null link it at the end in
the box itself as well as also made of recyclable materials so again might be a consideration for
you let's make a drink in each machine see which is quicker and also which makes the better drink
if there's any difference at all so both machines have been switched off for a little bit now I'm
gonna switch them both on and I'm going to time how long that that takes so switch this one on
we're just going to do this for this one we're just going to do this so they both obviously that
one's not opening quite quickly press it again it will so then so I'm not going to time that
bit I'm gonna time it from when it starts making the drink so in terms of capsules there are a few
different sizes your smallest ones look like this and this makes 40 mils of coffee then your medium
size is like this one this is a double espresso and then there's also a whole other range which
are also considered medium so you double espresso sizes they make 80 mils of coffee then this size
which is a grande lungo is 150 of coffee then your MOOC size is 230 mils looks like this the
way the machines work every capsule regardless of its size has the bar code on the top and you
put them in the Machine and the Machine reads the barcode and dispenses the correct amount of water
depending on the coffee capsule what's in so today we're gonna make two of these melosa coffees and
we'll do it with them without milk so we can do the taste difference out so Dolce is one of the
largest capsules that they make it is a strength number four they do two in this size they do the
alto dr. which strength for and the Alto in 10 so it just strength 7 so this is 440 mils
I don't even have a cup big enough to dispense this in I generally dispense it into a cop and
then the rest into like a milk drug and just chop up my coffee as I'm going so it's not generally
one that I repurchase because I just think it's too big the taste is nice but the coffee is just
crazy size for me personally some people might absolutely love it I'm gonna put the capsules in
both go in like that with the dome sheet down and flop it's sitting up I'm going to Pop's identical
cops under each I'm going to press this one down and close it and then that one you just do that
with there's a button on top of each that you just press to dispense the coffee so let's go
Oh interesting so the floss is actually dispensing the coffee first at 21 seconds
and then the next machine starts at 29
so that one finished up a minute 26 this one is still dripping away at 1:39 it's the right someone
so you can see they both look pretty similar you can just see where the coffee has actually dropped
in this one's a little bit more central this one sort of more on the edge and that's just of
the design of the machine it's exactly the same coffee but you can kind of see the crema on the
next machine seems slightly higher slightly darker I would say and almost the foam is
slightly different as well which is interesting so hopefully you can kind of see the difference there
this is almost more kind of Airy ated I would say and this is a creme up from the plus machine
Tristan I have sort of noticed that the crema on the next machine seems to sort of dissipate away
a little bit quicker it's you can see now it's already starting to kind of bubble away and almost
disappear so let's taste each coffee I'm also going to test the temperature of them both as
well and then we'll add some milk as well and see what the difference is there so I'm just going to
be using this little kitchen age leaf for frothing milk from an old kind of coffee machine nice to
have ages ago I've tested it and my kettle water is 90 degrees so if you degree 90 degree Celsius
so that's a kind of the benchmark so for the virtual plus machine just let it do its thing
okay so we're getting a reading of about 63 nothing too precise with this unfortunately
it's not digital or it isn't too fancy and then I would say for the virtual next I'm getting about
61 so very very similar I don't have my coffee too hot anyway I like it to be kind of at a drinking
temperature so I'm quite happy with that and the very very similar to each other so if you like
it super hot perhaps and only not supposed to burn coffee and stuff anyway so perhaps that's
part of it and so in terms of color the both got the same kind of dark color going on hopefully
you can see here that that primer is really kind of doing strange things reminds me a little bit
of honeycomb anyway let's taste each to see what would taste like that's most important
and I would say you get a little tiny bit more bitterness from this copy than that cough it
broke man it's the same coffee same machine same water same heating time and everything
else we're very slightly more bitter but I quite like bitter in coffee so that's fine so then what
we're gonna do is add a little bit of milk and see if we notice any differences when the milks
added I've tried to put the same amount of milk in each one of these so that's how they look in
with the milk in there I'll just give them a little bit of a stir just show you up close as
well again that crema is looking a little bit different here on the plus compared with the
next interesting I have no idea what's going on with that it's slightly different though
so you still get that slight bitterness with the next machine that you don't get with the
plus machine nothing majorly different but there is definitely a slight difference there in terms
of the automatic power off so if you dispense your drink and don't switch the Machine off
straightaway the plus is going to take nine minutes to switch off whereas the next machine
does it within two minutes so again kind of thinking about that environmental impacts you're
gonna have a slightly much better experience and you're going to save more energy by using the next
verge versus the plus if that's a consideration and also just again just aesthetics really I do
like the fact that they've put the metal Nespresso logo sticking out there whereas it's just printed
on this machine minor minor things let's just keep the capsules out so again that's and it just goes
down the slide and falls down into the back and then for that one pretty much just the same thing
and they just fall away if you've watched any of my other videos you'll see that I also have
a Nespresso creative plus and the creators - pro machine so I will be doing a video in the future
with the differences between the virtual coffee and the original line coffee so if you're trying
to decide between do I go for the big capsules or the small capsules I'll tell you all about my
experiences with both and hopefully that I'll help you make that decision if there's any other kind
of videos you would like to see with the machine or anything you'd like to know just leave me a
comment and I'll see what I can do on that score I also wanted to mention at the moment that this
machine like I said is 99 pounds this one is 149 pounds and they both have a current offer where if
you buy it right now Nespresso are giving you 100 free capsules and that's the same regardless of
which machine you get and then on your next order of 100 capsules are more they also give you a free
travel clock so check that out if you're thinking of getting it you might as well get it while the
offer is oh I bought both machines myself as well in case you were wondering about all the coffee
machines myself much as I would love an espresso to send me free machines I do hope you will leave
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