(dramatic music)
(phone alarm rings)
- Now tell me if this is a familiar problem,
you wake up in the morning, you're warm, you're cozy,
you're comfortable in your bed
but there's a a problem.
You want a cup of coffee.
(dramatic music continues)
And this is where the indignity begins.
I've gotta dress myself.
I've gotta walk down the stairs.
I've gotta go to the kitchen and make myself coffee.
And that, frankly, is inconvenient.
Now unlike me, maybe you're one of the lucky ones,
maybe there's someone in your household
willing, competent in making coffee.
Thank you.
But for the rest of us, there is hope.
A company called Joy Resolve has built something
called The Barisieur and it promises
to be the solution to all of our problems.
It is an alarm clock,
it's a coffee maker,
and it's got too many vowels.
And I'll tell you all about it,
but first I do need to make some coffee.
I need to journal, meditate,
maybe check my email.
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So let's talk through The Barisieur
and despite the spelling,
despite that second extra I,
this is actually how you say it.
It's a coffee brewing alarm clock with some features.
And I'll talk you through the coffee bit first,
and then we'll talk about the kind of tech underneath.
Now, the way it makes coffee is pleasing, but pretty simple.
You put your cold water in here
and at the appropriate time, it will boil it.
But because you've got a stopper in the top here,
that steam can't go anywhere.
It drives the water then up the tube, along here,
across into the shower head and then over the coffee.
And it'll keep going until this clicks off
and stops heating.
And it kind of works a bit like a kettle base.
Now it all comes to pieces relatively easily.
And you know, this you can take off,
fill it up with your correct water and bring it back.
In terms of extras on the unit,
this thing swivels, I suppose, for easier access
for putting your coffee in that kinda stuff.
And at the front here, you've got this.
This is for putting your milk in
because this unit actually has a little refrigerator
around it to keep your milk cold until the morning.
So you can wake up,
put your milk in your coffee,
if that's your thing and enjoy.
And I suppose for convenience,
the whole top part of this actually lifts off.
You can take it away and I suppose reset your coffee setup.
In terms of the rest of the thing,
it's really pretty simple.
You've got your alarm clock here.
You got your time and you'd set an alarm
in a pretty simple way.
You do have a make button here
that will let you make coffee whenever you want to.
If you wanted to use this as a brewing device
and then around on the side,
here you've got your dial just to sort of set things,
set the time, set your alarm time,
that kind of stuff.
Here is your kind of brew adjust dial.
And this you can set to have it brew
after your alarm goes off by 5, 10 or 15 minutes
or before your alarm goes off by 5 minutes.
I'm kinda surprised there isn't an earlier delay still
because I would maybe want it to brew,
cool down a little bit so that as I kind of come
from the little death of sleep,
I'm straight into a cup of coffee
that I can drink and enjoy.
But five minutes it is as a kind of pre-alarm brew setup,
and then, you know, volume for the alarm.
It's really a pretty simple thing overall.
On the front, there is also this little drawer.
You've got your little ground coffee bin,
if you wanna use it for that and a little scoop,
I'm not sure I would recommend either of those things.
Capacity wise, you're brewing about 220 ml of water
for this little cup of coffee.
And that's the limit.
Now, some of you, of a certain age,
might find this extremely familiar.
Let me show you what I mean.
This is a Goblin Teasmade.
Now this was very popular in the sixties and seventies.
And as you might from the name
didn't make coffee, it made tea.
And it did it in an identical way.
You had your alarm clock at the front,
on the back here, a little kettle,
the same mechanism drove the boiling water
across into your tea pot, your tea steeped,
you woke up and you had a cup of tea.
Now your milk was a bit trickier
then, you didn't have the nice refrigeration,
but yet you had a cup of tea,
you weren't complaining.
But these things were not particularly expensive.
Let's talk about the price for this thing.
It's £350, which is quite a lot of money.
Is it worth it?
Well, I don't think I can say
without putting it to the test
and so, you know, come bed time, we'll get it all set up.
And in the morning, I will awake
to a delicious cup of hot coffee.
(movie plays)
- Sir, I'm going to retire for the evening.
I've prepared some of the Rao recipe water
you enjoyed the other day.
And I have ground some of the
lactofermented caturra as well.
- Very good.
- Have a nice evening.
(soft music)
(machine beep)
(steam)
(water bubbles)
(alarm buzzes)
We've got coffee.
Now, the problem is, even though
I set that timer to be early,
that's too hot to drink.
Now, fortunately I thought ahead.
I didn't want milk.
I have my morning turmeric shot in here instead.
Oh, why?
So let's talk about the experience of this thing.
The kind of weird thing to me is
it doesn't start brewing earlier, right?
Like I would want this to start brewing
probably 10 minutes before I wake up, minimum,
'cause it takes about five minutes to brew
and it seems a little bit redundant
to have an alarm afterwards.
It beeps five minutes before you start,
you know, the alarm goes off,
when it starts brewing and it's noisy.
So you're gonna wake up.
I don't have high, high hopes for the coffee
because the way that it brews,
I mean, that's not an ideal way of delivering water.
It's just very much, here's all the water in one go.
It really, really fills the cone.
You've got like a big wall of coffee up the side.
So I'm not anticipating the best cup of coffee of my life.
It could be much better than it is.
It's kind of disappointing in that regard.
It's not something I would buy
as a dedicated brewer it doesn't brew beautifully.
I say it may not be the best cup of coffee in the world,
that doesn't mean it's a bad cup of coffee at all.
It's a good cup.
It's just not outstanding and incredible
just because of the way that it brewed.
And you have to wonder who is this for, right?
It's pretty much gonna be
for the one coffee drinker in the bedroom,
because if there's two of you in bed
and just one of you has got this, that's just mean.
Unless, you know, the other person
doesn't drink coffee or something,
or you're buying two and that £700
on alarm clocks that make coffee.
'Cause this is not a lot of coffee, right?
Like that's a little cup of coffee to me.
It's not like a big cup.
I'm not sharing this with anybody.
But if you are the kind of human,
that cannot function without coffee,
like you wake up and you are broken
and you just need some sort of caffeine in the body.
Then maybe, assuming you're the one coffee drinker
in the bedroom and you have £350
to spend on a clock that makes okay coffee.
So you're after someone who's desperate for coffee,
but isn't too fussed about how good the coffee is.
I dunno, and has a big budget.
It's just for me, it's a kind of weird device.
It does look nice.
Like it is kind of fun.
If you're not used to this kind of coffee-making,
it is a fun little experience.
It does look kind of cool.
It feels well-made, it feel solid and robust.
So I don't feel like, you know,
it should be a quarter of the price.
It feels well-made, it feels expensive.
Now I'm not gonna keep this particular unit.
I'm gonna give this away to one of my Patreon supporters.
They give me a budget every month to go and buy these things
and review them and give you my honest opinion.
Plus, I think my butler has potential.
But now I want to hear from you.
Do you have one of these?
Did you buy it?
Did you back it on Kickstarter?
Did you use it every day since you got it?
Or has it been an occasional kinda thing?
Do you use it for a while and then kind of put it away?
Do you enjoy the coffee you get out of it?
Are you so desperate for coffee
that you cannot imagine leaving your bedroom
before having had coffee?
I wanna hear from you,
down in the comments below,
but for now, I wanna say thank you so much for watching
and I hope you have a great day.