STARESSO PLUS SP300 Espresso Machine, Manual Portable Coffee Maker Compatible Ground Coffee with Pressurized Filter, Espresso Maker for Home Travel Camping Office, Non-Electric

Awesome little device for making espresso! It’s got a Dune sandworm thumper look to it, so it’s got that going for it. I got the Staresso bottomless filter basket along with various other 53mm puck prep tools. It’s a lot of stuff to buy but it will help you make better espresso and easier too Preheat everything with some hot water. It will help reduce or eliminate sourness in your cup I found that tamping around 15 pounds is enough for the SP300 I use Third Wave Water mixed in distilled water produces a nice traditional cup of espresso I also use a puck screen to help distribute the water more evenly and a paper filter on the bottom of the filter basket as well Seems like a lot for a simple cup of espresso doesn’t it? Well you’d need the same for other espresso machines too and I want to give the SP300 every chance to produce a good cup of espresso As you can see, after my 4th shot, I was producing a nice dry puck and a good tasting espresso as well. It was about 18g of coffee with about 38g out in 38 seconds I may have to pump faster lol I was rewarded with a wonderfully intense chocolate flavor and with some frothed milk, perfection I’m a beginner when it comes to making espresso. This was my 4th cup this week trying to dial it in. SP300 is probably fairly forgiving with medium dark/dark roasts. I’m sure it may be more of a challenge with lighter roasts. We’ll see

Although I've only used it twice so far, I've been very pleased with the Starpresso Mirage. It really does make proper espresso with a nice crema. The device is very solidly build and quite satisfying to use. Kudos to the engineers who designed it and built it. It attains high pressures by using a manual pump to pressurize the hot water chamber before the water is released to the coffee grounds in the filter basket. It can attain the high pressures promised because the pump has a small diameter piston in a small diameter cylinder. That means that the force needed to move the piston remains manageable even when the hot water chamber has risen to a quite high pressures. Because of small diameter, you have to apply many strokes to the pump to arrive at the high pressure. I need 30 to 40 for the full cycle. At 1-2 seconds a stroke, that does not take long. I have no means to measure the pressure, so I cannot say if the extraordinarily high pressure claimed of 15-20 bar is achieved. Electric machines operate at lower pressures, such as 9 bar. These are high pressures 1 bar is of the order of one atmosphere of pressure. The pressurized water is not released to the coffee grounds until a valve downstream of the water/coffee senses a high enough pressure. That means that the pressure is sustained not by resistance to the flow of hot water through the coffee bed but by the operation of the valve. The advantage is that the successful extraction of an espresso shot is relatively insensitive to the fineness of the grind. However an appropriately fine grind should still be used since a coarsely ground coffee may not be extracted well. Clean up is a little messy. The device overall is hot and the filter basket full of wet coffee grounds. The clean up involves more mess than merely knocking out the puck into a knockout box from a filter basket using its handle, as is the way with countertop espresso machines. There is no handle and my pucks have been a little soupy. It's nothing that bothers me too much. Be ready for errant grounds on the work surface. Overall, it is a great machine that does what it promises to do.

Opened up the box, took it apart, Washed everything. Put it back together, then noticed the strange porta-filter puck thing, thought nothing of it. Something new, cool. Continued and made an espresso, "Success" "Awesome Crema". Went to take it apart (mind you, Im in a Wheelchair, so everything is done with a slideboard (kinda like a tray) across my lap) Noticed the button on the filter/puck thingy, turned the machine upside down onto my slideboard, pressed the filter/puck maker button and Hot water from the puck ran back through the machine onto my slideboard and all over my legs into my crotch area. Then after i made the puck, i knocked it on the edge of the trash can, and lost the filter/puck maker in the bottom of the trash can. It was my Fault for not paying attention. If i woulda seen the regular open bottom regular porta filter/basket option and relized that the filter/puck maker was made the way it was, I would have opted for the regular open bottom porta filter/basket style on amazon prime day. I cant use the filter/puck maker porta filter, its to much to clean up after and i dont want to have to use the sink just to get rid of the puck (Reason for 4stars). I ended up grabbing a portafilter basket out of my 4 cup stove top espresso maker and it fits and works perfect. Eventually i will get the two Staresso Portafilter baskets. Until then, my trusty ol' stainless steel, vev vigano stove top 4 cup basket will be working over time in this "Awesome Machine".

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Why did you choose this product over others?: I’ve used most hand espresso machines. This provides an exceptionally consistent result. Brilliant and much less complicated than many. It is still super important to have a good grinder and setting and I wish it came with a tamper (most use the pump handle). Genuinely v v impressive

It exceeds all expectations. It’s simply a great, portable, quality espresso maker. + great crema + very portable + easy to make an espresso on the go or at home - a lot of small pieces makes it dangerous to wash and lose one of them - the coffee container stay in the tray and it can burn you when you disassemble

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