Portable Espresso Machine for Travel & Car - 15 Bar, Capsules or Ground

Portable Capsule Espresso Machine, 15 Bar

A compact battery-powered espresso maker that takes capsules or loose ground coffee. Roughly the size of a large water bottle at 2.7 x 7.7 inches, so it fits a backpack, a cupholder, or a desk drawer.

Read this before you pick a version

The two options are genuinely different machines, and picking wrong is the main reason people are disappointed by these.

• Non-heating (USB, 5V): you pour in water you've already heated, and the machine only handles the pressure. Lighter, charges from any USB port, and works anywhere. Best if you'll have a kettle, a hotel coffee maker, or a thermos of hot water to hand.
• Heating (12V car adapter): heats the water itself, so all you need is water and power. It runs off a car socket rather than USB, so it's built for road trips and job sites, not for a plane or a hotel room.

If you're mostly travelling with luggage, take the USB version. If it's living in your truck, take the heating one.

Capsules or ground

It fits two capsule sizes (53 x 53 x 35mm and 37 x 37 x 28mm) and comes with adapters for both, plus a powder basket that holds up to 15g if you'd rather use your own coffee. Grind fine, about like table salt, the same as you would for a regular espresso machine.

Honest expectations

15 bar of pump pressure and extraction around 205°F will give you a genuinely decent, crema-topped shot. It won't match a countertop machine with a proper grinder, and the 90 to 110ml tank means one drink at a time. What it will do is get you real espresso somewhere you'd otherwise be drinking gas station coffee.

Specs

• Pressure: 15 bar
• Battery: 800mAh polymer lithium, included
• Water tank: 90 to 110ml
• Powder basket: 15g
• Extraction temp: around 96°C / 205°F
• Body: ABS with a 304 stainless steel tank
• Size: 69 x 196mm / 2.7 x 7.7 in
• In the box: machine, both capsule adapters, charging cable, cleaning brush, manual