The first one happens while the mist is still on the water and nobody else is up.
Curated for the hours after six
The Long Drive Espresso, Portable Self Heating Espresso Maker
GEARHOLM
$299.00
USD
Portable espresso machine, battery powered. A real coffee, wherever you pulled over.
Curated for the hours after six
The first hour of the morning.
Wake up an hour from the nearest cafe and still have a real coffee before anyone else is awake. It heats its own water, so there is nothing to set up and nothing to light.
Day one
The first morning
One week
After a week
It lives in the bag now, so it comes on every weekend without anyone deciding to bring it.
One month
After a month
Instant coffee stops being the price you pay for waking up somewhere good.
Always ready
Every trip after
It goes in the bag without thinking, and the first hour of every morning away is quietly better for it.
The quiet hour before anyone is up
It sits in your hands while the water comes up to temperature. Twenty bars, and the crema forms while everything is still quiet. Under five minutes, before the day asks anything of you.
The first hour of a morning away
A real coffee at six in the morning, an hour from the nearest cafe.
201F on its own
It brings the water up itself in under five minutes, so there is no stove and no kettle.
Twenty bars
Twenty bars of pressure, which is the part that actually makes the crema.
Nothing plugged in
Brew wherever you pulled over, with nothing plugged into anything.
Rinses out
Rinse it out and it is packed away before anyone else is up.
What the mornings look like now
A real coffee at six
On the first morning away
The hour before the day starts
From the first morning
No stove to set up
Whenever nobody else is up
A reason to sit outside
Every trip after that
Why We Chose This One
We chose this one for the first hour of a morning away. It heats its own water and brews in your hands, so nothing has to be set up before the coffee happens.
HOLM
The usual
Heats its own water to 201F
Takes capsules or ground coffee
Twenty bars of pressure
Runs on its battery or from USB
Chosen, not mass listed
Know when something new lands
We add a few pieces a year, not a few a week. One email when one arrives.
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