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[Love_Sausage]

This is how the Vietnamese have been making coffee for years, I've had two similar but mroe basic sets of these in the house for about 5 years following the father in law visiting Vietnam on business. Amazed nobody's done this before.

[LosOjos]

A couple of things I don't remember reading about it but which are worth knowing:

 

Pros:

• In use, you get roughly the same amount of coffee as you would in a decent sized mug
  
• The filter screws on to the bottom of the inner section, and the rubber seal slides off. This design makes cleaning very easy
  
• The upturned filter section holds roughly 4tbsp of ground coffee - which just so happens to be the perfect amount for a medium strength mug
  
• In addition to being bottom heavy, there's an anti slip rubber 'foot' on the bottom to help prevent spillages
  

 

Cons:

• The internal part feel quite weak, I can easily imagine denting it which could ruin it if there were any damage near the filter
  
• The filter is part of the filter mount, so if it breaks, there's no replacing it (I hope Gamila will be stocking spare filters on their website soon!)
  
• The finish is easily marked. I've already got parts of the pattern on the outer shell coming off, the usual scuff marks you get with brushed aluminium and some quite nasty looking marks around the rim of the outer shell (although none of this affects usage at all)
  
• The rubber material the lid is made out of seems to attract every bit of dust and fibre in the air like a magnet!
  

 

So, would I recommend them? Yes. It's a fantastic little product that's easy to use and makes preparing fresh coffee very quick and easy (ideal for work/travel). I think Gamila need to put some thought in to toughening it all up a bit and certainly need to sell spare parts. Fortunately, there are only 5 parts in total (the inner section, filter, seal, lid and outer shell) so this shouldn't be too hard for them to do and they'll hopefully keep the price of parts down. Hell, they could even sell variations on the individual parts to allow you to assemble a completely unique Impress!

[plexer]

This is how the Vietnamese have been making coffee for years, I've had two similar but mroe basic sets of these in the house for about 5 years following the father in law visiting Vietnam on business. Amazed nobody's done this before.

 

It's different to a Vietnamese fin

 

The impress is a French press in a thermal mug.

 

Ben

[Rawns]

Pros:

• The upturned filter section holds roughly 4tbsp of ground coffee - which just so happens to be the perfect amount for a medium strength mug
  

 

4Tbsp seems a little excessive to me for 1 cup of coffee? Thought usually it was 1Tbsp per mug, 1 heaped Tbsp for stronger coffee?

Edited May 2, 2013 by Rawns

[X-13]

4Tbsp seems a little excessive to me for 1 cup of coffee? Thought usually it was 1Tbsp per mug?

 

Depends on the size of the cup.

 

My Frog cup gets 1 spoon, regular gets 1.5 and I have a massive mug indoors what gets 3.

 

It works out about the same strength.

[Rawns]

Are they publicly available yet or just for kickstarters? If so, where from?

 

Their teastick looks cool too. Started getting into loose leaf teas!

 

Edit: Just looked at the order site: INTERNATIONAL ORDERS: We currently are only shipping domestically. When the Impress Coffee Brewer is no longer in Pre-Order status, and we have a full stock in-house, we will begin International shipping. The expected date for this is June 2013.

Edited May 2, 2013 by Rawns

[LosOjos]

4Tbsp seems a little excessive to me for 1 cup of coffee? Thought usually it was 1Tbsp per mug, 1 heaped Tbsp for stronger coffee?

 

It's 4 measured tablespoons, a tablespoon for most people would be roughly 2 measured tablespoons

 

If anyone is interested, I've posted a slightly lengthier review on my website now: http://www.joshjohnson.edutechhosting.co.uk/blog/review-impress-coffee-brewer/

Edited May 2, 2013 by LosOjos