Flair Espresso Maker - Classic: All manual lever espresso maker for the home

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Flair Espresso Maker - Classic: All manual lever espresso maker for the home

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HANDCRAFT SHOTS OF ESPRESSO - With the Flair Espresso Maker, you have a complete manual espresso machine that can produce professional quality shots of espresso from your home, or wherever you are. Add 60ml of boiled water and a dose of up to 18 grams to yield a 40 ml shot with beautiful crema. A burr grinder is essential for use with this product.
FULLY MANUAL & COMPLETELY BEAUTIFUL - The Flair is a 100% human-powered, manual espresso press. There are no plugs or electronics, meaning the Flair, which was designed from the ground up, will look beautiful in any coffee station or kitchen.
EASY TO CLEAN - The Flair Espresso Maker is the only manual espresso maker with a completely detachable brewing head. This patented design allows for users to completely remove the brewing head, separate the parts, and rinse under cool water.
BUILT TO LAST - Now with an upgraded, stronger base, post and lever! Made from durable materials like cast aluminum and stainless steel, you can be sure your manual espresso maker, by Flair, is built to last. Both the aluminum press stand and the stainless steel brewing head are backed by a 5-year warranty.
FULLY PORTABLE - All Flair Espresso Makers come standard with our precision cut and padded carrying case meaning you can take your manual espresso maker anywhere youd like.

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Interesting concept with some drawbacks. Having owned this machine for a while I feel like I can offer a detailed review. As an avid coffee connoisseur, I procure green beans from reliable sources and roast to my specifications. For comparison I own over 40 brewing apparatuses.Asthetic design: very nice. I think that is w what drew me to the machine in the first place.Mechanical design: leaves a little too be desired. Filter group/piston cylinder is cumbersome. Preheating is difficult (setting cylinder in hot water). Removing the piston can be difficult as it binds due to expansion). The ability to make more than one shot or a long pull requires removal of group, cooling enough to handle, pulling the piston out then resetting on machine (no long pulls). Also found that packing and reassembly causes the parts to start being loose.Brewing: getting the bring just right for this machine takes time and still difficult to get a consistent drama (using sane grind as other machines that give consistent drama). If the grid is right three mental press of 25 - 40 seconds creates a decent amount if pressure. Practice.Cleaning: as stated before, cylinder is hot. Removal of puck requires either blowing through filter or tapping out, but because puck is wet is firms a suction making difficult to remove. Other than those items cleaning is easy enough.Travel: good concept except not enough room left in case for extras like brew heads, tamper, etc. Sleek design otherwise. Also need a source for hot water.Overall I gives this three stars. Not an everyday machine for me as it takes too much time and effort. Nice aesthetics and portability. For a portable machine I prefer the ROK. 3Just buy it. If you're on the fence about dropping $160 on a manual coffee maker that you aren't sure if you will even use, let me put your mind at rest.First off. I'm a machinist for a living, and the quality and craftsmanship is superb. quality I would be proud to sell.Second, the quality of this brew is outstanding. My wife and I have several coffe shops in the area we live in that we enjoy going to, and since we bought this, we realized that the quality of their coffee (that we were so happy with before) pales in comparison to the body, smoothness, and repeatability of this brew.Portability. What I have found, is the press and the travel case are extremely well thought out along the lines of being able to easily repackage. However, there is more to using this press than just making the coffee. I.E. grinder, coffee beans, cup to brew into, water, a way to boil water, measuring utensils, etc. So yes, it is portable and easy to take with you, but all the extras that you may need will probably take up a small suitcase. If you're like me.Instructions. Clear and concise, I didnt even have to look up a manufacturer's video on how to brew like I was planning on doing once I received it. Once again, impressed with the company. Every detail is thought out.One final word. If you're looking for a quick cup every morning and dont make a habit of waking up in time to go through the process, this coffee press may not be for you. There is a process, and yes there are shortcuts, but this does require an art form and a little devoted time to execute. 5I am thoroughly impressed! Let me just start by saying that I am a total beginner with espresso and can produce a fantastic shot of espresso with beautiful crema using the Flair. I spent some time playing with my burr grinder settings, the amount of beans (settled on 16g), and use of the stainless steel tamper (set it on the grounds and spin without applying pressure), which paid off handsomely. I also closely followed the instructions that came with the Flair, with slight deviation like pausing briefly after the first 10 secs of pressure on the handle. And, I used fresh beans, a light to medium roast single origin Guatemalan bean, which I wasn't sure about for espresso but they worked great. I very recently had several shots of espresso while travelling and those shots have nothing on what I can make at home. I'm very pleased with this product and my newfound skill! ;-) . Oh, I want to say too that before I purchased a Flair, I placed an inquiry on the product website and received a very prompt response with answers to all my questions. Fantastic customer service! Don't hesitate to get this product and don't give up before you get the great shot it promises! 5Simple, sturdy, convenient and elegant I d give this a twenty, if I could. I ve wanted a new espresso maker for quite q while, but I was hesitant because what I can afford is usually pretty underwhelming. This is better than compromise. It makes shots better than most coffee houses I ve been to. It is simple, easy to clean, takes almost no space, uses no electricity and is simply beyond awesome. It s like going from a crappy little espresso maker to a very high end machine. I could not be happier with this. As mentioned in other reviews, there is a slight learning curve. You will also need a good burr grinder, that gives an even grind. (Again, I couldn t afford a good one, so I use a manual grinder. They re great because the grinders are good quality and much cheaper without the cord). So, if the reason you are looking at this is budget, you really are wasting your time looking further. You won t find anything this great anywhere near this price. If budget isn t a consideration, this is still top of the line. 5The little engine that could Perfect espresso maker. I got the first edition and there are several improvements over that in the current model:1. the arm supporting the red base is now sturdier (I broke mine literally pressing down with my entire body weight - 175 lbs)2. the filter has narrower silicone enclosing - the first version had longer silicone enclosing which I clipped with the stainless steel cylinder3. The piston fits perfectly in the cylinder in the new version and the metal cap of the piston fits in and is glued in flawlessly (I also broke the previous version)These are all modifications that Flair made at my suggestion and the suggestion of their clients and they were implemented extraordinarily fast. There is dedication to quality and consumer support that is top notch.4. it seems that the cylinder, in the new version, has a black silicone sleeve that is built-in. Aesthetically, I like the old version with an all-stainless-steel cylinder and a red separate silicone sheet.Coffee quality: it's outstanding. First, I appreciate that I can select both water temperature as well as pressure. Then I can tamper the beans hard - atypical for a portable machine - and the pressure, at 60 lbs of force applied to the handle, gets to be about 20 bar (1:10 lever, about 1 sq in piston head). So true espresso, with generous crema - about 80% of the water in my shots comes out creamy (while the first 20% is black concentrated coffee). There are endless ways to experiment! No other machine offers so much freedom. One word of advice: preheat the cylinder. I cannot stress enough the importance of getting the temperature right overall. Other than that, you can do anything, even make cold espresso.Cleaning: it's fairly easy. I take the cylinder out with the piston in it first, throw the used coffee out (take a bit of shaking but very doable), then clean the cylinder. Very easy steps, and they become easier as the routine sets in. For an immediate next shot I dry everything with a towel first.I use it daily. It's an awesome product.UPDATE 1: After about half a year of use, the machine holds up. There is a stainless steel piston available. The quality of the espresso is simply out of this world.UPDATE 2: I own several espresso machines, from purely manual (e.g. Wacaco Minipresso, Cafflan Kompresso) to stovetops (Bellman) to superautomatic (DeLonghi Magnifica). The Flair produces THE VERY BEST ESPRESSO - better than all those. I like something in each of those, but if I was constrain to pick the one giving me the best taste, it would be the Flair. 5Simple Espresso. Its not complicated, Just Buy It! So, here's the thing. I had a breville 870xl for about 3 years. After the first year the thing started breaking down.. After the 3rd year it just plain quit. ENTER the Flair!!! This thing allows you to control every tiny detail of espresso operation! Sure, it takes a little longer to do everything but its completely worth the effort. Not only that but there aren't any tubes to clog or pinch and there isn't any scale build up problem that you have to pay hundreds of dollars trying to get fixed! Its just simple.Not to mention the customer service is second to none with this thing. You actually talk to people that use this machine! They gave me advice and pointers to really dial in the specifics of what to do! 5Best Portable Espresso Machine under $300 Available Today I've owned handpresso and minipresso, tried staresso and many others... none of those actually produced real espresso. Strong coffee, that's what they put out and it's better than weak coffee if that's the alternative--but no more! Flair makes espresso as good or better than most home machines available, and for far less money! More impressively, it delivers the most reliable and consistent results you'll ever find with an espresso machine.The secret to it's success is its simplified design that makes preheating brewgroup easy by omitting everything superfluous to the process of making espresso. The human powered lever provides complete control of the extraction while it's occurring, creating the perfect feedback loop. If you ground the coffee too fine or tamped with too much force, you can still save the day (shot) albeit with some extra muscle--your pump machine would have just choked at this point. Now if you ground too coarse or didn't tamp well enough, you can ease up on the lever and still come in over 25 seconds of extraction.Preinfusion is a feature of high-end machines. The Flair can do that to! Just start the extraction slowly, with light pressure for the first 10-15 degrees of rotation on lever, pause for 2-5 seconds and then complete the 25-40 second in total extraction as usual. The maintenance on the Flair is so much easier than on a home machine. No backflushes or descales necessary! In most cases, poor extractions and bitter or rancid coffee is a result of a machine in desperate need of service. With the Flair you have direct access to all brewgroup parts making it easy to keep clean, ensuring it delivers smooth tasting espresso each and every time.For best results do the following: make sure to grind only FRESHLY ROASTED espresso beans to a FINE grind targeting extractions in the 25-40 second duration. TAMP roughly 17-18 grams of coffee loaded into portafilter with 30-40# of pressure (play with your bathroom scale to figure this out). Try a two-step process whereby you load portafilter to the top, tamp, then reload and tamp again making sure to leave room for dispersion screen. PREHEAT the cylinder and cup with rapidly boiling water. Brew only with water between 198-205 F (93-96 C) the cup too if you enjoy your espresso HOT. Darker roasts usually fare best when brew water is closer to 198F and lighter roasts closer to 205F. Setup the Flair close to the sink for easy clean-up, invert portafilter and blow from the side of spout to eject puck, alternatively knock puck out by tapping against a cutting board held over trash or dig the spent coffee out with finger or wooden spoon. If you are having a hard time removing the piston from cylinder, place plastic tamper upside down on counter and slide cylinder down on top until piston pops out. Do these things and you will be very happy with the Flair and find that it outperforms all portable and most home machines. If you're not getting a ton of crema in the cup, you're doing something wrong--re-read my instructions above!pro-tip: PREHEAT the cylinder a few times when using lighter roasts--higher temps are required for best results. 5LOVE This!! I am SO embarrassed - even ashamed! I have been using a Mr. Coffee espresso machine ($35 model) for about 10 years & was really getting sick of the smell from the aluminum inside heating up...not to mention all the bad stories about aluminum - yikes! The steamer got plugged up & I was having trouble descaling it so I decided to buy a new espresso machine with stainless steel inside. Well those aren't cheap! So I'm researching the DeLonghi & Breville models, trying to nab one on Ebay for around $200 - that was no go. And when I really dug into the reviews on those models I kept seeing the same comments, "Breaks/leaks after a year, bad customer service." Umm, that's not cool when you spend over $300 on a machine. When I broke down my search to manual presses it came up with the Flair & ROK. The ROK's aluminum so that's out the door.I was disappointed to find that I would have to do without a milk steamer (I didn't need a frother!). But I tell ya what, I don't need it!!! WOW - I can't believe how good coffee tastes from my Flair Espresso Maker. And it's fun playing around with different grinds & coffees to see if I can achieve a decent crema. So far the best crema I can get is from the Six Bean Espresso sold by Coffeebeandirect.com. And fresh ground coffee vs. previously ground really makes a difference (as seen in my photo, that coffee was ground 2 days previously).I bought a tiny stainless steel pan for my induction cooktop to heat up my chocolate milk (only mochas for me!) while I put together the Flair. We also have an Instant Hot Water Dispenser at our sink so I can preheat all of the components from that instead of soaking. By the time my milk is hot on the stove I'm done pressing the shot of coffee. I absolutely love it & I feel so dumb for using a Mr. Coffee machine for so long. Totally worth the $159. Happy Pressing!! :) :) 5Excellent espresso, especially at the price. The Flair has certainly met my expectations and I now use it almost daily. It is an excellent, elegant device in its own right. If producing repeated back-to-back espressos is your goal, I suggest getting an additional portafilter or cylinder and portafilter combination from the company. If lattes and cappuccinos are your thing, then look into additional devices to steam and foam your milk or move on to one of the automatics, such as the Silvia. This is not a commercial or prosumer machine and does not pretend to be. Like all lever machines, you can adjust the extraction profile by the timing and amount of pressure. Support has been excellent (see last paragraphs).[Twenty years of my espresso journey include:Krups espresso maker and a blade grinder - let s speak no more of that.Rancilio Silvia espresso machine and Rocky grinder.Several home roasting setups.Mypressi Twist - alas, poor Twist, we hardly got a chance to know you well.ROK espresso maker - pretty good, but requires work to get really good shots.]My basis for judgement is a plain double espresso, usually defined as about 2 oz/60ml of coffee, extracted from about 14-18 grams of ground beans with water at about 200 degrees Fahrenheit and 8-9 BAR (8-9 times atmospheric pressure). If you want to get more information, tutorials, and education, check sites such as Home Barista, etc. Use good, properly roasted beans (some are not really suited to espresso), ground with a burr grinder (important!) just before use. (I don t know if some commercial grinds may make the grade; check the sites mentioned previously.) As with any espresso maker, some adjustments and refining will be required to get things right.I spent a week or so learning and refining procedures for the Flair. Currently, I can go from a cold start to a finished double in about seven minutes, including heating the water, pre-heating the clylinder, warming my cup, and a 40 second extraction time. Cleaning takes an additional minute, at most. The Flair produces about 40ml of extracted coffee, which is not the standard double, but a ristretto, which can be very rich, but can be too intense for me with some coffees. I find that adding about 2/3oz or 25ml of heated water to the cup produces a fine double, at least matching (and maybe exceeding) what my Sylvia could produce, including excellent crema; certainly better than most chain stores. Part of that is due to bean selection, of course.When our Flair arrived, it was missing three rubber feet that would make it more secure on the counter. As well, it looked like there was a provision to insert a screw or small bolt into the base to hold the post more solidly to its base, but there was no bolt. However, the Flair does not require this to function, it just makes it more secure and convenient for handling by the post, especially if you want to leave it assembled for daily use.I e-mailed the maker, and got a prompt reply from Sergio Landau, who confirmed the feet and bolt should have been there and also said there was a more current version of the screen for the portafilter, which had a gasket for a better seal. He sent the parts first class mail and they arrived a few days later. This is excellent support for the product. 5Makes a fine espresso at a great price I have to say that with each time I use this machine I grow more and more pleased with the results. I had a Brevell automatic for years which never did as well. There are some reviews that indicate a plunger is such a tight fit that it s difficult to remove and this is 100% accurate. Essentially this delivers with one machine but two sets for making an espresso up for yourself and your mate. As I said the one is difficult to take apart however you get used to it. I wouldn t argue that they couldn t do better and I would recommend the manufacturer they be wise to do as such. I suspect whoever is manufacturing it is using two different dies to cut the materials and one of them is just a smidge too large. Regardless I would recommend this to anybody who likes the idea of having a manual espresso machine and not wanting to spend $1200-$3000 on Italian version. Additionally if that s where you re headed with your money this is a great way to you hone your skills. Initially I was between this and the Rok machine. I decided on the Flair and I ve been very happy. I m writing this review almost a year after purchasing it. I make espresso half a dozen times a week. Im in my 40s and have no trouble operating the device. Additionally while it does take maybe 10-12 tries before you refine your skills you will find out once you get it down the creme that s produced or the head on the espresso it s lovely. Two quick sidenotes. This product does require you to exert a little bit of effort so be prepared. As far as the quality materials, I can t see anything breaking anytime soon and I can t see anything breaking with an increased amount of use either. Also this is billed as being the portable espresso maker which is very much is however I bought it for my counter. I have never once taken it on the road. 5

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