Maestri House 150W Espresso Machine with 2-3 Min Fast Self-Heating, Portable Travel Espresso Coffee Maker with Small Tea Cup Also Holder for NS Capsule & Ground Coffee for Car Camping, RV, Hiking

Works a treat
Surprisingly tasty coffee! Takes quite a while to charge.

Excelente
Me encanto el café salió con espuma y calentito😩😩😩 lo malo es que no trae donde guardarla para los viajes no encuentro estuche para ella

Love it, but have had inconsistent results
I found out about an upcoming road trip I would be taking and immediately thought, “But… what about our coffee?” Yeah, we like our morning espresso and I knew better than to think we (my traveling companion and I) would be ok with drip coffee from the hotel’s continental breakfast offerings, and as we have become somewhat spoiled in our home setup (it makes amazing coffee), I immediately began looking for alternatives for the trip.When I found this “Maestri House 150W Espresso Machine with 2-3 Min Fast Self-Heating, Portable Travel Espresso Coffee Maker with Small Tea Cup Also Holder for NS Capsule & Ground Coffee for Car Camping, RV, Hiking” I was pretty sure this was going to fit the bill. I’ve used products by Maestri House before and I trust the name as a result. From my experience, Maestri House builds quality products and they seem to stand behind them, so that was that.When the package arrived, we were already mid-pack for our trip, so I took the unit out so it could be as charged as possible before we got on the road. It was another day and a half before we would get to try it out. Thankfully, there was still plenty of charge the morning we tested it, and that’s how we jumped into our “first run” with this device – inexperienced and a bit groggier than is probably recommended for a first-time use, but hey.We read over the instructions again – we had already reviewed them as we packed to make sure we weren’t leaving some critical thing behind (like coffee pods). And then we brewed our first cup. As Murphy always dictates, it did not go as planned. I managed to brew the first pod into the included cup, but I didn’t realize I hadn’t positioned it to HOLD the coffee, so it was a bit messy. Ok, oops. Duly noted. Attempt number two began immediately. Thankfully I brewed a pretty delicious espresso in just a few minutes. Alrighty then, attempt number three? Same deal – just as good as attempt number two.About fifteen minutes later I decided I wanted a second cup. No problem. “I may have messed up the first one, but I know what I’m doing now!” I said, and brewed myself another espresso. My traveling companion said, “I’d like another, please” and I set it up to go again. But it wouldn’t brew. It wouldn’t do anything. I checked the power and that seemed to be the problem. It was entirely out of juice and needed to be recharged.So we learned it can brew four cups before it was out of power. That’s a bit disappointing, right? So we charged the unit back up and left it charging until the next morning. But the next morning we brewed three cups before it wouldn’t do more. I thought perhaps the unit had some kind of overheat protection built in that prevented its use until it cooled back down. I mean I’ve had other devices with that kind of internal safeguard, so why wouldn’t this device have something like that, right? But I don’t know that that’s what it was at all. I was able to brew a fourth cup later that same morning but was never able to determine if it was an overheating issue or a battery issue since we plugged it back in after it wouldn’t brew earlier.After those first two days we only had a couple of instances where we used the espresso machine, and both times we didn’t make more than 2 pods’ worth of coffee, so the overheat/lack of power issue didn’t surface again. We returned home after that and haven’t had a reason to use a portable espresso machine since we have access to a non-portable espresso machine right there on the kitchen counter.In all, I love the convenience of this device and the quality of the coffee is pretty great – well, as great as any “pod coffee” is, I suppose. (Note: You can use grounds with the included “pod” adapter instead of the one that just holds the pods.) I’m sure we’ll be packing this in our luggage for our next road trip, but I would be hesitant to take it on any adventures without a reliable power source simply because I don’t really know why we were throttled at four cups on Day One and three cups on Day Two of our previous excursion.Happy to recommend this product, but with the caveats included. Be aware of possible throttling effect after brewing a few pods/cups. I don’t know if it was from overheating or from depleting the battery, but if I took this camping with a few friends, I have a feeling one or two of them would be irritated they didn’t get their caffeine fix.