All right, jacob cordero here voltage travel presses. I got nate with me thanks for joining me, hey ready for some coffee, yeah yeah we’re going to have quite a bit of work cut out for us between what we’re looking at doing here today. To put all these through see, if you know, if you are going to rely on one of these travel presses, we pretty much dug up every travel press um that we could find, or that was marketed as a travel press um.

So this way you can get a good idea of if you’re in the market, for one of these for camping or whatever it is that you look at you know wanting to do with one of these guys yeah this one here says you might take it on a plane. I think that might be going a little too far like oh, yes, yes and I have a uh. I have some boiling water for my travel press here right. So most of these travel presses are all right at the same ballpark as far as price.

So price is not really going to be a topic or a conversation of what we’re looking at here, they’re all about 25 to 30 dollars. So you can pretty much expect that that’s what you’re looking at paying, no matter the size, some of them are around 12 ounces. I think our biggest one is going to hold 16 ounces, but we’ll be measuring those things here and kind of putting them through the test. So um, you know, let’s just kind of take you through what we’ve got here: okay, uh! This is the press by bobble.

Okay looks like what we’ve got here is an insula and insulated mug, a cup with a cup with a with a fine filter at the bottom and a lid. So you put the coffee in your brooch, you press down like that, and then you pop the lid on uh and it’ll. Let you put in sugar and cream if you like that, yeah and I’ll be opening this uh aeropress go here, the uh one that you’ll be taking on the plane with you. So we’ll see how that one goes. This is the mov.

It looks like about the same idea as the press, although it’s it’s a slightly different shape and it feels less insulated. Uh you have the you have a filter, you have chamber, you apply the one to the other and screw the lid on. So here we’ve got the aeropress go. This one is going to be a little different than the others. This one’s going to come with your filters and aeropress also makes the actual uh yeah they’ve got their full version where it doesn’t have the travel mug or try to fit together yeah.

So this one would be a little bit different than like making the standard french press coffee. If you’re, looking at the aeropress here, yeah, it’s kind of it’s kind of french press but upside down with the idea that you’re gonna do something that’s kind of the same except then you’re gonna press the coffee down into your pot here, okay, so this one actually has multiple um parts and it has the mug once you’re done with that, the kodi press here looks to be the same style as the press and the amov there.

It is quite the uh set of instruction, that’s good yeah, same idea as the other ones uh. It actually looks almost exactly like the ammo v, but with uh sort of heavier with a heavier mug. That seems a little more insulated. Okay, all right! So now we’ve got the classic stanley. This is the uh classic that everybody’s familiar with. If you are an outdoors person, go camping and stuff like that, this one’s gonna likely have the same architecture and build quality as their normal thermoses feels about the same feels like something you can definitely drop or throw around.

I don’t know, and so then we have our press here, uh with our instructions packed in there, and so that’s a little. That’s a little more open than the other ones. Uh or the other ones have the have sort of a solid, solid sides with the frame that has uh sort of open sides. So this one, I think, is going to remain in oh yeah, they’re, all kind of all right, so yeah. So, let’s see if that changes anything yeah and, of course, stanley’s quite known for having a thermos that holds things hot for a good duration time.

So we’ll be testing that out too to see how long these things keep things hot, as well as uh. What the coffee tastes like after it’s kind of, sat in there and you know kind of just had a chance to hang out yeah. I’m a little worried that some of these it’s going to taste weird if it sits on the grounds for a while. That can happen with a regular french press, which is why you normally want to you know, get your coffee into a thermos right yeah, because that would be basically like an extra long brew, yeah yeah, okay! So now we have the s probe all right, so this one here, just like the other ones.

It looks like so far it’s going to have oh okay, this one is a little different yeah yeah that works more like a conventional french press with the plunger yeah. So one of my main concerns is that if a lot of these contraptions basically continue to stay in there, while you know your your with your brew, then uh, obviously that limits your space and what you’re gonna have as far as actual liquid coffee, yeah you’re drinking yeah. These really kind of look like one cups, okay, so one one human size, cup, uh, three or four coffee maker size cups right.

Well, so let’s go ahead and get to brewing. I could use some coffee, I’m ready, yeah, now, two, so so. 14 ounces press that button to save to save my thoughts this. I guess he engineered that. So after trying all these out, we had a chance to brew uh each one of them. I had a chance to play around with them, see how well they work. So what was it like? Uh using these bad boys, no um, most of them uh? They use the style where you’ve got a sort of sleeve thing.

Uh, you put the car, you put the coffee in you fill it with water. You wait like you normally would for a french press and then press it down. All of these were you know, reasonably easy to use. They fit really tight, which is good because they’re supposed to be for travel, and you don’t want your coffee and ground slapping out, so it was occasionally a little bit difficult. The toughest part is always figuring out how much water was supposed to go in these because they’re really bad about telomere yeah, coffee makers of america, coffee maker makers of america use numbers ounces grams.

We we have ways of figuring this out. I don’t want to figure out where your fill line is or how much a rounded scoop of coffee is. We can do better. You can do better anyway, uh once you once you do that you pop the lid on, and you got some coffee, the ones that are different uh. The espro here uh used a more plunger normal french press, plunger sort of thing here. It wound up working out pretty much the same sort of way. Then the aeropress was completely different.

You filled that up with finely ground coffee, add hot water for just 10 seconds and then gradually press that down and you wind up with something kind of like espresso yeah. So awesome, if you like, really like the idea of having an americano or just want an espresso, but the goal here was to be kind of like a travel yeah that was not 18. That was not a travel pot like that. I keep going back to that picture on there. That shows you using it on a plane.

Imagine you’re trying to use this stupid thing in a middle seat yeah. It is not happening yeah and even you can see in the video where you were trying to press that thing down and the resistance that you were having trouble with. You know, like probably your first three attempts pushing it down and it didn’t really like release and give you any ability to like really kind of get in there until probably your third or fourth attempt pressing it down yeah, I think that’s how more or less how it’s supposed to go.

You press until you get resistance, you back off. You keep going until it does its thing, and it eventually did. I think, that’s just going to be a matter of practice, but yeah I mean I made a pretty good coffee uh, but what I mean all of them produced credible coffee. Then it came time to take them apart and clean them. Oh yeah, how did that come out um? So, as far as the cleaning goes, I mean they were pretty much all right around the same.

I think that when it came to clean, I would say that the stanley was the easiest to clean. Just because you know like it’s, you know one or two parts and that’s it that’s. You know it’s very basic and simple uh, which was kind of a nice feature. I think all the way around for the stanley. While I believe um the one. The s pro gave us a little trouble s pro was a little bit problematic in that it’s attached to its uh filter cup. So when you pull it out, this thing screws off.

So when you pull it out here, you basically have all your coffee that just dumps on you- and you know it’s attached here, so I think that was the hardest of all of them, but all in all they all just rinse clean with water. So there was nothing really. You know overly hard to report on that yeah. The kobe press got you too right. Oh, you know what the koi press. That’s actually a good point. I forgot this one uh, the koi press was a little problematic in that when you go to pull it out or to clean it out, if you still have hot coffee in there, essentially it even if it’s just a little bit, it’s yeah and you don’t want to get you yeah and you won’t really know, but as you pull it out, that hot coffee kind of just pours out, um right on you yeah, so uh that wasn’t as pleasant, because we did actually have hot coffee still left in there yeah uh that we didn’t finish off so uh yeah, that’s true good point! Yeah! Now all the ones that are really dark, colored made things a little more difficult because you can’t actually see what’s going on with the coffee right uh, it was easier to deal with the ones like the press or the stanley that were light colored, and you could actually see what was going on.

Yeah, that’s true, and so, like we talked about the aero press being a little bit uh tough for traveling yeah. So what about travel on the rest of these guys? I mean! Is that really even a thing or are these you know like if you get it for specifically wanting to travel, can you rely on these things to do that with you uh some of them yeah uh, so the um s pro here, not really, no good for travel, that’s the mouth of what you’ve got to drink out of and that’s really no good at all.

The press was really easy to use, but it has just this little rubber lid here, and I would not trust this to protect my lap in case of a spill and then even worse when trying to actually drink from this. It doesn’t work at all. You have to hold back the rub with the little rubber cover with your nose. While you try to drink from this and then discover that the rubber cover is actually blocking the vent hole, so you can’t get any coffee out yeah and I think also with that rubber lid, it’s not conducive to the coffee, flavor yeah um.

So we found that the yeah it tasted better when it was poured out into another glass than uh drinking through the lid yeah. Although I’ll give this uh five or six washes- and maybe it gets a little better yeah, but I would I would have preferred a hard plastic lid uh, the uh, the other three here, the stanley, the mov and the kohi press. Uh all did very well as coffee as uh travel mugs. They make a nice uh solid seal up at the top they’re easy to drink from and they’ll keep your coffee warm.

With the exception of the mov, which really cooled off really fast. This one doesn’t feel that insulated and it dropped a solid 40 degrees over the course of half an hour. Now, when we were drinking out of these, what about differences in flavor like is there? You know like a big difference, either way in any of these um, not that big a difference. Most of them were pretty similar, uh, the only really notable ones uh the aeropress tasted different than every everything else, because it was playing a different game sure, so it shouldn’t be too much of a surprise.

The press here was really bland and I don’t really know why I mean that filter is no finer than anything else, but so we found the flavor really. I don’t know just un uninspiring yeah uh, the mov probably had the best flavor of the sort of regular bunch yeah and as far as these like, if you wanted to keep something hot in them outside of coffee um. What would you say was the best insulated based on our metrics and see our regression? Yes, our best insulated by testing was the s pro okay uh by, but that was two degrees hotter than the stanley uh, which I would say has a much better lid.

So I would be more inclined to trust the stanley just as a basic thermos, just by popping out that uh the little brew little brewer there yeah and just use that for pretty much anything. So how do they stack up overall? Well, these do you actually want? First of all, I think, overall, when it comes to these things, I think they have really one job right, you’re getting this, because you want something you can travel with. You want something you can take camping with you, you want it on the go um.

The biggest surprise. For me, I think, before kind of getting into the overall was the fact that how many of them don’t get it right. Yeah, you know like if this is really like. All you want is to travel. Why would you have a lid? That’s like this right, like a lid, that’s rubber, uh, a lid that you can’t really necessarily drink out of when it comes to the kogi press. You know like it seemed like it was pretty much winning all the way around with everything that we did it with it, except for the fact that it tells you 16 ounces, yeah, and so, when you put 16 ounces in there and try to push it down uh, you end up with coffee everywhere.

So that was the worst last thing I want. If I’m taking this thing out, you know in an environment, that’s you know like my desk or office, or something like that right um, so that that’s a little bit problematic. So I think overall I would say that um, the kodi press was the best to drink out of it kept the flavor, the oh, well, the flavor. As far as the flavor, the flavor was fine, fine yeah, and we tried all of these after about half hour and came back and tasted them to make sure that the brew didn’t get too bitter.

You know if you got it in there at all yeah. These do have this sort of impressive uh seal feature right uh, unlike a normal french press, uh, there’s sort of a spring-loaded button. That kind of locks off the bottom so in where a normal, french press, the coffee is going to be tasting weird after a while, because it just stays on the ground yeah. If this, this still seals it off. So it’s not brewing anymore yeah. So I think uh. I would say that overall, the stanley solid, especially as far as the design goes, you know, you’re going to get something.

That’s going to last the lid seals the best um. So if you’re traveling plus you have you know like if you want to hang it off a backpack or you’re hiking or something, and if you pull out, you know the press part itself, it’s got a pretty good amount of space for you to put anything else in that you might want um. So that’s an ideal travel and it performed just as well as the rest uh and then our kohi press. So those are our two uh winners that we would take away the problem with the s pro.

Was it really performed well in keeping the coffee hot? It probably had the best flavor. If I were to make a judgment call between you know like flavor-wise on all these, but really it’s the problem with the lid like it gets. Almost everything right keeps the coffee. Warm uh did a really good job, but then it’s like you have to drink out of this lid, where, when you throw it back to take a drink, it basically splashes coffee all over your lips yeah.

So that’s not really ideal and, as a matter of fact, it would kind of upset me if my coffee, on my way to work, is just splashing me in the face um. So as far as the pleasant drinking uh, mouthpiece uh, the koi press has definitely probably got a little edge, while the stanley uh was was was good enough. It’s got the nice lip um part and really designed for travel, so they really thought that went through and then the mov. This thing just really uh was designed well, but it just didn’t insulate very well.

So it was good coffee, but you got you got half an hour to drink it before it. Uh gets too cold yeah, it’s too bad yeah. So uh, let’s call it the stanley for camping and the kobe press for the office all right, so that’s it for voltage, coffee on the travel, presses and travel mugs, I’m jacob. This is nate and if you like, the video subscribe, like all that good stuff and tune in next time for our next review. Alright, next coffee adventure, all right cheers.

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