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Title: If you like arm-wrestling . . .
Review: Makes a nice smooth shot of espresso - but at the price of a sweaty arm-wrestling match combined with a chemistry lab experiment. You have to buy a digital thermometer, get the water temperature just right (not an easy feat, regardless of how you go about it), and then wrestle the plunger down, which takes closer to two minutes than the 20 seconds in the instruction guide, the darn rubber gasket is so tight. Which means the espresso is more bitter than it should be, due to the water sitting in it so long while you wreck your arm trying to get the plunger to go down without knocking the coffee cup over. I'm honestly surprised by all the good reviews here - it might be cheap, and if you can get it work right the coffee is good, but this is not an easy unit to use.
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