• Reviews around roast (2.54 of 5)

    STARESSO Portable Espresso Machine - Manual Espresso with Rich & Thick Crema, Mini Coffee Maker Using Ground Coffee & Nespresso Pods, Handy Espresso Maker for Travel Camping Office Home Use

    • --my coffee has to be 100% Colombian, medium roast; my espresso has to be Arabica dark roast
    • but I think that was because I aaccidentally poked an extra hole in the pod and I used a very dark bitter roast
    • Shots are amazing with fresh roasted and ground beans
    • Recommend Illy espresso dark roast for full flavor and perfect grind.even though they replaced this item, the seals quickly wore out again and rendered it useless.
    • The best results for me is with a medium dark roast organic bean that I grind myself to a medium fine powder
    • Recommend Illy espresso dark roast for full flavor and perfect grind.even though they replaced this item, the seals quickly wore out again and rendered it useless.
    • It also makes great espressos using Peet's medium roast ground coffee.
    • Works well and makes good espresso - not as good as with a standard espresso machine, but very enjoyable.
    • At first I loved this espresso maker, and if it continued to work as it did originally I would give 5 stars
    • I don’t have those yet and it slows down my preparation.-Don’t bother with the pump on the Staresso to froth
    • n’t fine your coffee grounds too much
    • n’t recommend buying this product because of its flawed design mechanism