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Rating from C_W_Monkey 2 Stars ()

Advantages it'll get you hyper

Disadvantages there's very little of it

I remember a while ago seeing Nescafé instant coffee on the shelves. I loved the idea + bought it a few times. By instant, of course, I don’t mean “just add water”, I mean just press a button on the bottom. Two chemicals mix together and you instantly have hot coffee inside the can.

So when they stopped selling it, I was rather disappointed. But yesterday my mother came home from shopping (I’m a lazy teenager and so didn’t help her) claiming to have found a similar product. I was happy. Going to Reading Festival next week, I was very happy to find something I could drink in the mornings without firing up our gas stove.

But upon testing the product I became rather disappointed. Because everything that Nescafé got right about their coffee, everything I liked about it, was lacking in this version.

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Espresso
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Firstly, this is an espresso shot. It’s got Guarana extract in it and a hell of a lot of caffeine. It’s more designed as a medicine style product. A “wake you up” kind of thing. Not really a drink to enjoy.

Though I would barely call it a shot. It’s listed as 40ml. I’m not entirely sure if that includes the chemicals used to heat it up because when I drank it there was about 1 mouthful. It wasn’t even a full mouthful.

Perhaps it appears to be less product because the size of the container in full is about 5 times the size of the serving of drink. This is down to the chemicals needed to heat it up.

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Instructions
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If I remember correctly, the Nescafé was clearly labelled and easy to figure out what to do. When I see a foil lid I naturally peal it back, expecting it to be shielding something below that I must operate. This was a bad judgement.

It turns out that you’re supposed to press the bottom of it first and shake for a bit. Somehow, despite being technically clearly labelled, my instinct wasn’t to do this. Somehow, it just wasn’t labelled in a way which made my brain think “don’t open the foil yet”.

So, although by examination it is very clearly instructed, I would argue that it isn’t.

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Heating
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Being the physicist I am, I replaced the plastic lid and was careful with the shaking when I heated it. Firstly, I know that the tiny bit of silver foil would make only minimal difference to the heating. Plus, I have since tried the second shot that my mum bought and done it properly. The result was the same.

You press the bottom and shake for 40 seconds. This bottom doesn’t look like a button, it isn’t marked very well. But you’ll know when you’ve pressed it because the cup gets boiling hot!

I can just see kids going into supermarkets and pressing all the buttons. It’s so easy to do without buying the product (thus why I assumed the foil would be protecting the mechanism). You wouldn’t know till you got home that a meddling child had spoilt your heating mechanism.

However, that wont matter too much. Because the actual coffee inside doesn’t seem to heat far beyond room temperature.

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  • Necormancer 01/03/2008 23:49
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    Good review, but you cannot comment on the actual amount. An espresso shot is 40-50ml so it's about average to an espresso shot. Good review nonetheless =]

  • ilusvm 18/01/2005 16:01
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  • Bolly_eggs 18/01/2005 01:04
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    Exceptional

    sounds like utter bollocks coffee. i love my coffee and marketing this radge as part of the coffee tree-thing is disgraceful. oli

  • rowei 23/11/2004 23:39
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  • allissa 18/10/2004 17:26
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