Bought one of these in April and absolutely would not be without it!.Best coffee ever! I don't mind that it takes a little longer - van life is meant to be slow lol!. The quality of the machine is amazing. There is no going back! Make sure to buy the double walled thermal coffee cups which keep it beautifully hot.
I’m not into coffee at all but it’s nice to see someone passionate about their hobby and wanting to combine it with their other hobby, which is owning a California. 👍🏻
That looks a right faff ;-). We have an aeropress for general coffee and a nano press for the morning shots. Both super easy to use and the puck for the aeropress pops into the bin super easy. Given the simplicty of the AeroPress and online love it gets it’s simple, cheap and easy to carry. This looks lovely and a feat of engineering but expensive, large (for a cali) and full on faff. Prefer to KISS in the Cali and leave the barista stuff for home.
Hi Will. Great solution for off grid and love the fact that it is compact, although quite a fuss for a cuppa. As we don't go off grid often we use a sage bambino which requires 240V, but can fit in a bag in the bottom of the wardrobe. we set it up on a mat above the sink top in the evening which lets us make coffee at the touch of a button first thing in the morning. Note the sage gives instant steam and hot water which reduces the need for a electric kettle and makes excellent coffee. As always great info, cheers.
This is an excellent suggestion for an on-grid coffee machine - certainly a lot less faff than say using an Aeropress for example which is what I used when my family and I spent 3 months in our Cali Ocean in 2020.
We found that too as I wanted to practice using it in the house for a week and we only have an induction hob here. Didn’t seem to want to recognise it. I wondered if it was because it has a dimple in the bottom ?
Hi Will Had mine a while now and love it in the van and at home. I can thoroughly recommend the Comandante C40 Mk4, i have the Red Sonja version with the additional Red Clix accessory for finer grinding, supplied from from Coffee Hit.
Impressed with your commitment here. Fact you use a Lelit Mara at home tells me you’re into your espresso fix. Trying to get similar results on the road with your limiting factors? Respect. Like one of the commentators below I’m more just a straight black coffee type (no milk, no sugar) so I’m OK with espresso or pourover/immersion too. Everyone does v60 or equivalents or French Press - my suggestion would be try a tricolate. You can push Extraction Yields way past 22% without bitterness and get a tasty clean cup you could easily use the Bialetti frothier on to get an interesting white coffee. Enjoy.
I do enjoy grinding my own coffee at home and once dialled in popping through my modified Gaggia classic, so I understand your need to grind on the go and try to retain some freshness, personally I use a Bialetti moka pot or Aeropress, to grind I go a little further and got myself a Knock hand grinder which is very good and will last a lifetime :)
Sounds good. We both like our milk drinks so the steaming element is the big pull of the Bellman for us but the moka / aeropress are great alternatives if steaming isn’t needed 👍
Hi Will We've had our Bellman for a while now and love it in the van and at home. Can thoroughly recommend the Comandante C40 Mk4, we have the Red Sonja version with additional Red Clix which is easy to swap in and out for a finer ground.
Hario skerton grinder Get drill on top takes ages to manually grind beans in any grinder I've had. Hario has released a battery stick which can fit to their grinders or they do a specific grinder to go with it
Yes and no. It won’t do a 9 bar extraction like a traditional espresso machine but if you extract the coffee with more like 2 bars of pressure on the gauge then yes, you get crema, but then the coffee tastes a little over extracted to me, so I tend to draw earlier (/lower pressure) and have a nicer espresso without the crema.
I think you could get a very similar result with far less faff with a moka pot and a bialetti milk frother, hardest part with getting perfect coffee extractions in a van is the grind i use a Comandante C40 and i grind my beans frozen so it doesn’t age and i dont have to chase grind size, i use a 6 cup moka pot
We have a stovetop moka pot too but haven’t tried the Bialetti milk frother so don’t know how it compares to a steaming milk the traditional way. We were nervous about how much size and faff this would be but it’s another one of our hobbies (coffee making) so we thought we’d give it a try.
Hand grinder - I use a Porlex Tall with ceramic conical burrs. Has 40 gram hopper capacity. Japanese designed and made. 12 grind settings with simple click adjustment system from fine (turkish) to coarse (french press). Bellman may be a challenge if you want 50-60 grams coffee from a hand grinder perhaps. I have been using an Aeropress camping.
I love a coffee but I make do with the Bialetti Moka Express hob espresso maker in the van. I’m sure that coffee maker is fabulous but I doubt I would make good use of it. I’m sure you’ll get good use out of it though. Thanks for the recommendation, it’s always good to know about van options.
Nothing wrong at all with a Bialetti stovetop, makes great coffee! We tend to have some kind of steamed milk with most of our coffees hence the Bellman, but otherwise the Bialetti would be our choice 👍
Love your content, but you already said it in the video….this looks a major league faff….🤪😂 Not only that, the whole thing looks like you’re about to spill coffee beans all over the van and with a high likelihood of scalding yourself with boiling water …it looks so precarious balanced on the hob. A nice brew of Yorkshire tea is our beverage of choice….👍✌️Judging by the other comments on here, folks really must love their coffee, enjoy….☕️
You certainly do need to be careful with it but it’s quite secure on the hob. Usually we’d have the table out, pop top up and be standing while making this so much much safer and easier to control. The milk steaming sitting down is hard too! We do like to vary our content so there is something for everyone too 😀👍. But for simplicity you can’t beat a good tea 🫖 😁
Yes we do - there are more options in terms of how you want to extract the coffee (ie what temp/pressure you extract it at), and obviously the benefit of proper steaming for the milk. This Bellman has better quality steam than my MaraX machine in the house!
The Bellman is Espresso like quality, the Moka Pot seems like a steam-drip style (Percolated / American Joe). You can use the Bellman for either Espresso or weaker brews. There is a reason why Coffee is compressed into a puck and force feed hot water, there is a taste difference.
Perfect, I’m on it!! I mostly drink black so use a traditional French stove top espresso maker but I do love a cappuccino now and again so this sounds perfect 👍 well done Will!!
You’ll love it ! It uses espresso or stovetop grind rather than filter or french press, so if you do get one just make sure you either buy or grind correctly for it 👍
If someone comes up with a grinder we will be sorted lol i too have a machine at home so when away its been hard to get a decent cup!! Is the machine you have at home better than an automatic (i have a delonghi machine) do you think, in terms of coffee quality?
Grinder… erm.. there’s a few to choose from. www.bellabarista.co.uk/1zpresso-jx-hand-grinder.html for example. We don’t have one (yet) but I’m thinking about it. Machine at home, yes, much better than an automatic. We used to have a Jura and the coffee is miles apart in terms of taste and the milk frothing/steaming is totally different. It does take practice though !!
Inevitable that the automatic will die at some point, this is my second in 9 yrs! Last time I contemplated a more manual barista type one but chickened out. Next time….. I think when I’m in the van i will just take the appropriate ground coffee tbh too much time on coffee could take the whole holiday lol
Great video and interesting machine! So we’re black coffee only and use a Picopresso for amazing espresso shots (with the accompanying mess). But, re. the grinder: don’t forget you will need a small scale to weigh out the beans unless you plan to bag them up at home. I’m using a 1zpresso JX for the grind - combined with a consistent weight of beans it works really well!
Sounds great! We’re covered with this small scale as we’ve got a tiny fold up Joseph Joseph one in the van for cooking etc anyway, so we can be consistent with that part. I’ve been looking at the JX grinder and am considering one.
@@CampervanTime Well, no complaints about the JX - reliable Espresso grind good enough for my home machine, winds out easily to do the odd Bialetti grind. Expensive, but the cheaper ones I’ve tried are now at home grinding curry spices ;) Thanks again for the video and enjoy the quest for that camping god shot!
Good to know, I must take a trip to Bella Barista to take a look at the different models they do, I think there are three that they make? Just need to be ready to get the credit card out when I'm there!!
@@CampervanTime Good luck! From memory the JX is aimed at espresso grind with a decent amount of fine tuning at that end of the scale. Handy for the Picopresso which is annoyingly finicky!
The Lelit Mara X is a nice espresso machine but the grinder you use is so good. I would invest in a vacuum sealing bag machine and put your home ground coffee there. I doubt any none powered grinder would get close to the quality needed to outdo a vacuum packed grind from home. And deterioration is slow for the first week or two anyway if kept in a good box. An alternative is to use a can of nitrogen to purge the air out of a sealable storage box each time you close it. You can also use Argon but it will be more expensive. Also good for keeping your half drunk bottle of Chateau Lafite Rothschild from spoiling.
Bellman coffee maker is okay, and fills a need. But honestly, it’s a lot of fluffing about for not a lot of coffee. I only just manage to get two 400ml coffees from one run of the machine. Then it all needs disassembly and cleaning just to make another brew. I’m keeping mine, as I live on a boat and when off grid it means not running the generator for 240v and sometimes the slower pace suits me - but I’m also going to buy a new compact electric machine for when I’m in a marina or happy to run the generator because I like 2-4 coffees over a morning/day and the Bellman is too much fluffing about for me at times. The spacer basket isn’t really needed but is a reasonable tamper. Higher pressures work better than the pressures in the manual. It also uses significantly more coffee grinds than an electric machine.
I’d spill coffee grinds all over the van with one of these 😂 or knock the unit over on the hob! I imagine cleaning it is a pain too and another opportunity to get coffee grinds all over the van 😂😂 I’ve just bought an Aeropress and whisk some warm milk up into a froth and then press the coffee into the milk. Does the job for me but I’m not a coffee expert 👍
Good question. It’s because it is extracted at a lower pressure with this machine to get the extraction temperature right. You can get crema if you extract at more like 2 bar, but then the temp is a bit too hot so would need to use quite a light roast to get the best flavour. This coffee I was using in the video was mid roast so i didnt want to over extract.
That’s a lot of faff! And not sure how portable this device is in the van either. We also love our coffee but the Aeropress works well for us and doesn’t take up much space…. And it’s quick!
All great positives for the aeropress for sure. We really wanted a proper milk steamer and the bellman is the only one we’ve found that does actually have a proper steam wand and works as you’d expect. Great to have many options on the market 👍
Nice option, but I still find my bialetti expresso machine better(for the Cali usage), it's cheaper, smaller, no valves to manipulate, no small water drop, easy to transport when hot(outside), cleans in 2s and the coffee is still much better than the nespresso. Probably not as good as your baristo machine and cannot steam milk, but well, it's a quite acceptable concession for us when on the road(I used it daily the past month)
Can you promise to make the follow up video of how to remove coffee stains by from the upholstery.? 😂😂😂 Too much effort for a small gain over easier, cheaper and more efficient solutions as stated.
Ha! Well on the ArtVelours seats we have we just use a baby wipe and that sorts it out (from experience!). Standard cloth seats, not so much! Easier, cheaper, more efficient solutions yes - best tasting coffee from them, nope!
@@CampervanTime the Bellman looks great but I’m always looking to reduce the amount of stuff carried in my Eriba. The Aeropress is very portable and people always comment on how good the coffee tastes when they haven’t seen me make it - blind tasting!
@@Kamavagadoo It's the experience, do you know why Camping/Van/Glamping is fun, it's because you have to do work (sure it's limited these days) but rewarding. If you wanted Easy Mode, push a button.
I know i’m a coffee luddite Will, but I just couldn’t be asked to go to all that trouble for a coffee. I’m sure it’s great but a spoonful of Nescafe Azera in a mug with hot water and a splash of milk does me. Sorry :-)
😆 one important fact I should have said is that i tend to get up about an hour or two earlier than Sarah when we’re camping so I have plenty of time to get this ready!!
do you brew you own beer 🤔 looks like a load if hassle to me, how much s--t do we really have to take 🙄 just buy a coffee. I usually like you and your lasses videos. but not this one as no everyone who gas a van likes coffee, have you a tea one on all different types of tea 😅😂
Ha! No, don’t really drink that much and have no interest in brewing beer! BUT, coffee is quite a hobby of mine so I guess that means it was always going to creep into the van somehow!! We do drink more tea in the van than coffee though 😀
@@CampervanTime Fab video. Part of the fun for us of having a Campervan is having the things you really love at home and finding a miniaturised way of having or doing the same thing in your van and for some strange reason it's kind of thrilling when you do
Bought one of these in April and absolutely would not be without it!.Best coffee ever! I don't mind that it takes a little longer - van life is meant to be slow lol!. The quality of the machine is amazing. There is no going back! Make sure to buy the double walled thermal coffee cups which keep it beautifully hot.
Yay! A fellow Bellmanaic !
I’m not into coffee at all but it’s nice to see someone passionate about their hobby and wanting to combine it with their other hobby, which is owning a California. 👍🏻
Absolutely !
Why is it every time I watch one of your videos I have to spend money? Great stuff and thanks, keep it coming!
Whoops!!! 😬😁
That looks a right faff ;-). We have an aeropress for general coffee and a nano press for the morning shots. Both super easy to use and the puck for the aeropress pops into the bin super easy. Given the simplicty of the AeroPress and online love it gets it’s simple, cheap and easy to carry. This looks lovely and a feat of engineering but expensive, large (for a cali) and full on faff. Prefer to KISS in the Cali and leave the barista stuff for home.
Sounds like a great solution. So many coffee options there is always something that suits everyone!
Hi Will.
Great solution for off grid and love the fact that it is compact, although quite a fuss for a cuppa. As we don't go off grid often we use a sage bambino which requires 240V, but can fit in a bag in the bottom of the wardrobe. we set it up on a mat above the sink top in the evening which lets us make coffee at the touch of a button first thing in the morning. Note the sage gives instant steam and hot water which reduces the need for a electric kettle and makes excellent coffee.
As always great info, cheers.
Sounds good!
This is an excellent suggestion for an on-grid coffee machine - certainly a lot less faff than say using an Aeropress for example which is what I used when my family and I spent 3 months in our Cali Ocean in 2020.
I love coffe and your vids👏🏼
Fully appreciate this!! Nice work
Such a cool magazine! Thank you, we feel blessed to have interested you!!!!
We have one and love it. It claimed to be induction but alas, it isn't. But makes great coffee. Works over a campfire too.
We found that too as I wanted to practice using it in the house for a week and we only have an induction hob here. Didn’t seem to want to recognise it. I wondered if it was because it has a dimple in the bottom ?
Hi Will
Had mine a while now and love it in the van and at home. I can thoroughly recommend the Comandante C40 Mk4, i have the Red Sonja version with the additional Red Clix accessory for finer grinding, supplied from from Coffee Hit.
Nice! Will check it out.
Didn’t mean to send 2 comments. There is a lag and reply’s don’t show straight away. Comandante are built brilliantly - a bit like a T6 use to be.
You should also take a look at the 9Barista. You can customise it with your name/logo etc
Yes I have seen that and thought it looked interesting. I don't think it has a steamer though?
Impressed with your commitment here. Fact you use a Lelit Mara at home tells me you’re into your espresso fix. Trying to get similar results on the road with your limiting factors? Respect. Like one of the commentators below I’m more just a straight black coffee type (no milk, no sugar) so I’m OK with espresso or pourover/immersion too. Everyone does v60 or equivalents or French Press - my suggestion would be try a tricolate. You can push Extraction Yields way past 22% without bitterness and get a tasty clean cup you could easily use the Bialetti frothier on to get an interesting white coffee. Enjoy.
Interesting, not heard of tricolate before… off to google!
I do enjoy grinding my own coffee at home and once dialled in popping through my modified Gaggia classic, so I understand your need to grind on the go and try to retain some freshness, personally I use a Bialetti moka pot or Aeropress, to grind I go a little further and got myself a Knock hand grinder which is very good and will last a lifetime :)
Sounds good. We both like our milk drinks so the steaming element is the big pull of the Bellman for us but the moka / aeropress are great alternatives if steaming isn’t needed 👍
Hi Will
We've had our Bellman for a while now and love it in the van and at home.
Can thoroughly recommend the Comandante C40 Mk4, we have the Red Sonja version with additional Red Clix which is easy to swap in and out for a finer ground.
Your Grinder costs 3x the Bellman LOL - wowzers
Thanks for doing the maths.
Nevertheless an excellent grinder and in my opinion worth every penny of my hard earned cash.
Hario skerton grinder
Get drill on top takes ages to manually grind beans in any grinder I've had.
Hario has released a battery stick which can fit to their grinders or they do a specific grinder to go with it
Thanks, will check it out
Hi. Interesting video. Can you get the pressure high enough to give a crema?
Yes and no. It won’t do a 9 bar extraction like a traditional espresso machine but if you extract the coffee with more like 2 bars of pressure on the gauge then yes, you get crema, but then the coffee tastes a little over extracted to me, so I tend to draw earlier (/lower pressure) and have a nicer espresso without the crema.
I think you could get a very similar result with far less faff with a moka pot and a bialetti milk frother, hardest part with getting perfect coffee extractions in a van is the grind i use a Comandante C40 and i grind my beans frozen so it doesn’t age and i dont have to chase grind size, i use a 6 cup moka pot
We have a stovetop moka pot too but haven’t tried the Bialetti milk frother so don’t know how it compares to a steaming milk the traditional way. We were nervous about how much size and faff this would be but it’s another one of our hobbies (coffee making) so we thought we’d give it a try.
Hand grinder - I use a Porlex Tall with ceramic conical burrs. Has 40 gram hopper capacity. Japanese designed and made. 12 grind settings with simple click adjustment system from fine (turkish) to coarse (french press). Bellman may be a challenge if you want 50-60 grams coffee from a hand grinder perhaps. I have been using an Aeropress camping.
Nice! I'll check it out.
Comandante is the grinder you need 😊
I love a coffee but I make do with the Bialetti Moka Express hob espresso maker in the van. I’m sure that coffee maker is fabulous but I doubt I would make good use of it. I’m sure you’ll get good use out of it though. Thanks for the recommendation, it’s always good to know about van options.
Nothing wrong at all with a Bialetti stovetop, makes great coffee! We tend to have some kind of steamed milk with most of our coffees hence the Bellman, but otherwise the Bialetti would be our choice 👍
Love your content, but you already said it in the video….this looks a major league faff….🤪😂 Not only that, the whole thing looks like you’re about to spill coffee beans all over the van and with a high likelihood of scalding yourself with boiling water …it looks so precarious balanced on the hob. A nice brew of Yorkshire tea is our beverage of choice….👍✌️Judging by the other comments on here, folks really must love their coffee, enjoy….☕️
You certainly do need to be careful with it but it’s quite secure on the hob. Usually we’d have the table out, pop top up and be standing while making this so much much safer and easier to control. The milk steaming sitting down is hard too! We do like to vary our content so there is something for everyone too 😀👍. But for simplicity you can’t beat a good tea 🫖 😁
Yorkshire is one of the best, shame they went political
Would be interesting to know how the espresso compares to the nanopresso using the same ground coffee.
Good question - haven’t tried that yet as I don’t have the barista kit for the nanopesso. Need to get one and try 👍
Looks fabulous do you find it significantly better than a Moka pot?
Yes we do - there are more options in terms of how you want to extract the coffee (ie what temp/pressure you extract it at), and obviously the benefit of proper steaming for the milk. This Bellman has better quality steam than my MaraX machine in the house!
The Bellman is Espresso like quality, the Moka Pot seems like a steam-drip style (Percolated / American Joe). You can use the Bellman for either Espresso or weaker brews. There is a reason why Coffee is compressed into a puck and force feed hot water, there is a taste difference.
Perfect, I’m on it!! I mostly drink black so use a traditional French stove top espresso maker but I do love a cappuccino now and again so this sounds perfect 👍 well done Will!!
You’ll love it ! It uses espresso or stovetop grind rather than filter or french press, so if you do get one just make sure you either buy or grind correctly for it 👍
If someone comes up with a grinder we will be sorted lol i too have a machine at home so when away its been hard to get a decent cup!! Is the machine you have at home better than an automatic (i have a delonghi machine) do you think, in terms of coffee quality?
Grinder… erm.. there’s a few to choose from. www.bellabarista.co.uk/1zpresso-jx-hand-grinder.html for example. We don’t have one (yet) but I’m thinking about it. Machine at home, yes, much better than an automatic. We used to have a Jura and the coffee is miles apart in terms of taste and the milk frothing/steaming is totally different. It does take practice though !!
Inevitable that the automatic will die at some point, this is my second in 9 yrs! Last time I contemplated a more manual barista type one but chickened out. Next time…..
I think when I’m in the van i will just take the appropriate ground coffee tbh too much time on coffee could take the whole holiday lol
Thanks again ❤️
Hi, this looks pretty good to me, can you boil the water from scratch in the bellman or do you need to boil first?
Yep - you can, it I just takes a bit longer that’s all.
it comes down to the burner, I've used my bellman on the induction stove and while it takes a little longer, on a proper stove, it heats fast.
Great video and interesting machine!
So we’re black coffee only and use a Picopresso for amazing espresso shots (with the accompanying mess). But, re. the grinder: don’t forget you will need a small scale to weigh out the beans unless you plan to bag them up at home. I’m using a 1zpresso JX for the grind - combined with a consistent weight of beans it works really well!
Sounds great! We’re covered with this small scale as we’ve got a tiny fold up Joseph Joseph one in the van for cooking etc anyway, so we can be consistent with that part. I’ve been looking at the JX grinder and am considering one.
@@CampervanTime Well, no complaints about the JX - reliable Espresso grind good enough for my home machine, winds out easily to do the odd Bialetti grind. Expensive, but the cheaper ones I’ve tried are now at home grinding curry spices ;)
Thanks again for the video and enjoy the quest for that camping god shot!
Good to know, I must take a trip to Bella Barista to take a look at the different models they do, I think there are three that they make? Just need to be ready to get the credit card out when I'm there!!
@@CampervanTime Good luck! From memory the JX is aimed at espresso grind with a decent amount of fine tuning at that end of the scale. Handy for the Picopresso which is annoyingly finicky!
Looks like a lovely bit of kit, but not for us in a camper I don’t think. Each to their own etc. looks like it was hot work too Will 👏
It was HOT in there !! The lengths we go to 🤣🤣
The Lelit Mara X is a nice espresso machine but the grinder you use is so good. I would invest in a vacuum sealing bag machine and put your home ground coffee there. I doubt any none powered grinder would get close to the quality needed to outdo a vacuum packed grind from home. And deterioration is slow for the first week or two anyway if kept in a good box. An alternative is to use a can of nitrogen to purge the air out of a sealable storage box each time you close it. You can also use Argon but it will be more expensive. Also good for keeping your half drunk bottle of Chateau Lafite Rothschild from spoiling.
Good point, you’re the second person in a week to suggest a vac pack machine for home, albeit for two separate reasons. Will investigate !
Bellman coffee maker is okay, and fills a need. But honestly, it’s a lot of fluffing about for not a lot of coffee. I only just manage to get two 400ml coffees from one run of the machine. Then it all needs disassembly and cleaning just to make another brew. I’m keeping mine, as I live on a boat and when off grid it means not running the generator for 240v and sometimes the slower pace suits me - but I’m also going to buy a new compact electric machine for when I’m in a marina or happy to run the generator because I like 2-4 coffees over a morning/day and the Bellman is too much fluffing about for me at times. The spacer basket isn’t really needed but is a reasonable tamper. Higher pressures work better than the pressures in the manual. It also uses significantly more coffee grinds than an electric machine.
I’d spill coffee grinds all over the van with one of these 😂 or knock the unit over on the hob! I imagine cleaning it is a pain too and another opportunity to get coffee grinds all over the van 😂😂 I’ve just bought an Aeropress and whisk some warm milk up into a froth and then press the coffee into the milk. Does the job for me but I’m not a coffee expert 👍
Lots of work just for a coffee!!
You want decent coffee? Get a flair pro 2 and it was a Bellman CX25SP and you're pretty much done
Never tried a Flair Pro 2 I must admit...
Just grind the coffee at home. It's hard to beat a drip coffee though and never use milk.
American Joe for you :D
Where's the crema? Looks under extracted.
Good question. It’s because it is extracted at a lower pressure with this machine to get the extraction temperature right. You can get crema if you extract at more like 2 bar, but then the temp is a bit too hot so would need to use quite a light roast to get the best flavour. This coffee I was using in the video was mid roast so i didnt want to over extract.
If you are expecting CREMA, then you will need a professional unit. This is a portable Espresso Like experience, why would you be disappointed?
That’s a lot of faff! And not sure how portable this device is in the van either. We also love our coffee but the Aeropress works well for us and doesn’t take up much space…. And it’s quick!
All great positives for the aeropress for sure. We really wanted a proper milk steamer and the bellman is the only one we’ve found that does actually have a proper steam wand and works as you’d expect. Great to have many options on the market 👍
Nice option, but I still find my bialetti expresso machine better(for the Cali usage), it's cheaper, smaller, no valves to manipulate, no small water drop, easy to transport when hot(outside), cleans in 2s and the coffee is still much better than the nespresso. Probably not as good as your baristo machine and cannot steam milk, but well, it's a quite acceptable concession for us when on the road(I used it daily the past month)
They're perfect if milk isn't a priority, we have one and it's great, but we do like our steamed milk drinks, hence this contraption !
Can you promise to make the follow up video of how to remove coffee stains by from the upholstery.? 😂😂😂 Too much effort for a small gain over easier, cheaper and more efficient solutions as stated.
Ha! Well on the ArtVelours seats we have we just use a baby wipe and that sorts it out (from experience!). Standard cloth seats, not so much! Easier, cheaper, more efficient solutions yes - best tasting coffee from them, nope!
Aeropress is less hassle and needs no electricity
I still really must try one. The Bellman doesn't need any electricity though - just a heat source :)
@@CampervanTime the Bellman looks great but I’m always looking to reduce the amount of stuff carried in my Eriba. The Aeropress is very portable and people always comment on how good the coffee tastes when they haven’t seen me make it - blind tasting!
@@Kamavagadoo It's the experience, do you know why Camping/Van/Glamping is fun, it's because you have to do work (sure it's limited these days) but rewarding. If you wanted Easy Mode, push a button.
You lost me with the milk
Looks good quality but think I would lose the will to live doing all that........................
I know i’m a coffee luddite Will, but I just couldn’t be asked to go to all that trouble for a coffee. I’m sure it’s great but a spoonful of Nescafe Azera in a mug with hot water and a splash of milk does me. Sorry :-)
😆 one important fact I should have said is that i tend to get up about an hour or two earlier than Sarah when we’re camping so I have plenty of time to get this ready!!
I love my coffee but this is too much,,boil the kettle and use cafeteria
Ha, ha, ha, wot a faff. Each to their own.
do you brew you own beer 🤔 looks like a load if hassle to me, how much s--t do we really have to take 🙄 just buy a coffee. I usually like you and your lasses videos. but not this one as no everyone who gas a van likes coffee, have you a tea one on all different types of tea 😅😂
Ha! No, don’t really drink that much and have no interest in brewing beer! BUT, coffee is quite a hobby of mine so I guess that means it was always going to creep into the van somehow!! We do drink more tea in the van than coffee though 😀
@@CampervanTime Fab video. Part of the fun for us of having a Campervan is having the things you really love at home and finding a miniaturised way of having or doing the same thing in your van and for some strange reason it's kind of thrilling when you do
I know!!! You’re exactly right!!