POD coffee machine - which one
Discussion
As above Nespresso!!
I was bought the Pixie as a gift which came with the £40 voucher. I used his to put towards the Aerocino thing (which is also excellent).
If in any doubt go to a Nespresso store. You'll be sold within seconds of asking for advice. Their in store customer service is exemplary. It's an experience alone for me just going to buy new pods and one that I love.
If you love really strong coffee try the Kazaa pod. Also the Ristretto and new Cabano ones are excellent. To be honest I've yet to have a bad pod although some a too weak for my taste.
My bog standard morning drink is usually some kind of Lungo pod with a dash of milk. Certainly beats messing with genders, tampers and temperamental Gaggia Babies (I have one) in the mornings.
I was bought the Pixie as a gift which came with the £40 voucher. I used his to put towards the Aerocino thing (which is also excellent).
If in any doubt go to a Nespresso store. You'll be sold within seconds of asking for advice. Their in store customer service is exemplary. It's an experience alone for me just going to buy new pods and one that I love.
If you love really strong coffee try the Kazaa pod. Also the Ristretto and new Cabano ones are excellent. To be honest I've yet to have a bad pod although some a too weak for my taste.
My bog standard morning drink is usually some kind of Lungo pod with a dash of milk. Certainly beats messing with genders, tampers and temperamental Gaggia Babies (I have one) in the mornings.
Another vote for the Nespresso, had mine for a year now and use it daily.
Got the Pixie with a "free" £40 voucher which you can use online towards the pods.
They usually do an intro offer for new customers which gives you a chance to try the diff flavours, if it's not on the site when you sign up give them a call..and see if there's anything else exciting they can chuck in free...
Re - Ordering on the site is easy peasy and delivery is in a couple days.
Got the Pixie with a "free" £40 voucher which you can use online towards the pods.
They usually do an intro offer for new customers which gives you a chance to try the diff flavours, if it's not on the site when you sign up give them a call..and see if there's anything else exciting they can chuck in free...
Re - Ordering on the site is easy peasy and delivery is in a couple days.
Podie said:
mcflurry said:
On the flip side, the Nespresso clone pods are also available from M&S at ~£3 for 10 if you don't want to order 200.
Basically, the same price then 
M&S is on the High Street, Selfridges is a tube journey away
Podie said:
Nespresso have got their new uber pods out... Maragogype - £10 for a tube.
If it's as good as the last lot (Hawaii Kona) I'll be happy.
I need to get my hands on that. In reality, £10 isn't insane for 10 capsules when you consider people spend £5 for a grim Starbucks coffee.If it's as good as the last lot (Hawaii Kona) I'll be happy.
I've owned quite a selection of coffee machines. Currently have a Gaggia Evolution which rarely gets used and a Nespresso Pixie with Aerocino that gets daily use.
The Tassimo and Dolce Gusto ones are tat when compared to the Nespresso ones, I just wouldn't bother.
I've had quite a few of the Nespresso Machines too. The Delonghi one I thought although handy being able to make lattes with one press doesn't produce as good results as the separate areocino.
As for capsules, people are right, compatibles don't touch the proper Nespresso ones for consistency, taste or variety. However from the compatibles I think Lidl have the best ones and were doing them at 89p for 10 at the weekend which is a bargain.
The Tassimo and Dolce Gusto ones are tat when compared to the Nespresso ones, I just wouldn't bother.
I've had quite a few of the Nespresso Machines too. The Delonghi one I thought although handy being able to make lattes with one press doesn't produce as good results as the separate areocino.
As for capsules, people are right, compatibles don't touch the proper Nespresso ones for consistency, taste or variety. However from the compatibles I think Lidl have the best ones and were doing them at 89p for 10 at the weekend which is a bargain.
beanbag said:
Podie said:
Nespresso have got their new uber pods out... Maragogype - £10 for a tube.
If it's as good as the last lot (Hawaii Kona) I'll be happy.
I need to get my hands on that. In reality, £10 isn't insane for 10 capsules when you consider people spend £5 for a grim Starbucks coffee.If it's as good as the last lot (Hawaii Kona) I'll be happy.
Hawaii Kona was stunning, and well worth the £1 per cup.
Podie said:
I've ordered 2 tubes by phone (the most they will allow by phone or online) but I may pop down to a Nespresso boutique and see if I can grab a couple more.
Hawaii Kona was stunning, and well worth the £1 per cup.
Damn, was in Edinburgh yesterday and could have popped into the boutique and got some.Hawaii Kona was stunning, and well worth the £1 per cup.
Podie said:
I've ordered 2 tubes by phone (the most they will allow by phone or online) but I may pop down to a Nespresso boutique and see if I can grab a couple more.
Hawaii Kona was stunning, and well worth the £1 per cup.
I'll have to call the store in Malaga up. That's my nearest boutique and it's usually rammed full of tourists. (Why people buy a Nespresso machine while on holiday in Spain is beyond me).Hawaii Kona was stunning, and well worth the £1 per cup.
mcflurry said:
Podie said:
mcflurry said:
On the flip side, the Nespresso clone pods are also available from M&S at ~£3 for 10 if you don't want to order 200.
Basically, the same price then M&S is on the High Street, Selfridges is a tube journey away
M&S are the best of a sorry bunch, but they're nowhere near as good as 'proper' Nespresso, while they're near enough the same price.
beanbag said:
Another one for Nespresso. I've converted so many people it's silly.
The coffee is superb plus I also think it's the most environmentally friendly if that stuff floats your boat. The capsule are 100% recyclable aluminium whereas tassimo are plastic and many of the others are the same.
The environmental impact of Nespresso is still an order of magnitude worse than a paper bag full of locally roasted beans. And what proportion of the used pods do actually get recycled as opposed to just chucked into landfill? The coffee is superb plus I also think it's the most environmentally friendly if that stuff floats your boat. The capsule are 100% recyclable aluminium whereas tassimo are plastic and many of the others are the same.
By all means use them if you like them, but don't kid yourself that they're even remotely environmentally friendly (even by the standards of pods - the ESE ones are made of filter paper and can be composted after use).
uncinqsix said:
The environmental impact of Nespresso is still an order of magnitude worse than a paper bag full of locally roasted beans. And what proportion of the used pods do actually get recycled as opposed to just chucked into landfill?
By all means use them if you like them, but don't kid yourself that they're even remotely environmentally friendly (even by the standards of pods - the ESE ones are made of filter paper and can be composted after use).
If you take them in for recycling then yes they are very environmentally friendly. That is a big if though. I expect many don't. By all means use them if you like them, but don't kid yourself that they're even remotely environmentally friendly (even by the standards of pods - the ESE ones are made of filter paper and can be composted after use).
The used granules are apparently used as a fertilizer / compost and the metals are processed locally (to me at least).
Anyways, Nespresso have a £75 voucher deal on buying certain machines. See here http://www.nespresso.com/uk/en/coffee-maker-list-N...
CRB14 said:
If you take them in for recycling then yes they are very environmentally friendly. That is a big if though. I expect many don't.
They can either be collected (free) by courier, dropped off at a Nespresso boutique or dropped at a CollectPlus store.Storage bags for the capsules are provided free.
Personally, I think that's pretty good.
Podie said:
CRB14 said:
If you take them in for recycling then yes they are very environmentally friendly. That is a big if though. I expect many don't.
They can either be collected (free) by courier, dropped off at a Nespresso boutique or dropped at a CollectPlus store.Storage bags for the capsules are provided free.
Personally, I think that's pretty good.
uncinqsix said:
And the energy used in producing the capsules and then recycling them afterwards? Recycled or not, it still equates to a massive amount of unnecessary packaging, transport etc that Nestle have added to the simple process of making a coffee.
The simple process of making coffee, using coffee beans shipped from halfway around the world?Oakey said:
The simple process of making coffee, using coffee beans shipped from halfway around the world?
As processed food products go, it is actually pretty simple - there's a lot less handling, processing and packaging than most. Process with loose beans:
1.) Coffee grower puts dried green beans into a big hessian sack
2.) Coffee grower/co-op/exporter ships the sack of green beans from country of origin to a roaster in the destination market (NZ in my case).
3.) Roaster roasts beans, and puts them into a paper bag.
4.) Beans get put into a van and driven across town to retailer.
5.) I buy the beans and use them, then throw the paper bag in the normal household paper recycling, and add the used grounds to the compost.
Process with Nespresso
1.) Coffee grower puts dried green beans into a hessian sack
2.) Beans get shipped to Nestle's manufacturing plant (wherever that is. Likely not in the final destination market).
3.) Somewhere else in the world, either bauxite or used aluminium is processed into new aluminium billets. (pods are only 30% recycled aluminium)
4.) Billets get shipped to Nestle's pod manufacturing plant, turned into pod cases and shipped to the plant in (2)
5.) Beans get roasted, ground and put into pods.
6.) Pods get put into shiny retail packaging
7.) Pods get shipped from manufacturing country to distribution centre in destination country
8.) Pods get shipped to retailers
9.) Consumer buys pods, uses them and either puts the used pods into landfill (majority, according to Nestle themselves) or stores them up for recycling
10.) If recycling, the consumer/courier transports pods back to Nestle
11.) Nestle transports used pods to recycling centre capable of processing the used pods (I would be surprised if all nespresso market countries had a recycling program, so additional shipping may be needed to get pods to recycling facilities)
12.) Pods get recycled
There's a bit of a difference in terms of energy used, resources consumed and general faffing about.
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