Nespresso owners - Get in Here!!!!!

[RobbieTheTruth]

dapprman said:

paulguitar said:

hyphen said:

Ynox said:

I think it's maybe time for a bean to cup.

leave these lifestyle fiends behind and join the real men


https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...

A word of caution though, it can be even more heated over there than with the watch eccentrics.

And ask Robbie just how deep the financial rabbit hole is (he's been quite honest about it here and on other threads BTW).

The arrival of the Solo Grinder has certainly helped!

[RobbieTheTruth]

Ynox said:

Ynox said:

So my Nespresso Expert machine has packed in this morning. I suspect the plate the cap gets pushed into for extraction needs cleaning. Will strip it down tomorrow.

This has just made me reconsider Nespresso though. Last year I spent nearly £700 on Nespresso pods! I think it's maybe time for a bean to cup.

So after a few weeks with my Sage Barista Express, I'm sat here drinking Nespresso (my Nespresso club level meant I got the machine fixed for free - pretty much all new internals used). Got a lot of pods to use up still.

The Sage makes better coffee. Hands down. Nespresso isn't great. But for convenience? It wins ever time. The Sage is pretty much a manual machine really (we've even got little scales to weigh the beans).

This is always in line with my advice on the other thread.

Manual will make better coffee hands down.

Bean to Cup/Nespresso will give you average, quick, convenient coffee. Much better than instant.

I have both options. Use manual 90% of the time but use Nespresso when I'm in a hurry or hungover.

[RobbieTheTruth]

Tony Angelino said:

Working my way through a few pods and so far I am really chuffed with the steamed milk but I am struggling to make a latte or cappucino that is anything like strong enough (I don't like coffee particularly strong but even still, all my efforts are far too milky). I am looking for advice from the group please, is it a case of doubling up the shots or reducing my drink size?

I have tried so far:

3-4 of the strongest rated Nespresso capsules out of the selection box
Illy Classico
Illy Forte
Illy Intenso
Illy Lungo
Lidl
Bellarom Ristretto Espresso (Lidl)

Does anybody make a decent latte or cappucino and can help please? I am using a Creatista Sage machine.
thanks

Ignore the strength number. That number signifies darkness.

People associate darkness with strength but it's not the case.

Strength will be determined by coffee ratio to milk. Darkness (i.e, high numbers) will just be dark roasts, with tasting notes of ashtray, coal etc.

It's very possible to have a weak dark coffee, and it's possible to have a nice string light roast.

A perfect Espresso is generally 18g of coffee yielding 36g of liquid, in about 30 seconds, flowing through at around 9 bars of pressure for perfect flavour.

Nespresso fires a load of water through 7g of burnt, stale coffee, at much higher pressure, so you'll need at least 2 pods to get anything worth drinking.

[RobbieTheTruth]

Tony Angelino said:

RobbieTheTruth said:

Tony Angelino said:

Working my way through a few pods and so far I am really chuffed with the steamed milk but I am struggling to make a latte or cappucino that is anything like strong enough (I don't like coffee particularly strong but even still, all my efforts are far too milky). I am looking for advice from the group please, is it a case of doubling up the shots or reducing my drink size?

I have tried so far:

3-4 of the strongest rated Nespresso capsules out of the selection box
Illy Classico
Illy Forte
Illy Intenso
Illy Lungo
Lidl
Bellarom Ristretto Espresso (Lidl)

Does anybody make a decent latte or cappucino and can help please? I am using a Creatista Sage machine.
thanks

Ignore the strength number. That number signifies darkness.

People associate darkness with strength but it's not the case.

Strength will be determined by coffee ratio to milk. Darkness (i.e, high numbers) will just be dark roasts, with tasting notes of ashtray, coal etc.

It's very possible to have a weak dark coffee, and it's possible to have a nice string light roast.

A perfect Espresso is generally 18g of coffee yielding 36g of liquid, in about 30 seconds, flowing through at around 9 bars of pressure for perfect flavour.

Nespresso fires a load of water through 7g of burnt, stale coffee, at much higher pressure, so you'll need at least 2 pods to get anything worth drinking.

Thanks, I've not got a very high bar as I was more than happy with the flavor of Tassimo costa latte's but was really surprised at the fat content of them, IO also really like the steamed milk from the creatista.

Best option for Nespresso standard would be using 2 pods of Ethiopia (4)

[RobbieTheTruth]

BigRuts said:

Tony Angelino said:

RobbieTheTruth said:

Best option for Nespresso standard would be using 2 pods of Ethiopia (4)

Thanks Robbie, will find some and give it a try.

As anything its personal choice, but I've had better mileage with 2 Colombia (6)

I think they roast too dark. Even a 4 is 'burnt' is comparison to Third Wave Coffee Roasters, and I find the Colombia veering into ashtray/coal tasting notes.

As mentioned prior, a lot of people associate strength with roast level.

Generally, the lighter the roast, the higher the caffeine content as roasting burns it away.

Some people think the milder taste means weaker and therefore less of a caffeine hit!