[Closed] Nespresso machine. Is this a good one?

Advice I got, which makes sense, is to get separate milk thingy and nespresso machine, in case one goes wrong.

But on your you only have to deal with one plug.

Either way, both the machine and the milk thingy I would rate as excellent!

Prams and coffee machines seem to be the most common items on the local sell your unwanted junk pages. Just sayin.

Sorry but those machines are OK for about a year, and cost an arm and a leg for coffee.

Just buy one of these and if partial to frothy coffee, but a frothy milk whisk thingumybob.

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I had that model - albeit mine was the stand alone one with a separate milk frother. It was excellent until it died after three years of every day use.

Replaced with a bean to cup which I do prefer but wouldn't rule out another nespresso in the future

I have that model. Works well, it's easily a couple of years old now. Still works 😉

Just buy this and save all the bother.

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A mate of mine has got a Nespresso with the milk frother & it makes really good coffee to my untrained taste buds.

He's had it at least a couple of years & it's still going.

I've got a Dolce Gusto one - the coffee isn't as good, but the pods do the milk as well. It's almost 4 years old & get used most days.

If it broke & I was replacing it, I'd probably get a Nespresso style one.
My bro-in-law has recently bought an AEG machine that takes Lavazza pods (they looks the same size/shape as the Nespresso ones & they tasted really good.

The machines all produce the same coffee, so it's really down to the style and extra features like how easy it is to get a cup underneath, basket for the old pods etc

Don't bother Hora get an espresso Stove, Aeropress or even a cheap barista style coffee machine
The capsules are ok but don't come near the taste of using freshly roasted beans ground as needed.

+1 james. Get a stove top. Takes minutes and you get that ace 'coffee is ready' sound. I don't know how to write that.

We have that model but without the milk heater (we drink black coffee) works well - better than pixies, we have 2 of those - have had it 3 years. We clean it maybe twice a year running white vinegar throigh it plus lots of water. You can buy Nespresso cleaner.

They do £45 off offers from time to time, nespresso club ?

i got an aeropress, grunwerg hand grinder and bregante's old milk frother off him. works a treat for me!

We have that (but two separate units). Citiz is easier to use, better made and quieter than the other budget ones like Pixie or U.

Coffee from them all is much the same. Lots of alternatives to the Nespresso-brand pods now that their design patent has expired.

I never have milk in coffee but for making it for the wife the Aeroccino thing is brilliant. Cold milk in, press the button, wait for it to go out, pour into cup. Easy to wash up too.

If you're making milk-based coffees more regularly then I'd spend the extra £40 on a Lattissima. It puts the milk straight into the cup and the milk container pops off to go in the fridge.

http://www.johnlewis.com/nespresso-en520-lattissima-coffee-machine-by-d e'longhi/p1561571?colour=White

This is for MrsH. Not me you cafe snobs! 😀

We bought a Krups one from the Yorkshire Outlet for our camper. Came with a separate frother and they gave us a load of extra pods in different flavours. Cost us £65.

For ease of use I like them. Loving the coffee snobbery/ male-gear-obsession here - which is just kind of missing the point. Ease of use and lack of cleaning faffage, with 90% of the quality of the best stuff.

Worth looking and waiting for really special deals. I've bought 3 machines over the last 4 years - none of which have gone wrong yet. The last one complete with milk frother and machine and £60 voucher, cost £79.99 with a further 10% off from an online voucher - so net cost £12...

Look at Currys and Go electricals for intermittent deals

with 90% of the quality of the best stuff

😆

I got the Lattissima (automatic milk foaming). Seems to do decent coffee, and certainly for the first year the coffee isn't desperately expensive thanks to the £60 Nespresso apply to your account.

*gazes at literal mountain of coffee in the kitchen*

If you are going to buy one you've missed out on the best prices by about 2 days as these were virtually half price over the bank holiday weekend.

with 90% of the quality of the best stuff.

Ha ha you funny man. 😯

I have a pixie and a krups, both with separate aerocinnos. Nothing much to choose between the two other than looks. Both worked out less than 10 quid due to the 75 quid of credit to spend on coffee.

Don't bother Hora get an espresso Stove, Aeropress or even a cheap barista style coffee machine
The capsules are ok but don't come near the taste of using freshly roasted beans ground as needed.

I can't comment on Nespresso machines, but moka pots and aeropress coffee aren't really comparable - I can't stand the former.

Sorry but those machines are OK for about a year, and cost an arm and a leg for coffee.

I've had the stand alone version and separate milk frother for at least 3 years and it's used every day.

I also have a 'proper' Bialetti coffee pot which makes great coffee but the nespresso is almost as good, has a variety of coffees and it's ultra quick and faff free.

It would be interesting to see a blind tasting wouldn't it?

I have had many bad espressos from what seemed like burnt or old roasts, mostly in the UK, but also in Spain and Italy.

I see in 2013 30% of the Michelin Starred restaurants in the world used Nespresso - but what would they know compared to a cyclist with a gear fixation 😉

I do believe a really good espresso made by someone who really cares, is better, but I haven't got the time.

I see in 2013 30% of the Michelin Starred restaurants in the world used Nespresso - but what would they know compared to a cyclist with a gear fixation

I'm quite surprised by this. I guess you get Michelin stars for food not coffee 🙂

TBH most of the time at restaurants a nespresso is likely a better bet as there usually won't be a decent barista who know's what they are doing and at least the product will be consistent.

A bit like going round someone's house who has a proper espresso machine but doesn't really know how to use it, I'd rather they just had a pod machine.

I do believe a really good espresso made by someone who really cares, is better, but I haven't got the time.

It is much better, I have one every morning (takes two or three minutes to make an espresso.) I do have a pod machine too to take away on holidays but the product is pretty poor in comparison, as is most high street coffee. I sometimes use a stove top too, but that doesn't make espresso so not comparable.

I guess you get Michelin stars for food not coffee

I'd be disappointed if a restaurant served me nespresso. But then there's consumer nespresso and industrial/commercial nespresso (we have the latter at work, as well as Lavazza).
nespresso as the complimentary coffee in the mop crop shop (etc.) is acceptable.

But then there are baristas, and button pushers who call themselves baristas.

And all consumer Nespresso machines are the same. They'll all be equally consistent "quite good but very convenient". I'd not get a milk frother version.

+1 for the Aeropress

You can easily take it camping with you as well.

I see in 2013 30% of the Michelin Starred restaurants in the world used Nespresso - but what would they know compared to a cyclist with a gear fixation

I've been served Nespresso in a Michelin-starred restaurant. Happily, the food was so good that I wasn't too bothered about the very average coffee.

+1 for the Aeropress

You can easily take it camping with you as well.

bad coffee at the end of decent meal makes me very sad.

would you serve wine from a box because the food was good?

or horse burgers from tesco because the ketchup was Heinz?

nespresso are drinkable at a push. just flat. never great... once you have acquired the taste for fresh. The coffee's not freshly ground so most of the lovely bean oils have dissipated.

Heston explains it nicely...

I'd be disappointed if a Michelin starred restaurant used a Nespresso machine of the type here. I would expect a proper commercial/professional high pressure machine made in Italy.

Manned by someone who knows how to make a decent espresso. Otherwise it'd be a bit like having the fanciest oven and being an unskilled chef, it's not going to end well.

Nespresso is a microwave ready meal.

Yeah, I'm not too sure about the Michelin Stared restaurants using Pod Machines, the ones I use generally have a brute of a chrome machine that takes up most of the Bar.

Though I'm of the opinion that £'s does indeed buy you stars.

And I take my Bialetti camping.. It's one of the reasons for waking up 😆

[i]+1 for the Aeropress
You can easily take it camping with you as well.
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That's what I do - they're great for camping. I find you do need to use an espresso grind or the water pours straight through.

Tried the upside down method? A bit more precarious but omits that problem.

yes, tiz very good imo

Commercial nespreso machine's and pods are used in restaurants. Only reason they are used is that many restaurants don't want the noise from a traditional machine.
Still doesn't excuse a bad coffee after a good meal.

I have the good fortune of living in italy and 1 euro at the bar just a minute away.

Only places in Italy that have these are waiting rooms or someone who lives too far from a bar...

Is convenience really worth the amount of waste these produce?
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Non-recyclable, mixed material pods, that give you mediocre coffee. Or spend a few minutes and use a stove top or even a cafetière.

the good fortune of living in italy and 1 euro at the bar just a minute away.

Nasher, I really must come visit soon! 🙂

The reason it's €1 is it's made with bulk roasted cheap robusta beans.
Would rather have a 3rd wave lightly roasted sweet tasting espresso any day of the week, that said a well made Italian (in Italy not uk cafe Nero style) espresso with good arabica beans not roasted to charcoal flavour is quite enjoyable and certainly better than anything from the Cloony Cyst machines.

You can buy refillable Nespresso pods. I have no idea how well they work, but they do exist and presumably lessen the wastage of the standard throw-away ones, plus give you a wider choice of coffee.

You could, of course, just about buy a proper espresso maker for the price of that Nespresso thing linked to in the first post, but each to their own I guess.

Maybe so mr smith, but it's still good and i drink it in Italy 🙂

You do need to come over blobby, 20 years is a long time...

The reason it's €1 is it's made with bulk roasted cheap robusta

And that's your classic Italian morning punch in the face coffee that gets you going 🙂

The waste from Nespresso and other pod machines is ridiculous, they really ought to be banned on environmental grounds.

The waste from Nespresso and other pod machines is ridiculous, they really ought to be banned on environmental grounds.

You can send back the pods for recycling.

I don't understand why some people get so incensed about nespresso pods which are recyclable. They don't seem nearly so bothered about coke/beer cans.

You can send back the pods for recycling

Yes you can, but I suspect most don't.

I don't understand why some people get so incensed about nespresso pods which are recyclable. They don't seem nearly so bothered about coke/beer cans.

Because you can't make your own (well you can make beer, but it takes a while!), and personally I recycle all cans and bottles.

I don't understand why some people get so incensed about nespresso pods which are recyclable. They don't seem nearly so bothered about coke/beer cans.

I believe you should take each product type on it's merits and attempt to reduce unnecessary packaging for that product type. Where I think the Nespresso concept fails so spectacularly is the fact that the alternative methods of delivering the product to the consumer requires very little extra effort/time and are arguably better tasting. It's the coffee equivalent of those little plastic trays of cellophane wrapped preprepared veggies you get in the supermarket, with probably a similar demographic buying them.

I appreciate it's a marginal gains thing and there are plenty of worse thing we all do, but its avoidable and unnecessary and an easy win.

But there's lots of packaging for foods that you could avoid if you made your own, ready meals for a start. Why single out coffee pods?

For easy wins I'd ban ready meals, foil wrapped energy gels and beer cans because I believe none of these things to be necessary 😉

They don't seem nearly so bothered about coke/beer cans.

Personally I think all products should pay a packaging / recycling tax based on the amount of material used and the amount actually recycled. That way disposable Bic razors and nespresso pods would be taxed out of existence. There is no need for them, they are just very wasteful ways of providing a service when they are much better ways of doing so.

Why single out coffee pods?

Probably because it's taking wastefulness to a new level. A damming inditement on the modern consumerist society.

Why single out coffee pods?

Why not?

And I don't think it's singling out - lots of campaigns about lots of small things which hopefully when looked at collectively might make a difference.

The difference between the pod coffee thing and ready meals is that buying a pod machine is buying into a 'system' - all your coffee for the foreseeable will be purchased like that. The odd ready meal is not the same. If you are living on a diet of 100% ready meals you have bigger problems imo!

For easy wins I'd ban ready meals, foil wrapped energy gels and beer cans because I believe none of these things to be necessary

More necessary to me than those things, yes. My weekday lodgings are away from home. I don't have a stove so a stove top coffee maker is no use to me. Nespresso suits perfectly.

More necessary to me than those things, yes

Ah, so your perspective on life is entirely self orientated. That explains it. Tory voter perchance?

The problem in society is there are too many people who can't see beyond their own needs and wants. Like you I guess.

More necessary to me than those things, yes. My weekday lodgings are away from home. I don't have a stove so a stove top coffee maker is no use to me. Nespresso suits perfectly.

Kettle? Cafetière? Sorted.

No, I see my waste footprint as a collective total and using pods which I recycle is acceptable to me.

Others probably make compromises I wouldn't, perhaps they use tampons or panty liners because the convenience is worth it to them. It doesn't make them despicable people. Just someone who's made different choices.

Kettle? Cafetière? Sorted.

Doesn't produce anything remotely like an espresso

No, I see my waste footprint as a collective total and using pods which I recycle is acceptable to me.

Oh, I see. So you look at your waste as collective and a little 'indiscretion' with coffee packaging is ok because you are overall not a bad person. But products you don't use should be banned because you don't trust other people to think like you?

But products you don't use should be banned because you don't trust other people to think like you?

No, I'm not calling for a ban on anything, just pointing out that it's very easy to call for a ban on something you don't personally find useful. As others here have done.

Doesn't produce anything remotely like an espresso

You'd be surprised. Small cafetière, proper espresso coffee grounds, and a bit of experimentation with technique can produce a very good facsimile.

Others probably make compromises I wouldn't,

I don't either, that's why I use an espresso machine and grinder to make espresso 🙄
As for ethical, forget fair trade and agribusiness bulk produced coffee. It's all about direct trade with small producers, co-ops and community owned milling/drying/process facilities. This means way more in the pocket of the small growers and a better quality product too. Cuts out the likes of Nestle too

I'm not calling for a ban on anything

really...

[b]I'd ban[/b] ready meals, foil wrapped energy gels and beer cans

just pointing out that it's very easy to call for a ban on something you don't personally find useful

I drink coffee. I'm often in a rush and at work I have no stove. Why would it not be useful to me? Still chosen not to have one though.

I'd aeropress in your situation.

You'd be surprised

Indeed I would, nae I'd be shocked it it was anything near a proper espresso.

This helping the OP? 🙂

Said in jest, hence the smiley.

Said in jest, hence the smiley.

And followed up with a

More necessary to me than those things, yes.

Which to me at least said quite a lot about your perspective on life/personality.

This helping the OP?

I hope so 😉