Nespresso style coffee machines (1 Viewer)

[dunderhead]

https://www.argos.ie/static/Product/partNumber/2650630/Trail/searchtext%3EKRUPS.htm#tabrev

Getting one of the above for work after an old one packed in last week. Was a huge variety of pods used on it. Also a Krups. Seeing as though there will be a few folks using it I need to make sure it's workable with the variety of non-Nespresso pods. Can anyone confirm this? cheers

 

[rettucs]

https://www.argos.ie/static/Product/partNumber/2650630/Trail/searchtext%3EKRUPS.htm#tabrev

Getting one of the above for work after an old one packed in last week. Was a huge variety of pods used on it. Also a Krups. Seeing as though there will be a few folks using it I need to make sure it's workable with the variety of non-Nespresso pods. Can anyone confirm this? cheers

I had a Krups before. It was great tbh. I had it as a home machine but then brought it into work as is was a bit too bulky for the kitchen. It was about 3 years old when I brought it in and it lasted another 2. It got repeated use with all sorts of different types of nespress knock-offs. Basically, if the knock-off said 'nespresso compatible', it'll work.

That machine in your link looks way more modern than my yoke. I'm not sure who has the contract to make nespresso machines now - I don't think its Krupps, so this is likely an older model.

Btw, it might be checking out the nespresso machines sold directly by nespresso. It might cos a little more but they normally throw in a tonne of free coffee with it.

 

[dunderhead]

I had a Krups before. It was great tbh. I had it as a home machine but then brought it into work as is was a bit too bulky for the kitchen. It was about 3 years old when I brought it in and it lasted another 2. It got repeated use with all sorts of different types of nespress knock-offs. Basically, if the knock-off said 'nespresso compatible', it'll work.

That machine in your link looks way more modern than my yoke. I'm not sure who has the contract to make nespresso machines now - I don't think its Krupps, so this is likely an older model.

Btw, it might be checking out the nespresso machines sold directly by nespresso. It might cos a little more but they normally throw in a tonne of free coffee with it.

cheers, went with that option. defo better value all freebies taken into account

 

[Anthony]

I hate how the supermarket coffee isle is all pods now. There hasn't been decaf ground coffee in any place around here for about a month. I blame Brexit.

 

[ann post]

No pods in lidl!

 

[rettucs]

No pods in lidl!

ha, yes there are. In my local lidl anyway

 

[ann post]

ha, yes there are. In my local lidl anyway

Must be a fake lidl

 

[error type 11]

I discovered recently that I had been burning the shit out of the coffee I made in my moka pot. Combining that with the absolute muck I accepted in work for years meant I had an impression that baristas practiced witchcraft in coffee shops. While their dedication to the art is definitely far beyond mine, a total change to my coffee making ritual has removed much of the bitter taste to my coffee I had accepted for years.

 

[magicbastarder]

I discovered recently that I had been burning the shit out of the coffee I made in my moka pot.

how do you burn coffee in a moka pot? i just got one, and there doesn't seem to be too much technique to it?

 

[error type 11]

how do you burn coffee in a moka pot? i just got one, and there doesn't seem to be too much technique to it?

For me the coffee started tasting better when I filled the moka with nearly boiling water instead of cold reducing the time its on the hob. Then taking it off the hob once its done.

 

[Lili Marlene]

That's right.

Oh @magicbastarder, you're standing on the precipice of something so wide and vast that you can't even see it yet.

 

[magicbastarder]

cheers, i'd always have taken it off the hob once it had done its thing, but hadn't thought about preheating the water.

 

[dudley]

Preheating the water is the big one, apparently!

 

[Unicron]

Preheating the water is the big one, apparently!

Yup, and then not letting it boil away too much once it's ready, but it sounds like MB has that covered.

 

[magicbastarder]

we only got one recently as weirdly they were hard to get for induction hobs a year or two back when we last looked half-heartedly, but tk maxx had loads in recently.