Which Nespresso?

Buyingcar2012

I know that this machine is not desirable to those who know their beans but there seems to be a good deal for a Nespresso Inissia for £60.

I usually drink Americano's while my wife would have a latte albeit she's not too frequent a coffee drinker. I know the Inissia doesn't have a frother but I think the convenience and price is good?

maxwell smart

Don't mind the coffee snobs, for 95% of people this is the easiest, most reliable and quickest way to get a good coffee.

If your not hung up on milk go for the new Vertuo machine. Great offer at the moment, something like €120 with 60 capsules free?

Get the Aerocinno thing (which is the best way to froth milk) for maybe 60?

Your sorted then!

TheMilkyPirate

I got the vertuo plus with the aerocinno for 199 in Kildare village the other day. Also got 120e worth of capsules for free delivered to my house tomorrow

colm_mcm

Big drawback of the Nespresso Vertuo is it’s impossible for other companies to make compatible pods for them (because of the barcode system the pods have) so you’re stuck with original pods only which are a minimum of 45c each,

Now granted these pods are bigger than the regular nespresso pods.

Toots

I've an Essenza mini and the aeroccino and I really like it. L'Or do great Nespresso compatible pods. I'd second the concerns about the vertuo pods, with the original pods you can buy the Nespresso ones if you want, but you have more options with different brands to try too.

dball

I agree with OP, very handy and easy to use.
If i had more time i would invest in a grinder etc. The Inissia is very handy, i got one last year
Im also on the look out for one for a similar price for the parents for Christmas, - where are you seeing it advertised for 60 OP?

I got mine online it BY last year at the same price but they don't stock them anymore.
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murphyebass

maxwell smart wrote: »

Don't mind the coffee snobs, for 95% of people this is the easiest, most reliable and quickest way to get a good coffee!

Nothing snobby about liking a good cup of coffee which why a lot of people do go down the route of an aeropress and a hand grinder for a fresh coffee experience. Personally I’d prefer to have an aeropress and preground coffee from a decent supplier than nespresso. And 95% of people, pfft would you go on out of that.

OP nespresso isn’t bad but it’s aint very good either. You’ll get a consitantly average coffee which will cost you 80cent a coffee as it takes two pods to get to approx 16-18grams of coffee which is what you’d have in a normal americano in a coffee shop as each pod only contains about 8 or so grams of you’re lucky.

The machines are cheap as they make the money on the pods.

You have the alternative now of the likes of Lor and I think Kenco are both doing aluminum pods for a slightly cheaper price. Couldn’t tell you how good or bad they are both work people rave about them. Might get you cost per cup down to 60 cent a coffee.

Nespresso does work for a lot people and that’s fine but let’s bs fair a lot of people have never heard of an aeropress. You can make a far better coffee with this in literally a minute and a half v a slightly faster average nespresso.

In closing life’s too short for **** coffee.

Diziet

Nespresso is only ok as coffee goes and very environmentally unfriendly, creating waste (that is typically non recyclable and not recycled) for every single cup.

davo2001

Diziet wrote: »

Nespresso is only ok as coffee goes and very environmentally unfriendly, creating waste (that is typically non recyclable and not recycled) for every single cup.

The proper nespresso capsules are made of aluminium which is 100% recyclable. The cheaper plastic capsules from other manufacturers are not.

Slaphead07

murphyebass wrote: »

Nothing snobby about liking a good cup of coffee which why a lot of people do go down the route of an aeropress and a hand grinder for a fresh coffee experience. ......
In closing life’s too short for **** coffee.

Yep. I'm getting really sick of people calling others "snobs" because they don't like acidic muddy coffee. Liking something of better quality does not make you a snob.
I'm not a music snob because I don't like boy bands
I'm not a car snob because I don't like Hyundai
I'm not a cheese snob because I don't like Easi Singles
I'm not a HiFi snob because I don't like BOSE.

It goes on.

jam_mac_jam

davo2001 wrote: »

Diziet wrote: »

Nespresso is only ok as coffee goes and very environmentally unfriendly, creating waste (that is typically non recyclable and not recycled) for every single cup.

The proper nespresso capsules are made of aluminium which is 100% recyclable. The cheaper plastic capsules from other manufacturers are not.

Even if you do recycle which most people don't it's incredibly wastefull and expensive. Using aluminium is crazy to package coffee. Some offices in Germany have banned them due to this. So fine if this not an issue but not true to say they are fine because some people recycle.

colm_mcm

jam_mac_jam wrote: »

Even if you do recycle which most people don't it's incredibly wastefull and expensive. Using aluminium is crazy to package coffee. Some offices in Germany have banned them due to this. So fine if this not an issue but not true to say they are fine because some people recycle.

There’s more aluminium in a slab of bulmers than in 500 pods.

Nespresso supply bags for you to put your empty pods in and take them back. The only waste or expense here is in the time they take to repeatedly produce and recycle them.

murphyebass

Ok let’s address the recycling ****e that keeps coming up.

NOBODY recycles. Or ok let’s say 1 in 10 people so it’s a completely and utterly useless point.

Can we stop mentioning this pointless remark every time nespresso comes up ffs.

It’s about time and quality.

Nespresso is quick.
Aeropress is nearly as quick.

Nespresso produces average but consistent coffee.
Aeropress can produce constantly good to great coffee.

Aeropress and even very good coffee is signifcantly cheaper than nespresso.

That’s the end of it imo. That’s all that needs to be said for an actual comparison.

Recycling on such a small scale is a such a pointless argument. Let’s all join greenpeace and become vegan recycling enthusiasts. Ugh.

Jeffrey Lebowski

what turned me off nespresso was the taste. There are so many nespresso pods with supposedly different varieties, but after a short while, they all taste the same.

Bang for buck, aeropress beats all comers.

ipodrocker

Aeropress is the way to go, and brew time is so quick you can make in the morning before heading out to the office and or bring it with you!