Are Nespresso machines good?

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I like a good coffee but wonder if this machine is any good. Seems to be a lot of deals in just now. Thanks.

IME they break always habitually the day after the guarantee expires.

Mine was delivered on Saturday! I'm loving it. I was going to get he latissimo one, as I always have a capuchino so need the mill frothing. But you have to pull the thing apart to clean it... far too much faff. So I went for the Nespresso machine with the aerochino3. It's great.

I love coffee, and the choice is really good so fits most moods. Just order a good selection. The machine is quick and easy and the milk froths so well, without any hassle. I've had a bean to cup machine with the steam frother thing like in a coffee shop, and obviously they make great coffee but the time it takes to do the milk, when I have several cups a day and a very busy job... It was too much time. So I got a dolce gusto and used that for a year but the coffee just isn't that nice. Nespresso beats them both. Easy, quick, very little clean up, recyclable and tasty!

I adore Nespresso....bought my first machine over 15 years ago. I have one in the kitchen and one in my bedroom for my 6 am wake-up shot . I drink mainly espresso but like a lungo at times too.

If you take out a 12 month subscription you get a machine for £1 and they turn your monthly subscription fee (the entire amount) into credit you can spend on their website and use to buy pods, cups, etc.

I love mine, the coffee is great and I have an Aeroccino milk frother so I can have cappuccinos and lattes. It froths cold milk as well which I'm excited about as I became addicted to pricey cold cappuccinos in the summer.

I love mine. BUT - don’t buy any of the other pods that say they are compatible. Out of 10, at least 2 won’t work. And definitely get the milk frother!

Awful for environment. Not even decent coffee imo.

I love my tassimo used everyday for 2y now quick and easy

Not as good as my trusty old Gaggia. It's been going for decades and all the grounds go on the compost, so much cheaper to run and better for the environment.

I paid £60 for mine (with a free Aeroccino milk frother) on Black Friday 2017 and I love it. My last machine was a Dolce Gusto and the coffee was disgusting 🤢

They give out bags to put your used pods in, once it's full just post it back (Freepost) or hand it in at your local boutique and they send them off for recycling.

The Nespresso pods are recyclable.

The L’Or aluminium pods are the only compatible ones worth buying, IMO. I get them in packs of 10 boxes from amazon - they work out about 21p a pod which is a lot cheaper than the Nespresso ones. The real ones are superior though!

The environment question is actually very debatable, and a solid answer may never be possible because we need to make assumptions like... How much water so you boil every time you make an instant coffee. Is every single full pot of coffee always finished, or is there waste (so the energy used making it was a waste). Is every bit of ground coffee that is sold actually used? Do people use the correct amount? With the pods, how many are actually recycled? It's a question that hasn't been answered, so there's no point in coming back and saying "but it is worse" because we don't know.

We do however, know the efforts Nespresso and nestle make on the human side of things. They've basically reinvigorated the agriculture of South Sudan, coffee is now it's biggest agricultural export. There is a human cost to coffee, and they educate, train and fund coffee farmers and then they pay a proper price for the coffee they buy. They don't barter them down and down and down.

Nespresso is very much good and bad, with a number of unknowns thrown in.

I use every bit of ground coffee, only the machine only uses the right amount of water and no more electricity than a Nespresso. My only waste is the foil of the coffee packaging, coffee grounds are compostable.

Suggesting that the dozens of pods, made off aluminium foil and plastic are more environmentally friendly is very disingenuous.

www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2015/may/27/nespresso-sustainability-transparency-recycling-coffee-pods-values-aluminum

That article says exactly what I've just said. Did you even read It?

The problem is, all of the studies on this have been spnosnered by coffee companies with an agenda. And you need to make assumptions. It's a unknown. No where in my post sis I say pods were better for the environemnt. I said it is debatable because it is unknown.

You do your coffee that way. But what about a business with 200 employees all working on different floors and all having a few cups of coffee a day. Maybe the boil a full kettle and make several cups for their team. Maybe the boil a full kettle and make a cup just for themselves. If you've got 200 peippenhaving 2 coffees a day and all boiling a full, or even half full, kettle individually for each cup.... That adds up. But, we don't know if that's what's happening. And it could or could not be happening in every workplace everywhere. Thousands of kettles needlessly boiled. Or not. We don't know. And therein lies the problem with simply saying "well they are worse so there".

Yes I have, and while they do say there are variable they also say Pods are a bad option.

We have a bean to cup machine. Coffee is vastly superior to a Nespresso, there is no overpackaging and I would never knowingly purchase anything associated with such an unethical company as Nestle.

Also, OP never mentioned wanting a machine for an office with 200 employees. Maybe she just wants a good, environmentally sound option for her home?

It's like talking to a wall.

They may or may not be worse. But we don't know. Because we don't know the figures for all the variables. Pods are a bad option.... until you read further and go into a bit more depth on the rest of it. And that's one article summing up one piece of research.

The answer is that we don't know. I'm the one arguing "we don't know". You're the one trying to argue a definitive answer, without the evidence you need.

Chardonnay, when you say a blanket statement like "this is better for the environment" then that statement needs to be true on a large scale.

So I related again. We do not know. So give it a rest.

Be warned op! My dh gave me one for my birthday a few years ago and I adore it but I’ve got addicted to espresso and ordinary cups of coffee just aren’t the same.

Depends what you mean by 'a good coffee'. Ime I've never had an actually good coffee from a nespresso/similar machine. They've all been pretty shit tbh. The ground beans in the pods aren't fresh, the milk is just froth and not properly creamy, steamed milk like it should be (without spending £££s on a steamer that has the ability to properly do it).

I'd recommend a Chemex for pour over filter coffee. Buy the beans whole from a roastery and roasted within the last 2 weeks. Store in a air tight container and not in the bloody fridge! Buy the best hand grinder you can afford. It takes the same amount of time to grind the beans and pour over the water and is soooooo much better.

And yes I am a coffee snob DP is a barista at a roastery so I am spoilt.

I might be making a blanket statement, as opposed to your millions of maybes. So?

Go ahead, buy your pods, litter your plastic and drink your bad coffee. And give Nestle your money.