What do you think about Nespresso machines?

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Hello everyone,

We have just made a page about the most-recommended coffee machines on Mumsnet - that is, the machines that MNers seem to rate the most. It contains ‘affiliate links’ to products that MNers rate highly, meaning we get a small commission if someone clicks through and buys something after viewing the page.

Lots of Mumsnetters recommend Nespresso coffee machines. Nestle is one of the companies Mumsnet doesn’t carry advertising from as part of the Nestle Boycott so we do feel a bit conflicted about their inclusion in Mumsnet content. The page is based on recommendations from the Talk boards so it feels disingenuous to omit a frequently-recommended product.

So we thought we’d ask you what you think about it:

www.mumsnet.com/swearsby/best-coffee-machines

Many thanks in advance for your input.
MNHQ

An advert on twitter seconds after posting on this thread. I hate the internet

IMO the coffee is rank.

Awful for the environment, terrible coffee and nestle..... need we say more

I wonder if all the righteous posters shop independently and take home no plastic packaging ?

We all do what we can

@TapasForTwo exactly what nespresso drinkers do

Any capsule coffee machine is hugely wasteful and bad for the environment.

exactly what nespresso drinkers do

Not really because avoiding a coffee capsule is far easier than avoiding plastic packaging. Just get an espresso machine.

@Kpo58 in your opinion

Must profess ignorance here - please help. Why is there a Nestle boycott? I am now wondering if I should boycott them.

Big faff.

Hugely expensive.

Massively damaging to the environment.

I was given one as a present and am disappointed, the coffee is never hot enough (I do warm the cup) and not enough of it. I rarely use it now preferring an individual filter over a mug, quick, easy, full decent sized mug of coffee and the filter paper and coffee grounds can be composted.

And their sales technique is such a faff, I was in a well known department store recently with a Nespresso concession, I wanted to buy a pack of pods but could only do it by logging on to their system with my unique log in code, blah blah blah ..... I don’t carry that sort of information around with me (Luddite) so I couldn’t buy any . What poor customer service.

Hugely wasteful and mediocre coffee. Why use something that needs to be recycled? How do you know it is even recycled? What is wrong with a caffetiere?

And don’t even get me started on Nestle.

We inherited one, I don't like it but DH does. I don't think the coffee is strong enough. To make a mug you need a couple of pods and they are expensive and environmentally questionable. I've bought reusable capsules and use Lavazza in them but they don't give it that frothy quality the Nespresso pods do.

I'd rate it 3 out of 10.

We have these filters and they are brilliant.

We then use the coffee grounds on the garden.

Thanks all for the input so far.

The quality of Nespresso coffee (and the pod vs. ground coffee argument more generally) is clearly a divisive subject - and we’re glad to have started a typically spirited MN debate on the subject - but what we’d really like to know is what you think about a Nes-branded product being featured on a page that sums up MNers' thoughts on coffee-makers overall.

Mumsnet is suppose to be about making parents lives easier, nestle makes children's and parents lives much worse in a number of countries, seems wrong to advertise them and profit off them with affiliate links.

I don't think they should be included if you ar supporting the Nestle boycott. Perhaps include a sentence to say that they have been excluded for that reason.

So you won't advertise them, but you will accept commission from the affiliate links on the page?
So advertising them then?

It just seems bizarre to be promoting a Nestle product on Mumsnet!

Seems hypocritical to give them the publicity. Not like they bloody need it anyway. I don’t support them being included.

What's the fuss about Nestle?

A quick google of "nestle boycott" will answer that for you.

well as you asked I think Nespresso coffee machines are utter utter cunts.

The biggest food company in the world creates a new added value product that creates waste with every single drink = billions and billions of pods. And every 2nd arsehole idiot thinks its a brilliant idea.

Nespresso is fucking evil - i am really bloody cross about products like this - reckless and irresponsible selfish product with total disregard to the environment. A triumph of neo liberalism over every other consideration. Cunts.

(Don't bother coming on here to tell me the pods are recyclable - a tiny fraction get recycled. I know every MNer with a Nespresoo knits their own reusable pods, but every single actual pod I've seen goes into the bin.)