Coffee Pods

I love my Tassimmo. I have a latte every morning . Then we make a pot of filter coffee in the evening.

My current choice is a costa blend and is very mellow and certainly comes out hot enough. If it was any hotter you would lose the natural sweetness of the milk ( so our local independent Barista told me ).

There's enough choice of blends for me as we supplement it with beans we grind ourselves.

I don't mind a cafetiere BUT it doesn't stay hot so if I don't drink it in its entirety its a bit of a waste.

Kicks Count is a charity which collects and recycles many things, including coffee pods. There are local collection points in lots of places. They work to reduce the number of stillbirths and neonatal deaths.

They are a waste of resources. What can be easier than a cafetière?

I've also read that the used pods are a huge environmental issue. I wouldn't use them because of that plus I don't buy Nestle products so a pod machine would be useless to me!

I like to try different coffee blends and roasts, with pods you are limited to what the manufacturer want to supply. Pods do sound an unnecessary waste of resources. Even posting them back compounds the waste.

I was thinking of getting one but worried about how the environmental issue of all those little empty pods.My daughter says you can send them back to Nespresso to be recycled.However, in today's Times there is an article about this very problem- apparently it's difficult to recycle them , and most , a huge amount, are ending up in landfill.So Izabella , it seems you are right!

I've got a Dolce Gusto machine. I love it.

Coffee pods are an environmental disaster, totally unnecessary and should be banned imho. Period.

I like my pod machine too, my husband has decaf and I have full strength so it makes life easier.
Cafetiere is good when we have guests so best of both worlds.

Miep, can you say why you like it so much because I don't like the results at all.

Would not be with out my pod machine!

actually it's an aerobie

I gave son a pod coffee machine for Xmas. He swears by it. Very impressed. I like the ones I have used in hotels (when I'm not somehow buggering them up )

I can never a grain free cup of coffee from a percolator, no matter how much I strain it.

I have an Aerolit, but it's a bit of a faff. Gone back to Marks and Sparks instant.

Have tried coffee from them a few times and not impressed, much prefer our simple filter coffee maker.