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    Nescafe Red cup. Instant is all I can manage first thing. The mind and body not yet functioning as a collective, it has to be simple stuff, like remembering to switch the kettle on.

    The most drinkable and consistent filter coffee is sold by McDonalds.

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    I'd like a bit of advice from you coffee makers, please - Nespecially folks who have or know about Nespresso machines.

    I've found myself in ownership of some Starbucks Nespresso coffee capsules, but with no machine. I quite like the idea of the simplicity of using these machines. Does anybody have experience of them, any suggestions? A little one might be nice to stick on my desk at home...
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    1.Better than instant.
    2. ?????

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bettyboo View Post
    I'd like a bit of advice from you coffee makers, please - Nespecially folks who have or know about Nespresso machines.

    I've found myself in ownership of some Starbucks Nespresso coffee capsules, but with no machine. I quite like the idea of the simplicity of using these machines. Does anybody have experience of them, any suggestions? A little one might be nice to stick on my desk at home...
    They are very good. A housemate in Qatar had one. The only shop that sold the capsules was three days ride away with a good horse.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bettyboo View Post
    I'd like a bit of advice from you coffee makers, please - Nespecially folks who have or know about Nespresso machines.
    1) They leave behind an appalling and completely unnecessary amount of plastic waste, such that nobody but a moron would purchase one. Phuketbound has one, for example.

    2) Nestle's record on issues such as child labour, debt and deforestation is absolutely terrible.

    https://listverse.com/2018/01/03/10-...stle-scandals/

    3) In conclusion...their products should be right up your street.

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    ^Um, just to debunk your little put down of myself and my habits.
    1) I don't own a Nespresso, it is called a Keurig machine.
    2) Keurig cups can be recycled, but in about three steps. You can read about here. https://www.treehugger.com/corporate...says-dont.html
    3) I find k-cups convenient, and also quite variable in types of coffee and tea you can buy to put in it. I drink mostly medium columbian coffee, but also lots of tea both in Keurig cups and in tea bags mostly herbal and some black teas.
    4) Machines are good in that if you want to brew a cuppa tea using a bag, you can just use the keurig to get hot water in a cup which I often use. I don't have to boil a kettle and wait forever.

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    5) yer a moron, Cy!

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    Quote Originally Posted by OhOh View Post
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    1.Better than instant.
    2. ?????

    Some coffee snobs might consider the instant variety to be less than coffee.
    If one is going to drink coffee, than drink real coffee - not some processed/crystallized crap that passes itself off as coffee.


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    A Nestle executive, during a flight from KL to BKK, that their most profitable product was the Three in One individual sachets, they sold in Asia.

    The market demand increases every year.

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    Quote Originally Posted by OhOh View Post
    A Nestle executive, during a flight from KL to BKK, that their most profitable product was the Three in One individual sachets, they sold in Asia.

    The market demand increases every year.
    Slightly off topic, yet should be noted:
    Nestle, a Monsanto look-alike, is deeply into securing, modifying, repressing, and controlling water/water rights related things these days.

    As chocolate and coffee is just a passing fancy and cover for what they're really up to.
    Evil corporate cunts.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bettyboo View Post
    I quite like the idea of the simplicity of using these machines. Does anybody have experience of them, any suggestions?
    I love when I find one of those nespresso machines in a customer's office kitchen when I am on a trip. They are so convenient and the taste is excellent. But not better than a real espresso machine, so for home coffee I would give them a miss.

    I read the hullabaloo about environmental waste. Seems like a rather silly beat-up to me. The capsules are tiny. There are surely hundreds of more environmentally damaging products and practises than those tiny coffee capsules.

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    Typhoo one cup tea for me and nescafe gold instant. Got some Lipton somewhere from the times I couldn't get UK tea bags at a reasonable price or fetched over.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Looper View Post
    I love when I find one of those nespresso machines in a customer's office kitchen when I am on a trip. They are so convenient and the taste is excellent. But not better than a real espresso machine, so for home coffee I would give them a miss.

    I read the hullabaloo about environmental waste. Seems like a rather silly beat-up to me. The capsules are tiny. There are surely hundreds of more environmentally damaging products and practises than those tiny coffee capsules.
    The capsules are 100% recyclable and/or repeatedly reusable - check the Nespresso site for info...

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    Price those capsules up Batty then go look how cheap they are on Amazon UK.
    I gave my machine away. Fuck spending 70p to make your own coffee. And you pay even more for the cappuccinos and others that come with their fucking milk capsules

    3 or 4 black Moccona Espresso instants do me a morning, then PG tips extra strong in the afternoon and horlicks for bedtime

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    Shan Coffee is great, and often at a grassroots level. Have a couple of large bags thanks to visitors from The Golden Land. Got Emart close to work and homenow (korean, I think) and they stock a decent amount of coffees and teas.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dillinger View Post
    I gave my machine away. Fuck spending 70p to make your own coffee. And you pay even more for the cappuccinos and others that come with their fucking milk capsules
    Jeez! I just checked the price of those capsules. They're outrageously expensive!!

    I've used the machines in hotels before and the coffee is not bad but not for coffee at that price...

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    Spooky but what should I break yesterday as this thread begins but my very own cafetière, which I have been using for 15 years.

    And as if it were a sign from God, what should I clap my gogglies on as I perambulate round the shopping tonight but a bonkers barista bargain...



    Abracamagic.... POOF!

    Behold the machine is now in my kitchen.



    I like the way it has a temperature gauge and I love that it is analogue.


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    ^ Cheaper than a kilo of those capsule thingies...

    Have fun, it's got a reasonable review, which is pretty good for that price.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Looper View Post
    Behold the machine is now in my kitchen.
    Any indication of where it was made?

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    My blade style grinder (and broken cafetière). Works fine. No need for a grinder grinder.



    1st cup from the basement bargain barista



    Nectar of the coffee gods.



    How I have lived all these years without the extra flavour that the 15 bar pressure squeezes out of the beans is a mystery.

    Poked a whole in the crema just to measure the depth .... 12mm




    Quote Originally Posted by Troy View Post
    Have fun, it's got a reasonable review, which is pretty good for that price.
    In a blind taste test by our coffee taste testers (who are all professional baristas and industry experts), the Kmart machine received a score of 70% on the taste test, compared to the DeLonghi La Specialista which costs $949 and scored 65%. The taste test takes into account crema colour and thickness, aroma, flavour, mouthfeel and aftertaste.
    https://www.choice.com.au/home-and-l...machine-review

    Quote Originally Posted by OhOh View Post
    Any indication of where it was made?
    I would be willing to wager at least $89 that it was made somewhere north of GuangDong and south of Jilin.

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