askthecoffeeguy apparently its posible tp replace the pods with generic 'blanks' - which then fill wity your own freshly ground coffee - not sure how I'd pack in a triple ristretto but.... 😉
DoubleRistretto is there anyone who claims the coffee you get with a pod can be as good as a freshly ground?? dR
Dry_bean DoubleRistretto wrote: is there anyone who claims the coffee you get with a pod can be as good as a freshly ground?? dR Yep, Nestl'e, oh, and them that believe the advertising. 😉
admin actually, am pretty interested to see how much of the market the pod-style machines have got... will do some digging and see if i can find out...
hazchem admin wrote: actually, am pretty interested to see how much of the market the pod-style machines have got... will do some digging and see if i can find out... I would imagine GFK/InforMark would have that kind of data.
admin Ok according to my sources - apparently pod machines [overall] have gone up from around 52,000 units last year to around 75,000 units this year - a whopping 45% increase! Clearly consumers are prepared to pay for convenience... A
DoubleRistretto that's amazing - i didn't realise they had taken such a hold - convenience over flavour, I say! dR 🙁
admin I don't know AM - according to the figures I got hold of, that was around 75,000 units this past year [as opposed to 52,627 the year before] - that's a hell of a lot of service establishments buying pod machines!! A :o
DoubleRistretto dunno AM - you may be right, but I'd be betting there are a hell of a lot of home consumers in those 75,000. dR
DoubleRistretto i'll drink to that... would be interesting to know what proportion pods are out of the total no. of home espresso machines being sold at the moment?! dR
admin OK have gone back to the figures, and from my sums, looks like pods have gone to just under 25% of the market... agghh! A
blanyon Well at least it is better than instant (I hope) and a step above what some so called cafes serve up!!
over_extracted Having worked for Nespresso here , I have a lot to contribute to this tread. Questions?????/ OE
admin Hi OE - great to get a visitor from London - I guess the key question people are wondering about is how can coffee in the nespresso pods really be fresh? A
over_extracted Hi A Well it depends on what fresh is, to Nespresso it means a compleatly different thing that what it does to us. Mind those little machines run at 19 bar pressure.
