Think we've done this before, but I'm considering a new machine

Tried a few including a couple of pod machines

Thinking of upgrading to bean to cup

Anybody recommend one - think it may have been the pretend bindipper who asked last time

I've no experience of bean to cup. Love my Tassimo though, cheap to buy and simple to use with a large variety of reasonably priced drinks available. I imagine you'll have tried one already?

Yeah, have had A Tassimo

Currently on a lavazza, which does a decent job

Good machine,just interested in going a bit further

The difference between these and instant is night and day

Biggest weakness with em is temperature so milk goes in the microwave

I love my nespresso machine it comes with a milk warmer/frother if you pick one up at the right time there's usually offers for 75 quid to spend in the shop on pods or accessories. 

The nespresso brand pods and l'or ones can be chucked in with the recycling so you don't get the land fill guilt. 

Not quite as nice as a coffee done on a stove top one but so much quicker and convenient. 

If you can get the Bellarom one from lidl you won't be dissapointed, best coffee machine I've had and they do their own pods or you can use the  Nespresso pods

 

and only £50 

Edited November 1, 20187 yr by TroySwoosh
price

Don't buy one. Ask someone to lend you theirs for 3 months.

My mrs has just bought an AEG integrated coffee machine for our new kitchen. My eyes watered at the cost so i just hope it serves the best ever coffee

I had a Russell Hobbs one until recently. Beans in the top, press the button, and lovely coffee a few minutes later. Only about £60 at the time. Downside though was lukewarm coffee that needed a blast in the microwave. Mrs M recently bought a Nespresso which I have to say is very good

I’m in the market for our new kitchen 

Ive seen a stainless steel Nespresso machine that would look great but at the thick end of £400 it’s a bit steep. Saying that I probably get through about £20 a week at the local Starbucks drive through so the right purchase would soon pay itself off 

I was speaking to the coffee guys at a Confrence recently, apparently POD’s are on the decline now as they are plastic (following Blue Planet) 

like the idea of bean to cup, think it would work out cheaper but we switch to Decaf after lunch so would need two hoppers which rules us out 

PODS it is then 

I clean a hotel at 6:30am every other Friday in Cleveleys which spans across the top of a Costa Coffee. 

There people queuing waiting for it to open. Some fuckers pull up in a cab, dive in for a coffee then jump back in the cab ffs. 

Why not just make one at home?

love coffee but can’t drink the stuff, sends my head west. 

I’m addicted now, couldn’t go without one 

These drive throughs are game changers 

Everyone should just go to costa coffee

cold coffee to be the next big thing

Edited November 2, 20187 yr by tomski

Best coffee by a mile I’ve had recently was served by one of these. 

https://www.brasilia.coffee/en/rito.php

 

 

 

Heathen 

has to be Starbucks surely? 

I've never been to a Costa coffee, starbucks or whatever in my life

All seems overpriced for what it is and don't see the fascination 

You could give me a cup of mellow birds and I doubt it notice the difference 

I bought a decent Tassimo one, I prefer instant. A massive middle-class self-indulgance.

35 minutes ago, birch-chorley said:

Heathen 

has to be Starbucks surely? 

I don’t like Starbucks they don’t even have proper cream which I’m partial to in my coffee now and again. In fact when I’ve asked they pick up squirty cream. That’s not a coffee shop. 

Edited November 2, 20187 yr by Mounts Kipper

4 minutes ago, Mounts Kipper said:

I don’t like Starbucks they don’t even have proper cream which I’m partial to in my coffee now and again. In fact when I’ve asked they pick up squirty cream. That’s not a coffee shop. 

Have you tried a Tim Hortons? They do coffee and cream and it's really nice. Not many of em about at the moment but they're popping up

2 hours ago, birch-chorley said:

I was speaking to the coffee guys at a Confrence recently, apparently POD’s are on the decline now as they are plastic (following Blue Planet) 

PODS it is then 

That's what pushed me towards nespresso as they're pods are aluminium and recyclable. 

Had a few coffees (coffee shops) while in the UK earlier this year. One of the few things that's loads better here.

Roasting the beans (freshly) is important for me. Even when I found shops in Manchester that did it, still wasn't great. 

My tipple is long black/americano. My rather battered moka pot still going strong. 

Edited November 2, 20187 yr by jayjayoghani

And Starbucks is the Trophy Bitter of coffee. Pish. 

I drink my coffee black and I don’t find Starbucks bitter at all 

some of the other chains blow your head off in comparison 

39 minutes ago, frank_spencer said:

Have you tried a Tim Hortons? They do coffee and cream and it's really nice. Not many of em about at the moment but they're popping up

Funnily enough was in Barcelona over the weekend and spotted that coffee shop but didn’t go in because lad wanted a Burger King which was just across the road. I will give it a whirl next time I see one. 

15 minutes ago, birch-chorley said:

I drink my coffee black and I don’t find Starbucks bitter at all 

some of the other chains blow your head off in comparison 

nah I meant it's bland amongst its better peers. Trophy probably before your time.

3 minutes ago, jayjayoghani said:

nah I meant it's bland amongst its better peers. Trophy probably before your time.

Its less bland than Costa.

If you mean overpriced coffee chains as its "peers". Cafe Nero does the best coffee of the big chains.