I do have a bean to cup but never manage to get the settings right. Seems to give me a choice between gritty water or coffee so strong I can stand a spoon up in it.
Ask her to have a look on the internet and be more specific? Or is she hoping that by keeping schtum you'll get a really fancy spenny one? If so, well done on your choice of wife :)
There are lots of ways to make good coffee but if you're the sort of useless aunt (which is 98.5% of this country) that cannot understand the craft of making a proper extraction, just get the cheapest Nespresso machine there is.
1. The machine makes no difference as to the coffee, it's just features and styling.
2. The build quality is getting worse and worse, they all crap out eventually, so just get one in a nice colour off ebay or wait until they do a pod promotion where you get a voucher for £75 worth of pods as this can make the machine virtually free.
If you think espresso is "sticking beans in water" you've kinda proven my point. But brew yourself an expretzo like what the forrins do in that Italy or wherevers.
All snobbery is pretty pathetic. But the fact remains that it's a pain in the ass to make really good coffee at home. You need to spend a lot on the kit, and on the beans and understand how and why it comes out the way it does.
If you're not interested in the work that requires and most people are not, just get a Nespresso. It's the easiest way to get a decent output for naff all effort. Depends on whether you're the sort of person with a record player and a vinyl collection or a Sonos and Spotify.
and as for any of these pod abominations, WHAT WOULD GRETA SAY? I'm not exactly queen of the woke but the amount of pointless packaging for each cup of coffee is insane.
we're (mostly) lawyers here. We tend to obsess over small details and often get sucked into rabbit holes on the most arcane stuff. That's fine. We can often do the same on hobbies and interests.
On here this morning someone has some vintage port for £100 a bottle if you collect it from Chelsea. I wouldn't dream of spending more than £20 on a bottle once a year (and there are people who'd call me a snob for buying even that). Some of you obsess over cars, motorbikes, handbags, golf, sailing, watches, wine, Northampton-made triple goodyear welted shoes, shirts, ovens, suits, Bolognese recipes, cameras, reacher novels, apple products, hifi, matchattax, antique bottles, bread-making, horse sniffing. whatever.
On the hifi stuff, I'd love a turntable but am a fully aware I'd never use it, so I have a sonos and a Deezer account. It's fine. I bought one thing from Russ Andrews (a kimber cable old school iPod to phono cable - and it actually was brilliant - I also bought a power cable on sale/return and it made no difference so I returned it). I've got a moka pot that I use on a camping stove when I go camping, but it's harder to use than a nespresso and produces a different product - it's an extracted coffee, but it's not what can be termed a true, modern espresso. Big fooking deal - if it makes you happy and you can afford it, just make yourself fooking happy. if you do it so you can pretend you're better than other people, you could be deploying your disposable income in a better way, so have a word with yourself.
All nespresso machines are the same for espresso drinks, so just get the cheapest one. If you like tinkering and are prepared to do it, don't bother with a nespresso (I've broken down a coffee machine into all its parts and rebuilt, rewired and replaced the pump and thermostat - I enjoy that sort of tinkering, but I doubt many do).
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A mokka pot
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That’s the exact one I have :) it’s nice but it’s a pretty expensive way to get just one cup of coffee at a time. The pods aren’t the cheapest either.
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I binned the nespresso and went bean to cup .
The coffee is so much better and the product is much better for the environment
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the nespresso pods are pretty catastrophic environmental clusterfooks
just get a stove top moka and make it in the Italian way
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Alright Attenborough
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Bean to cup = gritty water
Nespresso ftw unless you're getting a barista effort
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what do you mean gritty water?
makes much better than nespresso
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I do have a bean to cup but never manage to get the settings right. Seems to give me a choice between gritty water or coffee so strong I can stand a spoon up in it.
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if you dont want strong coffee stick to gold blend
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Strong coffee is fine, just not Turkish coffee!
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Typical Rof, ignore the actual question.
Wellers, why not ask her which one she wants?
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She said just just wants “a normal one”
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Ask her to have a look on the internet and be more specific? Or is she hoping that by keeping schtum you'll get a really fancy spenny one? If so, well done on your choice of wife :)
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Moka pot is for Italian peasants.
There are lots of ways to make good coffee but if you're the sort of useless aunt (which is 98.5% of this country) that cannot understand the craft of making a proper extraction, just get the cheapest Nespresso machine there is.
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“Craft”
give your head a wobble you aunt. You’re sticking fooking beans in hot water.
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Heh! I like that.
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2 points.
1. The machine makes no difference as to the coffee, it's just features and styling.
2. The build quality is getting worse and worse, they all crap out eventually, so just get one in a nice colour off ebay or wait until they do a pod promotion where you get a voucher for £75 worth of pods as this can make the machine virtually free.
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If you think espresso is "sticking beans in water" you've kinda proven my point. But brew yourself an expretzo like what the forrins do in that Italy or wherevers.
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I'm with Wellington on this one.
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Coffee snobbery is one of the saddest ways to attempt one-upping
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As regards environmental impact read this https://www.wired.co.uk/article/coffee-pods-nespresso-recycling
Actually not as bad as you think for nespresso.
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All snobbery is pretty pathetic. But the fact remains that it's a pain in the ass to make really good coffee at home. You need to spend a lot on the kit, and on the beans and understand how and why it comes out the way it does.
If you're not interested in the work that requires and most people are not, just get a Nespresso. It's the easiest way to get a decent output for naff all effort. Depends on whether you're the sort of person with a record player and a vinyl collection or a Sonos and Spotify.
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Gannicus being exceptionally precious here
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Meh, they all come from the same contract manufacturer in china, get her a kettle and a jar of gold blend and tell her to stop being a fooking ponce
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er I hadn't even posted on the thread bernie boy.
do you wake up thinking about me or something?
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Ps Jelly, my Sonos and Spotify gets a fookton more use than the LP12, Connie J valves and Martin Logans - don’t knock it till you’ve tried it
(PPS are you the type of saddo that owns most of the Russ Andrews catalogue?)
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What’s wrong with Lidl Sumo you posh khunt?
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exactly. Good enough for me.
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(can't you put Tidal through sonos at least?)
and as for any of these pod abominations, WHAT WOULD GRETA SAY? I'm not exactly queen of the woke but the amount of pointless packaging for each cup of coffee is insane.
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(buy her a jura ffs or stick to nescafe)
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Nespresso, Roma pod, splash of full-fat milk, and I'm a happy man of a morning.
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Just ask her to convert to tea. Enough of this nonsense
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we're (mostly) lawyers here. We tend to obsess over small details and often get sucked into rabbit holes on the most arcane stuff. That's fine. We can often do the same on hobbies and interests.
On here this morning someone has some vintage port for £100 a bottle if you collect it from Chelsea. I wouldn't dream of spending more than £20 on a bottle once a year (and there are people who'd call me a snob for buying even that). Some of you obsess over cars, motorbikes, handbags, golf, sailing, watches, wine, Northampton-made triple goodyear welted shoes, shirts, ovens, suits, Bolognese recipes, cameras, reacher novels, apple products, hifi, matchattax, antique bottles, bread-making, horse sniffing. whatever.
On the hifi stuff, I'd love a turntable but am a fully aware I'd never use it, so I have a sonos and a Deezer account. It's fine. I bought one thing from Russ Andrews (a kimber cable old school iPod to phono cable - and it actually was brilliant - I also bought a power cable on sale/return and it made no difference so I returned it). I've got a moka pot that I use on a camping stove when I go camping, but it's harder to use than a nespresso and produces a different product - it's an extracted coffee, but it's not what can be termed a true, modern espresso. Big fooking deal - if it makes you happy and you can afford it, just make yourself fooking happy. if you do it so you can pretend you're better than other people, you could be deploying your disposable income in a better way, so have a word with yourself.
So there.
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We have one like that pictured above and it is ace. Who tf can be arsed to roast and grind their own beans? w**kers, that's who.
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All nespresso machines are the same for espresso drinks, so just get the cheapest one. If you like tinkering and are prepared to do it, don't bother with a nespresso (I've broken down a coffee machine into all its parts and rebuilt, rewired and replaced the pump and thermostat - I enjoy that sort of tinkering, but I doubt many do).
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(I've only roasted beans once - it's not worth the effort).
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We have a 20 quid filter machine and I love it. Makes me feel like a waitress in an American diner. I might get a gingham pinny
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Americana cosplay
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