I was thinking about getting one, and I was wondering what your experience might have been. Most reviews on the internet seem positive. I realize that it's not going to be the greatest expresso shot but I hope that it's pretty quick and easy with quality above starbucks.

Cotton's had one for a few years, I was always pretty impressed with it.

i mean i was impressed with the drink. the convenience can't be beat. i have no idea what the cost of them pods could be, though i remember him mentioning that it wasn't as much as he expected.

Personally I dont see you needing a machine like this for espresso. Espresso is simple to make (i.e. doesnt require steam or steamed milk etc). Second, you are then locked into their servings, right? Do you know that you like them? Third, it seems a huge waste to have a disposal piece of plastic for each shot of espresso you make.

Personally, Id go with the tried and true:



A fixture in every Italian home.

I have an espresso maker that comes with a steamer, it makes 4 shots at a time, you can use your own grounds or you can use the pods -- it was like 49.99 from Crate and Barrel. Works fine for my purposes.

i have a bialetti too, and while i like it, the clean up doesn't do much to make me want espresso very often. that's the perk - get it - of the Nespresso to me.

I have one of these as well. I also have a french press, which I love.

F4DF, I'm trying to cut down time because of the triplets. I'm also tired all the time because the most I sleep in a row is 2 hours. I'm also cleaning bottles, etc. all the time. I want something super simple and coffee the old fashion way is becoming a grind.

Oh the puns in this thread.

I too love the french press, but it sounds like you need the 8 spare minutes to get it going for sleep.

Try the Keurig. $140 at costco.



49 bucks for 108 cups.

They had them at UW in Seattle this summer when i was working.

they had this at the last hospital i was at- i lived on this stuff for 3 days..

i'm pretty sure i have the same one, and yes, it makes some slammin latte's and cappus as well.

triplets, jesus.. I have twins and 3 years later we still havent had a full nights sleep.

Maybe the one Gar and Dalen said- so you have the opportunity to use the pods or your own pick.,,,


good luck

I just got Hrr one of these for xmas, but a stainless steel one. Hopefully that's easier to clean.

I just got that Keurig coffee pot. makes me feel lazier than ever but it sure is convenient. I do feel like kind of a schmuck for buying the pods at Bed Bath and Beyond, because it meant that I was AT Bed Bath and Beyond, but still, no muss and no fuss. Do they put baby formula in these pods?

BB&B never bugs me--at least I'm usually buying something kitchen related. Much less emasculating than a cart full of failure from the Target.

This won't be hard...

Spend 300 bucks or less on a manual espresso machine, and spend a hundred bucks on a full day barista course.

Trust me, it's ALL in the technique.

oh I disagree violently with you here, and by that I mean that, when you nerds do a tournament pitting your favorite big box home retailers against one another, I would mock your choice and question your character for allowing you to make such an ill formed and repugnant choice. If you're at Target you could have conceivably bought diapers and toilet paper and other manly, ass wiping equipment, which is a great thing. If you're at BBB then you just bought a load of Chinese, As Seen On Tv consumer consumption garbage. My skin crawls just thinking about it. Have fun with your shoe-tree organizer and some back scratchers.

As usual you've completely missed the point- dude's got 3 infants, he's not going to spend $400 and a full day in class to qualify him to do your job. He needed coffee not now but RIGHT NOW. And easy.

Yeah, I've missed the point...

Fucking tosser.

Dude asked for advice on espresso machines. I obliged.

I've had a halfway decent one for a couple of years and that's how much you gotta spend. At least.

well it's not at all what he fucking asked for, is it? he asked for opinions on the Nespresso machine because he wanted to pull a lever and get a half-decent shot of espresso before one of his 3 kids stuck a toe in an electrical outlet and ate a handful of lead paint chips, and you suggested that he go down to the learning annex and take a class on how to get a minimum wage job.

What the fuck is nespresso?

one of those machines that uses individually packaged, single-shot pods. you just dump the pod in and pull the switch, and when you're done all you have to do is throw out the pod. it's not classic and legitimately espresso but it's good enough.

So you can only use their coffee?

I call bullshit. I wouldn't trust Nestle coffee beans anyway.

I stand by my advice. Get a good, cheap manual machine, a cheap grinder, and always buy good beans. You'd be mad to do anything else.

While I don't disagree with your sentiment I like to think I make the right choices no matter which of the Chinese Goods Delivery Receptacles that i might find myself in. Hell, even the free paint stirrer sticks at Lowe's are Chinese made (and thinner than balsa wood) now.

They were pimping this at Costco yesterday, sounds to me like a legitimate business purchase!

And Bloor, they may all sell Chinese Made goods, but I agree with Crack, I get all cringey when I'm in BB&B. It is almost shocking to me the amount of stores we have that sell the same and completely useless crap.

I saw these massive closings coming long before this recession just by driving around DFW where there is a SuperTarget, SuperWalmart and attached to each is one of these Life Style of Failure temples of commerce.