How best to make coffee? (Tassimo content)

[User482]

Doesn’t actually matter - but it’s got to be unpasteurised yak’s milk..

I've tried it. Just don't.

 

[Tin Pot]

[QUOTE 4578522, member: 45"]Am I the only person who thinks that pod coffee tastes like the stuff out of a vending machine?[/QUOTE]

Yes, unless you use the espresso pod and have an espresso. Then it's ok.

 

[Tin Pot]

I have considered all of the advice I have been offered and can confirm that I am now heating a stone font in the oven.

In a few hours I will fill it with coffee, and then replace the lid.

The question is - milk in before the coffee or after?

Milk, steamed, on top, for a macchiato, end.

 

[Profpointy]

Warming the mug is an excellent suggestion. Espresso is nice enough, but you don't get to warm your hands on the mug as well.

(Remembers the incredulity of the staff member in a service station a few years back when I ordered an espresso at some god-forsaken hour of the morning - "It's only a tiny little thing, an expressoh tha knows?")

I've had similar at a motorway services. The previous customer had complained that her capucino was "all froth" so the poor lass was just checking to be fair.

 

[Fnaar]

Don't use pods. Shocking waste of resources, and shocking legacy for our probably bolloxed world

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeand...ed-never-invented-them?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

 

[smutchin]

My mug holds 1.5 pints ...

If you used a sensible sized mug, you'd be able to finish it before it got cold.

 

[Elybazza61]

I was wondering when someone would recommend an Aeropress. They're about £25 now but they really make a good mug of coffee, provided you top the boiled kettle up with cold water to keep the temperature down to around 85-90 degrees.

Wouldn't be without our aeropress and also our new(ish) kettle which can be set for 985 degrees.

Oh and granuled coffee is vile,only made passable with milk which again should only be near coffee in a cappuccino.

 

[I like Skol]

and also our new(ish) kettle which can be set for 985 degrees.

That is impressive. I bet it takes hours for the brew to cool down.......

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Wouldn't be without our aeropress and also our new(ish) kettle which can be set for 985 degrees.

Oh and granuled coffee is vile,only made passable with milk which again should only be near coffee in a cappuccino.

I've got one of those ''electronic'' kettles too. 90 degrees is my optimum setting.

 

[Elybazza61]

That is impressive. I bet it takes hours for the brew to cool down.......

Well I like my coffee hot

 

[KneesUp]

If you used a sensible sized mug, you'd be able to finish it before it got cold.

To be honest I don't use that mug often - it is damaged stock that found it's way into the cupboard. I just took the picture for comic effect. I would imagine though that you could fit a hot chocolate and two coffees in there. Probably ...

 

[gbb]

Double the expense and get the Tassimo milk creamers (blue pods), that way your hot drink doesn't get diluted with cold milk.

Its 'ok' (pod coffee)...but i'm not really a coffee drinker, so a coffee is a something I do for a change and pod coffee is 'ok', better than instant.

Not good value IMO, the pod makers must be laughing. As Fnaar says, it bugs me the plastic that (I assume) can't be recycled.

 

[srw]

For all sorts of reasons (including the ones @Fnaar) mentions I'm not fond of pod coffee, but it tends to be better than nothing, or than a stale filter jug that's been sat out for hours. Since the weak point is the coffee inside the pod, the best way to get decent pod coffee is to find a reputable roaster who also sells pods.

Pact coffee (https://www.pactcoffee.com/coffees), who supply some of my coffee and deal direct with growers, do nespresso-style pods. If those don't work with your machine, Professor Google might help.

Oh, and as @gbb mentions, the pod makers will be laughing all the way to the bank. It's the same business model as printer manufacturers use - a reasonably chunky but low-margin up-front purchase commits to you to a long stream of high-margin small purchases.

 

[mjr]

Forget about those hipster tacky tassi machines the only way to make decent coffee is in one of these:
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That's not coffee - those things usually signify some sort of coffee soup that's had a pathetic filter pushed down that lets loads of crud through. For long coffees, drip filtering freshly-ground beans is still pretty hard to beat.

I was wondering when someone would recommend an Aeropress. They're about £25 now but they really make a good mug of coffee, provided you top the boiled kettle up with cold water to keep the temperature down to around 85-90 degrees.

I never got my Aeropress to make something resembling a decent espresso, though. If I applied enough pressure to get a good froth, the water's through the coffee far too fast to get the flavour, so then I tried leaving it longer before pressing and it became some sort of strange cross between cafetiere coffee and espresso... and so on with various variations of method and timings and temperatures before putting it back in the box!

I suspect the recent handpresso and clone minipresso pumped units would do better but I lack motive to buy one - anyone tried one yet?

That's what motivates a lot of pod machine purchases IMO - it's a fairly spread-out-cost way to make consistent half-decent espresso or espresso-based drinks.

Don't use pods. Shocking waste of resources, and shocking legacy for our probably bolloxed world

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeand...ed-never-invented-them?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Depends on the pods - Keurig are especially bad, while the other extreme is probably ESEs which are biodegradeable.

Closer to the main topic: Tassimo seem fairly rubbish for recycling, being hard plastic. Has anyone had a go at refilling or refillable/cracked pods for them yet?