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Choosing a pod coffee machine?
My head is spinning, there are so many options and so much advice. Where
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On 13/10/2020 09:56, John Towill wrote:
My head is spinning, there are so many options and so much advice. Where to start? Maybe consider the amount of stuff that could be recycled but ends up in landfill because most people don't bother ?. |
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John Towill wrote:
My head is spinning, there are so many options and so much advice. Where to start? These articles, the lists in them are hardly ever complete. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single...ffee_container But at least you're spared the burden of outright commercial advertising. The text is a bit tamer than most sources. If you were to read the article from BusinessInsider, the "winning entrants" likely paid for their product placement. Before checking the price of the machines, I'd probably check the prices of pods, and how much each one makes (a good full flavored cup, or a thimble of product). For pods that have multiple sources (the patent has expired), you're likely to see better pricing. Paul |
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On Tue, 13 Oct 2020 09:56:55 +0100, John Towill wrote:
My head is spinning, there are so many options and so much advice. Where to start? Sit down with a cup of coffee? -- Cheers Dave. |
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John Towill Wrote in message:
My head is spinning, there are so many options and so much advice. Where to start? I can't see the point of pods unless you run a car showroom. Buy a matching grinder. -- %Profound_observation% ----Android NewsGroup Reader---- http://usenet.sinaapp.com/ |
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On 13/10/2020 12:39, Graham. wrote:
John Towill Wrote in message: My head is spinning, there are so many options and so much advice. Where to start? I can't see the point of pods unless you run a car showroom. Buy a matching grinder. +1 |
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Andrew laid this down on his screen :
On 13/10/2020 12:39, Graham. wrote: John Towill Wrote in message: My head is spinning, there are so many options and so much advice. Where to start? I can't see the point of pods unless you run a car showroom. Buy a matching grinder. +1 PLus another! They are so expensive and environmentally wasteful. |
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Harry Bloomfield wrote:
Andrew wrote: Graham. wrote: John Towill wrote: I can't see the point of pods unless you run a car showroom. Buy a matching grinder. +1 PLus another! They are so expensive and environmentally wasteful. A relative bought me a Dolce-Gusto machine, I found I needed several pods per drink and the range at the time was pretty limited (a glance at their website shows they have now increased the varieties including some Starbucks branded ones). I didn't throw it out until she died ... |
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On 14/10/2020 10:11, Jethro_uk wrote:
On Wed, 14 Oct 2020 08:08:26 +0100, Andy Burns wrote: Harry Bloomfield wrote: Andrew wrote: Graham. wrote: John Towill wrote: I can't see the point of pods unless you run a car showroom. Buy a matching grinder. +1 PLus another! They are so expensive and environmentally wasteful. A relative bought me a Dolce-Gusto machine, I found I needed several pods per drink and the range at the time was pretty limited (a glance at their website shows they have now increased the varieties including some Starbucks branded ones). I didn't throw it out until she died ... That just highlights the downsides (on top of the environmental ones) of pod machines. You are at the mercy of manufacturers to make the pods, and even then you're limited to what you like from an already artificially narrow range. Doesn't really compare to a decent B2C machine that will take the universal coffee "bean" system. +1 |
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On 13/10/2020 12:39, Graham. wrote:
John Towill Wrote in message: My head is spinning, there are so many options and so much advice. Where to start? I can't see the point of pods unless you run a car showroom. Buy a matching grinder. Beans to cup, for me, every time. |
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On 13/10/2020 12:39, Graham. wrote: John Towill Wrote in message: My head is spinning, there are so many options and so much advice. Where to start? I can't see the point of pods unless you run a car showroom. Buy a matching grinder. Beans to cup, for me, every time. Don't they tend to be expensive? Nespresso pod machines are fairly cheap and lot less messy too. Bellaroma Ristretto pods from Aldi are only 14p each and make excellent coffee. -- Algernon |
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Algernon Goss-Custard wrote:
newshound wrote: Beans to cup, for me, every time. Don't they tend to be expensive? There's a place in nottingham where I bought my own and my parents' Delonghi B2C machines (factory return/refurbs) for not much over £100 each, but they only seem to seem spares now ... https://www.ebay.co.uk/str/gtaelectricsnottingham/Delonghi-Home-Appliances/_i.html?_storecat=8 |
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On Sat, 17 Oct 2020 15:53:12 +0100, newshound
wrote: snip Beans to cup, for me, every time. OOI, can you remember when you first got a taste for coffee? I though the British were renown for the love of tea and tea drinking and only 'the foreigners' (especially the Yanks and Italians?) drunk coffee? ;-) I can't remember having coffee at home (although we probably did) but neither my parents, the In-laws or we have ever had any specific coffee making paraphernalia, outside a jar of instant and a spoon (AFAIK/CR). ;-) We have been given the chemistry set stuff when round other peoples houses but would generally ask for instant if the alternative meant waiting for them to get it all going. Same in a cafe. So I still 'enjoy' a mug of tea and will 'have' a cup of coffee for a change (and it's 'ok'). The guy next door loves his coffee (one of those who seems to need it to function) as I'm reminded, every time I notice the back between our houses flooded and I clear his drain out. ;-( That's put me in the mood for a mug of tea and one of my home made vegan rock cakes. ;-) Cheers, T i m |
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On Saturday, 17 October 2020 21:12:45 UTC+1, T i m wrote:
On Sat, 17 Oct 2020 15:53:12 +0100, newshound wrote: snip Beans to cup, for me, every time. OOI, can you remember when you first got a taste for coffee? I though the British were renown for the love of tea and tea drinking and only 'the foreigners' (especially the Yanks and Italians?) drunk coffee? ;-) I can't remember having coffee at home (although we probably did) but neither my parents, the In-laws or we have ever had any specific coffee making paraphernalia, outside a jar of instant and a spoon (AFAIK/CR). ;-) We have been given the chemistry set stuff when round other peoples houses but would generally ask for instant if the alternative meant waiting for them to get it all going. Same in a cafe. So I still 'enjoy' a mug of tea and will 'have' a cup of coffee for a change (and it's 'ok'). The guy next door loves his coffee (one of those who seems to need it to function) as I'm reminded, every time I notice the back between our houses flooded and I clear his drain out. ;-( That's put me in the mood for a mug of tea and one of my home made vegan rock cakes. ;-) Cheers, T i m I certainly remember us getting ground coffee delivered from a company in Portsmouth - to Berlin. Back in the very early 1960s. We had some sort of percolator with a glass "dome". |
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On Sat, 17 Oct 2020 13:37:32 -0700 (PDT), polygonum_on_google
wrote: snip I certainly remember us getting ground coffee delivered from a company in Portsmouth - to Berlin. Back in the very early 1960s. We had some sort of percolator with a glass "dome". I think I can remember it being much more expensive (than tea) and therefore possibly used more sparingly? Cheers, T i m |
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On 17 Oct 2020 at 21:37:32 BST, "polygonum_on_google"
wrote: On Saturday, 17 October 2020 21:12:45 UTC+1, T i m wrote: On Sat, 17 Oct 2020 15:53:12 +0100, newshound wrote: snip Beans to cup, for me, every time. OOI, can you remember when you first got a taste for coffee? I though the British were renown for the love of tea and tea drinking and only 'the foreigners' (especially the Yanks and Italians?) drunk coffee? ;-) I can't remember having coffee at home (although we probably did) but neither my parents, the In-laws or we have ever had any specific coffee making paraphernalia, outside a jar of instant and a spoon (AFAIK/CR). ;-) We have been given the chemistry set stuff when round other peoples houses but would generally ask for instant if the alternative meant waiting for them to get it all going. Same in a cafe. So I still 'enjoy' a mug of tea and will 'have' a cup of coffee for a change (and it's 'ok'). The guy next door loves his coffee (one of those who seems to need it to function) as I'm reminded, every time I notice the back between our houses flooded and I clear his drain out. ;-( That's put me in the mood for a mug of tea and one of my home made vegan rock cakes. ;-) Cheers, T i m I certainly remember us getting ground coffee delivered from a company in Portsmouth - to Berlin. Back in the very early 1960s. We had some sort of percolator with a glass "dome". ?Cona https://www.ebay.co.uk/i/233122624730 -- Roger Hayter |
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T i m wrote: On Sat, 17 Oct 2020 15:53:12 +0100, newshound wrote: snip Beans to cup, for me, every time. OOI, can you remember when you first got a taste for coffee? I though the British were renown for the love of tea and tea drinking and only 'the foreigners' (especially the Yanks and Italians?) drunk coffee? ;-) I still remember being told in a restaurant that I couldn't have coffee in the afternoon, It appeared that I'd asked for something terribly naughty - or foreign. This was in the 1960s. -- from KT24 in Surrey, England "I'd rather die of exhaustion than die of boredom" Thomas Carlyle |
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On 18/10/2020 11:28, Jethro_uk wrote:
On Sun, 18 Oct 2020 08:52:05 +0100, charles wrote: In article , T i m wrote: On Sat, 17 Oct 2020 15:53:12 +0100, newshound wrote: snip Beans to cup, for me, every time. OOI, can you remember when you first got a taste for coffee? I though the British were renown for the love of tea and tea drinking and only 'the foreigners' (especially the Yanks and Italians?) drunk coffee? ;-) I still remember being told in a restaurant that I couldn't have coffee in the afternoon, It appeared that I'd asked for something terribly naughty - or foreign. This was in the 1960s. Sounds about right. People witter on about the 60s and 70s like a ****ing golden age ... It was .... if you 'worked' for British Leyland |
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On 18/10/2020 11:23, Jethro_uk wrote:
Tea came later and was cheaper than coffee - and easier to source as the Empire expanded. Tea was an expensive luxury when the Chinese would not sell it to us. Then some plants were smuggled out and planted in India and the rest is history. |
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On Sun, 18 Oct 2020 10:23:26 -0000 (UTC), Jethro_uk
wrote: On Sat, 17 Oct 2020 21:12:43 +0100, T i m wrote: I though the British were renown for the love of tea and tea drinking and only 'the foreigners' (especially the Yanks and Italians?) drunk coffee? ;-) That's because you know **** all about history. Sorry, are you 'a foreigner' and/or did you just miss the smiley? Irrespective of your left-brainer reply to my lighthearted comment, the British *are* (stereotypically) known for their tea drinking. snip history lesson Cheers, T i m |
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On Tuesday, October 13, 2020 at 9:57:01 AM UTC+1, John Towill wrote:
My head is spinning, there are so many options and so much advice. Where to start? We have one of these that takes beans. https://www.amazon.co.uk/DeLonghi-Ma...c=1&th=1&psc=1 |
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On Tuesday, 13 October 2020 09:57:01 UTC+1, John Towill wrote:
My head is spinning, there are so many options and so much advice. Where to start? Lavazza pods are at least wholly compostable. And I tend to like their coffee. |
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On 13/10/2020 09:56, John Towill wrote:
My head is spinning, there are so many options and so much advice. Where to start? By considering that the waste from your coffee isn't compostable grounds, but a nice mixture of organic waste plastic and metal which will be in landfill for thousands of years? Andy |
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On Tuesday, 13 October 2020 21:44:30 UTC+1, Vir Campestris wrote:
On 13/10/2020 09:56, John Towill wrote: My head is spinning, there are so many options and so much advice. Where to start? By considering that the waste from your coffee isn't compostable grounds, but a nice mixture of organic waste plastic and metal which will be in landfill for thousands of years? Andy As I just posted, Lavazza pods are wholly compostable - no aluminium. I do not know the substances used but they have been available for some time now. |
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On Tue, 13 Oct 2020 13:47:44 -0700 (PDT), polygonum_on_google wrote:
By considering that the waste from your coffee isn't compostable grounds, but a nice mixture of organic waste plastic and metal which will be in landfill for thousands of years? As I just posted, Lavazza pods are wholly compostable - no aluminium. I do not know the substances used but they have been available for some time now. Industrial composting not domestic. You need to check if your local council will accept them in food waste collections. If they don't you're into taking them to a terracycle drop off point that does. -- Cheers Dave. |
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On Tuesday, 13 October 2020 22:13:37 UTC+1, Dave Liquorice wrote:
On Tue, 13 Oct 2020 13:47:44 -0700 (PDT), polygonum_on_google wrote: By considering that the waste from your coffee isn't compostable grounds, but a nice mixture of organic waste plastic and metal which will be in landfill for thousands of years? As I just posted, Lavazza pods are wholly compostable - no aluminium. I do not know the substances used but they have been available for some time now. Industrial composting not domestic. You need to check if your local council will accept them in food waste collections. If they don't you're into taking them to a terracycle drop off point that does. True - but they are for me. |
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On 13/10/2020 23:28, polygonum_on_google wrote:
On Tuesday, 13 October 2020 22:13:37 UTC+1, Dave Liquorice wrote: On Tue, 13 Oct 2020 13:47:44 -0700 (PDT), polygonum_on_google wrote: By considering that the waste from your coffee isn't compostable grounds, but a nice mixture of organic waste plastic and metal which will be in landfill for thousands of years? As I just posted, Lavazza pods are wholly compostable - no aluminium. I do not know the substances used but they have been available for some time now. Industrial composting not domestic. You need to check if your local council will accept them in food waste collections. If they don't you're into taking them to a terracycle drop off point that does. True - but they are for me. The problem here being that since they don't actually tell you what they're made of (only that they meet a certain standard) you may have trouble finding out if they're OK. I'll stick to paper filters. Andy |
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