Turning into printers these things, have you seen the cost of capsules?

​You seem a little hyped. Maybe too much coffee? I compare this to grounding my own coffee which works out about 2-3p a cup. The flavour is miles better and its cheaper. As for Costa, I wouldn't know how their interpretation of coffee taste like as I've never been to one. I do hear that Costa give their floor shavings to Aldi, maybe that's why you get them so cheap. So as for letting other people make their minds up, I don't mind that. But it doesn't stop me from sharing my experience and view.

These products suffer from the 'Printer Cartridge Cost Syndrome'. Even if they gave these away free, it would still be expensive.

Compared to what? Going to costa and paying £3 or using instant for 10p a cup? it's decent coffee in the pods and the ones we use (copies from Aldi) are £1.79 for 10 capsules... 18p a cup is pretty good to me. But hey you enjoy your floor sweepings, you're obviously happy with them, in the meantime why not let others decide for themselves. :-) chin chin

Thank you very much for replying. I think I might get a human Guinea pig to test it out on first!

what happens if you leave a coffee outside too long? It goes the same way as my vote for this deal hehe

​you can never have too much coffee... I'm very surprised you find ground coffee cheaper and nicer, we had a half decent £500 bean to cup machine with milk container etc before our pod machine and found it tasted crap no matter what settings and beans we used and a £5 tin of beans would make about 20 cups. our pod machine, is faster, tastier, more economical and way easier to clean.

​apologies for getting you excited, I was referring to pod coffee machines in general, personally we have the nespresso lattisma which aldi do the pods for. these look good though.

Can these be used past their sell by date or do they have to be thrown out? A colleague brought a pile of them to work but I'm a bit uncertain as over a year past date. Anyone got any ideas??

They can make mugs of coffee as the can add more hot water during the brewing process. You can also do what I do and use the same capsule twice to get a stronger bigger mug of coffee.

or a kettle?

love this stuff

I was with you until you started berating Aldi shoppers. How dare you. http://www.mirror.co.uk/money/aldi-roasts-costa-starbucks-coffee-6470199

Game my Tassimo away with all the coffee I had

this may sound silly but can you make cocktails in this

Nespresso is not that pricey. £55 with £45 pod voucher (3 x £15 off online/boutique orders) machine on offer now. Plus can reuse Nespresso capsules for a few pence with thin aluminum foil. Works fine. Lidl Capsules at £1.79/10.

For those asking about the temperature, each pod (drink flavour) can be different - the barcode on the top tells the machine how to make the drink.

When comparing them to high street shops I would point out that the serving you get from the machine is a fraction of that served in a coffee shop.

Think of it as a pint of lager is servered in a pub at a high price as you are paying for atmosphere, being served.
Compared to a can of larger that is far cheaper but less than a pint, and from what I see ends in person sitting on the kurb swigging down the warm drink.

Before you buy a Tassimo and I guess the other brands check the drink size it actually makes (for tassimo again each pod is different) and compare to how much fluid you expect to be in your drink. Tassimo doesn't makes "mugs" of drink!!! Unless you use 2/3 pods.

cant believe people are so stingy when buying coffee, on a recent trip to the ivory coast i took a second suitcase and managed to get 18.5623 KG of coffee for just £127 for the extra baggage allowance, now that's proper coffee , not that Latin american rubbish you guys are on about

What's the water temperature like in these?

Thinking of getting one of them hot water cartridges from amazon so I can make whatever drink I like but I need to have it hot.

Wow so much rage on this thread, I think maybe all of you should lay off the caffiene for a few days, voted hot because even though I don't want one it's a good deal for those that do, which is kind of the point.

These products suffer from the 'Printer Cartridge Cost Syndrome'. Even if they gave these away free, it would still be expensive.

Nobody is doing anything to hinder people making up their own minds. The OP was just giving an opinion, a review. It's helpful to know that you think they're good and affordable and it's also good to know that OP thinks the capsules are expensive. The amount of people on these deals who can't stand people criticising any product is bizarre.

I've had a Tassimo for several years and I've noticed the quality of some of the pods have gone down. I also do not like the UHT milk pods, so I just get the Costa coffee pods (without the UHT milk) from 'eurocoffeepods' on eBay and put milk into a Dualit milk frother instead of using the milk pods.

I have noticed that they're now using powdered milk in the Cadbury's hot chocolate pods.

Making a coffee or hot chocolate with heated and frothed milk in the Dualit is much better than using the UHT milk pods.

Isn't the more expensive one cheaper ? :

http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/absolute-bargain-tassimo-suny-29-75-instore-tesco-consett-2350835

this may sound a silly question, can you do hot chocolate in this machine, as don't like coffee but would love a proper hot chocolate

I think these are an item you buy with your heart and justify with your head. Saying that they are cheaper than buying from e.g. Costa is absolutely true. However, this is a false comparison as a) most people when sitting at home don't say "I fancy a coffee, I'll pop to the coffee shop" or b) will be out and say "I fancy a coffee, I'll pop home to make one".

Floor sweepings? How can buying real beans and grinding them yourself be regarded as floor sweepings? It's these pod machines where you're more likely to get floor sweepings. Get an Aeropress, a coffee grinder and real beans and you'll never be tempted by one of these over-priced, over-rated capsule systems again.

Lets be clear the last time these coffee machines were actually selling for £99 was when DFS weren't having a sale. Having said that £33 is probably the cheapest I have seen them , they usually retail at between £35 and £50. I have had one for 18 Months and its great . As for the economics, you need to shop around and wait for the supermarket offers. 16 Costa americanos on the High street Approx £30 quid -, From the Tassimo £3-£4 (and no queuing)

Voting hot for the price, but compared to let's say Dolce Gusto, Tassimo makes horrible coffee. I tried it once (the Costa one) and it was horrible and flat with no creme. I would go for Dolce Gusto if anyone is after one of those poddy thingies.

We had a Tassimo (TAS4011GB) about 4 years ago and am shocked that the quality of the coffee might actually have managed to go downhill since then! I don't think I'm particularly fussy about coffee but I ended up drinking instant rather than use the Tassimo. It also didn't really seem to work making hot chocolate (at 50p per cup) which was another reason we had gone for it.

the pods for these are full of sugar, guess no one here cares about their health. I'll just stick with a spoon full of nescafe decaff with a splash of milk thanks. Total cost: 8p or so? Total cost to health: 0

I'm not sure these are a good idea considering the amount of packaging per cup/pod and the lack of recycling potential.

I'm sure the quality is good and the coffee excellent however.

what machine do the aldi ones fit, tassimo or dolce gusto?

Turning into printers these things, have you seen the cost of capsules?

So cold

​You seem a little hyped. Maybe too much coffee? I compare this to grounding my own coffee which works out about 2-3p a cup. The flavour is miles better and its cheaper. As for Costa, I wouldn't know how their interpretation of coffee taste like as I've never been to one. I do hear that Costa give their floor shavings to Aldi, maybe that's why you get them so cheap. So as for letting other people make their minds up, I don't mind that. But it doesn't stop me from sharing my experience and view.

Pretty sure the copies from Aldi or Lidl are Nespresso compatible only, NOT Tassimo pods

I loved my Tassimo but it was costing a fortune for the pods. The Costa Lattes were hardly ever on offer at my local supermarkets. Have since ditched the Tassimo and replaced with a bean to coffee machine which is superb (10 times more expensive as well so ought to be!).

how ?

Oooh Silver!!! :-)

Silvvvvveeeeerrrrrr!

Silver candled!

Silver candy cane thanks x

You caught a Silver Candycane Flamedeer! :/

we buy our pods from Costco. They are on offer instore at the moment

Maybe some links to the cheapest places to buy the pods would help people decide.

Limited range of coffees for these Bosch machines - and overpriced as well, that's why they can give the machines away.

Im reckoning they mean lidl

These make great Offee....

I use a bean to cup machine and reckon you get around 16 cups from a 250g bag of beans. The cheapest drinkable bag of beans is about £2.50 so around 16p a cup

If you can get the pods for not much more with a cheap machine then it doesn't sound a bad deal to me.

They've recently changed the recipe of some their capsules and not for the better judging by the comments on their Facebook page! Be warned...

Excuse me.

Copies from Aldi? Tell me more! :smiley:

So many offers on the pods its not that bad. We got 48 pods and worked out at 30p a drink. Thats a mix of latte hot choco etc.

Bish bash bosh

Yep like Ink the coffee pods are ridiculous prices compared to actually just grinding your own and making a proper cup of coffee!

Probably worth putting 'Tassimo Vivy TAS1252GB' in the title or at least 'Tassimo'

Same price at Amazon