42p a coffee? That's a rip off.

Coffee beans are one of the cheapest things you can buy (after a tea bag).

Those coffee pods aren't easily recyclable either (most local recycling collections don’t take pods because they are made up of a mix of materials) and instead, they end up in landfill waste. There are billions of these pods dumped into landfills every year.

Why do they even make red ones? It's ALWAYS the red ones that get reduced. Red fits with no Kitchen unless you are named Roxanne.

You're both correct. I'm wrong.

Was £39.99 last Sunday, at least this is the same price as last Christmas- I bought 2 as presents.

thanks just reserved one

Bought in Argos for this price last week a good price. if anyone near an asda it's same price there to :smiley:

are there generic coffee pods available ?

Ordered. Thanks OP.

how do these compare to a tassimo?

Have you only to use the nescafe pods? If so, how expensive are they? I know nothing about these contraptions but I know my daughter would love this.

Alot of the good tassimo drinks and bundles are always out of stock on the site, its rare we order now as you have to spend £35 for free shipping and they hardly ever do discount codes, we just buy decent granular coffee instead now as thats all it is in the pods.

Boxes of 16 coffees, or 8 drinks if they come with milk pods (16 pods altogether).

Hundreds of these in white piled high at Tesco Sandhurst, same price.

I did see somewhere buy this machine for a pound when you buy the pods for around 30 pounds.. hmmm now when was that?
Gives me the idea that the pods are way to expensive then the machine in the long run? I like the coffee though. But would I spend that amount of money? Or buy coffee beans ground them and make my coffee in a 15 pump pressure machine at home??

Is £10 voucher for nescafe pods included?
http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/nescafe-dolce-gusto-jovia-manual-coffee-machine-red-10-credit-29-99-argos-edit-18-2548123

you can buy refillable pods from eBay. 2 for around £3.49 ( from China) so you can add any coffee you wsnt.

42p a coffee? That's a rip off.

Coffee beans are one of the cheapest things you can buy (after a tea bag).

Those coffee pods aren't easily recyclable either (most local recycling collections don’t take pods because they are made up of a mix of materials) and instead, they end up in landfill waste. There are billions of these pods dumped into landfills every year.

​this one have hot and cold option which is for lotsssss variety of coffee and tea as well
I tried the Cappuccino and the hot chocolate just like cherry on the cake amazing would really recommend it

Thanks, if bought today and registered, in addition to the £10 voucher there is a deal running until midnight today (28th) of a free box of chococino caramel with any order of six boxes. Combining all these offers means the machine plus seven boxes would be a grand total of around £44 depending on boxes chosen. Rather tempting now.

Waste of time all of them except nespresso as you cannot retrofit the pods.

I bought one from eBay Tesco for this price and have been really pleased with it. The boxes for 3.99 do contain 16 pods so for drinks that include separate milk such as cafe macchiato or cappuccino that's 8 servings. The cafe au lait and expressos contain 16 servings. I would buy one or two lattes from costa etc every day so am saving a small fortune by making my own

Aldi's sell 3 different flavours £1.97 im sure it was for 10 pods

Why do they even make red ones? It's ALWAYS the red ones that get reduced. Red fits with no Kitchen unless you are named Roxanne.

This says it's automatic on Currys but this model is a manual version isn't it?? I found the coffee isn't as nice as the Tassimo although it's cheaper the buy online than Tassimo. The milkdoesn't leak either like the Tassimo pods did when delivered. I'm in the fence with mine and may still return as it spews milk in all directions.

Seen this in the local tesco in westbrom same price

Make the razor cheap and the blades expensive. These manufacturers will sell these machines super cheap and make the money back on the (very environmentally unfriendly) pods. Give me a mocha pot over one of these pieces of junk any day as I prefer a decent cup of coffee.

Been waiting for these to be on offer for ages. Got red machine and 48 coffee pods for 36quid (with the tenner off voucher), not bad at all. Red hot.

get yourself a sevrin milk frother to go with these and just buy boxes of espresso to make great cappucino & lattes

Won't touch curry's after they welched on their cash back promotion through quidco

What abour TASSIMO Tassimo Amia TAS2002gb Hot Drinks Machine which is of same price with 1.5 litres capacity

I decided to go for this on on Amazon for £29.99 ; https://www.amazon.co.uk/NESCAFÉ-Melody-Coffee-Machine-DeLonghi/dp/B007SNAIRM on a Lightning Deal for the next 2 hours only I think

There are attractive recycling schemes offered by the manufacturers of the pods to ensure they are recycled.

nice find op!

This is my issue with pod machines. I love the idea of them but they're poor value in the long run. The most expensive bags of coffee are usually around the fiver mark for 250g. 250g will give you 27 shots of coffee. 19p each and that's for the expensive stuff. Buy beans in bulk and you can half that to less than 10p a cup.

Yes, you can use refillable capsules, but you're really compromising on the quality of the coffee if you do it. I'm not saying that there isn't a place for capsule machines, but if you're at all concerned about saving money and/or quality of the coffee they're absolutely not a good choice. The only thing they offer is convenience.

If you have the time and inclination to save money and have better coffee, in my view you're best served with a big initial investment for a good coffee machine. If you can't manage that, then a hand grinder + moka pot + milk frother can be had for under £50 in total and will produce ridiculously better coffee than any pod machine. Switch the moka for an aeropress if you want something a bit easier to use.

I only bought one for the Chai Latte I don't drink coffee lol but it gives me my chai fix when I can't be arsked to get the pan out and do it on the hob so it is mainly for convenience , time saving and no pot to wash :wink:

It is a pity they don't do the skinny chai version though as it is highly calorific so is one of my 'treats'

any one have spare reservations for Belfast Forestside, please pm me

Nespresso use proper coffee grounds, these are just powered flavoured instant coffee

No i mean retrofit the pods. Can only do this on Nespresso's

That is totally untrue. I have a Tassimo machine and the quality is on par with what you get from a proper coffee shop.

The best instant coffee doesn't compare in any way.

complete rubbish don't like pods myself but your completely wrong

You're both correct. I'm wrong.

I do find this amusing from their US FAQ (source)...


Is it just me having a problem with that count?

nice one

prefer freshly ground myself so pod systems are no good for me

I reserved one of these at Currys but when I went to collect they didn't have any left in stock. I persuaded them to just knock £5 off the black one, which is exactly the same machine but they've decided to charge £5 more for a different colour.

If your local Currys has ran out it's worth asking them to either order one in or just reduce the price on the black machine. Needs manager approval, but given they have bloody loads of black machines left they will probably be willing.

Edit: Also, I tried the coffee and it tastes fine, there are probably cheaper ways of getting a fix, but I think part of the appeal is that it is a lot easier to clean than most other machines. I stopped using a percolator as it was just a chuffing effort each time.

Just going to put this here for anyone who bought a machine, enjoy a free sample: https://www.dolce-gusto.co.uk/preludiochallenge


Thanks, annoyingly it is now showing out of stock in my local online in red anyway so I cannot reserve. I had reserved one a few days ago but couldn't get there before closing so left it, now I may have to wait for another deal or hope stock comes back in online in a few hours.

May still be worth asking, they have black ones piled up everywhere. No idea why they priced it differently but it's backfired a bit because no one has bought any of the black ones.

Cheers I might pop in tomorrow, it is only just round the corner anyway, I can always have a wander around and see if anything else catches my eye as well.

collected today but returning tomorrow to Argos, This is manual machine

Just because you can get a coffee cheaper than 42p, that doesn't mean that 42p for a coffee is a rip off...

Exactly, I would place a hefty bet that Picard has an iPhone, or iPad or some other "non-base" product which cost 100x the cheapest option which would do the same job.

I guess we all do it, I see people buying £5 coffee's at Starbucks and think they are fools, but then I don't think twice about going into the food hall and paying £6 for a baked potato and a drink... :smiley:

It's a rip off because most of that is the cost of the packaging. Coffee itself is very cheap. It's only retailers and chains like Starbucks that mark it up for an insane price. You buy a £3 coffee from Starbucks for example and less than 10p of that is the actual cost of the coffee.

Buy your own coffee and make it yourself, whether its instant, filter, or your own ground beans. That's part of the experience! It's also cheaper and you don't add to the billions of non-biodegradable pods dumped into landfills each year.

I think you're probably using the word retrofit when you mean something else. You've lost me either way.

I don't see how the half life of a radioactive material compares with degradation of cardboard. As for aluminium and other metals, one day we will be mining landfill...

The cheapest automatic at the moment is the mini me from Argos. I paid £45. Currys say on their website that this one is automatic but it isn't.

Yes because is sooooo hard deciding how much water to use per pod

Retrofit means a copy. Look it up

Anybody else see the Judge Dredd helmet at first glance???

I have decided to go for TASSIMO by Bosch Amia TAS2002gb Hot Drinks Machine

I share Dansax's confusion. I've never heard of "retrofit" meaning anything to do with copying. I've only heard of it in the context of adding new technology to something older (like installing an MP3 player into a car which was originally fitted with a CD player would be to retrofit it.) Dictionaries seem to support this usage rather than anything to do with copying.

Just to clarify - do you mean that Nespresso machines can use non OEM pods? (ie you can use fake / copy pods from other manufacturers?)

The lack of openness of the pod standards, and environmental issues are amongst reasons I'm never tempted by pod products. Refillable and standardised pods would help with that for me.

Funnily enough I thought the same as you, but in terms of refillable pods, I have only seen those for the Dolce Gusto machines. And aftermarket pods exist for various makes, eg. Café Royal pods for Dolce Gusto machines, or Café Pod which make them for Nespresso or Dolce Gusto machines. In fact a Google search for Dolce Gusto compatible pods reveals loads of different sites and brands... the problem is that none of them appear much cheaper than the original Dolce Gusto pods.

For what it's worth, I have seen people queuing in Selfridges basement (yeah sure I shop there all the time :wink: for specially filled coffee pods apparently made up on premises from their choice of beans.

I didn't even bother to look, but I'm guessing the cost is quite high.

Somehow that comment about red not fitting with your kitchen doesn't match with your avatar. :smile:

Not for aluminium you won't. It's too dispersed to justify the massive financial and energy costs of mining a landfill for such a tiny return. No commercial company is going to excavate a landfill when they can go and create a bauxite mine in Malaysia and make vast profits in doing so, albeit at the cost of destroying the rain forests, killing the wildlife, displacing the local population and poisoning their water.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-35340528

Yeah, I agree. Not only is it cheaper, but part of the pleasure of a good coffee is the pleasure in actually making it yourself and creating your own blend. I can understand the convenience of using pods from time to time, particularly if someone was an infrequent drinker, but to press a button for some machine to squirt hot water into a plastic/aluminium pod and paying through the nose for it just seems daft if you're a frequent coffee drinker.

How do you get 'proper' coffee without a machine? I do filter coffee but it's nothing like what you get from cafés in Europe (which I am using as the baseline for 'proper' coffee!)

Make sure you buy an automatic one - a manual one is a PIA.

I use Grande Caffè Crema pods (yellow packaging) for coffee along with the same amount of milk. Pop in the microwave for 50s and you have a reasonable latte.

It means I rarely takeaway coffee from Nero and Starbucks...saving the pennies.

No, you look it up: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retrofitting

Aftermarket would be a better if still incorrect description.

Who designed this bleedin thing? need mi specks i thought in the small picture i was looking at a butt plug.

Are they £30?

I bought the previous version of this machine a couple of years ago (another deal from this great site). Unfortunately, and after fairly limited use, it has started burning the coffee no matter which pods or heat settings I use. This has been described on forums but no one knows exactly why. Could be an issue with the thermostat I guess. Guess it's time for a new machine, probably will buy this one.

Thanks OP. Heated.

Nespresso have a recycling system. Not sure if the same applies to Nescafe

the thing is you get proper coffee shop taste and aroma with these.
there is NO instant coffee that can even get close.
basically you get the same/very similar taste, quality and aroma you get from the coffee bought from a coffee shop.
so 42p a cup is worth it as normally in coffee shops you have to pay £2+ a cup.
I don't have this model but have a basic £30 Bosch Tassimo and since buying it I can't even stand the best instant coffee's taste.
you make a cup of coffee with these and the whole room literally smells of delicious high quality coffee.
good luck having that experience with those instant coffees.yuck.

You have got to be joking....

nope,I'm not.
but I've got a little advice for you : read all the positive reviews all over the internet (about taste and quality of these vs instant coffee).or better yet just buy one (after all it's only £30 and a 16 pack coffee pod will cost £4), try it,see for yourself and then jump to the comment section and bash a product without even trying it.

Has the offer expired?....It's showing £39.99 on their website. :man: