I'd actually forgotten about this when I made my previous post about the different systems. The Tassimo system was the first I used and it did frequently jam up, in-paticular the foil from the pod where it is pierced seems to get stuck and jammed up, plus one of the machines outright failed and you frequently got coffee going everywhere, like its failing to come out of the pod properly. I'm sure they have probably addressed this better now.
yep, some how when it jams, it thinks it's good idea to pump more hot water through until there is none, lol.
so now we have a metal baking tray for it to sit in.
the milk pod sometimes doesn't empty out properly either, so when you put the second pod in, it floods the bar code scanner and doesnt register the bar code.
oh, i guess another down side is that, the pods are HOT when they are done. and unlike other machines, the used disc has to be manually emptied out. can be dangerous if not cautious. we actually at one point want to get rid of it because it's health and safety risk. but people in office agreed this is now an accepted risk and will not let visitors/client use it without provision, lol
I've seen those now in a few hotels. The staff would make drinks, but given they were on the floor of the buffet restaurant. you could do it yourself. The buttons and everything all looked the same, but then I noticed it used some completely different kind of pod.
yep, i have seen it in quite a few hotels too. i guess they are much quickier and does have certain level of quality.
Does it have the same range of coffees as the normal Nespresso pods?
I also wondered if they were any easier to recycle perhaps? As with existing pods, if you actually want to recycle them you either have to take them to a Nespresso store, or you can now buy a device that will empty the grounds and crush the pod, but its quite pricey.
the range is actually smaller, espcially some of fancier ones are not offered by the disc version. i think the disc contains slightly more grounds tho. it tastes just tiny bit stronger than the normal one. (i havent done a side by side, so i cant say for sure)
not sure how recycleable it is. the normal pods are nicely made out of aluminium with a foil lit, so minimal plastic is involved. the disc are made out of plastic/aluminium foil layers and is punched through by 100+ needles (abit like the normal one that put holes on the foil, these ones just have even more holes), so im not sure if it is any good when it comes to recycle. nespresso does offer collecting them back, but our people just bin them when the internal collector is full.
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