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Pre-ground coffee is limited in quality, as it'll always be stale when it goes into a mass production process as used by Nespresso. You need to be grinding only
by wooger 6y ago
Pre-ground coffee is limited in quality, as it'll always be stale when it goes into a mass production process as used by Nespresso. You need to be grinding only <15 minutes before brewing to get the best flavour.
Likewise, you really want to be using beans within 2 weeks of them being roasted, which will never happen either.
Nespresso suffers from old stale coffee, plus each pod contains nowhere near enough coffee grounds to make even a vaguely strong cup of coffee.
Separate to all the waste issues, the coffee is weak and tasteless and to be honest, I'd prefer a high end instant coffee vs. Nespresso any day, as I can at least make it stronger.
To get nice coffee you need to start with fresh beans, and use enough of them. I find a quick filter coffee to be much preferable 100% of the time.
- ceejayoz 6y ago> You need to be grinding only <15 minutes before brewing to get the best flavour. Because of oxygen, which the Nespresso pods are sealed against.
- newacct583 6y agoUnpopular opinion: the snobbery in the first two sentences is misdirected. Those absolutely are not requirements for most coffee drinkers. I mean, I do the food snob thing for a lot of items, but coffee just barely qualifies relative to areas where there is genuine variability (tea, cheese or wine, say). For 95%+ of drinkers, coffee is coffee and the only really signficant distinguishing qualities are the roast (which persists on a shelf) and brew strength. Note that I'm not saying that there aren't coffee snobs who feel strongly about this. I'm saying that the nature of the product is that there will never be enough of them to matter.