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  1. #1

    Jul 2009
    Out North, Vic
    8,538

    I don't have any that can use the nespresso but i do have the aldi machine - i find it very easy to use and their coffee is actually quite nice.
    The gloria jeans and woolworths pods also fit it - the gloria jeans caramel coffee if to die for

  2. #2

    Jun 2010
    District Twelve
    8,425

    We have the aldi one at work. Easy to use but I don't like the coffee at all. I still buy mine in preference.
    My coworkers all use two pods per cup as they say it is too weak with just one.

    I know the Woolworths machines are very popular. They are also on sale this week if you have an everyday rewards card.

  3. #3
    Registered User

    Jan 2011
    2,075

    I got DH a basic Krupps machine (about $150) for his office. It is manual, but you can just buy pods( as in tea bag style ones) that fit into the coffee part. It's a really good coffee and easy for the guys to use there. He buys the pods from a coffee place locally. I think you get get that style from supermarkets too.

  4. #4
    BellyBelly Life Subscriber

    Jun 2008
    In snuggle land
    4,499

    We have a Lavazza A modo Mio, made by Saeco. It cost about $300 Jan 2012 and they threw in the $100 milk frother. The milk frother lasted about 6 months before getting water into the base. The $25 Aldi replacement lasted 5 min before same happened. When then spent about $100 on a Breville milk frother which allows the frother jug to separate from the engine part, so it can go in the dishwasher. It's awesome too

    the pods cost about $12-13 per box of 16 from the Good Guys. We buy about $50 of pods per month. It can be expensive and it's certainly environmentally unfriendly. However, the coffee is great, it's convenient and less messy than an espresso machine. We use the pod machine a lot more than our old espresso machine.

    The coffee is fabulous and it's not Nestlé

  5. #5
    Registered User

    Oct 2006
    Adelaide, SA
    3,962

    I've heard the woolies machines are good.

  6. #6
    Registered User

    Sep 2008
    Melbourne
    3,300

    Re: Coffee pod machines.

    We have a Lavazza A modo Mio, made by Saeco. It cost about $300 Jan 2012 and they threw in the $100 milk frother. The milk frother lasted about 6 months before getting water into the base. The $25 Aldi replacement lasted 5 min before same happened. When then spent about $100 on a Breville milk frother which allows the frother jug to separate from the engine part, so it can go in the dishwasher. It's awesome too

    the pods cost about $12-13 per box of 16 from the Good Guys. We buy about $50 of pods per month. It can be expensive and it's certainly environmentally unfriendly. However, the coffee is great, it's convenient and less messy than an espresso machine. We use the pod machine a lot more than our old espresso machine.

    The coffee is fabulous and it's not Nestlé
    This is an old thread but today I discovered that biodegradable pods exist and is so exciting to me - at my new place of work they have a Nespresso machine (I won't by Nespresso pods (which they claim to recycle) as are Nestle but resigned myself to using the machine as is already there). I had been using some other pods from Woolies (only 6 pods a week) but I wasn't keen on the waste aspect, but hadn't found another method for coffee at work (most places with ideas instead of pod machines recommend stove top things which aren't an option at work). Anyway today there was an article on the Conversation about pod coffee - and it mentioned the Honest Coffee Company in NZ which sells biodegradable pods (fully biodegradable to the point of biodegrading 1.5
    years earlier than an orange peel) - so am going to try them out - is not as cheap as other pods but still cheaper than buying a coffee from a coffee shop if there is one available, and as I only use 6 pods a week is good enough for me.