You can buy Nespresso pods from the supermarket. I have an Aldi brand machine, a gift from my son. It was used a bit at first, but just sits in the cupboard now as I never was a big coffee drinker

I’m content with instant coffee, so I’m glad I don’t need a coffee machine.

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To be quite honest, I haven’t found a good one yet. They never seem to make it hot enough and the mess that is made is often not worth the effort. I have gone back to using my plunger for ease and convenience and frothing my milk with a hand held frother! I hope you have better luck than I did with your hunt for a good machine and sorry I wasn’t much help!

did you get a coffee machine? what did you buy?

I love my Aldis Machine … it also fits the gloria jean pods…yum

I have a Nespresso and I love it. Yes you have to buy their pods. I buy a box of 5 tubes. 1 tube has 10 pods in it. So I buy 5 different flavours…50 pods in total and they last us for almost 3 months. We don’t have one every day. But you can also buy the cheaper compatible pods from the supermarket. Just make sure that you buy a box that’s says its compatible with Nespresso machines.

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Aldi seem to have a good machine.

We have a sunbeam thermo block. I don’t actually use it but hubby loves it!

I do not think what kind of machine others use is important, but the way and manner you treat the machine. Enough care is needed when dealing with electronics.

We have a JURA, its a swiss coffee machine (automatic). You use full beans only – it rinds it and I don’t know how we lasted so long with out it! I’ts worth $1800, but got at the Boxing Day Harvey Norman Sales and paid $1000 with a $400 free coffee sample pack and another 6 months (6kilo) of coffee included (a choice of 7 Blends to choose). I think when you can only purchase one type of blend through one Company..its almost a trap, unless of course you love the coffee. Check out their range online and do your research before your final choice

We have a really expensive machine that is sitting in a cupboard, it’s a nespresso and they cost you 16 dollars each time you want to “descale” it as lights come up on your machine. I don’t drink coffee. He does. It’s sitting in a cupboard unused atm.

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  • • 5beautboys replied
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  Oh no, how many times does it descale? Ours has descaled twice since getting. We have up to 4 cups between us a day, plus my eldest has his hot milk – I think in the long run it pays itself off if you purchase your coffee or hot drinks out. Now I make before I leave home

We have the Aldi machine and I find it so easy to use. There are heaps of different flavours and strengths for the pods – my son especially loves the hot chocolate ones. Every time my parents came to visit they wanted and “Aldi” coffee” so last mother’s day I bought the machine for mum as well. I even shocked some friends once. They were outside while I made the coffee and didn’t know what machine I had. They all had different strengths as I asked for their choice beforehand. The shock on their faces when I said they were drinking Aldi coffee was so funny. But it shows you don’t have to buy the most expensive machine to get the best. I will also say though – fresh beans will always be better but as a pod machine I love mine

I have a nespresso and a sunbeam cafe series. Both wonderful in their own rights, but I found the nespresso restrictive because I had to order the pods and I always ran out before I realised. The cafe series gives me the option to try all different beans and I prefer to buy locally.

At I have used an A Modo Mio, which was, at the time, a Lavazza machine with yummy pods and A Nespresso – I MUCH prefer either no coffee or instant to the Nespresso pods, they just don’t taste any good to me, even the strong ones.
We have a proper machine at home with beans (my husband occasionally roasts his own, but isn’t necessary with heaps of different options at the supermarket) and I couldn’t recommend anything more than that, if you’re really into coffee it’s definitely the way to go. We never have a bad coffee & almost every time we have one, the exclamation is, wow, that’s the best one yet
Friends also have the Aldi machine & I think that’s pretty good too!

I have a Nespresso, you can buy pods from the supermarket, you arent stuck with just buying from Nespresso! I have also just bought some refillable pods and a bag of Yahava ground coffee…filled the pods and now i have my favourite coffee at home! I can not go back t drinking instant coffee…blehh!!! It is worth the money for sure in my opinion!

I have both the nespresso and the aldi expressi. Both work really well. Nespresso coffee is the nicest, though it is more expensive. Aldi also offers different flavoured hot chocolates which is why I have both.

I have a proper coffee machine and I love it, those pod things are so expensive, better off getting a normal coffee machine (that makes cappucinos not the drip machine) and buying the yummy flavour syrups to go in the coffee

I have a pod coffee machine l won and haven’t used it almost 12 months later as you have to order the pods online. i don’t know if l like the coffee and you cannot use other brands in mine they won’t fit. I have a proper coffee machine and don’t know how to use it. I spend a lot of money buying take away coffees every week. I really have to learn to use my machine and think l will give the pod one away as a gift.