senseo question.?

dragon · 23-12-2006, 16:54

Just bought one of those senseo machines and a few packs of coffee to get started with.

But i noticed on ebay you can get the cofee a bit cheaper also there seems to be a bigger range (although most of the sellers are outside the uk)

theres also a thing that you can buy for about Ãƒâ€šÃ‚Â£3 on ebay that allows you to use tea pods with it.

Anyone tryed makeing tea in it?

Also do you have to buy the senseo pods or has anyone else successfully tryed 3rd party ones?

cuggle · 23-12-2006, 17:01

my wife uses the tea pods all the time as well as other makes of coffee, just make sure you buy the ones compatable with pod machines, taylors of harrogate, and kenco spring to mind but there are quite a few diff ones to try, also senseo have just brought out cappacino too with a white frothy layer.

dragon · 24-12-2006, 02:10

noticed quite a few of the people on ebay selling the coffee are from the neatherlands, i have a friend out there, if the coffees cheaper out there might ask him to send me some.

andygrif · 24-12-2006, 11:15

I think the machines are quite popular in Holland (Dutch company etc) al of the people I know out there have one, and they are much cheaper over there too.

They make a decent cup of coffee, but haven't seen the tea adaptor myself. You should definitely be able to find the coffee cheaper abroad, especially in France where they drink so much of it.

24-12-2006, 11:30

I just use 2 normal tea bags in the single cup and this makes a nice cup of tea so im told.
A little tip for a fake latte just heat the milk in a microwave to almost boiling put a spoon in the cup and then use senseo as normal just move the spoon gently so you dont lost the head. If you take milk desolve it in the milk so you dont have to over stir

I only drink coffee from mine at home no more instant poop

**Matt D** · 24-12-2006, 19:45

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Originally Posted by dragon

Just bought one of those senseo machines and a few packs of coffee to get started with.

But i noticed on ebay you can get the cofee a bit cheaper also there seems to be a bigger range (although most of the sellers are outside the uk)

theres also a thing that you can buy for about Ãƒâ€šÃ‚Â£3 on ebay that allows you to use tea pods with it.

Anyone tryed makeing tea in it?

Also do you have to buy the senseo pods or has anyone else successfully tryed 3rd party ones?

Mmm, Senseo coffee

We had one at work. No idea about tea or 3rd party pods.

One thing I did find - 1 pod & the single cup button is too small! I used to use 2 pods & hit the two cup button, to fill up a normal mug. One "cup" seems to be one tiny little cup.

24-12-2006, 22:06

they sell mug pods now and they are much better value

dragon · 24-12-2006, 23:03

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Originally Posted by zinglebarb

they sell mug pods now and they are much better value

where have you seen those zingle, only place i seen the coffee so far is sainsburrys and they only had the regular pods in dark and medium roast.

mind u not been to the big out of town tesco since we got the machine

25-12-2006, 01:40

Tesos extra in Coventry has them

dragon · 25-12-2006, 10:54

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Originally Posted by zinglebarb

Tesos extra in Coventry has them

i'll try the local one first coventry is a bit far just to go get some coffee (couple hundred mile round trip)

Although i do have family there, maybe i can use visting them as an excuse to go get some