espresso/ capuccino maker (delonghi f.ex.)

[Bobarctor]

Nespresso is available here in Taiwan. The coffee is excellent and they have machines with milk foamers. Alternatively they also sell separate milk foamers. We have a Nespresso machine here and we love it.

Where do you get your capsules ?

[ceevee369]

Nespresso is available here in Taiwan. The coffee is excellent and they have machines with milk foamers. Alternatively they also sell separate milk foamers. We have a Nespresso machine here and we love it.

Where do you get your capsules ?

There were no capsules in 2010. Also, Nespresso is NOT having a flagship store as in other countries. I wonder what keeps them waiting?
Currently, you can buy the capsules at City Super and at their booth in Hankyu. Don't know if they are more expensive vs. EU or HK.

[SlowRain]

There was an article a while back in The New York Times which showed how exorbitantly priced the coffee for these machines is. It works out to something like $50 per pound. You can actually get some of the best coffee in the world for a lot less than $50/lb. I imagine they're using the same strategy as printer manufacturers: sell the machines cheap and hose them on the consumables.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/08/dinin ... ostly.html

[ceevee369]

There was an article a while back in The New York Times which showed how exorbitantly priced the coffee for these machines is. It works out to something like $50 per pound. You can actually get some of the best coffee in the world for a lot less than $50/lb. I imagine they're using the same strategy as printer manufacturers: sell the machines cheap and hose them on the consumables.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/08/dinin ... ostly.html

For sure - Marketing and shareholders (+ George) need being paid.
Back in the days I had a Jura 100k espresso machine, a Krups percolator , an Italian Copper thing you need boiling water in and bags and bags of different coffees.
One day, I chooses for quality as convenience and went to buy a Pixie back home. Top 10 best investment ever.
Got 7 kinds of cups and can satisfy any guest within 2 minutes.
It took too long before those Pixies became available here.

[Dragonbones]

There was an article a while back in The New York Times which showed how exorbitantly priced the coffee for these machines is. It works out to something like $50 per pound.

Not only that, but the capsules are exactly the kind of unnecessary packaging that clogs landfills -- what a bloody waste!

[ceevee369]

There was an article a while back in The New York Times which showed how exorbitantly priced the coffee for these machines is. It works out to something like $50 per pound.

Not only that, but the capsules are exactly the kind of unnecessary packaging that clogs landfills -- what a bloody waste!

Don't think with your Taiwan hat on
If I would post one day the garbage, tiles, food, chairs, beds, metal ornaments, cement, name it what the locals Dump in real landfills , a few capsules mean yet not too much.

Nespresso does well In terms of recycling. I presume the Aluminium can be re-used.
I am pretty sure it can as my neighbor - the picker - takes them out of my garbage

[SlowRain]

There was an article a while back in The New York Times which showed how exorbitantly priced the coffee for these machines is. It works out to something like $50 per pound.

Not only that, but the capsules are exactly the kind of unnecessary packaging that clogs landfills -- what a bloody waste!

Yeah. I'm getting to the point in life where I'm starting to think more and more about my individual contribution to waste. I'm making a conscious effort to do away with anything that smacks of excess packaging and disposability.

[urodacus]

Me too. I have completely sworn off condoms, for example.

[Bobarctor]

Nespresso is available here in Taiwan. The coffee is excellent and they have machines with milk foamers. Alternatively they also sell separate milk foamers. We have a Nespresso machine here and we love it.

Where do you get your capsules ?

There were no capsules in 2010. Also, Nespresso is NOT having a flagship store as in other countries. I wonder what keeps them waiting?
Currently, you can buy the capsules at City Super and at their booth in Hankyu. Don't know if they are more expensive vs. EU or HK.

The funny thing is that after your post I checked and they just open their online boutique here in TW
https://boutique.nespresso.com/tw/capsules

[ceevee369]

Nespresso is available here in Taiwan. The coffee is excellent and they have machines with milk foamers. Alternatively they also sell separate milk foamers. We have a Nespresso machine here and we love it.

Where do you get your capsules ?

There were no capsules in 2010. Also, Nespresso is NOT having a flagship store as in other countries. I wonder what keeps them waiting?
Currently, you can buy the capsules at City Super and at their booth in Hankyu. Don't know if they are more expensive vs. EU or HK.

The funny thing is that after your post I checked and they just open their online boutique here in TW
https://boutique.nespresso.com/tw/capsules

Thanks for the link
Obviously, it ain't the official store

Average price is around 40% higher than EU, but still - at 21NTD for any of the 50 different blends , worth putting inside my www favorites .