Nescafé Dolce Gusto is a system developed by Nestle for hot beverage or coffee machines. The system is based on its own coffee machines that make coffee and other hot beverages such as hot chocolate, using specially designed capsules. You are invited to read my post about the Nescafé Dolce Gusto system.

Capsules are usually sold in packs of 16 units, starting from £3.50. Here is a roundup of all the beverages capsules I could find online, for easy access. Please comment with your opinion about flavours you have tried, or could not find here!

Cappuccino (16 Capsules)	Latte Macchiato (16 Capsules)	Chococino Hot Chocolate (16 Capsules)
Mocha (16 Capsules)	Espresso (16 Capsules)	Cafè Crema Grande (16 Capsules)

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Take advantage of Nespresso’s special offer for UK residents. You can now get a £40 Nespresso Club credit, when buying any Nespresso coffee machine. All you have to do is claim your club credit after the purchase. Here are the details:

£40 Nespresso Club Credit

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Welcome the newest member of the NESCAFÉ’s Dolce Gusto™ System. The Dolce Gusto Circolo.

The Circolo like its predecessor  is manufactured for Nestle by Krups. You may find this machine also labeled as Krups KP 5000. The Circolo uses specially designed capsules by Nestle, different blends of air tight packed coffee grounds, or other hot beverages like hot chocolate, and milk. You can buy the capsules at major stores or get them online.

Dolce Gusto Circolo

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Who discovered coffee ?
When and where was the first coffee house established?
What time of day do people prefer to have their cup of coffee?
What is your coffee story?

Watch this new video by Douwe Egberts, follow the link at the end of the video, tell your coffee story, and you can win a free trip to Amsterdam!

I recently wrote about the new Philips Senseo Quadrante HD7860 machine. This machine uses the unique Senseo pod system to brew hot beverages, with many available coffee flavours. Now you can also make delicious tea with one of two available sets by Amazon.

Check them out:

Pickwick Big Set

Pickwick Gift Set

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Philips Senseo Quadrante HD7860

Philips Senseo Latte Select HD7852

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If you don’t know about the Tassimo capsule system for coffee machines and hot beverage machines, you are welcome to first read a bit about it in our Tassimo capsule system post.

If you already know about Tassimo you may have encounted two types of machines for it online and wondered which you should go for. I am talking about the Braun Tassimo coffee machine and the Bosch Tassimo coffee machine. Here is some information for you about the history of these two machines.

Braun Tassimo TA1200

Bosch Tassimo TAS4011GB

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On Monday, May 25th 2009, Philips announced that it would acquire Saeco International Group, after settling an agreement with Saeco’s banks over Saeco’s outstanding debt. The purchase sum has not been disclosed.

Saeco Odea Giro

Saeco is the Italian based leading espresso machines company and is controlled by PAI Partners. The company, which also makes machines under the well known Gaggia brand, produces traditional coffee machines, capsule system coffee machines, and bean to cup coffee machines. All together it has 30% of the European market, and has reportadly sold 318 million Euro over the 12 months that ended March 31.

Philips among others, holds the technology behind the Senseo coffee machines, which produce espressos using coffee pods, with a Philips coffee machine.

Philips Senseo HD 7852/50

The Caffitaly Nautilus is the newest member of the Caffitaly capsule system coffee machines. For those of you who are not familiar with the Caffitaly system, you are welcome to read about it and about other capsule systems in related posts. Bottom line, these machines make coffee using prepacked ground coffee capsules of the Caffitaly system (Like the Nespresso system, but with different capsules). The name Nautilus comes from its shape, which is designed after the unique marine creatures called Nautilus. These creatures are considered to be “living fossils” and have survived practically unchanged for millions of years.

Caffitaly Nautilus

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Nespresso coffee machines are famous all over the world for the beautiful design as well as delicious coffee. You may also think of George Clooney when you think Nespresso. The Nespresso capsules system is a very common system for coffee machines many homes these days. In this post I want to put videos and links to videos of Nespresso coffee machines, so you can get another look at them before buying or if you’re just curious. Enjoy the show:

Krups Nespresso xn2007 with Nespresso Aeroccino Demonstration

• Another Krups xn2000 demonstration video

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