Coffee Pods
I keep seeing these coffee pod espresso maker systems, and frankly, they mystify me. I have a "regular" espresso maker, and it is barely any mess or trouble at all. Why pay a thousand times more for your coffee, just for the convenience (and extra waste, and packaging) of pods?
The only possible application I can see for a pod system is in an office environment. In fact I once worked at an office that had a pod style espresso maker. It was great for a few weeks, but then we ran out of pods, and the company we originally contracted with to deliver fresh pods every week went out of business. So we were stuck with a proprietary system (I forget which one) which would not take any other kind of pods. Not that we didn't try.
The only possible application I can see for a pod system is in an office environment. In fact I once worked at an office that had a pod style espresso maker. It was great for a few weeks, but then we ran out of pods, and the company we originally contracted with to deliver fresh pods every week went out of business. So we were stuck with a proprietary system (I forget which one) which would not take any other kind of pods. Not that we didn't try.