This blog contains a number of simple money saving solutions I have discovered to potentially expensive repairs or replacements.
For Example:
Cleaning of the shower mould using domestos grot buster saved me hundreds of pounds, and the fact that it keeps the mould out of the caulk saves me hours of additional cleaning.
This is the fair-trade coffee with chicory I used in my Pod Capsule video.
Sainsbury French Style Coffee With Chicory
Its from Sainsbury supermarket UK. A 227g bag costs £2.30 which for chicory coffee is an excellent price.
Its incredibly tasty as there is a roughly 45% mix of Coffee and Chicory, if you like strong coffee this could suit your taste.
What I also noticed was that because I wasn't packing the coffee into the Pod capsule very hard, it allowed more air and water flow that led to a much tastier frothy coffee as can be seen in the video.
Although I was expecting saving with the reusable refillable pod capsules, I was amazed that I could make 9 capsules for the price of 1 x Nespresso capsule.
I now have the KRUPS Nespresso Inissia and love it:
Its cheap small and easy to use, I'd throughly recommend it and my #fixed1tMONEYSAVINGtips make it all the better as can be seen in my fixed1t YouTube playlist
This video is about Saving 85% On Nespresso Espresso Coffee With Reusable Pod Capsules
fixed1t Money Saving Tips I showed in my last video how using a refillable reusable Coffee Pod can reduce the costs. In this video I show how I quickly batch produce 9 x modified plastic reusable refillable Pods and store them fresh for immediate use I also calculate the cost saving per 9 x Pods
I now have the KRUPS Nespresso Inissia and love it:
Its cheap small and easy to use, I'd throughly recommend it and my #fixed1tMONEYSAVINGtips make it all the better as can be seen in my fixed1t YouTube playlist
The cost of the coffee for Nespresso Coffee Machines and their competitors is expensive. Much more expensive than the bags of excellent cafetiere coffee. In this video I try out the Refillable Reusable Pods, identify issues and show a great fix. Using this technique I get an excellent cup of coffee every time from my machine at a fraction of the Nespresso Pod costs.
I now have the KRUPS Nespresso Inissia and love it:
Its cheap small and easy to use, I'd throughly recommend it and my #fixed1tMONEYSAVINGtips make it all the better as can be seen in my fixed1t YouTube playlist
We were in ALDI today and they are doing a special on Pod Coffee machines this weekend.
It comes in 3 colours and is £49 which is pretty cheap by any standards. As with all ALDI deals this will be a one off for the time being and once the machines are gone, they won't be back for a long time.
Although, I don't need a machine, having recently bought one, they had some coffee capsules 10 for £1.70 and as the machine said it was Nespresso compatible I bought some two packs of the capsules, and a capsule holder for £3.49.
However, when I went to make a cup of the strong ALCAFE INTENSE category 9 coffee:
the machine made some rather odd noises and didn't appear to give me as much of a cup as I expected, although it tasted very strong and was a good cup of coffee. It wasn't until I was emptying the machine that I realised there must have been a problem. The pod receiving tray, was 1/3 full of coffee and water, which accounted for my low measure with the ALCAFE INTENSE coffee pod.
So what was the problem?
Looking at the top of the coffee pod shows its identical to Nespresso capsules in size and shape, so no issues there:
But looking at the back of the capsule, tells a whole different story. New espresso and Nespresso capsules have a round protruding back as can be seen below:
When they are used this back is pushed in by the machine and 3 sharp prongs puncture the back of the capsule and the machine also breaks into the front foil as can be see below.
In this way the machine can force hot water 'under pressure' through the coffee pod to make the coffee.
Unfortunately, the ALCAFE INTENSE coffee pods have a rigid indented back so the espresso and Nespresso machine spikes cannot pierce the back and therefore cannot force the water through the capsule properly.
Therefore. If like me you thought that these relatively cheap ALDI coffee cartridges were compatible with your Nespresso machine as they come out of the packet, they are not. This is a shame as it appears to be good tasting coffee.
Luckily for me, my machine appears to have a pressure failsafe mechanism built into it, and when it could not force the hot pressured steam through the capsule, it pushed it into the capsules catching tray inside the machine. It dealt with the safely.
The next question is what to do with the other remaining 18 x capsules now my Dog Bree has very efficiently chewed up the boxes, I don't think I can take them back loose ;-)
I hope you find this Blog entry useful. I certainly have. Rest assured I will think up a suitable fixed1t solution to use the spare 18 pods.
If these are no longer in ALDI as it may have been one of their 'One Off' sales. I now have the KRUPS Nespresso Inissia and love it:
Its cheap small and easy to use, I'd throughly recommend it and my #fixed1tMONEYSAVINGtips make it all the better as can be seen in my fixed1t YouTube playlist
Nespresso coffee pod style machines are expensive to run with coffee capsules in boxes of 10 and for the majority of cases, always expensive. There are a range of machines and makers, the machine I purchased and used in my experiments is the Espressina Pod Machine
Espressina Pod Coffee Machine
The best known coffee machine is Nespresso, from the George Cloon ads fame. They differ from the others in offering a wide range of coffees, with regular marketings of specialist coffees (at specialist prices). Quite often people purchase these machines or are given these machines as presents for the quality of the coffee they produce, but also the convenience of filling it, switching it on, putting in the pod and hitting the button. For people with busy lives they are a welcome relief.
So if the coffee is expensive, and I'm boiling a kettle constantly to make tea, then this machine isn't as useful or functional as I first thought, right? What drew me to this machine was its marketing that it could make coffee and Tea, so I tried some of their tea,
Tespresso - English Breakfast Tea
Unfortunately, I didn't like it. I personally like my tea weak and not full of Tannin, but I found their tea was like water. The fact that they did Tea pods at all, made me think and I decided to experiment, I like experimenting.
So opened up one of the espresso Plastic Coffee Capsules, empty it, and then fill it with tea. I tried this and ended up with a mess.
Then I thought why not just put a tea bag in the pod and put it in the machine
This worked but it wasn't quite as simple as that, as I explain in my video.
I hope you like the video and share it with other people you know with Nespresso Pod using coffee machines. I now make all my cups of tea using this method, its:
quick
reliable
clean
I can throughly recommend it, especially as it saves money on expensive coffee pods.
#fixed1tMONEYSAVINGtips
After getting a lot of capsule leakage from the Espresso Machine.
I now have the KRUPS Nespresso Inissia and love it
Its cheap small and easy to use, I'd throughly recommend it and my #fixed1tMONEYSAVINGtips make it all the better as can be seen in my fixed1t YouTube playlist
and as the answer is applicable across social media I've duplicated it here:
Would any closed/semi closed container work or does cardboard box have some magic in it? And this is my answer:
Hi thanks for the question. Plastic boxes tend to sweat inside and it all goes mouldy, thin paper boxes go soggy if any over ripen, so this sturdy thick box seems to work best. This is its second or possibly its third year. I hope this helps.
I can't believe how many tomatoes are still growing on the plants I planted, and on the wild ones, but with the help of my tomato tip (link at the end of the video) they are ripening well and are delicious. #fixed1tgardening
