Nestle is one of the largest companies in the world for confectionery and bakery products, beverages, baby food, and chocolates. In its very wide range of products there are two lines of capsule coffee machines: one is the advertised Nespresso, a system mainly aimed at the preparation of high-quality coffee with a wide range of blends, the other is Nescafe Dolce Gusto, a system more oriented to the variety of beverages, mostly soluble. Today we talk about the latter machine.
Nescafe Dolce Gusto: The drinks available
Meanwhile, a brief introduction. The capsule coffee machine is increasingly becoming the solution to enjoy one of the most consumed and loved drinks. This is because in many places, such as offices, there is no possibility of having the legendary Moka and a stove on which to prepare coffee classically, nor is there the possibility of using a machine bar type that not everyone knows how to use, and also dirty and requires frequent maintenance. This has led many companies to design a more practical solution to allow everyone, even those who are not at home and cannot go to a bar, to have a good cup of coffee.
It is not only the practicality that determines the success of the capsule machines, there is also the certainty of constant quality of the product (how many times the coffee is ” not good ” using the classic machines with coffee powder?) And, Dulcis in fundo, the possibility of having multiple types of coffee and drinks quickly. Precisely this last feature is at the center of the Dolce Gusto machine, which is proposed as one of the most polyvalent on the market.
Let’s see what you can prepare with Dolce Gusto:
- Espresso coffee: 11 varieties available right now, including 2 decaffeinated
- Long coffee (American): 6 varieties including 1 decaffeinated
- Cappuccino and other drinks with milk
- Chocolate and other ” greedy ” drinks, including milk + Nesquik
- Tea: 5 types including 2 with milk
- Cold drinks: Nestea and Ice cappuccino
At the moment, there are NO capsules available for herbal teas, for barley, for ginseng. We chose to focus a lot on milk drinks, especially cappuccino in its variants (latte macchiato, caffelatte, etc.), which, a very interesting feature, comes out in a few seconds from a single capsule, with abundant and rich foam.
Is coffee good?
The taste test: in reality, as you can easily imagine, a cappuccino that comes from a lyophilized capsule cannot be certainly comparable to one made with real milk steamed and an espresso: let’s say that this is more similar to the one that the Nescafe Cappuccino sachets are obtained with the typical preparations. Not bad, but certainly not ” like in the bar “.
The taste test of the coffee is outdated, even if only the capsules with the most intense blends can rival (staying in the Nestlè house) with Nespresso coffees. Chocolates and various Nesquik are good, but not very different from those that can be prepared with the classic preparations, at much lower costs.
The “Nescafe Dolce Gusto” machines
- Craft – enjoy 20+ different coffeehouse drinks in the comfort of your own home,...
- The tech - professional-grade pressure works together with our Smart Pod technology...
- Customizable – using the new Toggle stick and 8-level LED display, you can control...
Among the common characteristics of all Dolce Gusto capsule coffee machines, there is the extreme simplicity: there is a control lever for the preparation of drinks, the removable capsule holder, the self-extinguishing, the absence of launches steam and the warranty for conformity defects of 24 months.
Capsules and Convenience
Now we come to one of the key aspects of any system of this type: the cost of the capsules! It should be noted that some drinks like cappuccino need two capsules, which makes it double the price.
Nescafe Dolce Gusto: Conclusions
Our final judgment: the machines are beautiful, simple, and cheap. The capsules have a medium-high cost and have a very oriented range to coffee and coffee drinks with milk. We recommend this system for those who do not use it intensively and want extreme convenience in preparing, as well as coffee, even greener drinks.
We do not want to recommend it to those looking for a machine that prepares excellent coffee (for that there is the Nespresso machine), nor to those who make an intensive use (in this case, better to focus on other types of machines that produce the cappuccino with milk fresh).
What convinces us less about this system is that proposing itself not only as a ” coffee machine “, but as a ” machine for hot drinks ” with a wider breadth, the range of capsules available is not well centered on tastes. In particular, some capsules such as tea with milk, flavored cappuccinos, and cold drinks, hardly meet our tastes, vice versa, there are no capsules such as barley, ginseng, and any herbal tea and chamomile, which would be very welcome.
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