The Secrets of Nespresso Pods - Legendas Bilíngues
Today, we're going to talk about this, the Nespresso Pod, one of coffee technology's greatest success stories.
Nestle was able to build a multi-billion-dollar business turning espresso into a microwave.
It was more convenient,
it was very easy to make,
but it was much more expensive and you could probably make something better yourself from scratch if you had the inclination.
But many people loved the convenience of them and they were suddenly everywhere.
But in 2014 Nespresso lost a patent case against Julett and then suddenly anyone could put their coffee in a Nespresso computer.
And that should level the playing field.
I sure,
not every independent roaster can afford a George Clooney,
but they can afford to buy and roast a much higher quality of coffee than what Nespresso were putting inside the car.
but it wasn't a level playing field.
There's more technology in these things that no one really talks about,
and I wanna get into it today because we can learn from it, and it's just super interesting.
We'll break this down into three parts.
Firstly, we'll talk about the capsule itself.
Then we're gonna talk about the coffee inside it that does things that really don't make any sense.
And then finally,
we're gonna talk about what we can learn and apply from these things into potentially refillable Nespresso pods if you wanna use those,
or just think about our coffee brewing day to day.
So, for comparison, this is the Spusso capsule.
You know, it looks very similar.
You would use them in a machine like this one here.
This is a classic of the genre.
This is the Magimix Inicia.
I think they must have made probably millions of these things.
They're cheap.
They're everywhere.
I them in hotels still, fun places like that.
They're very cheap to make.
They're very easy to use.
But water in the back.
You turn them on.
You load a capsule, you push a button, you get coffee about 30 seconds later from it being cold and off.
So, incredibly quick to use.
But...
the aspects to this that I think are really interesting.
Before we get into it, we should look just quickly at the capsules themselves.
Now, you'll see that these are both aluminum bodied capsules.
They are similar to shape.
They both have a foil lining across the top.
If you look really closely though, you'll see one very small difference on the underside.
And that's here underneath the capsule, sort of rim.
On the Nespresso capsule, you can see a kind of silicon gasket there.
You can't see that gasket on this independently.
Why would that matter?
Well, Nespresso still have the
patent on this little gasket piece here,
and that turns out to be quite necessary to have a good experience with a bunch of machines out there on the market.
Now, if we open this thing up, it will make more sense.
That's what this is.
I took a broken one of these and I've dismantled it so we can understand a bit more about what's going on.
Now when you lift the handle, move it backwards and forwards, you're moving this piece around inside.
But if I take this piece off, things start to make more sense.
When you load a capsule into this machine, it drops down and then you push it in here.
And as you push it back,
Like that the machine pierces the back in three places three little holes in the back of the capsule
That's where it's going to pump water in from now in order to have a good seal
This capsule here must fit very snugly against this piece here
Otherwise water could leak from around the sides of the capsules now
This is an issue for independent pods because they don't have the little silicone to make life even harder for independent capsules,
well, the bit that they sit against on this machine is not a smooth piece.
It's actually got little tiny ridges, almost as if it's designed to leak if there isn't a set of concapula.
I'm not saying that it is.
I'm just saying it's an interesting choice to make it a kind of jagged toothed edge there.
This would give a strong competitive advantage to an espresso capsule in a machine like this because lots of independent capsules would just look leak.
And a leaky pod, well, that's not a good experience.
That doesn't encourage you to go back and buy the same independent capsules again.
It encourages you to stick with Nespresso and keep using those over and over again.
Now the rest of the technology in these machines is really incredibly simple.
You can sort of see what's going on here a little bit more.
This is at the base of your water tank and water is going to get drawn in here through a little flow meter.
This piece here is your pump.
It's vibration pump that makes a lot of noise.
There's a little board on the back and then the last piece of tech really is this little water boiler.
And the real wind for the fact that this thing gets very hot very quickly and that the actual precision of the temperature,
well it doesn't matter that much.
With really high quality specialty coffee you want a pretty narrow band of brewing temperature.
If your coffee is much darker in roast, having it be 80, 85, 90 Celsius.
isn't going to massively impact the taste experience.
You're not going to get released sort of variable acidity or anything like that.
You're going to have a surprisingly consistent experience for a massive variable in your brew temp.
The upside for the user is, well within 30 seconds of thinking about wanting an espresso, they have one in their cup.
And that is a kind of magical experience.
Going back here, if you look down the barrel of this thing, you can see the little prongs that pierce the capsule.
So water gets pumped in there.
And then the other part of the capsule sits against this thing here, this kind of waffily piece.
Now, this is important.
It's common to all independent capsules and espresso,
but the water will pump into the back of this thing here,
but this foil initially will be sealed,
so there will be a period of kind of pre-infusion until the pressure builds so much that the
foil is pressed against the kind of waffling material it breaks and espresso is able to flow out.
And there's nothing very clever after this.
There's just a hole to a little spout that will then drip out of the front here.
and a pressure control device is running like that, they're really very simple.
Now, in response to this issue with the ceiling of the capsules, well, independent businesses took an interesting approach.
This started to make their own kind of independent Nespresso machines that didn't have the same issue.
If you open up this machine,
and you can look and feel inside the capsule sits,
there's actually a sort of silicon gasket that the capsule sits against so that it isn't going to leak.
That, it's very clever, it's very simple, but that's why there's suddenly this push for independent non-nespresso branded, nespresso compatible machines.
This one's a little bit slower to use in terms of getting hot,
which I don't think is a bad thing because I'd rather have some more precision and higher temperatures,
but it's a good example of kind of fixing a weird problem that most people didn't know existed.
But it isn't the only tech in these little caps.
Let's open one up.
As we look into the bottom of these little Nespresso capsules, we'll see one fundamental difference.
You'll see in the bottom of the Nespresso sort of capsule, it looks like there's a bunch of coffee collected and stuck to something.
That is basically a little piece of paper that isn't present in this.
You'll have seen people use them things like pug screens on Nespresso makers,
or even putting a filter paper on top of their Nespresso pug to help distribute the water more easily.
that's basically one more little pattern that Nespresso have that no one else does
that means they can do a better job of distributing the water coming in at those three points.
With this capsule the water will come in at those three points and sort of shoot like three jets of pressurized water through the coffee.
Here that paper will buffer that, help the spread, help the evenness of the extraction and it will help make better tasting coffee.
We get into growing some coffee because that's where things get really interesting and kind of counter intuitive and shocking to my little brain.
I'll start with this, it's the little festive edition Nespresso have out right now.
I do enjoy the truthfulness of their taste descriptor, it has one, it's not serious.
surprisingly it's woody which for the rest of the coffee industry is a straight
up sort of a defect word when coffee raw coffee gets very old it tends to taste
a bit woody so that's a weird thing to promise but I'm sure they'll deliver
the thing I want you to pay attention to is how quickly it brews So fast, so quick.
Let's put in an independent capsule from the specialty roaster and compare and contrast.
So let's talk grind size.
This fast brewing shot, you would think, okay, it's a darker roast.
They're gonna grind it coarser, it'll extract pretty well, and they'll have a fast but reasonably extracted shot.
Specialty coffee needs a finer grind.
It's gonna be a lighter roast.
We've gotta grind it much finer, and that's why this shot is slower.
Turns out you're dead wrong,
completely wrong,
shockingly Now we now have a fancy particle size analyzer here in the studio, so we can actually look at the particle size inside capsules.
And what I found, to me.
This is ground notably finer.
than this one here.
On average, I think the particle size moves between 1 and 200 microns finer.
This is close to a kind of normal espresso grind.
This is actually quite a bit coarser.
In some cases,
people might be grinding independent capsules because if they don't have a good seal,
the more pressure that gets built inside the capsule, the more likely it is to leak.
But ultimately,
if you go finer with specialty coffee with most grinding tech,
you just can't have a pod that doesn't you know,
it would take a minute to two minutes at a grind setting like this because no one has the same grinder tech as Nespresso.
That's kind of it.
That's the interesting piece to me.
Now, we can look in the particle size analyzer and try and see differences in shape.
And you might look at this initially and think, oh, the Nespresso pod has more fines.
It's not only finer and grind, but it's got more fines.
How is that happening?
But if you dive a little deeper, you'll see that it has less fines under 30 microns, which are really fine fines.
And so that seems to be really key in the way that these things brew and extract.
And to be honest,
I still look at that distribution, and I look at the way that they brew, and my brain can't quite match the two things.
so much coarser as a grind setting.
It feel coarser, look coarser.
It is coarser, but it brews so much slower.
Nestle's grinding tech is the best in the world, potentially.
They're able to do combination of shape,
size, distribution, whatever it needs to be, to have this thing brew incredibly fast but also brew with a good extraction.
Now I spoke to one roaster who said okay but this is just a function of darker roasts and you just
you know even Nespresso couldn't put lighter roasts in there and make it work.
This is a light roast challenge they're always going to brew slower but then Nespresso just dropped this ridiculous pod.
So very fancy, look, even get the tasting card specialty, there's nothing they can't steal from us.
Inside here are five pods because it's just, you just want five because they're two pounds 15 each.
If you want to back solve that,
the coffee in here costs Roast and ground, £389 kilo, that's what just under $500 a kilo, and it's from Nestle.
Anyway, this was interesting because we analyse the colour of this thing, something else we can do here,
we look at roast colour on something like an Ectron scale,
and while most Nespresso is much darker than specialty,
this was within one Ectron point of a And yet they were grinding it so much finer.
It's just their tech is just better.
It's just they're better at grinding coffee than anyone else putting coffee in these little capsules.
And that feels unfair, but it is the truth.
We should have a little taste of this, shouldn't we?
Now, that is a little bit slower than the rest of the pods, but it's still pretty quick in comparison to independence.
Let's have a little taste.
First up, woody winter.
You know?
Yes, it's woody.
It's not that much of anything, quite surprisingly.
Let's try an independent specialty pod.
Flavor, sweetness, texture, much better, much more complex, clearly.
you could taste a sort of high quality raw material in there.
Let's compare it to the very expensive Nestle version.
It's sort of a halfway house.
It's not as good as this, but it's better than I thought it would be.
Independent roasters are comfortably out competing them in the format when it But on tech, not even close.
Now from all we've learned, I'm interested in what we can apply to things like reusable Nespresso capsules.
Those are really popular amongst lots of people,
and I think there are things we can definitely kind of patch across in our understanding of coffee technology.
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So let's talk about how we apply what we've learned to the world of reusable Nespresso pods.
Now, I did two things to prepare for this.
Firstly, get my grind right.
I used the particle size analyzer to match my grinder to the Nespresso sort of particle size.
Granted, I have a very fancy grinder in the studio, a Weber EG1, but I wanted to set myself up for success here.
And as you'll see, as I show you a comparison between the two, it's pretty close, but it's not identical.
I don't have the fancy Rolomil grinders that Nespresso do.
I've got a fancy flat-bow grinder, let's see what happens.
And then I bought three different kinds of reusable capsules.
I'll walk you through them.
Firstly, there's these ones here.
It's a metal-bodied sort of capsule.
It does come with a bunch of these little silicon gaskets for the back here.
These fall off, sometimes which is a bit annoying, and I've seen you lose them, so that's what you get extra.
These, when you seal them, you do so with a little kind of sticker foil lid.
Then you've got the kind of cheapest option, which is just a kind of plastic capsule.
It has a little mesh piece that folds over, clips in, and you'd brew it like that.
And then...
interesting approach here.
These ones were metal capsules and metal lids.
It's kind of a sort of straining mesh here, and that kind of little spout piece on the other side.
And that came straight bizarrely with a little tamper.
Surprisingly heavy tamper.
Anyway, let's brew them and see what happens.
Now when it comes to sticking, two things to note.
One, It's quite hard to both stick and potentially peel off afterwards.
I've some issues with that.
And two, it's not a reusable piece.
These are a consumable.
This is one and done.
So good news for the manufacturer.
Less good to use for you who's trying to cut down on waste or, you know, non things.
Anyway, we've got a seal on it now.
And that, I think, is important.
Let's listen carefully.
Now, you may not have known what to listen for, but you can actually hear the sound of
the foiled breaking from the pressure built inside.
That means that this capsule does have a kind of pre-infusion moment before the rest of the brew,
unlike potentially the other capsules that don't.
so there's no opportunity to build the pressure up.
Will that be an advantage?
Obviously, the downside of these things is I will later need to
retrieve the sort of hot, wet, dirty capsule from the capsule bin to clean it, and that's annoying, but that's all of these.
So let's try this one.
Let's go with our metal top and bottom.
The instructions are not hugely clear or detailed.
They say fill the capsule and gently tamp.
It doesn't even fit.
That's another annoyance.
I know why you'd make it so small.
This had the kind of finest filter on the exit from the capsule,
which might be a bit of a sort of a crema-generating device in a funny sort of way,
because this one is a little fomier than I might have anticipated.
But let's start at the beginning.
Give a taste.
To their foil lid.
Your brain assumes it'll be underextracted, but the ratio of an espresso.
your 5, 6 grams of coffee are brewed with 25, 30 grams of water.
That's a really long, lungo-style ratio, and so it is what extractive is just kind of weak.
I wouldn't say it's as good as the independent Nespresso pod.
Let's try the cheapest option.
No.
That under extractive still.
That very channel-y and even.
not enjoyable.
I imagine with a very dark roast you'd maybe get away with it but anything specialty definitely doesn't work for me.
Let's try a little tampt friend here.
It's better than this but it's not as good as this.
It's okay it's a little sour,
it doesn't taste as evenly extracted as It's an interesting world out there,
and if you think about the sort of tech involved,
none of them have the advantage of that better paper at the start, evening out the flow of water through.
Could you put that in yourself?
I'm not sure you should, but you could.
But that foil seal, I think, is a real strong advantage when it comes to better brewing.
And think that's a real place that most of the independent sort of reusable pods fall down.
And I think for most people, considering reusable Nespresso pods at home, they definitely won't have a grinder as capable as this one.
And I think you're really going to struggle with the results.
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