Classico

The illy E.S.E. Coffee Pods – Classico Medium Roast are delicious and convenient. The flavor is smooth with rich notes of chocolate and caramel, just like a café-style espresso at home. I love how easy the single-serve pods are to use—perfect for a quick, high-quality cup anytime. The aroma is amazing, and the taste is consistently excellent. Highly recommend for any coffee lover!

Short version: I definitely recommend the Illy ESE pods for pod espresso machines. They create the best pod espresso, and as good as ground espresso made in many coffee shops. After replacing my former espresso machine and being happy with the good espresso it made, I decided to try the included ESE pod portafilter basket. Being dubious of any "pod", I purchased pods from a variety of manufacturers. Most were "ok", but noticeably less crema and a bit harsher. The Illy ESE pods were dramatically better. Looking for a smoother flavor profile, I tried the Classico Medium Roast. The first cup was so good I thought it was a fluke. After finishing a box of pods, I have several observations: 1. The packets keep the espresso fresh. I have not had a single pod less than fresh. 2. Tamping can adjust the flavor. Without tamping it is a nice smooth medium with crema. Tamping increases the time to extract, and therefore make it progressively stronger. 3. Single serves are single shots. You can run a second pod to make a double, but cannot use the "double" selection of the espresso maker. 4. For making an espresso martini, it is perfect! One pod per martini. I am exceedingly happy with the Illy ESE pods, and continue ordering boxes

It does fit properly to a espresso portafilter. Coffee taste is very good because it is an Illy product. However there's not too much crema. All in all highly recommended as it is easy to discard the pouch. No mess which is a big plus!

Consistently a good americana every time! So easy to use.

Excellent coffee at a great price

From all accounts this is a phenomenally good tasting product. Unfortunately, I was not able to enjoy the taste, because I thought I was, as the label states, buying PODS, not PADS. In my understanding, PODS are plastic cups inserted in to coffee making machines that automatically handle the temperature, speed of processing and amount of coffee generated. What this product is, is apparently, a PAD, a term I've never heard before referring to ground coffee contained in a cloth sachet. SACHET is a term I've heard for a cloth container for a granulated or refined substance such as a SACHET of lavender. Now I'm trying to find out if I can boil these pads in hot water

Considering that it is pre ground, pre packed, vacuum packed coffee that was roasted thousands of miles away, probably several months ago, this stuff is pretty darned good. That classic northern Italian/ Venetto style medium roast that does not taste like charcoal and does taste like coffee, and amazingly, throws a pretty decent crema. Illy uses an inert gas flush system for all of their packaged coffees- the oxygen is flushed out of the can or pouch and replaced with a gas (nitrogen?) that does not react with the coffee so it does not get stale as it sits in the pack. Next level technology is used- one side of the paper used to make the pod is more porous than the other- the top side (has the Illy logo faintly embossed in it) allows the water to flow from your machine into the coffee easily and unrestricted, but the bottom side is more dense which forces the water to completely saturate the coffee and causes more even extraction. Does all of that stuff work? Yes it does. I challenge anyone to drink a better, fresher coffee with a better crema, brewed from any other pod. I have tried many other brands and I can not. Is it the same as freshly roasted/ freshly ground/ properly tramped? Of course not. You buy these pods for one of two reasons: 1. You are too lazy to buy, grind and brew fresh coffee and want the best possible cup out of your machine with minimal effort, mess and hassle 2. You are a coffee head and realize that you are human thus fallible and will occasionally run out of fresh beans, so you keep these in the cupboard as back-up so you never go without that morning blast. This 18-pack allows you to space out and forget to buy beans 18 times. I am, for the record, #2 in that list.

I dont drink coffee daily. These are a good solution for me.

I really enjoyed the coffee and it was better than expected, it is probably better than preparing the espresso shot using ground coffee and then tamping it down. I love how easy it makes preparing coffee in the morning or throughout the day. The only problem is the price as it gets quite expensive, especially if you make numerous cups of coffee a day.

Schnelle Lieferung, und die Espresso Pads haben einen sehr guten und milden Geschmack!

These are ESE pods and make a nice espresso coffee. Good price for 18 pods.

Très bien et bon

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