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Espresso Capsule

The espresso capsule began in 1986 with the Nespresso capsules invented by Nestle, which are present in virtually monopoly on the market because Nestle was quick to drop a lot of patents on its Nespresso coffee maker but its capsules from patenting the same round them.

The great advantage of these capsules on flexible dose is much better to preserve the aroma of coffee. Indeed they are made with quality coffee freshly roasted and ground locked tightly vacuum. With a rigorous strength and a metal capsule protects the coffee from air light and moisture, body and taste for espresso is guaranteed equally between each cup. The disadvantage of this system is also the coup much higher per cup is that you required at the manufacturer regarding the proposed tastes, and you also dependent on the commercial success with Nestlé Nespresso. Indeed, if sales were to drop the monitoring and development of this type of product targeted could suffer greatly. Nespresso offers two types of capsules in plastic capsules round and flattened Nespresso Professional with a choice of 6 types of coffee and Nespresso capsules to form higher for its range of classic Nespresso machine with a wider choice of 12 types of coffee.

The second system of espresso capsule urge our market is that Braun with the T-Disc of the Tassimo. This rigid capsule-shaped pod is hermetically sealed to preserve the aroma of the drink until the tasting. Tassimo offers not only doses of coffee but also tea, chocolate or concentrated milk. The underside of the T-Disc presents an opening or pressurized water penetrates through a reverse filter. Thus it is inside the capsule that serves as bedroom percolation, the drink flows directly from T-Disc into the cup. This trick allows you to move and beverage different type without having to clean and safe alter their scent with that of the previous drink. In addition, some T-Disc has a bar code printed that the coffee maker is able to read when inserting the capsule in order to adapt the adjustment of the machine with the preparation of the beverage in question.

The brand Lavazza offers two types of espresso capsule.Les Capsules LAVAZZA Espresso Points are hard plastic and round they are dedicated only to machines in the range Espresso Point. And capsules LAVAZZA Blue plastic more flexible machines dedicated to them Lavazza Blue.

There is also another system of espresso capsule of the mark "Xtreme Espresso Machine" sold in the United States and Canada. They are small and provided with a door-capsule adaptable to any type of coffee 10 bar. These small capsules contain 6g of arabica and robusta. These are not empty but they are packaged for sale in small vacuum packages containing 5 capsules.