"Café Bustelo Espresso Dark Roast Coffee, 10 Count Capsules for Espresso Machines, 11 Intensity (Pack of 4)

Best coffee pods ever for the original Nescafé pixie machines as well as the fancier Nespresso Breville capuchino / late machines. Yes as others have pointed out the capsules and partly plastic instead of all metal like the Nescafé ones but I’ve tried them in both machines above and have even given them to family members and it works fine on all of them. Sometimes they DONT release all the way after being used but I just push the used one down when putting the new one on. The flavor! The aroma! The crema! As a Cuban guy I’ve drank espresso coffee all my life. I own double boiler capuchino machines. And of course the little stove top moka machines that many Spanish and Italians use. This is as close to that as possible in less than a minute. Make it a double if you want. Love it Love it. Wish Pilón Supreme would also make capsules like this. And it is a fraction of the cost of Nespresso capsules. So now I have tons of leftover Nespresso sleeves sitting there while I make these bustelo ones. (Sorry Nescafé, but these are stronger AND more flavorful than even the Cubita capsules).

I have tried almost every offering from nespresso themselves as well as illy, lavazza, and pete's coffee pods. The bustello pods produce the most crema and one of the most well rounded flavor profiles of any of the pods I have tried. The illy pods are tied for flavor but they just don't make the kind of crema that these bustello pods do. The lavazza pods have a tendency to shoot water out before your coffee and get quite a bit of grounds in your shot with weak crema and acrid flavor. The pete's coffee however was the worst of any I have tried, the shots were watery and a pale brown instead of rich brown espresso color and there was little to no crema, they tasted absolutely awful (stay far away from the pete's nespresso pods and buy these or the illy ones trust me)

My husband and I like it better than the nespresso capsules which says a lo because we loved the nespresso capsules. This is not for the faint of heart. It is strong! If you like Starbucks capsules, you'll probably think this one is too strong. However, that's what makes it soooooo good. The taste is smoother, not bitter. It makes a lot more foam (crema) and thicker foam than other capsules. I reccomend you mix it with milk to make yourself a latte if it's too strong. It makes an great latte or cafe con leche.

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Very unfortunate because the coffee itself tastes very good and is strong. The first time i ordered had no issues, so maybe they switched manufacturers or i got it from a different seller that first time. The last 2 times i got them, they came with coffee grounds spilled all over the shipping box. The first time the shipping box was fine but the product boxes themselves were slightly crushed and the coffee everywhere so i thought it was because of shipping issues, so i separated the damaged pods from the good ones and got a refund. This time the boxes were all intact and there was still coffee grounds everywhere. There are several (atleast 6) pods that the seal is faulty and coffee spills. Clearly a low quality product for the pods themselves to come apart when the box is fine. Not worth having to clean up and sort through.

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There's nothing wrong with the packaging - all three layers (yellow box, carton, and shipping box) are all intact. The capsules apparently are not sealed properly, so in transit, they burst. Obviously they are no longer fresh, because they lack a seal. This is the third time that I've had this problem. And to make matters worse, this time the coffee dust went EVERYWHERE in my subscribe and save shipment (you can see the coffee dust on the tape of the carton that the yellow boxes came in - the dust escaped the carton, too). I greatly prefer the taste of Cafe Bustelo, and at least at one point, these were a much better value than original Nespresso capsules. Now, not so much. I've purchased this product over 15 times, but I'm ready to end my subscribe & save and go back to a more reliable product. July, 2023, edited to add: I gave this product another chance because more recently purchased capsules seemed to have arrived intact. Today, I opened a shipment that smelled of stale coffee, and sure enough found more coffee dust inside. All 4 of the packages in the shipment had burst capsules. They're not salvageable. I guess I could look at each capsule and see which have gaping foil covers, and then carefully wipe down the remaining ones to keep the coffee dust from getting into places it doesn't belong in my machine. Worth the effort? I think not. I love the taste of this product, but I have NEVER had this issue with original Nespresso capsules. Cafe Bustelo, you need to do better.

Very good and much cheaper than Nespresso brand capsules. My wife and I performed a blind taste test between Cafe Bustello and Nespresso Arpeggio, both sans cream or sugar. It was very hard to tell the difference, so the test took a while. In the end, we both chose Arpeggio, but the difference was so small we both decided there was a good chance our choices would become random if we did multiple tests. Note in the picture that both have good crema, and the pods worked perfectly in our $99 Nespresso Inissia machine. Cafe Bustello will be our routine purchase from this point forward.