E.S.E. Coffee - Single-Serve Pods – Classico Medium Roast - Notes Of Chocolate & Caramel - For E.S.E Machines - Extraordinary Aroma & Body – 18 Count

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!

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.

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

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!

Very good

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

Handy -no measuring & quick to use.

Excellent café, comme en Italie !

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

Good

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

Great coffee at a good price