Nespresso Vertuo Next Coffee and Espresso Maker by Breville, Navy

I have owned more coffee makers than I can probably name. I have (or have had) a french press, an electric percolator, a stove top percolator, moka pot, pour over, Senseo, tassimo. Keurig, mr coffee drip, HB Flex Brew, and many off brand variants of some of the previously mentioned.I like coffee. I prefer darker and bold. But different roasts have their place. Some makers do better with some blends than others are able to do. Some of my methods are manual and others automatic. Lately, I tend more towards the automatic simply because of convenience and speed. No way I'm gonna stumble out of bed on a work day and mess with a moka pot. I want coffee and I want it immediately.So, have owned all these I do have favorites among the one cup variety. The Senseo was my first and it changed how I felt about coffee. It really did make great coffee and the pods(?) started out reasonably priced but then became outrageously expensive (probably not by what we've come to accept today but back then a $1+ each was like paying $5 for gas). Honestly, the one I remember liking the best was the tassimo. Really, nice cup. Very finicky cleaning issues though. I put it up when discs became too expensive, but fortunately about about a year later our local Clearance Outlet had packages for $2 each! I was able to buy 30 or more and use it until it died.I will say I like the Nespresso about as much. I already had the original line Nespresso. We bought the Plus version for my mother-in-law and I got to use it and liked it. I bought the Next because I thought it's be easier to brew the 18oz and split it with my wife with less fuss. In hind sight I would have gone with the Plus. I like the motorized open and close and well the Carafe only has to choices. I tried on and don't want to spend the money to try the other.OTOH, I love all the sampler pack. Awsome sinlge and double espressos all the way up to the "coffee" size.It does get expensive. To help with that I bought the silicone caps for refill. Our usual bean we buy and grind didn't to so hot. I might have to go the final 2 clicks on the "fine" grind setting. But, Cafe Bustello is fabulous - almost a chocolate taste. I get plenty of crema. Actually, the Next makes so much crema we had to get bigger cups just to hold it. Your mileage will vary depending on your likes. I've only had it since Christmas so we haven't been able to try different coffees and grinds yet. There isn't much fuss with refilling your own pods. The most work is cutting off the old foil. I find those coffee scoops that open like tongs and have the funnel shaped top for pouring is exactly the right amount for a "coffee" size refill. Just pour it in and put the silicone cap on. No need to tamp or anything.Hope you enjoy yours as much as I do mine.

I absolutely LOVE my machine. It makes great tasting coffee. Really helped me cut down on my need to get Starbucks or Dutch Bros. However after getting this machine for Christmas last year it finally stopped working on me. I cleaned it about once a month and used it basically every day. I read the reviews that the machine breaking is a common occurrence so when it happened to me I was disappointed I was going to be stuck ordering a new one. I contacted support today and he confirmed my machine can’t be saved. I never registered by machine so I thought I was out of luck with any kind of warranty however support took care of all of that for me. I now have a brand new machine coming my way thanks to support helping me out. So although the machines longevity sucks the company by far makes it worth it!

This is an awful product. It randomly stops working, just spins a little bit after you press the button, light on top blinks orange twice, and then light returns to normal white mode but nothing else happens. If you open the top to see what's going on, it dumps out your unused $1/apiece coffee pod. Try again with a new one if you feel lucky.The device is sensitive to all kinds of problems--spinning parts get stuck, errant coffee grounds block the bar code reader, water line gets clogged, etc. The only way the machine communicates to you is through that blinking or non-blinking, white or orange light. There are far too many failure modes for such a simple interface, so suddenly instead of drinking coffee you have a research problem on your hands. You've got time for that, right? You didn't just run down to the kitchen for a cup of coffee five minutes before a business call. Nespresso is a luxury brand. Its use requires leisure and reflection.Open up the documentation and you are confronted with a ridiculously complex set of troubleshooting steps. Maybe you need to buy a special descaling kit--or maybe not, who knows? Maybe you need to do a cleaning cycle. Maybe, as online videos will tell you, you need to unplug it, turn it upside down, and rotate the stuck pod rotation mechanism. Or some people tell you to get out a toothbrush and clean the area where the pod sits. Another says to close the pod head just so, then use the locking lever to finish closing. None of this worked for me. And I'm damned if I'm going to call an 800 number and spend God knows how much time on "your call is important to us" and "we are experiencing unusual call volume." It is a freaking coffee machine, not a laptop computer.Here's my suggestion if you get the two orange blinks (and if Google is any indication, you will): Unplug the machine, drain the water tank, carefully pick up all the parts and all your unused coffee pods, walk to the nearest trash receptacle, and throw it all inside. What? You say you paid $145 for this thing just a few months ago, and you paid $30 an order for pods? Well, education is expensive these days. And honestly the coffee isn't all that great even when the machine works.

This looks super nice in my kitchen is fast and good quality the cofee smell great the temperature goes high super fast and the coffee comes out like a fancy drink