The BetaMax of coffee machines

A few years ago, on the advice of Don Imus, I bought the Tassimo hot-beverage system, a wonderful little coffee machine which uses pods and has the ability to make a cup of coffee, espresso, latte, cappuccino, chai and even standard tea and hot-chocolate. I’ve been happy with it and it stands in my kitchen as one of my favorite wedding gifts up until I realized that I might be the only person in the entire world to actually have this.

Apparently a few years ago there was a bit of all-in-one coffee-machine war for single-serving coffee types pinning the likes of the Tassimo machine vs. the Nespresso. Both machines are based on a single coffee serving where you put a small plastic pod into the machine to get a single serving allowing everybody in the household or office to enjoy their personal favorite.

Both machines have their strong points with the Tassimo being much more versatile but the Nespresso offering a sleeker design and superior coffee but the issue isn’t really in the individual taste of me the consumer. Well in the time I’ve been away, Tassimo has gotten smoked and nobody I know has one while every-place I look there is somebody flaunting their wonderful Nespresso apparatus.

I’m sure it was pretty close for a while and they were neck-and-neck when I put the Tassimo on my register but apparently there isn’t enough room in this world for both machines and the public has spoken. The message is loud and clear the Nespresso machine has won, which leaves the Tassimo owners stuck in one nasty spot, the BetaMax of Coffee machines. In a country of 300 million people you would figure there is room for two single-serving coffee machines but apparently there isn’t; while you can find the Nespresso pods in every major supermarket, the Tassimo pods are now sold like fat chick-porn, almost exclusively online. In order to dilute the shipping costs of the pods when ordered online I am always forced to buy a ton more coffee so that I’m not paying $5 a cup for coffee I’m making at home. What this basically means is that I place a COSCO size order which when it gets delivered forces me to dedicate an entire shelf in my small kitchen to hold them

So here I am, sitting with my less-than-stellar machine, drinking less-than-stellar coffee which I can’t buy anywhere but at least Don Imus approves….

On No he doesn’t, he got off the Tassimo bandwagon about a week after I got mine and now hawks Nespresso

MLIA