Freeze dried coffee:
- One teaspoonful and maybe a few more granules, just to ensure strength.
- Make sure the hot water fills the mug about halfway to allow for a generuous amount of milk.
- Microwave a jug of whole milk for one minute. I find that my coffee goes lukewarm quite quickly; hot milk prevents that.
Dolce gusto coffee pods:
- If you're using a short mug with this machine, grab something to elevate it so it's close to the pod holder. This is because the machine tends to spit - losing precious milk and coffee droplets which are splattered on your kitchen wall tiles rather than inside the mug. Personally, I use a box of rennies tablets to sit my mug atop.
- Use the milk pod first.
- Use the coffee pod afterwards, as is usually instructed on the box. The cappuccino one recommends about 50ml of water, and the latte machiatto slightly more - well I say FUCK THAT! You want 75 - 100ml of water and I'll tell you why in the next step:
- Stick the coffee pod into the machine and let it run. The extra water helps get as much coffee out as possible but we don't stop there, even after the water's drained.
These are nescafe pods nigga; like most coffee companies they're stingy as shit with the actual coffee so we wanna squeeze these little capsules for everything they've got.
As the machine keeps running, you'll start noticing bubbles emerging from the "empty" pod - delicious, caffinated bubbles. Those bubbles start turning to froth, which pours into the mug. The machine's still whining and the reservoir's empty, but you just gotta let it SQUEEZE those few remaining coffee bubbles of coffee for all its worth.
- You now have a sufficiently coffee-flavoured cappuccino or latte machiatto.