Before I went to Italy on vacation, I was fine with instant coffee and my electric kettle. I\u2019m no coffee snob \u2014 just get that sweet caffeine into my veins as fast as humanly possible. But during that vacation, where every hotel room had a lil Nespresso machine, I suddenly became an espresso convert. \u201cI\u2019m going to be an annoying espresso person as soon as I get home!!,\u201d I thought. And then I saw how much that cost to do it the \u201cgood\u201d way.<\/p>\n
Twenty minutes of maniacal laughing later, my spouse and I found this early Black Friday<\/a> deal last week for the De\u2019Longhi Nespresso Vertuo Plus<\/a> coffee and espresso maker that\u2019s still going on. At it\u2019s regular $169 price tag, I\u2019d have stuck with my dirty water. But Amazon<\/a> has it at $110, a 35 percent markdown. For that price, I was game. Especially because it can do both coffee and espresso, depending on the pods you get. Each purchase also comes with a sampler box so you can figure out what you like.<\/p>\n Isn\u2019t this just a fancy Keurig? Yes, it is. But the extra fancy has been worth it over the last few days. Keurigs make coffee that, in my opinion, taste like doo-doo water (editor\u2019s note: I\u2019ll allow it) and this gadget produces coffee that tastes better for less effort and money. (My favorite coffeeshops near the office now charge $10 per cup, sob.) I had reservations over the environmental impact of using pods, until I saw that Nespresso has a recycling program. Right now, I\u2019m sipping on a delightful maple-and-pecan flavored coffee while my spouse just threw back a double espresso shot. I like it so much, I volunteered to spread the good word and write this deal.<\/p>\n Some of y\u2019all may scoff. But again, I\u2019m lazy and this gets me maximum flavor for minimum effort. If that\u2019s you, too, then I swear. This machine? That\u2019s that me Nespresso, baby.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Before I went to Italy on vacation, I was fine with instant coffee and my electric kettle. I\u2019m…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":290433,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[73079,84,979,786,59,56,54,55,104804],"class_list":{"0":"post-290432","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-black-friday","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-deals","11":"tag-gadgets","12":"tag-gb","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-unitedkingdom","16":"tag-verge-shopping"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290432\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/290433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}