hey everyone, welcome back to a2b and
today we're just talking about the weight of Nespresso capsules and how much coffee you
actually get in them because a recent viewer left a comment asking how much coffee do you
get out of one of these capsules and the reason he wanted to know is because he wanted to know
when you go to Starbucks or Costa when they say are you get a
venti coffee and they add three shots to it how does that relate to a Nespresso pod? Do you get
two shots out of a pod or do you get one shot or three shots? So I just thought I'd answer that
question and also I thought if you've come to this video through search and you're thinking how
much coffee is in it, you might also want to know literally the weight how many grams of coffee come
in a capsule because you might be comparing it to say like a bag of filter coffee and how much you
use in a scoop of that, or the other reason I thought you might have been interested in is
you might want to know the caffeine content and so we'll just talk a little bit about that now, the
first one how many shots of coffee do you get out of a nespresso pod well your average nespresso pod
say this one here, that will give you one espresso shot some people try to run them through twice but I
wouldn't recommend it, it tends to end up making your coffee taste not very nice so that will
give you like one espresso shot and so if you went to Starbucks and you were getting the venti
coffee and it had three shots in it you're going to need three of these capsules and that's on the
original machine on the vertuo machine they do have a double espresso capsule so that's
the only exception to that but in general it's one per capsule however if you like a long
stretched out coffee and that's the type that you like and prefer then they do a lungo
capsule as well and so, which one is a lungo? I think is this one, yeah that's an envivo
lungo and that gives you a 110ml coffee instead of a 40ml coffee but that's not the
kind where you would get a shot from Starbucks that's a different type of coffee completely,
so one shot equals one pod as a rule with the OriginalLine machines, I'll just grab
some vertuo pods now we'll just pop them on top just to show you the difference so this is
the double espresso pod but on the vertuo they also do like mug size coffees and so that gives
you a full mug of coffee a 230ml coffee out of one pod but they're more expensive because as
you can see, even on that there's more coffee in them and so these mug sized coffees are more
expensive than like a double espresso or a single espresso on the vertuo and they are
definitely more expensive than just the single ones on the original machine.
So I hope that's
answered the first part of the question of how much coffee you get in relation to how many shots
per pod. So let's go to the second part of the question and we'll think about how many grams of
coffee are actually in it, in one of these little original pods here, if it's an espresso
sized pod you get about 5 grams in that of coffee if it's a lungo pod it's more like
6 grams of coffee you might think that doesn't relate to the difference in size of cups you might
think that it should be at least double the size or triple the size even for a lungo, well that's
not the case because it's more to do with the type of coffee that's in the pod which
allows it to brew a 110 ml coffee with just a small pod still, so don't worry about that.
Okay
so let's have a quick chat about the caffeine content in these capsules then, so on the original
range the caffeine content goes from around 40 grams of caffeine per capsule up to 130 and on the
vertuo it's about 60 to 100 milligrams of caffeine per capsule and I actually went online and asked
nespresso a question about this because I wanted to know the individual ones for say each capsule
like how much was in a ristretto or how much was in kazaar but they couldn't give me an answer for
some reason, I don't know why but they gave me the range but I did read online somewhere don't
quote me on this it's probably the Kazaar that has the most caffeine in it, just in case
you're after one, a high caffeine capsule but that's just something I read online so it could be
true, it could not so how does that actually relate in real terms to say a normal cup of instant
coffee? Well they're saying that an average 5 gram Nespresso capsule coffee
will contain around 65 milligrams of caffeine so how does that compare to other things? Well a
cup of filter coffee this is from the Nespresso website an average cup of filter coffee will
contain around 75 milligrams of caffeine a mug of instant coffee around the hundred milligrams of
caffeine a cup of tea around 50 milligrams a can of coke or a standard coke drink 40 milligrams and
a standard energy drink about 80 milligrams of caffeine and a dark chocolate bar surprisingly up
to 50 milligrams of caffeine so that kind of shows you how much caffeine is in each of these capsules
so I just thought, I added that into the video because I thought that might be something that you
want to know and that maybe you were thinking coffee and meaning caffeine so hopefully
we've covered the three areas there where you could end up wanting to know how much coffee
is in a nespresso pod and so what I'll do now quickly, I'll just make one
for you so you can see the espresso shot coming through so like we said, one of these capsules
will make one espresso sized coffee I'm due a coffee so we'll quickly make one now, I'll go with
this is from the new Italiano range the… I can't even pronounce it, ispirizione but I'll just run one through and you can see how big they are so there we have it, one espresso shot for
one pod or capsule.
So just to quickly recap five milligrams of coffee per pod, one shot
per pod on average for an espresso shot they do a lungo capsule, for vertuo they also
do a double espresso capsule, hope all that information has helped you out and please
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get more tips in future going forward about nespresso check out our playlist
which I'll link to in a minute it's got loads an espresso tips on there, thanks for
watching this video and bye for now.
