Some coffee pods of sizes I didn't get with the sample pack of 12 assorted pods when I bough the pod machine on Sunday arrived by mail today, from Nespresso direct, you can't get them in the shops. With the arrival of these 80 ml and 535 ml, pods I now have - once the pods have been used then opened and emptied - a wide variety of sizes of reused pods I can use later. I have some food-grade perforated silicone caps that cover the tamped coffee grounds in the recycled pods.
These pods have a circular barcode on the underside of their rim, the codes are read by the machine to determine how much water to force through the ground coffee. The pods are spun at up to 7000 rpm to centrifugally remove the liquid from the pods.
It then drizzles down the sides of the pod and arrives in the cup or carafe with a very thick crema - even with reused pods.
The pod sizes I have will be dispensed as 40 ml, 80 ml, 150 ml, 230 ml, 390 ml and 535 ml.