Product Description

Nespresso Essenza Manual US Black Model C91 Compact Coffee Brewing Machine

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #556 in Kitchen & Housewares
• Size: regular
• Color: Black
• Brand: Nespresso
• Model: C91-US-BK-NE
• Dimensions: 13.46" h x 10.16" w x 8.07" l, 6.30 pounds

Features

• Compact brewing unit technology,19 bar pressure pump,thermoblock heating element
• Manual volume control, backlit coffee buttons, easy insertion of capusle, ejection of used capsule,
• Capsule container for 14 used capsules, 0.9 liter removable water tank
• Drip tray water capacity
• Power 1260 watts

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Customer Reviews

Most helpful customer reviews

83 of 87 people found the following review helpful.
Only one problem...
By Steven Brown
In my opinion, the coffee made by this machine is as perfect as you can make in approximately the space of time it takes to make instant coffee (and in approximately the same physical space). The noise is also much less than I have heard with some other Nespresso machines.

No doubt if you choose to grind/roast/grow your own beans you can make better espresso, but for the rest of us the quality is near perfection.

The only issue I have is that you are limited in the height of a cup you can fit under the spout. A standard coffee cup fits fine, but if you want to use anything that is much taller, then most cups do not fit - and I prefer to use the espresso capsules to make a big cup. Even my shortest non-coffee cups do not fit unless I jam them in at an angle. An extra 1/4" of height would be nice....

Oh, and buy your capsules from Nespresso.com. The Amazon.com merchants are reselling genuine capsules at a significant markup. Each capsule is somewhere around 50c or so each and while that is not cheap, it is not bad for me. Not mentioned in the product description is you get an assortment of 16 capsules, so you can decide what you like before you place an order.

edit: Maximum cup height; about 3.25"

40 of 40 people found the following review helpful.
nifty little machine
By W. R. Smith
It may not cause you to forget your favorite Italian or French cafe espresso, but this machine comes pretty close, without the airfare and hotel. Easy to use, the Essenza pumps out crema-laden coffee time after time. With a $130 price tag and the capsules that go for $.55 each, you're even financially with Starbuck's after 100 cups, and from there the savings mount up. (A back-of-the-envelope calculation is that if you buy this machine and drink roughly an espresso a day during the first year -- versus going to Starbuck's for the same thing -- you will save over $300.) Moreover, the quality of Essenza's espresso is more consistent than espressos I've had at Starbuck's, Caribou, etc. The only question now is the machine's durability, but for now, after a month of use, I'm definitely sold!

36 of 38 people found the following review helpful.
Great Quality & Great Value
By AndrewDiceSlattery
I have had a nespresso machine for 3 years now at the house. I bought this machine as a second machine for the office. There are now alot of nespresso machines on the market, however my experience with friends who have the more expensive, higher end automatic machines is that the simple manual machine is better. Why is it better ? You can adjust the volume of coffee as you like, or depending what type of cup you are using. It aso tends to be a few degrees hotter than the automatic machines. The automatic machines also add the milk first - I like to add any milk last after the espresso shot has been poured.

Overall, great quality and pricing. Recommended.