Is making iced coffee with Nespresso’s new iced coffee pods necessary?
Sparrows are dropping, sweaty, from the gutter, asphalt is melting under your flip-flops and your ears are drooping from the heat, and yet there are still people ordering a cup of coffee in weather like this. The very idea… Luckily, there’s a way out: iced coffee. As black as your soul, but with cheerfully tinkling ice cubes in the glass.
Tropical coffee
In summer, Nespresso has two new flavors in its pod range: Freddo Delicato and Freddo Intenso. Making iced coffee like this is dead easy. Glass with ice cubes under the machine, press the button, prrrrrrrrrt – and done! If you like, add cold water or cold milk (90 ml). But is special coffee necessary to make iced coffee? Can’t you do it with an ordinary pod?
‘I happened to try it yesterday,’ says the woman from Nespresso customer service. ‘The Intenso, that is, because I do like strong coffee. The flavor is softer and fruitier than the regular pods. But if I’m honest: you can make perfectly good iced coffee with regular pods too.’ And she has a tip: ‘Crush the ice cubes before letting the coffee run over them, and add a splash of coconut syrup. That gives it a tropical feel.’
Difficult questions
Sometimes the choice between dessert and coffee is too complicated to answer. Affogato is the solution: a scoop of vanilla ice cream with hot espresso poured over it – the best of both worlds. We checked: Nespresso doesn’t have a separate coffee for this, so you can use whichever flavor you like.
Twelve hours of patience
Are you a die-hard coffee drinker with an extraordinary amount of patience? Then go for a cold brew. It’s coffee made with cold water that drips very slowly through ground coffee over ten to twelve hours. This gives you super-strong cold coffee, which you then mix with some water, optionally adding a splash of milk and some sugar.
