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Binding: Kitchen
Brand: Ecopad
Color: red
EAN: 8717472190109
Item Dimensions: 502006200
Label: IKSL BV
Manufacturer: IKSL BV
Model: Ecopad
Publisher: IKSL BV
Studio: IKSL BV
Features:- Dishwasher safe
- Use any ground coffee
- Environment-friendly
- Preserves the rich creamy foam
- Improved over older discontinued blue ecopad
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Editorial Review:
Product Description:
The refillable, reusable coffee pad for the Senseo coffee machine. This is the new Brown unit (replaced the older and discontinued blue ecopad). The patented Brown Ecopad is environmentally-friendly and has many advantages, like: Your favorite brand coffee at a low price. Works with finely ground teas. Handy when you're out of paper pads. Long life and durable. Dishwasher safe.
Average Rating: 
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I originaly ordered just two of these to try out for a few weeks to see if I liked them. I liked them so much I gave one to a friend of mine to try also. Both of us have had very good luck using them. I have experimented with differant brands of Coffee to see which I like best I for the most part love a full flavor coffee so after about 2 months of using them I will stick with the expresso beans. I am buying the type at the grocery store where you can grind your own. I have also tried different grinds and the one that works best is the expresso grind which is very fine. The grinders that I am using have two grinds for espresso I use the coarser of the two. This works great without any problems at all.
I don't pack the coffee in the ecopads I just fill them and level it off with the back of the spoon I am using. If you try to pack the coffee to tightly you machine may not finish brewing with shutting off first.
The only downsides verses using the Senseo pods are, the Ecopads are a bit messy as you have to wipe the counter off after filling the pads. That is the one thing I like more about the Senseo pods.
If you would like to save money on coffee this is a great product.
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New Improved Brown Ecopad, the Refillable Coffee Filter for the Senseo
I'm really loving this product!
I use mine for both coffee and loose-leaf tea.
Following the instructions that come with the Ecopads, I grind my coffee to espresso or to Turkish coffee grind. One Tablespoon of finely ground coffee gives me a full-bodied, full-flavored mug with no bitterness.
One teaspoon of loose-leaf tea gives me an excellent mug of tea in a fraction of the time it takes to heat water and then steep tea.
I also have a Pod Maker, which gives me variety in my Senseo, but I've lately had problems getting refill pods for it.
The Ecopad allows me the convenience of my Senseo, the wider variety of hot beverages that I enjoy and doesn't require refills.
I will say that my husband chooses to to continue to use pre-made pods, as the Ecopad has to be taken out of the Senseo and opened immediately after use, otherwise the expansion of the coffee will cause the filter material to separate from it's housing. My husband has a habit of forgetting he's made coffee and leaves the pod and the coffee mug sitting in the Senseo until I come along - sometimes hours later - and find both, ice-cold, in/on the Senseo. So if you have an absent-minded professor wandering around your house you may want to consider sticking to the pre-made pods or using a Pod Maker.
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I like being able to use any coffee I buy either ground or whole beans (then grinding of course) and using it in the Senseo. It's a little tedious so if you like being able to just pop a pod in the Senseo and have coffee in 30 seconds then this will not be for you. The solution behind this is to buy a few of these and make them in advance...Tastes great too. Sometimes water will leak out just a tad when you open the top of the Senseo...
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Out of all the alternatives to coffee pods, I have found the "Ecopad" to be the best simulation of the cup of coffee produced by use of the coffee pod. Nearly the same rich foamy, frothy top to the cup of coffee itself which is the whole reason I have gone this direction in coffee making. This is the best of all the alternatives to coffee pods provided by the coffee maker company, and I get to use my favorite coffees.
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I have my Senseo almost a year (just found out is being recalled - please check yours! [...] ). Anyway before finding out about the recall I started having trouble finding the only coffee pod I like, Sumatra. It was no longer in any grocery or other retail store in area and even Walmart shiptostore no longer carried. Tried every other non-flavored pod I could get my hands on locally and none were acceptable. There are still places on the web but didn't want to spend even more for what is expensive coffee already. Figured I would try this and would use espresso fine grind as recommended since I like a strong cup. Well, I tried both regular espresso grind and a very fine grind. Both expensive enough that it wouldn't be much cheaper than the packaged pods even. Tried one cup (with an empty just water run first to get everything hot), one-cup twice for a mug full, and two cup setting. The coffee varied from mediocre to impossible to drink. For the most part, I get brown water with a foaminess (not foam on top, more a "general" foaminess) You can tell when it is coming out, after first blast, it is hardly colored anymore. And no coffee aroma. The best results are packing as tightly as possible with the finest grind and using one cup setting (running without pod first to heat everything up and having fresh water in it rather than what was sitting in boiler since yesterday).
That result, however drinkable, is not worth the mess. And what a mess. I knew the pods would be a little messy to fill and figured it would be the price to pay for this being cheaper than buying pods on the web. But the mess to empty! Yikes. Now I remember why I got the Senseo in the first place. To not go through the mess of grinds to deal with. And very fine espresso grinds packed tightly into the pods are very messy indeed to clean out. More like dirt. I don't have a garbage disposal so this is awful. Not only do I have the dry grounds mess filling, I have the wet mess disposal to deal with.
For now I have bought the Sumatra on the web. And will use that until the replacement machine comes. Since that machine is black (that is all they are giving in exchange for recalled machines) and mine is red (the other reason I bought it!). I think I will sell the black one unused and get myself a Keurig. Senseo is too much trouble and whether the Sumatra pods have become difficult to find because they are maybe closing up? Or if it is just being phased out, I can't find a coffee I like in their line anymore so why go on with this.
If you are into very watered down coffee, the ecopads are an option for you. To me it is too much mess for nothing.
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