Madama - Reusable and Refillable Cap Compatible with Nespresso Vertuo and VertuoLine Capsules, Food Grade Silicone. 100% Made in Italy. Pack of 2 Caps

Update 12/03/2024: I have used 2 for one year and half now, and they still work fine (provided I do not overfill the pod, which is not an issue with the caps in themselves) so I am rasing the rating to 5 stars.=======I pulled a few hundreds shots with these, and they are in no worst shape than when they got out of the box.So they are durable.Easy to displace as well, I ended up buyinga second set after misplacing one, but tha tis hardly the product fault.They was well and do not interfere with the barcodes underneath (if you never used one before, these caps are to be used with a recycled nespresso pod. The top film must be removed carefully, a staney knife works well for that, and them tu can reflll with your own coffee and cover with one of these caps before putting it in the machine).The failure rate is low, not more than 10 times over 200 shots, probably less. This is normally due to overfilling the pod or missing to clean the sides.The flavour is not much worst than the original pods, or just the same, dependently mainly on how precisely your grind and fill the pod. I have to say that I am not a huge fan of even the original pods, it is an espresso but not a great espresso anyway. But then I am Italian, so perhaps I set the bar too high.Filling up the pods is easy enough, after some practise, and I do not bother with micro scales and assorted malarkey. If you can fill a moka properly, you can fill this too. It is not like I am pulling espresso on a marzocco or anything..It takes just 30 seconds or less, between emptying the old pod (with the film already removed of course, that takes a few minutes) , washing cap and pod, refilling and covering.The grind is finer than moka, much finer than filter of course, but coarser than espresso. One needs to experiment a bit initially, and to keep a note of the grinder settings perhaps, if used for other grinds too.The reason I am giving it four stars is:- One of the caps came with the edge slightly damaged. It does not seem to affect functionality or durability, but it grinds me a bit because they cost nearly £6 each.- It would be nice of them to include a little transparent measuring cup with grades for the various sizes of pods, that would save some experimenting.Anyway , they need to be filled loosely (even the new pods ar enot too filled, you can hear the coffee moving when shaking them).They save considerable money , I spent £24 on caps, plus £30 on a variety pack, which I did not even finish but it allowed me to test le different kind of pods (the bar codes are different and will yield slighty different results).If buying pods here n amazon, I have already saved nearly £150If buying direct from nespresso, I still saved £70 on the cheapest they do.Finally, the worst cost of using new pods is the amount of waste, particularly if you drink several per day in the family.This eliminates waste entirely

I was a bit unsure after reading a few of the more negative reviews but after a couple of false starts I watched the video and it now works perfectly every time. Pay particular attention to the bit in the video where the coffee is piled loosely, with a central peak. Initially I tamped the coffee down and this did not work - it produced an error in the Nespresso Vertuo Next. Same problem if you don’t put enough coffee in the capsule. You should use one measure in the espresso capsule and two in the mug capsule. Then when you put the lid on this pushes the coffee down enough to compact a little. You then get a perfect, full flavour coffee with a perfect crema!FURTHER IMPORTANT INFO: After several months of making perfect coffee coffe it stopped working. At first I thought it was the machine - had it checked out and machine was OK. After trying different things I noticed that the printing on the outside of the recycled nespresso captule was mostly worn off and after further investigation I found out that the stripes on the inner rim of the capsule are a barcode that tells machine what capsule is in it. New capsule together with the MADAMA - Reusable top and it is now back to perfect coffee every time!

Great and essential device, l’m just working on finding the best coffee to make a latte. The product is environmentally good as well as not too much bother to use.I think the price is outrageous but hopefully not one I’ll have to encounter too often.

It works well with my machine though it is a lot noisier than using the standard pods.Overall I'm happy with the purchase, though not so much with how much it cost for just two bits of silicone

These are good quality lids. They fit the Vertuo capsules nicely. When they work, they work well. However, I’ve found that about 50% of the time the machine stops half way through a cycle displaying a solid red light. This can only be overcome by opening the lid, so that’s the end of the coffee in that pod wasting plenty of coffee. Shame. I’ve used sticky foil lids before which worked really well but I wanted something that produced less waste. These don’t seem to be the solution.Update: after a couple more weeks of using these lids I’ve downgraded to 1 star. My Vertuo machine keeps giving the red indicator light when I use these lids, and is asking for a descale cycle so often the machine is becoming unusable. Perhaps a coincidence but for the 12 months I was using sticky foil lids I had none of these issues. I’d love to return these lids but that window has closed. If anyone wants a couple, I’d happily give them away.

Some years ago I bought a Vertuo coffee machine as we had one at work & I liked the coffee it made and with the vertuo you get a decent sided one too at 230ml. I drink a lot of coffee well I say that but probably about 4 mugs a day so at current pod prices that’s around £3 a day or £21 a week £84 a month. However I like a certain cheap supermarkets Kenyan beans which costs £2.69 for 227g which lasts a week or just over £10 a month saving £70 a month or £840 a year! With a relatively cheap coffee grinder purchased here & these reusable silicon caps I can enjoy good inexpensive coffee at a fraction of the Nespresso price.Easy to use & reuse the original pods time & time again - definitely a good purchase & can’t recommend enough.

Great little product, so I can recycle capsules and save 67p a drink and I can use my favourite coffees, which are not available in the normal capsules. Very easy to use.

At first I thought these were a great way to save some money on coffee. The coffee doesn’t taste as good as the proper Nespresso pods and it comes out a lot weaker. The machine always stops the cycle early and flashes warning lights and then more recently it started flashing to say it needs descaling after each use. I’ve decided it’s not worth risking the machine to save pennies per coffee so I’ll be going back to using Nespresso pods again