Easy Serving Espresso Pod
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An Easy Serving Espresso Pod, or E.S.E. pod, is a small packed coffee disk with a paper filter covering.
Each pod contains seven grams of coffee compressed into a food safe filter package. The pod is placed where one would normally put the loose grounds in an espresso machine. Created by illy in 1999 as a marketing effort to sell convenience in home espresso preparation, the Easy Serving Espresso system is a brand protected by the Italian Consortium for Development, and is standardized within the industry. Many espresso machines support either pods or ground coffee.
Pods trade-off convenience for a higher price per cup, plus a more limited coffee selection. Also, there is more packaging to waste with pods than with simple coffee beans or ground coffee.
