ESE Espresso Pods

An Easy Serving Espresso Pod, or E.S.E. pod, is a small packed coffee disk (Coffee pod) with a paper filter covering.

Each pod contains seven grams of coffee compressed into a food safe filter package. A double serving contains 14 grams of coffee. Pods are typically 44-45mm size for E.S.E. certified machines, in the past many USA home single-serve brewers use 55mm pods and could not use E.S.E. pods. Today there are many Espresso machines compatible for use of 45 mm diameter E.S.E Espresso standard Pod even in US and Canada.

Note that ESE pods are smaller and more compact than those used in Senseo single-serve coffee brewers. Senseo coffee pods are also larger in diameter.

The pod is placed within a pod adapter in a normal espresso machine or inside the brewing chamber of a pod brewer.

The original use of pod machines in Italy was to relieve designated office personnel from the tedium of continuous espresso brewing for office staff. In later years pod brewers were developed for the home market, and for restaurants and other food service businesses where espresso was not a specialty. The use of a pod brewer eliminated most of the training required to operate conventional espresso machines.