Nespresso’s pint-sized Vertuo Pop delivers tasty short and long coffees without the bulk

I’ve been a lot of things in my time writing for Ausdroid – mobile phone reviewer, watch reviewer, sunglasses reviewer, car reviewer and as of this morning, a stick vacuum reviewer also.

Coffee machines almost always come with a skill level, and it was possible to break even the standard Nespresso pod. Not so of the Vertuo Pop, which pops through the new pod style and spits out coffee without effort.

Fancy to look at and well-priced, the Nespresso Vertuo Pop is a handy Vertuo machine for those that don’t have much space. It makes rich and smooth coffee that equals that from the more expensive Vertuo machines, yet this is a machine of compromises: it doesn’t take regular mugs easily and the small...