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    "title": "L'Or Nespresso Compatible Espresso Ristretto Aluminium Coffee Intensity 11, 10 Capsules",
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    "excerpt": "L'Or Nespresso Compatible Espresso Ristretto Aluminium Coffee Intensity 11, 10 Capsules is the strong end of the L'Or range in a ten-capsule box, sealed in aluminium for a Nespresso Original machine. Ten is a trial quantity rather than a restock. Picked into the Teas.co.uk selection as the short, dark box to find out with.Machine check: these fit Nespresso Original machines. They are not Vertuo capsules and will not work in a Vertuo, which takes only its own barcoded capsule.Ingredients and dietary suitability: roasted ground coffee only. Check the current UK pack before purchase; formulations, certification marks and allergen advice can change.A ristretto is the same coffee as an espresso stopped early, at about 25ml. Intensity 11 is L'Or's own scale for roast depth and perceived strength, not a caffeine rating. The shelf price for this box moves about, so the price in your basket is the price.Curator notes: the tasting profile is our own editorial assessment against the current pack format and the brand's published description. We run same-day UK dispatch on every order placed before 2pm Monday to Friday.",
    "content_text": "L'Or Nespresso Compatible Espresso Ristretto Aluminium Coffee Intensity 11, 10 Capsules is the strong end of the L'Or range in a ten-capsule box, sealed in aluminium and made for a Nespresso Original machine. Ten capsules is a trial quantity rather than a restock quantity: a fortnight of a shot every other morning, or a second, stronger style kept beside your usual one without opening another large box.\n\nTwo words on the front of it are doing real work. Ristrettois the first, and it does not mean a different coffee from an espresso. Intensity 11is the second, and it means less than people assume.\n\nThe Taste Profile\n\nRoast Depth: \u25cf\u25cf\u25cf\u25cf\u25cb (4/5) Dark. The roast is taken far enough to put roasted cocoa and dark caramel at the front of the cup rather than fruit.\nBody: \u25cf\u25cf\u25cf\u25cf\u25cf (5/5) Syrupy and dense. Intensity 11 in 25ml of water is about as concentrated as a domestic machine gets.\nBitterness: \u25cf\u25cf\u25cf\u25cb\u25cb (3/5) Cocoa-like and short. A restricted shot stops before the drying, bitter tail of a long extraction arrives.\nAcidity: \u25cf\u25cf\u25cb\u25cb\u25cb (2/5) Low. There is a flicker of brightness under the cocoa, but the build is depth first.\n\nTeas.co.uk Curator Rating: 4.7 / 5 - Our expert verdict from the curators at Teas.co.uk\n\nThe Story Behind L'Or\nThe range is built to be chosen off a supermarket shelf in ten seconds, with named profiles running from a long, gentle lungo up to this ristretto, so a customer can pick by strength without learning a new vocabulary first.\nAbout compatibility: these are sold as compatible with Nespresso Original machines, and the claim is L'Or's own, printed on the current UK pack, rather than ours. They are not Vertuo capsules and will not work in a Vertuo machine, which reads a barcode on the rim of its own capsule and takes nothing else. That distinction catches people out regularly, so it is worth checking which system you own before ordering.\nThe price in your basket at checkout is the price you pay, and it is the only figure we will stand behind.\nPackaging: Follow the current UK pack and your local-authority guidance. Aluminium capsules are widely recyclable, but almost never through the ordinary kerbside bin with the coffee grounds still inside them, and the carton and the capsules usually take different routes.\n\nWhat Intensity 11 Does And Does Not Mean\nThe number on the box is L'Or's own scale, not an industry measure, and it is not a caffeine rating. It is a shorthand for roast depth and perceived strength that lets a shopper rank one box against another in the same range. Eleven puts this capsule at the upper end of what L'Or sells, and in practice that reads as a darker roast, more body and more cocoa bitterness than the middle of the range.\nWhat it cannot tell you is how the cup will land, because that depends on volume as much as on roast. The same coffee at 25ml and at 110ml is two different drinks, and an 11 spread across a long cup would read far gentler than this does in a demitasse. The number and the format have to be read together, which is exactly why L'Or prints both.\n\nHow Does This Compare to:\n\n \n L'Or Espresso Lungo Profondo: the opposite build. A lungo is dosed and ground for roughly 110ml and is what you want if you drink coffee by the mug. This capsule stretched with water gives a weak long black rather than a strong one.\n The decaffeinated ristretto in the same range: the same short, dark shape without the caffeine, for the cup after dinner. A useful pair if you want one style of coffee all day.\n\nIdeal Brewing Conditions\nThe machine does the extraction here, so the only variables left to you are the button, the cup and the state of the machine.\n\nThe Straight Ristretto\n\nButton:Use the ristretto setting if your machine has one, at roughly 25ml. If it does not, start the espresso button and stop it by hand at about half the usual volume.\nWarm the cup:Run a blank shot of hot water into the cup and tip it out first. Twenty-five millilitres has almost no thermal mass, and a cold cup takes most of it.\nFresh water:Empty and refill the tank rather than topping it up. Water that has stood for a week is the commonest reason a capsule tastes duller than last time.\nDrink it promptly:The crema falls away within a couple of minutes and the aromatic top of the cup goes with it.\n\nThe Milk Build\n\nSmall drinks first:A cortado or a piccolo is where an 11 at 25ml is at its best, because the coffee is concentrated enough to read clearly through 60ml of milk.\nTwo capsules for a mug:For a full mug of milky coffee, two short shots beat one long one. Dilution and strength are different problems and only one of them is solved by adding water.\nTemperature:Steam the milk to about 60\u00b0C. Hotter and the milk loses its sweetness and starts to taste cooked, which no amount of good coffee underneath will fix.\nIced:Pull it short straight over ice, then top with cold milk. A short shot is the only kind that survives a glass of melting ice.\n\nGetting A Consistent Cup\n\nDescale on schedule: scale lowers the water temperature at the group more than it restricts the flow, so a scaled machine under-extracts quietly rather than failing loudly.\nKeep the capsules sealed: leave them in the carton until the moment of use; the individual seal is the entire preservation system.\nEmpty the capsule bin: a full bin is the most common reason a capsule fails to seat and pierce cleanly.\nFiltered water: in a hard-water area a filter jug does more for the cup than changing capsules will.\nDo not re-run a used capsule: the second pass gives you the bitter tail of the first extraction and nothing else.\nCaffeine note: the intensity number refers to roast depth and perceived strength, not caffeine. This is a regular caffeinated coffee.\nBest with: dark chocolate, an almond biscuit, or on its own after a meal.\n\nIngredients And Suitability\nWhat is in it:roasted ground coffee in a sealed aluminium capsule, and nothing else. No added flavourings, no sweeteners, no preservatives.\nIngredients and dietary suitability: Check the current UK pack before purchase; formulations, certification marks and allergen advice can change.\nNet weight: the figure is printed on the current pack.\n\nCaffeine:contains caffeine, and a short shot concentrates it into a very small cup rather than removing it. Not one for late in the evening if you are sensitive, and worth moderating during pregnancy in line with current NHS guidance.\nChild Safety:Keep hot drinks, capsules and the machine out of reach of children.",
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                "title": "Product Questions",
                "content": "Will these fit my machine?They are sold as compatible with Nespresso Original machines. They are not Vertuo capsules and will not work in a Vertuo, which reads a barcode on the rim of its own capsule and takes nothing else. That distinction catches people out regularly, so check which system you own before ordering. The compatibility claim belongs to L'Or and is printed on the current UK pack.What does Intensity 11 mean?It is L'Or's own scale, not an industry measure, and it is not a caffeine rating. It is shorthand for roast depth and perceived strength, letting you rank one box against another in the same range. Eleven sits at the upper end of what L'Or sells. It cannot tell you how the cup will land, because that depends on volume as much as roast.What does ristretto mean?It means restricted. A ristretto is not a different coffee from an espresso, it is the same coffee stopped early, at roughly 25ml instead of 40ml.What does it taste like?Dark rather than bright. Roasted cocoa and dark caramel lead, the body is syrupy for its size, and the finish is a short cocoa bitterness that clears rather than drying the mouth. There is a flicker of acidity underneath, but the build is depth first.Does it work with milk?Better than most capsules, because concentration is exactly what survives milk. A cortado or piccolo is where it shines. For a full mug, use two short shots rather than one long one: dilution and strength are different problems, and only one of them is solved by adding water.Are the aluminium capsules recyclable?Aluminium is widely recyclable, but almost never through the ordinary kerbside bin with the coffee grounds still inside. Follow the current UK pack and your local-authority guidance: the carton and the capsules usually take different routes, and kerbside rules vary more on capsules than on almost any other packaging.Why aluminium rather than plastic?Aluminium is an absolute barrier to oxygen and light, which is why a sealed capsule can sit in a cupboard for months and still taste close to the day it was filled. It also holds its shape under nine bars of pressure, so water passes through the coffee bed evenly instead of finding a path around the edge. Plastic is permeable by comparison and deforms more readily.What is the net weight of the box?Inventing a weight would be worse than leaving the question open. The net weight is printed on the current UK pack, and the 40-capsule box of the same profile states 208g.Why buy ten rather than forty?Because ten is a trial quantity: a fortnight of a shot every other morning, or a second, stronger style kept beside your usual one. The forty-capsule box of the same profile is the sensible restock once you know you like it, and it costs less per cup.Is it decaffeinated?No. This is a regular caffeinated coffee. The intensity number refers to roast depth and perceived strength rather than caffeine, which is a common misreading. There is a decaffeinated ristretto in the same range if you want the shape without the caffeine.My shot is running short or tasting dull. Why?Three usual suspects, in order. A full capsule bin stops the capsule seating and piercing cleanly. Scale lowers the water temperature at the group, so the machine under-extracts quietly rather than failing loudly. And water that has stood in the tank for a week tastes of the tank.How should I store them?In the carton, somewhere cool and dark, and sealed until the moment of use. The individual seal is the entire preservation system, so a decorative open capsule rack looks good and does the coffee no favours. Go by the best before date printed on the pack."
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                "title": "Ingredients & Nutrition",
                "content": "ComponentProportionWhat it bringsRoasted ground coffeethe entire contentsThe whole product. Nothing is added: no flavouring, no sweetener, no preservative. The roast is taken deep enough to put cocoa and dark caramel at the front rather than fruit.Grind and doseset for a ristrettoThe reason this is not simply an espresso capsule used differently. Both are chosen for an extraction of roughly 25ml, which is why the cup is syrupy at that volume instead of thin.Aluminium capsule10 per cartonAn absolute barrier to oxygen and light, and rigid enough to hold its shape under nine bars so the water passes through the bed evenly rather than round the edge.Pack contents10 capsulesTen short shots. A trial quantity rather than a restock; the 40-capsule box of the same profile costs less per cup.Pack: L'Or Nespresso Compatible Espresso Ristretto Aluminium Coffee Intensity 11, 10 Capsules; caffeinated coffee capsules for Nespresso Original machines. Go by the best before date printed on the pack.Characterising components shown; the coffee is the entire contents and the capsule is the packaging.Sourcing & blend. L'Or Nespresso Compatible Espresso Ristretto Aluminium Coffee Intensity 11, 10 Capsules is put together by L'Or, the capsule and pod arm of the Jacobs Douwe Egberts group. The range is named by profile rather than by origin, running from a long gentle lungo up to this ristretto, so a customer can pick by strength without learning a new vocabulary. Compatibility with Nespresso Original machines is L'Or's claim, printed on the current UK pack, rather than ours.What's in this box, and what isn't:In: roasted ground coffee in a sealed aluminium capsule, and nothing else.No artificial colours, flavourings, sweeteners or preservatives: this is plain coffee, and any sweetness in the cup is the roast rather than an addition.Not a Vertuo capsule: Nespresso Original fit only. A Vertuo machine reads a barcode on the rim and will not take these.Not decaffeinated: the intensity number refers to roast depth and perceived strength, not caffeine."
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                "content": "The flavour of L'Or Espresso Ristretto Intensity 11 is built in three layers, and reading them in order explains why a short shot from a dark capsule tastes sweeter than a long one pulled from the same coffee.The outer layer is aromatic, and in a capsule system it is released all at once. The grinding and the sealing happen in the same moment at the factory, with the oxygen pulled out before the lid goes on, so the aromatic compounds that ordinarily start escaping within minutes of grinding are still in the coffee when the machine pierces the capsule. That is the whole reason the format works at all. What lifts with the steam is roasted cocoa and dark caramel, strongest in the first thirty seconds. A ristretto carries less water than any other coffee drink, so it fills the room less than it fills the cup, and the crema falling away is the visible sign of the aromatics going with it.The flavour spike arrives almost immediately, because 25ml has no long middle to travel through. Extraction is a sequence rather than an event: the first water through the bed takes the most soluble compounds, which are the sweet and the acidic ones, then comes body and the cocoa-and-caramel register, and only at the end do the dry, woody, bitter compounds appear. Stopping at 25ml takes the first two stages and declines the third. At an 11 on L'Or's scale the middle is dense and faintly syrupy, sweeter than most people expect from something this dark, and it is the part of the cup most affected by how hot the machine is actually running.The base structure is the finish, and the short pull shows its advantage here. The cocoa bitterness arrives, sits briefly and clears, rather than drying the mouth and staying the way the tail of a long shot does. That clearing is the practical difference between a deep roast and a burnt one: a burnt cup goes ashy and lingers, this one goes clean and resets. It is also why the capsule works under a small amount of milk, where the concentration is still legible through 60ml rather than disappearing into it.Getting it right in the cup. Use the ristretto button at about 25ml if your machine has one, and if it does not, start the espresso button and stop it by hand at roughly half the usual volume. Warm the cup with a blank shot of hot water and tip it out first, because 25ml has almost no thermal mass and a cold cup takes most of it. Empty and refill the tank rather than topping it up, since water that has stood in a plastic tank for a week is the most common reason a capsule tastes duller than it did last time. Drink it promptly. For milk, keep the drink small: a cortado is where an 11 at 25ml is at its best, and for a full mug two short shots beat one long one, because dilution and strength are different problems and only one of them is solved by adding water.How water and temperature change it. The same capsule gives a measurably different cup depending on the state of the machine and the water in it, and a ristretto shows the difference sooner than a long drink because there is nothing to hide behind. Scale is the quiet one: it lowers the water temperature at the group more than it restricts the flow, so a scaled machine under-extracts steadily rather than failing outright, and a short shot from it reads thin and sour long before anything looks wrong. Hard water flattens what little brightness this roast has and can leave a chalky edge, so in a hard-water area a filter jug does more for the cup than changing capsules will. Letting the shot run past 25ml adds water at exactly the point where the bitter tail starts to come through, which is the one change that reliably makes an intensity 11 worse rather than gentler. None of this is a fault in the coffee; it is the same capsule responding to the machine you put it in, and once you know where you like the shot stopped the result is repeatable every time."
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                "content": "Five builds below cover the straight shot, two milk drinks, a cold one and an affogato.\nWays to brew it, worked out here first\n\n \n The Straight Ristretto\n \n How to make The Straight Ristretto with L'Or Espresso Ristretto Intensity 11.\n \n 2 min\n 1 cup\n Easy\n \n \n \n You'll need\n \n 1 L'Or Espresso Ristretto Intensity 11 capsule\n Fresh water in the machine tank\n A Nespresso Original machine\n A warmed demitasse\n \n \n \n Method\n \n Rinse a blank shot of hot water into the cup to warm it, and tip it out.\n Refill the tank with fresh water rather than topping it up.\n Pull the capsule on the ristretto setting, about 25ml, or stop the espresso button by hand at half volume.\n Drink it promptly, while the crema is still holding.\n \n \n \n What you'll end up with: The cup the capsule was dosed for: syrupy, cocoa-deep and short. Letting an 11 run long makes it harsher, not stronger.\n\n \n Cortado From One Capsule\n \n How to make a Cortado with L'Or Espresso Ristretto Intensity 11.\n \n 4 min\n 1 glass\n Medium\n \n \n \n You'll need\n \n 1 L'Or Espresso Ristretto Intensity 11 capsule\n 60ml whole or oat milk\n A thermometer, or a steady hand\n A 90ml glass\n \n \n \n Method\n \n Pull the capsule short, straight into the glass.\n Steam 60ml of milk to about 60\u00b0C, keeping the texture fine rather than foamy.\n Pour the milk through the crema in one steady motion.\n Serve straight away, without a spoon.\n \n \n \n What you'll end up with: The drink this capsule is best at. Sixty millilitres of milk is the most a single short shot will carry without disappearing.\n\n \n The Two Capsule Flat White\n \n How to make a Flat White with L'Or Espresso Ristretto Intensity 11.\n \n 5 min\n 1 cup\n Medium\n \n \n \n You'll need\n \n 2 L'Or Espresso Ristretto Intensity 11 capsules\n 130ml whole or oat milk\n A 200ml cup\n Cocoa to dust, optional\n \n \n \n Method\n \n Pull two capsules short into the same cup.\n Steam 130ml of milk to about 60\u00b0C.\n Pour steadily through the centre of the crema.\n Dust with cocoa if you want it.\n \n \n \n What you'll end up with: A flat white that still tastes of coffee at the bottom. Two short shots beat one long one, because adding water does not add strength.\n\n \n Iced Ristretto Over Milk\n \n How to make an Iced Ristretto with L'Or Espresso Ristretto Intensity 11.\n \n 3 min\n 1 glass\n Easy\n \n \n \n You'll need\n \n 1 L'Or Espresso Ristretto Intensity 11 capsule\n A tall glass of ice\n 150ml cold milk\n A long spoon\n \n \n \n Method\n \n Fill a tall glass with ice and pour in 150ml of cold milk.\n Pull the capsule short, at about 25ml.\n Pour the hot shot straight over the ice and milk.\n Stir once and drink before the ice thins it.\n \n \n \n What you'll end up with: A clean iced coffee with the coffee still audible. A short shot is the only kind that survives a glass of melting ice.\n\n \n Affogato\n \n How to make an Affogato with L'Or Espresso Ristretto Intensity 11.\n \n 2 min\n 1 bowl\n Easy\n \n \n \n You'll need\n \n 1 L'Or Espresso Ristretto Intensity 11 capsule\n 2 scoops of vanilla ice cream\n A small cold bowl\n Grated dark chocolate, optional\n \n \n \n Method\n \n Scoop the ice cream into a cold bowl and return it to the freezer while the machine warms.\n Pull the capsule short, straight over the ice cream.\n Grate a little dark chocolate over the top if you want it.\n Eat immediately, before the whole thing turns to soup.\n \n \n \n What you'll end up with: The dessert a ristretto was made for. A long shot floods the bowl; a short one melts a channel through the middle and stays coffee."
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