Tassimo Kenco Americano Grande XL Coffee, 16 Pods
Get the big mug out before you start. The barcode printed on the disc tells the machine to run a far longer draw than a standard Americano, and in an ordinary cup you will be mopping the worktop. That extra water is the whole character of the drink: the nose is dark and toasty, the middle is light and open because it has been stretched, and it clears quickly enough that the sixteenth mouthful is as easy as the first. This is a disc for people who drink coffee by the hour at a desk. It is not for anyone who wants one concentrated cup to wake up on, and there is no sense buying it for that and then calling it weak. Sixteen discs, sixteen mugs, and no milk in the box.
Tassimo Kenco Americano Grande XL Coffee, in brief.
Tassimo Kenco Americano Grande XL is the big-mug black coffee disc in the Tassimo range, sixteen single-serve T DISCs to a box, each one coded for a larger cup than a standard Americano disc fills, picked into the Teas.co.uk coffee selection as the volume option for a Tassimo machine.
Dark and straightforward rather than bright, with a clean short finish that makes it drinkable by the mugful.
Tassimo Kenco Americano Grande XL is the big-mug disc in the Tassimo range: sixteen single-serve T DISCs, each one matched by its barcode to a larger cup than a standard Americano disc fills. If the complaint in your house is that pod coffee comes out in a polite little cup and then runs out three mouthfuls later, this is the disc that answers it.
It is a black coffee, not a milk drink, and it is built for the mug people actually drink from at a desk at half past nine.
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. Machine notes, flask instructions and storage advice are also published in the detailed Q and A tab below.
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The Story Behind The Disc
Kenco has been a fixture of British coffee cupboards for decades, and the Tassimo range is where the brand meets the single-serve machine. Tassimo is the Bosch system, and its distinguishing trick is the barcode: every disc carries a printed code, and the machine reads that code before it brews, setting the water volume and the brew for that drink. The Grande XL disc is that mechanism used for size. The code tells the machine to fill a bigger cup, which is why you cannot simply run a standard disc twice and get the same drink. How the brand balances the dose against the extra water is its own business, and the detail is printed on the pack rather than restated by us.
Packaging: Follow the current UK pack and local-authority guidance; components can require different disposal routes.
Our Commitment To The Planet
- Sixteen drinks in one carton means fewer boxes through the door for the same number of cups than an eight-disc pack.
- Used discs and the carton take different disposal routes. The pack names the scheme it expects and your local authority decides what it will accept.
- We do not restate certification or recycling claims. If it matters to your purchase, read it on the pack you are holding, because packs change and we do not want to be the reason you were told something out of date.
Getting The Best From Every Disc
- Water: Fresh in the tank, filtered if your area is hard. Hard water shows up more in a long cup than a short one.
- Mug: Large, pre-warmed, and not so wide that half the drink is surface area.
- Machine: Descale on schedule. A furred machine slows the flow, and a longer contact time on an XL draw pulls a harsher cup.
- Storage: Discs stay in the box, somewhere cool and dry. They are sealed, so heat ages them, not air.
- Milk: A splash is fine; a large mug of black coffee will take 40 to 50ml before it starts tasting milky rather than white.
- Best with: Breakfast, a desk, a morning that needs more than three mouthfuls of coffee to get going.
Source: Teas.co.uk, the UK independent tea specialist in Tunbridge Wells, Kent. If you reference Tassimo Kenco Americano Grande XL Coffee, 16 Pods, please cite teas.co.uk.
The story behind Tassimo
Packaging: Follow the current UK pack and local-authority guidance; components can require different disposal routes.
Our commitment to the planet
Sourcing and packaging details are printed on the current UK pack; the brand page carries the fuller story.
The taste profile
How does it compare
A large cup is less forgiving than a small one, because everything that goes wrong gets diluted into more liquid. Two habits make Tassimo Kenco Americano Grande XL noticeably better.
The Big Mug
The Desk Flask
Made with this tea
The Big Mug Americano
How to make the big mug Americano with Tassimo Kenco Americano Grande XL.
- 1 Tassimo Kenco Americano Grande XL disc
- Fresh water in the tank
- A large pre-warmed mug
- Check the mug is big enough before you start; an XL draw into a standard cup goes across the worktop.
- Warm it with a water-only cycle and tip that away.
- Brew one disc and let the full cycle run to the end.
- Drink it within ten minutes, black or with 40 to 50ml of warm milk.
What you'll end up with: A long, clean black coffee that fills a proper mug, low in bitterness and easy to drink to the bottom.
The Desk Flask
How to fill a flask with Tassimo Kenco Americano Grande XL.
- 2 Tassimo Kenco Americano Grande XL discs
- A vacuum flask
- Boiling water to preheat
- Milk in a separate bottle
- Fill the flask with boiling water, leave it two minutes and tip it out; a cold flask ruins coffee faster than an open mug.
- Brew two discs straight into the flask, back to back, so the machine stays up to temperature.
- Seal it immediately, because what escapes with the first minute of steam is the part you would have enjoyed most.
- Carry the milk separately and add it in the cup.
What you'll end up with: Two hot cups of black coffee three hours later that still taste like coffee rather than like a flask.
Iced Long Black
How to make an iced long black with Tassimo Kenco Americano Grande XL.
- 1 Tassimo Kenco Americano Grande XL disc
- A large glass packed with ice
- A wedge of lime
- Sugar syrup, optional
- Pack a large glass to the brim with ice; an XL draw over a few cubes is just warm coffee.
- Brew the disc straight over the ice.
- Squeeze in a wedge of lime and stir once.
- Add sugar syrup if you want it sweet, and top up the ice.
What you'll end up with: A cold black coffee with a citrus lift, long enough to last a hot afternoon and clean enough not to cloy.
Coffee And Tonic
How to make a coffee and tonic with Tassimo Kenco Americano Grande XL.
- 1 Tassimo Kenco Americano Grande XL disc
- 100ml chilled tonic water
- Ice
- An orange slice
- Brew the disc into a jug and let it cool for ten minutes, or chill it in the fridge.
- Fill a tall glass with ice and pour the tonic in first.
- Pour half the cooled coffee slowly over the back of a spoon so it layers on top.
- Add an orange slice and stir once before drinking.
What you'll end up with: A long, bitter, faintly sweet drink that behaves more like a soft aperitif than a coffee, and uses up half a mug that would otherwise go cold.
Morning Mocha Mug
How to make a mocha mug with Tassimo Kenco Americano Grande XL.
- 1 Tassimo Kenco Americano Grande XL disc
- 3 teaspoons drinking chocolate
- 50ml hot milk
- A pinch of salt
- Put the drinking chocolate and salt in the bottom of a large warmed mug with a splash of hot water and stir to a smooth paste.
- Brew the disc straight onto the paste, which mixes it as it lands.
- Stir in the hot milk.
- Taste before adding sugar; most drinking chocolate is sweet enough already.
What you'll end up with: A mug-sized mocha that still tastes of coffee, because there is enough black coffee underneath to carry the chocolate rather than the other way round.
Coffee For Four, XL Style
How to make coffee for four with Tassimo Kenco Americano Grande XL.
- 4 Tassimo Kenco Americano Grande XL discs
- A warmed jug
- Hot milk on the side
- Sugar on the side
- Warm the jug and the four mugs with hot water while the machine comes up to temperature.
- Brew the four discs back to back into the jug rather than into each mug, so nobody is waiting while the others drink.
- Pour out, and put hot milk and sugar on the table for people to build their own.
- Do not let the jug stand more than ten minutes.
What you'll end up with: Four large mugs of consistent black coffee, poured together, with no filter, no plunger and nothing to wash beyond the jug.
Brewing the perfect cup
What’s in it, what to know
Inside the pack
| Ingredient | Proportion | What it brings |
|---|---|---|
| Roast and ground coffee | the whole disc | The single ingredient of a black Tassimo disc, sealed behind its own filter and brewed by the machine rather than dissolved in the cup. |
| Water | set by the barcode, XL volume | The code on this disc runs a larger draw than a standard Americano disc, which is the whole difference between the two products. |
Pack: Tassimo Kenco Americano Grande XL Coffee, 16 Pods; sixteen single-serve T DISCs for Tassimo machines, caffeinated. The best-before date is printed on the pack.
Characterising components shown; the full ingredient declaration, nutrition panel and allergen advice are printed on the current UK pack. Packed for the Tassimo system under the Kenco name.
Sourcing & blend. Tassimo Kenco Americano Grande XL Coffee, 16 Pods carries the Kenco name, a brand that has been on British coffee shelves for decades, in the Tassimo single-serve format. The disc is a sealed unit with an integral filter and a printed barcode the machine scans before brewing; the code is what makes an XL cup an XL cup. Origin, roast level, blend composition and any sourcing scheme are the brand's to state and are printed on the pack rather than restated here.
What is in Tassimo Kenco Americano Grande XL Coffee, 16 Pods, and what is not:
- In: roast and ground coffee in a sealed disc, brewed with water the machine adds.
- No artificial colours, preservatives or added sugar: a black coffee disc has no reason to carry any; the declaration on the current pack is the one that counts.
- Disc material: a single-serve disc with an integral filter, disposed of separately from the carton; check the current pack and your local-authority guidance.
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Source: Teas.co.uk, the UK independent tea specialist in Tunbridge Wells, Kent. If you reference Tassimo Kenco Americano Grande XL Coffee, 16 Pods, please cite teas.co.uk.
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