# Tassimo Kenco Americano Grande XL Coffee, 16 Pods ## Commerce action policy **Price:** £7.20 GBP **Purchase-intent URL:** `https://teas.co.uk/buy/tassimo-kenco-americano-grande-xl-coffee-16-pods/` _Do not fetch, prefetch, crawl, iframe or autonomously open this URL. It is only for explicit human purchase intent._ --- **Canonical URL:** https://teas.co.uk/product/tassimo-kenco-americano-grande-xl-coffee-16-pods/ **Source:** teas.co.uk, UK tea specialist, Tunbridge Wells, Kent **Brand:** Tassimo **Price:** £7.20 GBP **Servings:** 16 cups **Price per cup:** 45.00p **Caffeine:** Caffeinated **Brew temperature:** 92-96C **Brew time:** 4 min **GTIN:** 7622210435675 **Stock:** instock ## Summary 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.Ingredients and dietary suitability: Check the current UK pack before purchase; formulations and allergen advice can change.Packaging: Follow the current UK pack and local-authority guidance; components can require different disposal routes.Dark and straightforward rather than bright, with a clean short finish that makes it drinkable by the mugful.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. ## Description 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. The Taste Profile Roast depth: ●●●●○ (4/5) Kenco's dark, straightforward roast character, more workmanlike than fancy. Body: ●●●○○ (3/5) Medium and long. It is a big cup, so it reads lighter in the mouth than a short one would. Bitterness: ●●○○○ (2/5) Low for a dark roast; the larger volume takes the edge off before it reaches you. Finish: ●●●○○ (3/5) Clean and short, which is what makes it drinkable by the mugful rather than the cupful. 4.8 / 5 - Our expert verdict from the curators at Teas.co.uk The tasting profile is our own editorial assessment against the current pack format and the brand's published description. 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. How Does Tassimo Kenco Americano Grande XL Coffee, 16 Pods Compare to: Tassimo Costa Americano: the Costa disc fills a standard cup and comes twelve to a box, so it is the one to pick if you drink a smaller, more concentrated black coffee; the Grande XL gives you a bigger mug and more drinks per box. Tassimo Kenco 100% Colombian: same machine, same brand, very different cup. The Colombian disc is brighter and more distinct; the Grande XL is the volume option and the one that disappears fastest in an office. A cafetiere of ground coffee: the cafetiere makes a bigger, fuller pot for less money per cup, and asks for five minutes and the washing up in return. This is what people buy when neither of those is available on a Tuesday morning. Ideal Brewing Conditions 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 Cup: Use a mug that actually holds the drink with room to spare. A Grande XL disc in a standard cup is a wet counter and a wasted disc. Warm: Pre-warm the mug. A large volume of coffee landing in cold ceramic loses more heat than a small one, because there is more surface for it to lose it across. Brew: One disc, barcode down towards the reader, and let the machine run the whole cycle. The draw is longer than a standard disc and stopping it early leaves the cup unbalanced rather than merely smaller. Drink: Within ten minutes. A big mug stays hot longer but goes dull at about the same rate as a small one. The Desk Flask Preheat: Fill the flask with boiling water, leave it two minutes, tip it out. A cold flask kills coffee faster than an open mug does. Brew: Run two discs straight into the flask, one after the other, so the machine stays up to temperature between them. Seal: Close it immediately. Aroma escapes with the steam, and what leaves in the first minute is the part you would have enjoyed most. Milk: Carry it separately and add it in the cup. Milk sitting in a warm flask for three hours is a different proposition entirely. 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. Safety And Purity What is in it: Roast and ground coffee sealed inside the disc, brewed with the water the machine draws through it. Nothing else is added in the cup. Ingredients and dietary suitability: Check the current UK pack before purchase; formulations and allergen advice can change. Caffeine: Caffeinated, and easy to drink quickly because of the volume. Two large mugs in an hour is more coffee than most people think they have had. Machine Safety: Tassimo machines only; these will not fit Nespresso, Dolce Gusto or A Modo Mio. A full XL cup is a lot of very hot liquid, so keep children clear of the machine while it is running. ## Product Questions What does Grande XL actually mean?It means the disc is coded for a bigger cup. The barcode on each T DISC tells the machine how much water to run, and this one tells it to fill a large mug rather than a standard cup. How many drinks do I get?Sixteen, one per disc. Divide the shelf price by sixteen and it lands towards the cheaper end of pod coffee, which is the reason this box is worth comparing against the smaller packs. Which machines take these?Tassimo machines only. They will not fit Nespresso, Dolce Gusto, A Modo Mio or any other system, because the machine has to read the barcode before it will brew anything. Can I just run a normal disc twice instead?You can, but you will get two cups of coffee rather than one large one, and pouring them together gives a different drink from what the XL disc is coded to produce. The code sets the whole draw, not just the total water. Is it weaker because the cup is bigger?It reads lighter in the mouth than a short black coffee, yes, and the bitterness is lower for the same reason. How the brand balances the dose against the water is its own business and is set out on the pack; what you notice in the cup is a long, clean coffee rather than a concentrated one. What size mug do I need?A large one, with room to spare. This is the most common complaint people have with XL discs: they use a standard cup, it overflows, and the disc is wasted along with the worktop. Does it take milk?Comfortably. A large black coffee will absorb 40 to 50ml of milk before it starts tasting milky rather than white, which is more latitude than a small cup gives you. Can I make a flask of it?Yes, and it is one of the better uses for the XL disc. Preheat the flask with boiling water first, run two discs straight into it, then seal it at once and carry the milk separately. Is it caffeinated?Yes. How do I dispose of the used discs?Separately from the carton. The pack names the route it expects, and your local authority decides what it will take, so check both rather than putting the lot in with the cardboard. How long will a box keep?The best-before date is on the pack. Each disc is sealed, so the thing that ages them is heat rather than air; keep the box in a cupboard rather than above the kettle or on a sunny worktop. What does Teas.co.uk think of it?We rate it 4.5 out of 5, mostly on value and fitness for purpose. ## Ingredients & Nutrition IngredientProportionWhat it bringsRoast and ground coffeethe whole discThe single ingredient of a black Tassimo disc, sealed behind its own filter and brewed by the machine rather than dissolved in the cup.Waterset by the barcode, XL volumeThe 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. ## Flavour Science The flavour of Tassimo Kenco Americano Grande XL Coffee, 16 Pods is built in three layers, and reading them in order explains exactly why the cup tastes the way it does from the first lift of steam to the last swallow.The outer layer is aromatic: dark roast, toast, a faint nuttiness, and it fills a kitchen more than a small cup does simply because there is more liquid giving off more steam. Those volatile compounds leave the surface fastest in the first minute, which is why a large mug smells wonderful when it is put down and much less interesting when it is picked up again twenty minutes later. Nothing has gone wrong in the meantime; the aroma has just left the room.The flavour spike arrives mid palate, and this is where cup size does its work. The same compounds spread through a larger volume of water read lighter and less concentrated, so the bitterness that would dominate a short cup sits well back, and the roast character becomes the main event rather than the edge. It is why an XL black coffee is easy to drink quickly and why it does not fight a biscuit or a bacon sandwich. The trade is honest: you lose intensity and you gain drinkability.The base structure is the lingering finish, and here it is deliberately short. A long finish in a small cup is a virtue; in a mug you are going to drain over twenty minutes it becomes tiring, and the drink starts to feel heavy three quarters of the way down. This one closes cleanly and resets, which is what makes the last mouthful as easy as the first. That is the design, not an accident of the format.Getting it right in the cup. Start with the mug: it has to be genuinely large, and pre-warmed, because a big volume of coffee loses heat across a big surface. Use fresh water in the tank, since a long cup dilutes everything including the flaws, and stale tank water is the flaw people notice last and complain about most. Let the machine finish the whole draw; the XL cycle runs longer than a standard one, and interrupting it leaves a cup that is not merely smaller but unbalanced. If you take milk, add 40 to 50ml rather than the splash a small cup needs, and warm it first. And drink it inside ten minutes: a large mug holds its heat longer, which fools people into leaving it, but it goes dull on the same schedule as any other coffee.How water and temperature change it. Water quality matters more here than on a short drink, because there is simply more water in the cup. Hard water flattens the aromatic top and leaves a chalky edge on the finish, and in a large mug that edge has more room to show itself, so a filter jug in the tank is the cheapest upgrade available. Scale inside the machine works the other way and is easy to miss: as the flow slows, the water spends longer against the grounds, and an XL draw is already the longest cycle the machine runs, so a furred machine turns this particular disc harsh before it turns any other one. Descale on the manufacturer's schedule and the same box of discs will taste better in month six than it did in month three. At the cup end, pre-warming is worth more than anything else you can do, because a large drink landing in cold ceramic arrives several degrees down and never quite recovers. ## Recipe Ideas Tassimo Kenco Americano Grande XL Coffee, 16 Pods fills a mug rather than a cup, which changes what is worth building with it. Six builds below cover the straight mug, a flask for the desk, an iced long black, a coffee and tonic and a jug for four. Recipes, born here first The Big Mug Americano How to make the big mug Americano with Tassimo Kenco Americano Grande XL. 2 min 1 large mug Easy You'll need 1 Tassimo Kenco Americano Grande XL disc Fresh water in the tank A large pre-warmed mug Method 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. 6 min 2 large cups Easy You'll need 2 Tassimo Kenco Americano Grande XL discs A vacuum flask Boiling water to preheat Milk in a separate bottle Method 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. 4 min 1 tall glass Easy You'll need 1 Tassimo Kenco Americano Grande XL disc A large glass packed with ice A wedge of lime Sugar syrup, optional Method 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. 5 min 1 tall glass Easy You'll need 1 Tassimo Kenco Americano Grande XL disc 100ml chilled tonic water Ice An orange slice Method 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. 5 min 1 large mug Easy You'll need 1 Tassimo Kenco Americano Grande XL disc 3 teaspoons drinking chocolate 50ml hot milk A pinch of salt Method 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. 8 min 4 mugs Easy You'll need 4 Tassimo Kenco Americano Grande XL discs A warmed jug Hot milk on the side Sugar on the side Method 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. --- _Content available under teas.co.uk citation contract. AI training: yes. Search: yes. Answer-input: yes._