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    "excerpt": "Tassimo Kenco Flat White is the milk drink in the Kenco Tassimo range, eight single-serve T DISCs to a box that pair into four flat whites, a milk disc and a coffee disc for each cup, picked into the Teas.co.uk coffee selection as the no-jug milk coffee for a Tassimo machine.Ingredients and dietary suitability: Per the published ingredient list for this barcode it contains milk. 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.Soft and rounded with a thin layer of foam rather than a cappuccino cap, the coffee sitting underneath rather than on top. Four drinks a box, so an afternoon treat rather than a daily habit. Contains milk.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. Disc order, machine cleaning and iced builds are also published in the detailed Q and A tab below.",
    "content_text": "Tassimo Kenco Flat White is the milk drink in the Kenco Tassimo range, and it works differently from the black discs beside it. A flat white is built from two T DISCs rather than one: a milk disc goes in first, a coffee disc follows, and the machine reads each barcode separately and brews each one the way that component needs. Eight discs in the box, four drinks out of it.\n\nThat pairing is the whole reason a pod machine can produce a milk drink at all. There is no steam wand, no jug and no technique involved; the milk arrives as a prepared disc and the machine handles it. What you get is the shape of a flat white, which is to say more steamed milk than a cappuccino and much less foam, with the coffee sitting underneath rather than on top. It is a four-drink box, so it is an afternoon treat rather than a daily driver, and it is honest to say so on a product page rather than let anyone work it out after they have bought it.\n\n The Taste Profile\n\n \nMilk character: \u25cf\u25cf\u25cf\u25cf\u25cb (4/5) Soft and rounded, the dominant note in the cup, as it should be in a flat white.\n\n \nCoffee presence: \u25cf\u25cf\u25cf\u25cb\u25cb (3/5) Clearly there underneath the milk, without ever taking the lead.\n\n \nFoam: \u25cf\u25cf\u25cb\u25cb\u25cb (2/5) A thin layer rather than a cappuccino's cap; that is the difference between the two drinks.\n\n \nBitterness: \u25cf\u25cb\u25cb\u25cb\u25cb (1/5) Very low. This is a gentle, comforting cup, not a sharp one.\n\n4.6 / 5 - Our expert verdict from the curators at Teas.co.uk\nThe tasting profile is our own editorial assessment against the current pack format and the brand's published description.\n\n The Story Behind The Discs\nKenco has been on British coffee shelves for decades, and this is its flat white for the Tassimo machine. Tassimo is the Bosch single-serve system, and its distinguishing feature is the barcode printed on every disc: the machine scans the code and brews to it, which is how two completely different components can go through the same machine one after the other and come out as one drink. The milk disc is prepared for the purpose and needs no frothing, no jug and no skill. Composition, including whether anything is added to the milk component, is set out on the current UK pack rather than restated here.\nPackaging: Follow the current UK pack and local-authority guidance; components can require different disposal routes.\n\n Our Commitment To The Planet\n\n A prepared milk disc means no half-used bottle of milk going off in the door of the fridge for the sake of four coffees a week.\n Two discs per drink is two discs to dispose of. That is the honest trade for a milk coffee with no jug, and it is worth knowing before you buy.\n Used discs and the carton follow different routes. The pack names the scheme it expects and your local authority decides what it takes.\n\n How Does Tassimo Kenco Flat White Coffee, 8 Pods Compare to:\n\n Tassimo Kenco Cappuccino: the same two-disc system and the same box size, but a cappuccino carries a thick foam cap and reads lighter and airier; the flat white has more steamed milk, less foam and a more coffee-forward body.\n Tassimo Costa Americano: a black coffee disc, one per cup, twelve cups a box. It is a fraction of the cost per drink, and you supply and heat your own milk. Pick that one if you drink milky coffee every day rather than occasionally.\n \n\n Ideal Brewing Conditions\nTwo discs means two chances to get the order wrong, and order is most of what matters with Tassimo Kenco Flat White.\n\nThe Straight Flat White\n\n \nOrder: Milk disc first, coffee disc second. Doing it the other way round gives you a cup with the milk sitting on top of cooling coffee rather than a drink that has combined.\n\n \nCup: Pre-warm it. A milk drink shows a cold cup more obviously than a black coffee does, because the fats carry the heat differently and it turns claggy as it cools.\n\n \nRun: Let each cycle finish before you swap the discs over, and swap quickly so the milk has not had time to settle.\n\n \nServe: Straight away, without stirring. The layers settle into each other on their own within a few seconds.\n\nThe Cold Version\n\n \nIce: Fill the glass properly, because a milk drink over three cubes is a warm milky coffee and nothing more.\n\n \nBrew: Run both discs straight over the ice, milk first as usual.\n\n \nStir: Once, gently, to bring the two together without knocking all the air out of the top.\n\n \nDrink: Immediately. Iced milk coffee separates if it is left standing and never looks right again.\n\n Getting The Best From The Box\n\nOrder: Milk first, coffee second, every time.\nCup: Pre-warmed and the right size; a flat white in an oversized mug looks and tastes thin.\nMachine: Run a cleaning cycle after milk discs if your machine has one, because milk residue is what makes a machine smell and what eventually affects the taste of everything after it.\nStorage: Keep the discs in the box, cool and dry, away from the hob and the window.\nCount: Eight discs are four drinks. Worth remembering when you are comparing box prices on a shelf.\n\nBest with: An afternoon biscuit, a slice of cake, or as the thing that gets you through the four o'clock hour.\n\n Safety And Purity\nWhat is in it: A prepared milk component and a coffee component, each sealed in its own disc. This drink contains milk. The full declaration is on the current UK pack.\nIngredients and dietary suitability: Per the published ingredient list for this barcode it contains milk. Check the current UK pack before purchase; formulations and allergen advice can change.\nAllergen Warning: This is a milk drink and is not suitable for a dairy-free or vegan diet.\nCaffeine: Caffeinated. The milk makes it taste gentle, which is not the same as it being mild.\nMachine Safety: Tassimo machines only; these discs will not fit Nespresso, Dolce Gusto or A Modo Mio. Run the machine's cleaning cycle after milk drinks, and keep children clear while it is brewing.",
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                "title": "Product Questions",
                "content": "How many drinks are in the box?Four. There are eight discs, but a flat white uses two of them, a milk disc and a coffee disc, so a box is four drinks rather than eight. It is the single thing most people get wrong when comparing pod prices on a shelf. Which disc goes in first?Milk first, coffee second. The machine reads each barcode separately and brews each component the way it needs. Do it the other way round and the milk sits on top of coffee that has already started cooling. What is the difference between this and the cappuccino?Foam. A cappuccino carries a thick cap of foam and drinks lighter and airier; a flat white has more steamed milk, a thin layer on top and a more coffee-forward body underneath. Which machines take these?Tassimo machines only. The machine has to scan the barcode on each disc before it brews, so these will not work in Nespresso, Dolce Gusto or A Modo Mio. Do I need to froth any milk?No. The milk arrives as a prepared disc and the machine does the rest. There is no wand, no jug and no technique involved, which is the entire point of buying a milk drink in pod form. Can I make it iced?Yes. Fill a glass properly with ice, run both discs straight over it in the usual order, stir once gently and drink it immediately. Iced milk coffee separates if it stands about. Can I add syrup or chocolate?Easily. Put the syrup or drinking chocolate in the bottom of the cup before you brew, so the milk disc mixes it as it lands. Adding it on top afterwards leaves you stirring foam into a mess. Do I need to clean the machine afterwards?Run the cleaning cycle if your machine has one. Milk residue is what makes a pod machine smell, and it eventually affects the taste of every drink brewed after it, black ones included. Is it caffeinated?Yes. The milk makes it taste gentle, which is not the same as being mild. Is there sugar in it?The composition of the milk component, including whether anything is added to it, is declared on the current UK pack. We do not restate ingredient declarations, because packs change and we would rather you read the one in your hand. How should I store the box?Cupboard, cool and dry, away from the hob and out of the sun, and go by the best-before date on the pack. The discs are sealed, so heat rather than air is what ages them. What does Teas.co.uk think of it?We rate it 4.2 out of 5. As a milk coffee with no jug, no wand and no washing up it does exactly what it promises, and it is comforting rather than impressive. Honest caveat: four drinks a box makes it an occasional cup rather than a daily one, and a steam wand still does something a prepared milk disc cannot."
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                "title": "Ingredients & Nutrition",
                "content": "Ingredients and allergens. Per the published ingredient list for this barcode it contains milk. Check the current UK pack before purchase; formulations and allergen advice can change.Ingredients, as published for this barcode: cream (from milk) (29%), sugar, roast and ground coffee (25%), water, milk protein concentrate, milk minerals, salt, thickener (e414), acidity regulator (e331), flavouring (contains milk).Typical values per 100g, as publishedPer 100gEnergy25 kcalFat1.2gof which saturates0.8gCarbohydrate3.1gof which sugars3.1gFibre0.1gProtein0.3gSalt0gIngredient and nutrition data for this barcode: Open Food Facts (openfoodfacts.org), ODbL. The pack in your hands is the final word.IngredientProportionWhat it bringsDiscs per drink2 of 8Eight discs in the box pair into four drinks, which is the number that matters when comparing this against a one-disc black coffee box.Pack: Tassimo Kenco Flat White Coffee, 8 Pods; eight single-serve T DISCs for Tassimo machines, pairing into four milk coffees. Caffeinated, contains milk. 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 Flat White Coffee, 8 Pods carries the Kenco name in the Tassimo single-serve format, and it is built as a two-part drink: a prepared milk disc and a coffee disc, each sealed separately and each carrying its own printed barcode for the machine to read. Composition of both components, including the milk preparation and anything added to it, roast level, origin and any certification, is stated by the brand on the current UK pack rather than restated by us.What is in Tassimo Kenco Flat White Coffee, 8 Pods, and what is not:In: a prepared milk component and a coffee component, in separate sealed discs, brewed one after the other by the machine.Contains milk: this is a dairy drink and is not suitable for a vegan or dairy-free diet.Disc material: single-serve discs with integral filters, disposed of separately from the carton; check the current pack and your local-authority guidance."
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                "content": "The flavour of Tassimo Kenco Flat White Coffee, 8 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, and with a milk drink it is quieter than with a black coffee. Milk fat holds on to volatile compounds rather than releasing them, so the aroma that reaches you is warm and soft, faintly sweet, with the roast character sitting behind it instead of leading. That is not a shortcoming; it is what makes a milk coffee smell comforting rather than bracing, and it is why the coffee in a flat white announces itself on the tongue rather than at the nose.The flavour spike arrives mid palate, and in this drink it is a negotiation between two components. The milk brings body, a rounded sweetness and a coating texture; the coffee brings roast depth and just enough bitterness to stop the whole thing tasting like warm milk. The ratio is fixed by the discs, which is both the convenience and the limitation of the format: you cannot make it stronger, and you cannot make it milkier, so what you can do is choose the cup it lands in. A smaller cup concentrates the coffee against the milk; a large one spreads both thin.The base structure is the finish, and here the milk does most of the work. It coats rather than clears, leaving a soft sweetness that lingers for some time after the last mouthful, with a faint roast trace underneath it. That is the signature of a flat white and the reason it suits the middle of the afternoon: it does not clear the palate for the next thing, it finishes the conversation. If you want a cup that resets your mouth before food, this is the wrong drink and a black disc is the right one.Getting it right in the cup. Order first: milk disc, then coffee disc, every time, so the coffee settles down through the milk instead of resting on a cooling surface. Pre-warm the cup, because a milk drink shows a cold cup faster than a black coffee does and turns claggy rather than merely tepid. Swap the discs promptly between cycles so the milk has not started to settle before the coffee arrives. Use a cup sized for the drink rather than the largest mug in the house. Do not stir; the two components combine on their own within a few seconds and stirring knocks the thin layer of foam flat. And drink it while it is hot, because this is a drink that is genuinely unpleasant lukewarm in a way that black coffee is not.How water and temperature change it. The machine fixes the brew, so the variables that reach you are the water in the tank, the state of the machine and the cup you use. Hard water matters less here than with a black coffee, because milk masks the chalky edge that hard water leaves, which is one of the few advantages a milk drink has. Scale still matters: a furred machine runs slower and hotter at the end of a cycle, and overheated milk is the fastest way to turn a flat white into something that tastes faintly boiled. Machine cleanliness matters more than with any black disc, because milk residue builds up in the brew path and taints everything that follows it, so run the cleaning cycle after milk drinks rather than at the end of the week. And the cup temperature is not a detail: a flat white into a cold cup lands below its best from the first mouthful, and unlike a black coffee it cannot be rescued by drinking it quickly."
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                "content": "Tassimo Kenco Flat White Coffee, 8 Pods brews as a pair of discs, milk first and coffee second, which means anything you add goes in the cup before the machine starts. Six builds below cover the straight cup, the iced version, caramel, mocha and a float.\nRecipes, born here first\n\n \n The Straight Flat White\n \n How to make the straight flat white with Tassimo Kenco Flat White.\n \n 3 min\n 1 cup\n Easy\n \n \n \n You'll need\n \n 1 milk disc\n 1 coffee disc\n A pre-warmed cup\n Fresh water in the tank\n \n \n \n Method\n \n Warm the cup with a water-only cycle and tip it away; a milk drink shows a cold cup faster than a black one.\n Brew the milk disc first and let the cycle finish.\n Swap promptly to the coffee disc and brew it straight onto the milk.\n Do not stir. The layers settle into each other within a few seconds on their own.\n \n \n \n What you'll end up with: A soft, rounded milk coffee with a thin layer of foam and the coffee underneath rather than on top, made without a jug or a wand.\n\n \n Iced Flat White\n \n How to make an iced flat white with Tassimo Kenco Flat White.\n \n 4 min\n 1 glass\n Easy\n \n \n \n You'll need\n \n 1 milk disc\n 1 coffee disc\n A glass packed to the top with ice\n Sugar syrup, optional\n \n \n \n Method\n \n Fill the glass right to the top with ice; over a few cubes this is just warm milky coffee.\n Add the syrup now if you are using it, because it will not mix in once everything is cold.\n Brew both discs straight over the ice, milk first as usual.\n Stir once, gently, and drink it immediately before it separates.\n \n \n \n What you'll end up with: A cold milk coffee with the texture still intact, which is what you lose if you let a hot one cool on the side instead.\n\n \n Salted Caramel Flat White\n \n How to make a salted caramel flat white with Tassimo Kenco Flat White.\n \n 4 min\n 1 cup\n Easy\n \n \n \n You'll need\n \n 1 milk disc\n 1 coffee disc\n 2 teaspoons caramel sauce\n A pinch of flaky salt\n \n \n \n Method\n \n Put the caramel sauce in the bottom of the warmed cup before you brew anything.\n Brew the milk disc straight onto it, which mixes the caramel through as it lands.\n Brew the coffee disc on top.\n Finish with a pinch of flaky salt across the surface.\n \n \n \n What you'll end up with: The coffee-shop caramel drink without the queue or the price, and with less sugar in it than the shop version because you put the caramel in yourself.\n\n \n Mocha Flat White\n \n How to make a mocha flat white with Tassimo Kenco Flat White.\n \n 4 min\n 1 cup\n Easy\n \n \n \n You'll need\n \n 1 milk disc\n 1 coffee disc\n 2 teaspoons drinking chocolate\n A splash of hot water\n \n \n \n Method\n \n Mix the drinking chocolate to a smooth paste in the bottom of the cup with a splash of hot water; lumps at this stage stay lumps.\n Brew the milk disc onto the paste.\n Brew the coffee disc on top of that.\n Grate a little dark chocolate over the surface if you want it to look like the shop version.\n \n \n \n What you'll end up with: A mocha where the chocolate is mixed through the milk rather than sitting in a lump at the bottom, which is what happens when you stir it in at the end.\n\n \n Cinnamon Afternoon Cup\n \n How to make a cinnamon flat white with Tassimo Kenco Flat White.\n \n 4 min\n 1 cup\n Easy\n \n \n \n You'll need\n \n 1 milk disc\n 1 coffee disc\n A quarter teaspoon ground cinnamon\n Half a teaspoon soft brown sugar, optional\n \n \n \n Method\n \n Put the cinnamon and the sugar, if using, in the bottom of the warmed cup.\n Brew the milk disc onto them so the spice disperses through the milk.\n Brew the coffee disc on top.\n Dust a little more cinnamon over the surface to catch the aroma as you lift the cup.\n \n \n \n What you'll end up with: A warm, spiced milk coffee for a cold afternoon, with the cinnamon carried through the whole cup rather than floating on top.\n\n \n Flat White Float\n \n How to make a flat white float with Tassimo Kenco Flat White.\n \n 3 min\n 1 glass\n Easy\n \n \n \n You'll need\n \n 1 milk disc\n 1 coffee disc\n 1 scoop vanilla ice cream\n Grated dark chocolate\n \n \n \n Method\n \n Brew both discs into a heatproof glass in the usual order and let it stand for two minutes so it is hot rather than scalding.\n Lower a scoop of vanilla ice cream in gently rather than dropping it.\n Grate dark chocolate over the top.\n Eat the top with a spoon and drink the rest.\n \n \n \n What you'll end up with: Pudding and coffee in the same glass, and a use for the box on a Sunday that does not involve pretending it is a daily driver."
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