There are plenty of coffee machines out there, but you generally find that you have to spend at least $299 to get something decent. Woolworths wants to change that, teaming up with Gloria Jeans Coffees to make a pod machine that won’t cost you an arm or a leg.
Launching this week and exclusive to Woolworths supermarkets, the Caffitaly S14 is a $99 coffee capsule machine for simple and easy espresso, with an optional milk frother available for $29. Members of the Woolworths Everyday Rewards program can save a bit of cash on the machine, too, with a $79 price tag for them.
The Caffitaly takes its own type of capsules, designed for use with this specific system, and available at Woolworths stores across the country for $6 per 16 pods, or $7.50 for blends designed by Gloria Jean’s.
“Woolworths is proud to be Australia’s fresh food people and now we can help millions of Australians feel fresher every day at home with a professionally produced, great tasting coffee, made from perfectly ground beans of the highest quality,” said Woolworths’ Matt Cole.
“We’re delighted to be teaming up with Gloria Jean’s Coffees to bring our customers a complete range of coffee choices all expertly produced to be the perfect partner to our new capsule machine.”
The Caffitaly S14 should be available this week, with both the pods and the machines available at any of the 875 Woolies supermarkets across Australia.
Got this coffee machine last night and it is great. We have had a very expensive machine for years which has resently stopped working!! This machine makes coffee just as good if not better at a fraction of the cost of our old machine. Woolie Select pods were very good quality too. Our local woolies didn’t have the Gloria Jeans pods but like to try those as well.
I got the gloria jeans 2 stars coffee pods, very nice
yes I bought one yesterday & we are very happy with the quality and the price. I have 1 question, when you put the pods in the machine, do you have to remove the foil first or do your just put it in with it still on? Can anyone help with this? 🙂
Don’t remove anything from pods, just slide them in and pull the handle down. They are pierced by the machine.
Just put the coffee pod in complete, the machine does the rest, enjoy
No, you put the pod in whole, noting the direction of the cutout in the opening of the machine. Close the handle and it will pierce the foil.
Hi Merri, put the complete pod in to the machine and the machine does the rest.
Can anyone tell me if any pods fit all machine?
Very pleased Woolies has done this as we have a MAP BELLA Machine (Caffitaly) and were tiring of the limited choices for coffee. If you’re wondering about the quality of the machine…. Ours cost $249 and hasnt missed a beat in 2 years and looks almost identical to the Woolies $80 machine.
ALDI pods look very similar but be careful, I’ve had hot liquid spurt out of the top of our machine using an ALDI Pod.
All Caffitaly pods are interchangeable with all machines so map pads will fit in this and vice versa. Aldi pods will fit in Caffitaly machines however the design is different with the Caffitaly pods having an extra filter on top. Aldi pods in a Caffitaly machine work but leave more grinds in the cup.
I can now confirm that the Woolies pods including the Gloria Jeans ones do actually fit the ALDI machine so now we all have a greater choice.
Just don’t buy the Nespresso pods thinking they will fit as they are a smaller pod and would fall through on both the Woolies and ALDI machines. Happy coffee making.
The ALDI and MAP pods should fit fine just not the Nespresso ones as they are smaller in diameter and would more than likely fall through. Plus they are more expensive.
Got this machine over a week ago and it is great. Works very well and the Select coffee is good also. Recommend.
Try the MAP pods, you can get them from good guys, harvey norman, office works etc, $6.50 for a pack of ten. Potentially a bit nicer tasting than the woolies select pods (which I haven’t tried but have seen average reviews for).
how do I buy the descaling agent?
any Caffitaly Machine will take any Caffitaly capsules no mater on the brand and Aldi Capsules are K-fee system different fillers in the capsules and may not work clogs up and no coffee flows throw the Machine but tea & choc K-fee/Aldi do tho as it is instant choc/tea in the capsules look at link http://goo.gl/AAy4X
Great little machine. We have bought one for work with the milk frother and it is easy and clean to use. I am hoping once everyone is hooked, the price of the pods doesn’t go up though.
how many time can you use a pod
Technically, you could use a pod as much as you want, but you’ll only get the full burst of flavour once. Every other time you run a used pod, it’s like reusing spent coffee, so it loses flavour and becomes brown water.
So while you could use it a lot of times, we’d suggest you only use it once.
That’s pretty much the way it is with all coffee pod machines, for what it’s worth.
Do the woolworths pods fit the Nespresso machine?
so which one?? aldi or woolies??
just bought this machine haven’t used it yet. Where can I buy the milk frother, does Woolies sell it didn’t see it when I was there. Glad to hear people like this machine
Woolies sell it, but you should be able to use any frother.
Oh Ok thanks Leigh
my partner just bought one for me for xmas the milk frother is at woolies $29 🙂
AlDI have frothers for about $27. Also, K-mart have frothers for about $15.
We bought the coffee machine a week ago after looking at machines that cost $400. Fantastic. So quick and easy to use. I did get caught out thinking that all the pods sold at Woolworths were compatible but one brand is not. It would help if this was displayed on the shelf information. I would love to see more in the range of coffee pods available but overall I am very, very happy.
Which one was that please?
Love the Coffee & fits my MAP Caffitaly system.
In fact it’s the same machine @ 1/2 the price.
Does this do hot chocolate as well? If so, which pods does it take?
After much deliberation, I purchased the Caffitaly after Christmas and I am really surprised and pleased with its operation. The coffee is hot and the machine is easy to use and keep clean. I’ve been using the Gloria Jeans pods and the flavour is great! I use an Aldi milk frother and happy with its performance also.
What other brand pods can be used for the neffitaly from wollies? im trying also to find choc and tea pods anyone know???
I got my pod holder from Target. Looks really good with machine
Don’t think so, but we’ll check!
Does anyone know if the Gloria jeans pods fit a dolce gusto machine