An Easy Serving Espresso Pod, or E.S.E. pod, is a small packed coffee disk (Coffee pod) with a paper filter covering.
Each pod contains seven grams of coffee compressed into a food safe filter package. A double serving contains 14 grams of coffee. Pods are 44-45mm format Typically E.S.E. certified machines in the past, many American home brewers use 55mm single-serve pods and could not use ESE pods. Today there are many espresso machines suitable for use with 45 mm diameter standard ESE espresso pod, even in the U.S. and Canada.
Note that ESE pods are smaller and more compact than the Senseo single-serve coffee brewers. Senseo coffee pods have a larger diameter.
The container is placed in a housing adapter in a normal espresso machine, or in the mixing chamber by a bus brewery. The original patent for pod filter technology has been registered by K. Cyrus Melikian of Automatic Brewers and Coffee Devices, Inc. (ABCD) in Pennsylvania, USA, in 1959. Finally his license for the pod technology to an Italian company and other developers that certain standards for their own technologies to create.
Note that ESE pods are smaller and more compact than the Senseo single-serve coffee brewers. Senseo coffee pods have a larger diameter.
