Tassimo Tea Hack

I love the speed and convenience of using a Tassimo, however some products, especially teas, are steep in price. (Pun most definitely intended!)

Here's an easy hack so you can use ordinary tea bags and have a cup of tea just as quickly as a Tassimo tea disc, but at a fraction of the cost.

1. Find your  cleaning disc. (It is stored behind your water tank in a slot on the back of the Tassimo and is probably yellow in colour.)

 

 2. Purchase one disc of any tea you like (Personal Service Coffee 3873 Walker Rd sells individual discs. Read the boxes carefully because cup sizes vary.)

3.  Identify the correct bar code to use and carefully cut it out.  A sharp paring knife works well.

(Actually, you can first make a cup of tea with the disc and then cut it out.  No use wasting a perfectly good disc.)

 

4.  Place the bar code (that you cut off) over top of the bar code of your cleaning disc (yellow) and secure with scotch tape.

 5. Insert the newly modified cleaning disc in the Tassimo. Place a cup containing your favourite tea bag underneath and press the start button.

6. Et voilà!  You now have a hot water dispensing Tassimo.  Enjoy!

p.s.  You will still need the cleaning disc to clean the scale from your machine periodically.  Just untape the "tea" barcode from the disc, clean and descale your Tassimo as usual, and then replace the "tea" barcode when you are done.

p.p.s.  You can use vinegar to clean and descale instead of the expensive Tassimo stuff.