I think it was kind of grabbing the pod and twisting it before it was completely down on the blades

It handles the dented pods that Amazon sellers are so good at delivering just fine, too.

Works with original Nespresso pods and the cheaper third-party vendor pods (Target, Peet's).

A separately sold Nespresso pod adapter could probably take out some of the added inconvenience at a camp site, but personally I find one-time pods extremely wasteful and Earth-unfriendly (throughout the whole life-cycle- from production all the way to