[ansel12]

A customer gave me a new Keurig, and I don’t get it, I might as well buy those cans of pre ground coffee like Folgers.

Grinding beans and making a little 4 cup pot is the way to go.

[goldstategop]

A company that doesn’t listen to its customers will go out of business.

Kreurig learned the hard way that stiffing your customers is bad for the bottom line.

The customer is always the boss.

[cicero2k]

What happened to focus groups? Avoidable.

[RginTN]

A french press is cheaper.

[FrankR]

I bought my wife a small kuerig because she likes an occasional cup of “flavored” coffee...and I don’t. So now she can have that without messing up the large coffeemaker.

[Secret Agent Man]

For some things keurig is awesome. When itisjust you, its great. For many folks i use the regular coffee maker.

[douginthearmy]

So sick of all the cry babies in this world. "It costs too much" - then don't buy it! "They make me buy their cups" - no one made you do anything!

I have one; I buy the cups bulk at Costco. It's not cheap but its extremely convenient and easy to clean.

I don't care if it's $1000/pound of coffee. I am not buying a pound of coffee. I am buying a convenient, hot cup of coffee that I make by inserting a cup, pressing a button, coming back in a few minutes and throwing the cup away. It's fantastic.

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

I have a two-sided coffee maker. One side makes a 12-cup pot (a “cup” is actually 6 oz.). The other side has two options: a K-cup or you can brew a scoop of ground coffee to fill your mug. During the work week, I take my thermos of coffee to work because the office coffee makers are always disgusting and I refuse to be the only person that ever cleans the coffee maker and pot.

On the weekend, I do the single-serve scoop or a K-cup. Really, I don’t get the angry customer part. Don’t like the price or the product? Do something else, what’s the problem?

I also think the price/pound is apples and oranges when comparing ground/beans and K-cups. The K-cup weighs about nothing but it gives me a damn strong cup of French roast that fills my 14 oz. travel mug. In the quantity that I buy it ($12 for 18 K-cups), it costs $0.67 to fill that travel mug. It’s significantly cheaper than your average mini-mart and is WAY cheaper than Starbucks.

Yeah, I could do it cheaper, but I like the convenience of the K-cup and I’m at a place in my life where I don’t feel the need to nickel-and-dime it like my college days. At $2.00 for 42 ounces of coffee, what’s the problem. And if you don’t like it, go do something else.

This is nothing but a classic case of people complaining because they can.

[Steve_Seattle]

Libs are so moralistic about EVERYTHING. If you like a Keurig machine and the practice of buying discreet units of coffee in a plastic cup, buy it. If you don’t, don’t.

[truth_seeker]

There are several refillable cups, for use in Kuerig machines.

Our daughter gave us a Hamilton Beach coffee maker, with a conventional 12 cup on one side, and a K-cup single cup maker on the other.

Handy if you just want a single cup. I plan to buy a couple of the refillable cups, to try out.

Kuerig cup vendors make tea, chocolate, etc. as well.

[Daffynition]

K-cups are for people who can’t do simple math.

What irks me, is that these K-cup products have taken over so much *face* on stores shelves, food markets have reduced the number of other perfectly worthy coffee offerings on the shelves.

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

My sister bought a new Keurig and did not know it only takes Keurig K-cups until her third call to Keurig.

Your sister doesn't sound too bright, I don't think I'd be making this public admission. With the metric tons of reviews and articles about anything and everything (including entire websites and blogs dedicated to nothing but coffee), there's no excuse for making this stupid of a purchase.

[Talisker]

Aeropress.

Fast, easy, delicious, cheap.

Trust me.

[mass55th]

I like flavored coffee, and buy my beans online from a company in Shreveport, La. I grind the beans, and brew 6 cups, but with the large cup I use, it gives me 2 large servings. That’s usually all the coffee I drink in a day.

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

Slow news day, eh, WashPost?

[doorgunner69]

Luckily, we stayed at a place in Tucson that had those K things in the room. found out immediately that the coffee was much too weak for our tastes. Picked up some "reusable" K container thing at the local Safeway. It did not latch into the machine, leaked grounds all over if I tried to make the brew stronger. Had to manually hold the stupid thing closed while brewing.

Good experience, we sighed with relief coming home to our 14 cup Cuisinart and all the strong coffee we wanted, with no gimmicks.

[Red_Devil 232]

I never saw the practical use of having a single cup brewer. I drink 4-5 cups of coffee each morning as does my wife. We buy whole bean coffee and grind our own and brew amounts we need.

[Deagle]

The only thing new (or at least retried) is another company trying to protect their product via DRM. Can’t these folks ever learn?

[Mastador1]

Apparently Keurig thought they were Star_ucks and screw the ir customers and they would keep coming back for more..............like Star_ucks!

[minnesota_bound]

What is the best cheap razor blade?