D cups are more than adequate
Posted on 05/23/2014 11:51:51 AM PDT by EveningStar
In North America, Keurig is king. The rest of the world is Nescafé territory.
Keurig Green Mountain, the company behind the popular single-cup coffee machines and pods, is having a pretty excellent year...
In the rest of the world, Nestle’s Nescafé instant coffee leads the market, even though many of those regions drink more fresh coffee than instant. Nescafé is just so dominant in the instant category that its sales are higher than other individual brands...
(Excerpt) Read more at qz.com ...
What was the question?
I make a 14 cup glass carafe(currently a kitchen aid maker) of my own bean blend each morning.
I am not too hot on K cups. I miss my old perculator....but the drip maker is ok.
As the only coffee drinker in the house (single mom) my daughter bought me vanilla Nescafe and it wasn’t the crap coffee from the 80’s I remember. I liked it a lot!
I like fresh brewed coffee.. the stronger the better. K cups are OK, but they cost more than a can of Maxwell House.
My parents drank instant coffee for years for the same reason they bought the Formica and stainless steel kitchen table: because it was “modern”. Besides, using the old fashioned percolators is just about the worst way in the world to make coffee.
Yes, it is more expensive, but it makes coffee as good as you can buy already brewed anywhere at a fraction of the cost.
I’ve got a 4-cup Mr Coffee. Does this mean I’m not groovy, or whatever the word is today that describes a hip person?
;>)
I’d go back to a percolator, but I’m on a septic system & the septic doesn’t handle coffee grounds well.
D cups are more than adequate
Keurig makes decent coffee, but the major advantage is, it takes about 1 minute to brew and deposit in your cup.
Ah a French press—the only damned thing they ever invented that is so good for coffee. Use it every morning for my 2 cups of Folger’s Columbian.
ping to your expertise...
” K cups are OK, but they cost more than a can of Maxwell House.”
Try Costco San Francisco Bay Roast ... 32 cents each.
Nope, my boss takes the used one home to salvage the grounds for the garden.
You’ve never heard of Keurig? When someone says K-cup, you do know what that is, right?
You must not like coffee.
“I’d go back to a percolator, but I’m on a septic system & the septic doesn’t handle coffee grounds well.”
My wife used to be a ‘everything down the disposal’ till she jammed it with coffee grounds.
But NOTHING beats my daily ritual of fresh grinding/brewing...
We've been happy Chemex owners since our first as a wedding present in 1972. Thought it was interesting to own a Chemist Beaker on steroids and still cooked coffee in a rocket-ship electric percolator. For reasons I don't remember, we tried using the Chemex a year later and the rest is history...
I didn’t know that many people still did instant coffee.
Regarding the K cups, I hated them and saw no use for them. I have my own gravity feed grinder at home and always fresh grind it.
However, a peculiar thing happened. I started working at a place where they had a couple of these K cup machines, but you had to buy your own coffee. Turns out that if you shop wisely you can get darned good coffee for $.32 a cup. And that’s a 14oz cup.
It’s so dang convenient that I’ve toyed with scrapping my brewer and grinder at home and just going for the K-cup machine. I completely turned in favor of them after using them for a while.
I wonder how that is wasteful if you only drink one cup of coffee a day. Most regular coffee makers will only do a minimum of 4 cups, but then I don't drink a "cup" of coffee, I drink from a mug, which is two and a half times a "regular" coffee cup.
If it came down to drinking instant coffee or no coffee at all; I’d go with no coffee at all.
You can always get your caffeine from iced tea or a soda.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.