Posted on 01/03/2014 5:32:29 PM PST by PJ-Comix
My daughter lived in a house with a lot of other college students and one Keurig. She said they ALL used it — one for tea, one for mochas, etc. Flavors did not cross over to the other drinks. Was devastated when the roommate left and took the Keurig with her.
Found one on sale at JC Penneys and was able to use a coupon too. Said it was the best gift she got — also told me the BEST place to get the pods is from Amazon.com, especially if you have Amazon Prime which means free shipping (I usually go to Penneys and use coupons or Bed Bath and Beyond).
Clean it once a month. Love it. The Express Club at Green Mountain.com is a good value. access to every flavor available, free shipping on four boxes, automatic reordering, and $3.00 off per box after a year.
I sometimes use my Kohl's cash/coupons to buy K-Cups and Bed Bath and Beyond coupons can be used for K-Cups, too. Costco's been the best price I've found. 160 Cups/box (@ 52¢/cup) and free shipping. Amazon (w/Prime) is around 66¢/cup.
Thanks for the video. It looks like you could roast about a pound per hour.
Oops, I meant 2 lbs./hour
I use the Melitta one-cup cone also-—with boiling water.
Terrific coffee.
I certainly don’t need another trendy gadget.
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My family has one. We also have refillable K-cups so I can drink regular/normal joe without spending an arm and a leg. My daughters and wife drink those flavored things and drive up the bills. At least it isn’t a full pot at a time. One day coffee won’t be so cool and some sanity will prevail.
Best K-cup ... Gevalia.
Ditto that. They are great we we like ours, but they will crap out on you. Buy it at costco and they will replace it. Keep your receipt! we're on our third one.
I do two batches of 2 1/2 cups of green beans per week and that is about a weeks supply for my wife and I.
2.5 cups of green beans are the right size batch for this set up. Takes about 11.5 minutes when it’s warm outside and 14-15 minutes when it is really cold. You do want to do this outside, trust me.
Lots of information on coffeegeek home roasting forums. Look for the SC/CO (stir crazy convection oven threads). There are some modifications needed and specific convection oven tops are required.
“Are you using tap water with your Folgers?”
Tap water at home (our tap water’s very good but I always let it set out overnight anyway so the chlorine can evaporate) and bottled water at work. The chlorine in the water at the office is so strong you can smell it when it comes out of the faucet.
FINALLY! someone that makes coffee like I do! Isn’t it the best? I love the ritual of making my coffee.
I use the Keurig at my family house and in various work lounges. They’re okay, but the water is NOT hot enough.
And I notice sediment in the bottom of some cups.
Recommend 8 O’clock Italian Roast K-Cups though.
We got one for my mother and she loves it. The single serving feature means that she can offer a wide variety of coffee flavors to guests.
Not a fan. Prefer a six cup brew of fresh ground Colombian Supremo. And you can brew tea in any drip coffee maker. But...different strokes for different folks. That is why God invented small block Chevys.
We’ve had the Mr. Cofffee version for over two years. We take it with us when we go camping. So for Christmas we bought an fancy-schmancy Keurig machine for the house and are leaving the Mr. Coffee in the RV.
Great machines. Great coffee.
Dear Ed,
Anyone that spends ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS, either in Walmart, or QVC-TV, really needs to ask themselves the following question:
“Do I live in an area that has a seasonal history of power-knockout storms?” If the answer is even, ‘maybe’, I’d think twice.
(All right, bozo, how do YOU get your coffee brewed, huh?!?)
I live in one of those storm areas. My usual coffee order of things is:
1. Melitta single-pour plastic funnel, using either #2 or #4 paper filters, (yes there is a brass filter, but paper you don’t have to wash!).
2. A one-scoop coffee measure.
3. Either a two-cup pyrex measuring cup, for use in a microwave oven, or if storm, a small speckleware pot for boiling water over a flame.
4. The mug of your choice, and the coffee of taste and grind of your choice.
The counter footprint is a lot smaller. The paper filters, for 100 each, were $2.XX, at last purchase. The Melitta plastic cone might be about $6.XX by now. You should already have a coffee scoop. In your kitchen, you might have a 2-cup measuring cup, already. The coffee is your choice of cost.
For me, “inital investment” of a cone, paper filters, measuring cup, coffee measure and container of coffee, was a total of $20.XX. 100 paper filters will give you 3 cups a day for a month. A 10-ounce can of coffee will last nearly that long. $43.80 for a year’s worth of my choice of coffee. $28.68 for a year’s worth - at 3 cups a day, of paper filters. That adds to $72.88.
Your usual box of, maybe 24, Keurig cups is $12.69, or was in Walmart in December, for Community Coffee. 24 cups is 8 days worth, at 3 cups a day. A year’s total is $587.98!!!!!
The choice is your’s, and your’s alone, to be happy.
I just don’t want to hear you going broke, when those cup prices increase, again.
Have had one for a couple of years - never drink restaurant coffee anymore; wait to go home to have a cup of Keurig - go to their website and review the 250 or so different flavors of K-cups available - you’ll be sold.....
(All right, bozo, how do YOU get your coffee brewed, huh?!?)
Car idling in the driveway, with voltage inverter attached to battery. Extension cord running from open hood to kitchen window, and thence to Braun thermal carafe drip coffeemaker. Yeah, I have several camping stoves and a French Press or my grandmother's blue enameled pot as alternatives - but the Ford-powered Braun works just fine.
everything else tastes stale and oxidized now.........
I see the Kureg has a basket you can fill with your own coffee. I may have to try it.
LOL! Glad this comment made it in by #11. There's hope for FR ;-)
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