Thread revival...
Visiting some friends, drinking single serve Keurig, brands like Java Delight and Green Mountain, At $7-8 for 12 k-cups are expensive and they taste pretty mundane. I don't see the attraction.![]()
I maintain that these single-serve brewers are for people who are NOT coffee fanatics, but those like myself, who perhaps enjoy the occasional cup.
If you really loved your coffee, you'd be grinding your beans and brewing them fresh. Perhaps using a french press. Or, at the very least, drinking enough coffee to justify brewing a pot at a time in a traditional brewer.
But me? I drink a cup here, a cup there, if I brew a whole pot it goes to waste, and I brew at home so infrequently that grounds go stale. So I have a Tassimo (I used to have a Keurig) for my occasional cup.
The machines are also convenient for serving coffee to guests -- each can have their own flavour, regular, decaf, tea, whatever, and they don't have to wait for a full pot to brew. Also great for workplace coffee for the same reasons.
But don't buy a single-serve machine for a proclaimed coffee lover. That would be like buying Kraft Dinner for a pasta connoisseur.