Coffer Lovers? Mr. Coffee or Keurig single serve brewer?

[notjustjay]

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.

 

[Huntn]

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.

Great point. I used to wonder what I'd do with my left over coffee (in the pot) until I started refrigerating it for the next day's consumption. I've all ready caught crap from coffee affictiinatos about this practice, but it works for me!

 

[Kurwenal]

Remember that the Keurig is very easy to use and the coffee is fresh

Any coffee in any form of K-cup or pod or the like is hardly "fresh." Coffee should be brewed within fifteen seconds of the beans being ground. The abominable K-cup and every other form of that infernal ilk violates that rule by at least six months.

Pick two tomatoes from your garden. Eat one immediately. Leave the other on your counter for six months, then eat it.

That's the difference between fresh coffee and anything to do with Keurig or Nespresso or any of those satanic falsities.

 

[ThunderSkunk]

I always loved the smell of coffee, but it always just tasted like water with dirt in it compared to the richness & fullness of its aroma. So now, every morning, I make a full mug of espresso while my eggs are cooking. I blew $12k on a separate drinking water purification system here, which tastes fine, and after going through three motorized grinders, I found a clean antique hand grinder which I've come to enjoy using to grind fresh beans, but this is what I use to make the espresso:

http://www.overstock.com/Home-Garden/West-Bend-3-in-1-Coffee-Machine/3915373/product.html

...which works well enough, but since I don't use the cappuccino former or the coffee pot side, I keep wondering if a French Press would be a simpler tool for the job. It'd be great to have a small portable one for camping. But I read a very confusing description of the process of using one requiring precise heating and then rapid cooling over ice... still couldn't figure out if it even made espresso or just normal watery coffee.

Any recommendations for or against a French Press in this case?

 

[rhett7660]

Any coffee in any form of K-cup or pod or the like is hardly "fresh." Coffee should be brewed within fifteen seconds of the beans being ground. The abominable K-cup and every other form of that infernal ilk violates that rule by at least six months.

Pick two tomatoes from your garden. Eat one immediately. Leave the other on your counter for six months, then eat it.

That's the difference between fresh coffee and anything to do with Keurig or Nespresso or any of those satanic falsities.

This whole post made me chuckle! Satanic falsities, infernal ilk! Love it.