I wouldn’t buy one for home, but it works well at the office. It’s the only way we can get a consistent cup of coffee every time. Also, I can bring my own pods if I don’t like the brand/flavor they buy for us. Ease of cleanup is a bonus for the office as well.
This may be one of the most popular topics in Cafe Society history; some examples:
I Don’t Get the Love for Keurig
Recommend a coffee maker - Keurig? something else?
Should I get a Keurig? If not, recommend me a coffee maker.
Keurig one-cup coffee makers
Are K-cups for me?
There were a bunch more, but these seemed the most pertinent. I’ll also note along with others that you aren’t locked in any way into a proprietary format.
Variety. You can go to Amazon and buy an assortment box that contains a zillion (give or take a few) different grinds, roasts, and flavors.
Sure, I can try different coffees with my drip maker, but once I open the bag, the freshness starts to deteriorate. So if I want to have ten different coffees on ten consecutive days, my countertop is full of opened bags of coffee.
I’m the only coffee drinker at home. I get to drink what I want, when I want, as much as I want. I could go for any number of arrangements to give me the same thing, but the Keurig does the job for me.
I bought one for my daughter’s home, because people were drinking coffee at different times of the morning. Some folks got fresh coffee, some got nasty coffee. And if I wanted a cup of decaf in the evening, I didn’t have to make a whole pot.
The Keurig won’t make everyone happy. But it works for me.
~VOW
The appeal is that it makes one cup of coffee and you can have several different kinds/flavors on hand to cater to differing tastes. My husband likes a bolder coffee than I do, and I like frufru flavors, and occasionally decaf. We only really have a cup or two on the weekends. Brewing a whole pot of coffee at our house was wasteful.
Which forum would I ask the question: Which flavor of coffee would my declawed outdoor cat like best?
You declawed your cat. The Pit.
Oh! I know I seems like it should be in Cafe Society or IMHO, but it’s clear both major political parties would have strong feelings on this, so it should go into Political, which is labeled ‘Elections’ for convenience purposes.
Your actual question above should have been posted in General Questions, however, until a mod chose to terminate it.
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You had a Starbucks to stand outside of? Snob.
Anybody cares to compare the pros and cons of the Keurig VS the Tassimo machines.
You forgot to mention that the cat’s name is “Fatty”, and that’s he’s circumcises as well.
That’s not my cat. That’s my cousin with a thyroid condition.
I have a Tassimo, but I’ve never used a Keurig so I can’t really compare. The K seems to be more popular, so it’s easier to find diferent brands and flavors of the K-Cups, and probably cheaper due to so many different choices. Plus they have the refillable cups.
I still like the Tassimo, but I almost always have to go to Amazon to get the T-Discs since most stores don’t carry them. When I got the Tass at Target, they had a decent selection of T-Discs. But now that Target has stopped carrying the Tass, they also stopped carrying the T-Discs.
I like that the Tass has a barcode reader built in to read the T-Disc and knows how much water, etc, to use. You can make Lattes and Cappacinos by using the milk T-Discs that come with the Lattes and Cappacino T-Discs. I don’t think you can do that with the K, but I could be wrong.
And he owns an assault weapon.
You were lucky. We had to smell pictures of empty coffee cups.
At least you had pictures! We had to smell vaguely coffee cup shaped dog piss stains in the snow.
Except you can buy a reusable cup thingy to put your own coffee into [or tea] and make a single cup without buying a disposable cup of coffee grounds[or tea leaves] Heck, I even have a pod maker that uses boughten pod papers to fill with my own coffee or tea so I dont need to buy the premade pods.
It is nice not having a garbage can of coffee grounds and used tea leaves that can get spilled/dumped over/rummaged through. My tea leaves and coffee grounds are nicely contained in little pods instead of a loose open filter thwacked into the garbage.
I have started a Keurig and other one-cup coffee/espresso makers appreciation and discussion thread here.
I’d get one of those snazzy “Nespresso” jobbies if the cute guy came with it!
~VOW
Oh yeah? Well we had to drink* tea*!
I don’t have one, but there is definitely an appeal. I don’t have a dishwasher and I live alone, so making coffee can be a real hassle. $.40 a cup of coffee is not expensive at all.