Posted on 01/03/2014 5:32:29 PM PST by PJ-Comix
Oh, I resisted for a very long time. I can’t claim to be a coffee traditionalist, really, thanks to my preference for flavored coffee. My father likes to scoff at me for that whenever he visits out here, but I like the real thing as well. I drink it straight, no cream or sweetener whether flavored or not, and I brew it in large pots, totally full, every single time. And most days I drink all of it, too.
All of that changed when my sister bought us a Keurig system for Christmas this week while visiting out here. Specifically, she bought the Keurig K65 Special Edition Gourmet Single-Cup Home-Brewing System (which in my old aerospace days would have the acronym KSEGSCHBS), along with the Keurig My K-Cup Reusable Coffee Filter. Within hours, I had banished my old coffeemaker to storage — in part because I needed the space, but also because it had already become obsolete.
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Their extra bold Costco brand cup works out to about 37 cents a cup and tastes great.
(I prefer my coffee hotter than this machine delivers.)
Two words?
Mister Coffee (clones)
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i dunno, read him again. he sounds metrosexual or worse to me. :-)
We love ours. We actually have two. Our first one stopped working after a couple of years and we bought a second. Then, on a whim, the wife called to complain about the first only lasting a couple of years and they replaced it for free and even shipped it to us free. So we have one here at the primary residence and took the other to our farm/camp. Pretty good customer service. The K-cups are a little pricey but you only make one cup at a time and we also got one of the reusable cups that allow you to use regular coffee.
We got one for a housewarming gift in 2010. It, and two successors, clogged and died in rapid succession. (Keurig replaced all at no cost.) Then we started using the K “cups” that aren’t rigid — just have the filter-y thingie at the bottom — and we’ve have had this machine for almost four years now. (I think the pressure in the rigid cups does some kind of blow-back that clogged the holes.)
Our favorite is French Roast by San Francisco Bay. We order via Amazon’s Subscribe and Save program.
I like my coffee strong, dark, and only slightly thinner than used motor oil.
Can’t get that robust thickness in any K-cup. Even the do-it-youself type lack the capacity.
So for MY really good, thick, coffee I stick with the Mr. Coffee—heaping scoops of grounds topped with a dash of cinnamon.
Don’t drink much, so perfect for me and mybrother. There do have a newmodel which is supposed to brew stronger.
People like to obsess over coffee. I have no coffee obsession or particular liking for it. I see it only as an energizer and wake up tool. I buy the beans and grind some every few days so the coffee should be fresh. All in all coffee is a bush league mental energizer. There are better ones found in a vitamin store that I use
Please note your coffee bill before and after. We went from a big tin of coffee costing around 8 bucks that lasted the month, to about 150 a month in k-cups.
Silent budget killer. :)
I don’t drink coffee but my husband has had a Keurig at home and at work (his co-workers share it & chip in for coffee) since 2009. He loves them and both Keurigs are going strong.
Sam’s Club has good prices, don’t know about Costco. You can’t go wrong by getting one, I’d say.
Are you using tap water with your Folgers? I’ve found distilled water better to make coffee with.
Of course my tap water is mostly chlorine, yours may be better.
I tried it a couple of times, and find myself agreeing with you. My old Starbucks cone-filter brewer and some fresh ground Camano Island coffee is as close to coffee nirvana that I can get.
I got the refill basket to fill my own which I make stronger and better, but it’s still a pain to reload for each cup. As of New Years day, I went back to making my usual full pot of coffee."
Okay, no Keurig for me. I like it strong, and I like being able to control my brew and how much coffee goes into the basket. I want it good, not fast.
No, they put them in little cups and steam the heck out of them.
We have it at the office. If I need a jolt, I’ll brew 2x4 oz into an 8 oz cup.
I’ve had mine going on 4 years now. One of the best Christmas presents I have received since my Red Ryder BB gun when I was a kid. I’m the only coffee drinker in the house, so those individual servings make getting my one or two cups of coffee easy with no mess.
...plastic and hot water should not mix
Yes. I am a coffee snob. But I pay less for coffee than most urbanites that buy coffee at the grocery store. Price right now for la magnolia is about $5/lb for green beans.
/johnny
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