Single serve coffee makers catching on

KARE TV 11 MINNEAPOLIS ^ | 12/15/2005 | AP

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Don't let poster Hank know that you are eating a cinnamon roll. He will tell you that you should instead be eating a pancake donut with your coffee because that's what he likes. If you don't eat or drink what Hanks says, you will be subject to his endless, mindless posts. Proceed with caution. 10-4.

[FreeHueco]

Ah, get over it. Technically, scones are what to eat with coffee. But they didn't have any maple ones left.

I'm sure I agree with Hank on most of these issues anyway. And anyone that takes his name from an Ayn Rand character can't be a bad person.

[CheneyChick]

[CheneyChick]

Wacky Packages!

[sam_paine]

ARGRGRGRGHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!! CHINESE APPLIANCE MANUFACTURER SELLING COMMUNIST PLASTIC AT WALMART!!!!!! CONSUMERISM==COMMUNISM KILLING AMERICA!!!!! /Breathless Sarcasm

[BunnySlippers]

Chock Full of Nuts...Now there's something everyone can agree upon. I'm not referring to the coffee, I'm referring to this thread. Whenever the word "Starbucks appears in a post, the nuts come out of the coffee can. In fact, if you look closely at the photo of the can, you can see poster Hank, the FR Coffee Guru, poking his head out.

Same thing with Apple Macintosh threads (I am a hppy Mac owner for many years). But get a Mac thread going and you get guys posting about how Mac owners are "gay".

Apparently some of these people hurling invesctive also have home barista units, home roasting units and special water filters.

[Revolting cat!]

A single coffee maker? Here's one:

[BunnySlippers]

Ah, you'd love Graffeo. Some of the best I've ear had.
http://www.graffeo.com

[Politicalmom]

I couldn't trust the opinion of some STRANGER, could I??

:)

Thanks for the info.

[Hank Rearden]

That's the great thing about both coffee and crApple threads - they're so easy to light.

[BunnySlippers]

So, are you the gay coffee drinker? Didn't know you were on the Apple threads.

[Hank Rearden]

So, are you the gay coffee drinker?

No, Ma'am! (God, I hope you're a Ma'am, 'cause that'd be gay otherwise.)

I grab handfuls of beans right out of the roaster and munch 'em down.

[BunnySlippers]

OK, glad you love Macs!

[William Terrell]

Three years ago I bought a Black and Decker "Brew n Go" for $20. It made a single cup in about a minute. This single cup system enabled me to buy a bag of good quality ($7 or $8) beans, use a high speed grinder to grind a single cup measure into the consistency of flour and brew a really bitchin cup of coffee (the small particle size insures leaching out all the coffee flavor).

Recently I tried to get another one. I found B&D and obsoleted this model and replaced it with a $70 machine that wanted to force me to settle for a readymade disc of already ground coffee. The twinkling benefit of this new coffee maker? 20 second brew time.

The twinkling benefit for B&D? A much more expensive machine (higher profits per unit) and creation of an overhead market of right preground selfcontained discs of coffee.

This is a forced insertion of higher profitmaking vehicle into a growing market served well by existing low cost machines, and the creation of a totally useless (except to the manufacturers thereof) product: discs of preground lower quality beans with sheer freshness artificially covering up the third string beans used.

B&D wanted to charge me $40 for the previous model if I ordered direct.

I would brew single cups in my countertop Bunn before I would invest in any part of this corrupt marketing strategy.

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..."But get a Mac thread going and you get guys posting about how Mac owners are "gay".

LOL..When I see posters like that who complain about what other people choose to do with their own money, time or whatever, for some odd reason I get this mental picture that they must be cross dressers.

Have to go now - time to jump on my Segway and head to work;)

[FreeHueco]

I scoff at your motorized transportation!

And I sit here, happily typing away on my PowerBook. And I just watched a movie about gay cowboys. I must be slipping. At least the movie wasn't my choice, and I actually bought tickets for a different movie (cashier messed up, but I'm happy to have not supported the worst movie I have EVER seen).

Complaining about other people wasting their money and time is no worse than complaining about the people who complain about people wasting their time and money.

[FreeHueco]

I think I may have been there once. I recall going into a coffee shop on that part of Columbus during the San Francisco Grand Prix (the bike race, that is). Of course, there are tons of coffee shops in Little Italy. I'll be sure to go there next time I'm in the City.

Generally though, I'm not a big fan of dark-roasted coffee.

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Real men can drink a Starbucks while driving a Segway that is connected to the internet via a Mac Powerbook.

I carry my Mod 21 holstered on the Segway, with one in the pipe, in case I run into overage, pretentious yuppies who home burn their own coffee beans and who whine at others personal preferences. There is even a case on file of a FR poster who spent over 400.00 to have a machine that makes a cup of coffee. Amazing. Probably had a Ralph Lauren logo on it, though, so maybe it boils water better in some mysterious way.

[FreeHueco]

Don't be such an a$$.

[Yak]

It is great for the acid . . . my understanding is that the hot H2O allows the acid to transfer to the beverage, but w/ cold-brewed coffee the acid doesn't really transfer. Worth checking out, though it is a pain to prepare. I got out of the habit but was hooked for a while.