Do you think keurig machines are better than the old-fashioned coffee pot?
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Do you think keurig machines are better than the old-fashioned coffee pot?
You can check the answer of the people under the question at Quora “keurig or regular coffee maker“
It’s more convenient. And that’s where the advantages end.
Oh I suppose you can make a dozen different types of coffee. Or tea, or cocoa. Fairly quickly.
But is that worth paying around 50c for a cup of coffee you make yourself?
But I do not have one and I do not want one.
My MIL has a Keurig, so I have drank it’s coffee.
Our Cuisinart pot was rusting on the warming element. So, my wife went on a hunt. After months (not exaggerating) she finds that the Coffee maker that has the best reviews now, is the Cuisinart. With the following two caveats:
1) Sometimes the coffee has a “plastic” flavor.
2) Occasionally, the Cuisinart catches FIRE when plugged in but, NOT in use.
She says, its time for more research. (It’s been about 4 months, so far). Well back on the internet. Finally, she found a CHEMEX POT you can see: Chemex Coffeemaker – Wikipedia
Very long story…….with a HAPPY ENDING! When we started making coffee in the CHEMEX, it was the same coffee beans that we had been buying. The flavor was AMAZING! No acidity…very smooth.
No. Just more expensive especially to but the prepacked coffee.
I like the ease with which I make 1 cup of coffee. I also like that I can have a second cup of a different type very easily. When I tried to make 2 cups of coffee in the drip coffee pot, I found I had to measure out different amounts depending on the type of coffee. Some coffees took one tablespoon per cup, others took 2 tablespoons per cup and if I didn’t make coffee for awhile I forgot which was which and it came out bad.
If you’re making breakfast or an after dinner coffee for 4 people, the old fashioned coffee pot is better.
I live with family. She gets up at 6 and makes a pot of coffee (most of which she throws away). I get up several hours later and use the Keurig. Fresh, ready when I’m ready, voila!
No with the caveat that I’ve had really nice cups of K-pod coffee occasionally.
Given the same bean, made well, and an interest in getting more than a single cup of coffee, the regular methods are better. (All coffee is more or less the same, but all of us have our preferences – boiled, drip, French press, espresso, mocha pot etc.)
The only place Keurig excels is in spots like hotel rooms or meeting rooms, where I am the only person at that moment wanting a cup of coffee. The convenience is unparalleled
Having said that, there are things you need to know about K-cups.
they come in a wide range of bean quality and flavours, and just like regular beans, if bean is of poor quality so is the k-cup. I just came back from a holiday and I don’t think I had a single decent K-cup in 18 days. But I have elsewhere.
they are significantly more expensive than beans. $75 at Costco buys 120 pods, roughly $0.60 a pod. A pound of coffee yields roughly 90 cups. At this price premium, I can afford to make 6 cup pots of coffee and throw out 4 of them and break even .
So in the end, gimme a pot of water, a heat source and some beans, and I’ll make a fine cup of coffee. (smash beans with book/suitcase/shoe/whatever. Boil water. remove from heat. Add beans. Wait 5 m.)