Anyone else had it with Keurig yet?

[BC38]

OMG... Iced coffee?? A sacrilege. ohhhhh blic! But on ythe other hand...we recently bought a fruit juice squeezer brand new at an auction. 5.00 had to look 'em up when we got home...Good Grief...they are a $100 ? I asked my wonderful wife what's she gonna do with it? She buys lemons when on sale and squeezes them down. puts the juice in ice cube trays..then into bags. She makes me lemonade that is great. 12% lemon juice spring water and sugar. It's great. Now she's going to buy oranges on sale...did yesterday and gonna make OJ.

The fresh juices and lemonade sound great!

I used to feel the same way about iced coffee. I drink it out of a 20 oz mug and it frequently goes cold before I finish it, so I got in the habit of drinking it anyway - even after it had cooled off. From there it is just a small step to drinking it iced. The one thing I still didn't like was how the ice watered down the taste of the coffee.

With the ice cubes made of coffee that isn't an issue, and I drink quite a bit of it that way during the hot summer months when a cup of hot coffee isn't quite as appealing.

 

[BC38]

Well BC38...a dollar a pot is cheap. Don't know how many cups(8 ounces?) in a pot but I make the 16 oz mug for 32 cents. If I made 5 cups to a pot it would be great except for the fact I would be throwing out more'n a 1/2 pot every day. No it isn't much money either way but my can of ground coffee would be stale and out of date before I'd get to use it all. yep brewed or drip IS a better cup though. But then,,,even well made instant is better than none....I think LOL...You know...instant coffee can be ok...instant Tea ?...terrible

One other thing I missed when I replied to your post: if you are making 16oz of coffee from ONE Keurig pod, then what you're drinking wouldn't suit me at all.

In my experience, brewing more than an 8-10 oz cup with one Keurig pod yields a cup of WEAK SAUCE. To get a 16 oz serving of good, strong coffee - the way I like it - requires using TWO of their pods to brew a couple of 8 or 10 oz cups.

I like my coffee STRONG. I've always told people that "if my coffee is too strong for your taste, you can add some hot water to it - because if I brew it too weak, all I can do is pour it out and start over".

If you like drinking coffee that is as weak as tea, then making a 16 oz serving from a single Keurig pod should be right up your alley. But that kind of coffee isn't for me.

FWIW, our Cuisinart is marked as a 12 "cup" coffee maker. AFAIK that must be 12 five-six ounce cups - or about 2 quarts. I know I can fill my 20 oz Yeti cup and my 32 oz thermos and stil leave enough for my wife to have a couple of cups from one pot. To make that much good, strong coffee with a Keurig would mean using at least 7 or 8 of their pods - at a cost of $2.24 - $2.58 per pot (assuming your quoted $0.32 per pod). Not to mention waiting a couple of minutes brewing time per pod.

I can brew that same amount of good, strong coffee using 2 scoops (about 10-12 tablespoons) of the Costco/Kirkland ground coffee (which is roasted by Starbucks from what I have always understood) for less than a buck. It costs us $14 for a 3 pound can. And it only takes around 6-7 minutes to brew the whole pot.

Like I said, if you only want a cup or two, the convenience of a Keurig may be right for you. But, if you drink it by the pot, like I do, a Keurig doesn't seem like the best or most economical choice. JMO.

 

[Marksman]

My daughter gave me a Keurig when they upgraded to a fancier one, I didn't care for it and put it out in the garage. My handyman spotted it and wanted it for his country place, he gave me $20. for it. Currently have a Hamilton Beach which is the second one of these I've owned, it does an adequate job of making a cup of coffee. I thought that the K-cups were overpriced and I used the refillable cup with Folgers.

 

[Bullet Bob]

A handyman with a country place?! That dude must be making bank.

 

[NYlakesider]

One other thing I missed when I replied to your post: if you are making 16oz of coffee from ONE Keurig pod, then what you're drinking wouldn't suit me at all.

In my experience, brewing more than an 8-10 oz cup with one Keurig pod yields a cup of WEAK SAUCE. To get a 16 oz serving of good, strong coffee - the way I like it - requires using TWO of their pods to brew a couple of 8 or 10 oz cups.

I like my coffee STRONG. I've always told people that "if my coffee is too strong for your taste, you can add some hot water to it - because if I brew it too weak, all I can do is pour it out and start over".

If you like drinking coffee that is as weak as tea, then making a 16 oz serving from a single Keurig pod should be right up your alley. But that kind of coffee isn't for me.

FWIW, our Cuisinart is marked as a 12 "cup" coffee maker. AFAIK that must be 12 five-six ounce cups - or about 2 quarts. I know I can fill my 20 oz Yeti cup and my 32 oz thermos and stil leave enough for my wife to have a couple of cups from one pot. To make that much good, strong coffee with a Keurig would mean using at least 7 or 8 of their pods - at a cost of $2.24 - $2.58 per pot (assuming your quoted $0.32 per pod). Not to mention waiting a couple of minutes brewing time per pod.

I can brew that same amount of good, strong coffee using 2 scoops (about 10-12 tablespoons) of the Costco/Kirkland ground coffee (which is roasted by Starbucks from what I have always understood) for less than a buck. It costs us $14 for a 3 pound can. And it only takes around 6-7 minutes to brew the whole pot.

Like I said, if you only want a cup or two, the convenience of a Keurig may be right for you. But, if you drink it by the pot, like I do, a Keurig doesn't seem like the best or most economical choice. JMO.

The bolded above is quite close to what I heard growing up from my parents. They liked sort of strong coffee.

Me personally, I like my coffee rather strong, I normally drink about 3 cups a day at breakfast time. I do not dilute my coffee in any way with either chemicals,or cream, milk, sugar ETC.
I take it straight black so I can get the full taste out of it!

We normally make our coffee by the pot but if needing just one cup use the Keurig.

 

[yeti]

I'm on my third large Keurig and I really like them. Two at home and one at the office. We flog them pretty good.
The smaller versions have not lasted, but the larger ones have.
I depend on these. We use filtered water in them and run vinegar when brew times get noticeably longer.

 

[OLDSTER]

We "re-gifted" ours to an unpopular relative.

 

[delcrossv]

These are the NUTS.

Moka Pot. Son has one and I tried it. Now we have two. No landfill-filling disposable parts.

They come in a variety of sizes from 1 to 18 cups (demitasse/espresso size)