I agree with xiggi here. If you value the flavor of coffee, there are many options out there to fit virtually any budget. I used to own a Keurig but got tired of the hit-or-miss quality of the pods… some were fresh, some were stale, some just tasted off. At best, I found the coffee to be tolerable, but not particularly “good”. You have to pretty much drown it in creamer to make it taste decent.
I now have a Bonavita coffee maker which makes 10x better coffee. Recently bought a 2lb bag of the Café Don Pablo Subtle Earth Organic coffee on Amazon and am really impressed with the flavor… I used to need coffeemate creamer with my Keurig coffee, but now I just use a little half and half.
Keurigs are great if convenience is top priority, but if you want to actually enjoy coffee and be able to try all sorts of roasts from around the world, you will need an alternative.
I use my refillable gizmo 95% of the time at work. No big deal! My son also used one when he was in college - he used pods some of the time but liked using his own coffee.
Anyone else disturbed at the small cup of coffee it makes though???
I’m assuming that he would get coffee again with breakfast. This is just about not being stranded w/o caffein in the early morning hours . . . convenience and function. Unless he turns over a seriously new leaf he isn’t a fussy aficionado or someone who would invite a girl up to his room to impress her with his coffee pot
I much prefer the larger one. the mini requires you to add your cup of water each time and wait for it to heat up rather than having a resevoir. I bought a mini for us to have at work and I’m not terrribly pleased but it’s pretty minor in the scheme of things.
One caveat - you mentioned your son likes a BIG cup of coffee in the morning - I am not an expert, and maybe there is another solution, but we have a Keurig at work and those cups only put out (IMO) a smallish cup of coffee. Most mugs these days are not tea cup size! - I don’t think the large setting is more than 10 or 12 ounces??? Correct me Keurig experts if I’m wrong. Drives me crazy that I can’t get a FULL cup of coffee out of one of those cups! (I just use a reusable/refillable cup.)>>>>>>>>
Mds and dil gave me a Keurig 2.0 for Christmas. You can brew 4, 6, 8 or 10 oz per cup. I brew 8 + 8 using the same K-cup for a big mug full.
8 oz is really a pretty small cup. Think old style type tea cup (not today’s oversized tea cups!). The mug I use at work is not tiny but by no means big and the Keurig on the largest size cup is lucky if it fills 3/4 full.
The coffee coming out of most pods is bad enough; running another cycle through the same pod and collecting everything into one cup will produce the desired caffeine fix until better coffee can be located.
The aeropress just looks like an upgrade on the cone filter but with more parts and labor - maybe what you get if the French press and cone filter spend too long in the camping box together. If it came to that we would just do cone filter and kettle and call it good. Maybe that’s the answer. The AP has too many parts and looks like it needs cleaning. At least cone filter thingys are low maintenance.
OMG!!! Now I realize that we’re back to @xiggi’s photos! You mean people stand in line to pour boiling water over their own coffee grounds? I suppose their con’t aren’t plastic, though. Wow! He could grab the thing out of the camping gear and would instantly be cutting edge lumbersexual with his coffee? ~O)
Yesterday my test with 6 oz filled a teacup size. Today 8 oz filled my everyday cup. I’m sure the 10 oz will do for for my large mugs. (But c’mon, the larger ones cool down before I’m done, anyway.)
I sure hope this doesn’t turn into coffee brand snobbery. But for the record, I like Illy, Melitta, and the store brand Columbian here. And not most Starbucks, lately. (I’ve got them and an Illy place around the corner. Fine. But we’re talking home convenience.)
No–those are barista’s (don’t think that’s what they’re called at Blue Bottle) who are pouring water over ground coffee (not used grounds). The customers wait in long lines because it takes a few minutes to brew a cup. I was really surprised to see so many people in line for coffee at these places when I was in San Francisco last year. I love my coffee, but I’m not willing to wait to get it.
I think the best argument for the Keurig is the ease in getting the k-cups. You can now get them at any grocery store, Trader Joe’s, warehouse stores, Kohls, on-line. Everyone sells them. I’m fairly picky about my coffee, but I don’t think I’m a snob. I just know what I like. I’m also not willing to pay an arm and a leg for a cup of coffee.
