<p>I don’t need one but I want one. H makes a full pot of coffee in the AM. I sometimes feel like a cup in the afternoon.
What brand is good and where is the best place to buy one. I have BBB coupons, I have seen them on sale at Macys. Also Costco has one of the Keurig machines for $139 that includes a bunch of coffee. I don’t know if I need such a fancy one.</p>
<p>My mom just drinks one cup a day. I bought her a Senseo for Christmas a couple years ago, and she seems very happy with it. I think they’re more reasonably priced (I got it at Costco; I’m thinking it was something like 60 dollars.)</p>
<p>I have had a Senseo for 3 years now and absolutely love it. It puts a nice froth on the coffee that the Keurig does not. However, I have been seeing the Senseo pads slowly disappear from local stores recently (Target, Kroger). It seems that the packs used by Keurig are more popular. I have had the coffee from Keurig, and it is very good, but I prefer the Senseo. I bought one last year for my daughter, and also her boyfriend, for use in the dorm room. Has anyone tried the new Nescafe machine that has been heavily advertised?</p>
<p>I have a Keurig that I purchased last year with a BBB coupon. They had 3 different models and I bought the middle priced one. I really like the coffee it makes. In my area the water is hard and full of metals, so I buy a big jug of the cheapest bottled water I can find and use it to make my coffee. My only complaint is that the bundles for the Keurig include decaf coffee, tea, and hot coco which I dont use. I re-bundle the ones I dont use and sell them at my annual yard sale.</p>
<p>We have a Keurig which we purchased from BJ’s several years ago. It’s been great! H is the only coffee drinker but the rest of us will use it for cocoa or tea (with a K-cup or just for the hot water). We usually order the coffee from Amazon.</p>
<p>We LOVE our Keurig. We got the bundle at BJs (costco/sams-like). Just shy of a year it stopped working. H called Keurig and they knew what was wrong - offered to ship us a new one - but…darn if they don’t make the same model and had to give us an upgrade!! And, darn again…it was out of stock for a couple of weeks, but they gave us two boxes of kcups of our choice for our troubles. We had the new machine and kcups within a week! And we didn’t have to ship the old one back…sold it at a yard sale (explained not working) for $5.</p>
<p>It is really nice for us because H likes standard coffee, I like really strong coffee, D likes flavored stuff and S (when home) likes the hot chocolate. H also makes both hot and iced tea.</p>
<p>The kcups are MUCH cheaper on amazon too. Once you figured out a flavor/brand you like you can get a nice big box…sometimes they are even on sale and with free shipping.</p>
<p>D has requested the smallest one as her HS graduation gift :-)</p>
<p>Keurig is better than Senseo in my opinion. We replaced our Senseo with a Keurig.</p>
<p>I don’t need one but I want one.</p>
<p>We all can say the same thing. LOL</p>
<p>We love our Keurigs. There are different models and the one that my H and I have is the one with the largest water reservoir which makes for fewer refills, which is nice. They’re great because everyone can have their favorite coffee or tea and you don’t have a big pot sitting around because each cup is made fresh. It also makes good iced tea. I don’t know what the ‘bundles’ are. We usually buy at BB&B, although the grocery stores are now apparently selling more and more of the varieties of K-cups, and we buy boxes of the varieties that we like.</p>
<p>My daughter purchased a Keurig with her high school graduation money to take to college; five years later it still works great. While she has a larger one, Keurig now makes a mini which would have been so much better for a college dorm! My husband has inherited her Keurig as she has decided to avoid coffee and her current roommate has a Keurig also.</p>
<p>[Keurig</a> Mini Brewer - Keurig.com](<a href=“http://www.keurig.com/brewers/mini-plus-personal-brewing-system]Keurig”>http://www.keurig.com/brewers/mini-plus-personal-brewing-system)</p>
<p>Oh, we always buy our coffee at Bed, Bath and Beyond with a 20% off coupon. Kohl’s and Target also will have sales on Keurig coffee, although if you use the coffee daily, you might be better ordering from Amazon or one of the online coffee companies.</p>
<p>The Keurig machines also use a My K-cup, which allows you to use your own coffee. Since the single-use kcups cannot be recycled, I really like that feature; it’s also cheaper.</p>
<p>I love my Keurig. </p>
<p>At least 2 flavors of the coffee are available at Costco, which is where I buy them.</p>
<p>I have an ancient tiny espresso pot (also known as a Moka [Moka</a> (coffee pot) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moka_(coffee_pot)]Moka”>Moka pot - Wikipedia) ). It makes two small espresso cups worth of coffee, or one not-quite regular sized cup of coffee. Probably not as fast as a Keurig or Senseo machine, but more adaptable because any drip or espresso grind will work. Since I swiped, er borrowed, this from my MIL it was free, but BBB has them for about $25. [Bialetti</a> Moka Express 3-Cup Espresso Machine - Bed Bath & Beyond](<a href=“http://www.bedbathandbeyond.com/product.asp?SKU=14682678&RN=831&KSKU=113088&]Bialetti”>http://www.bedbathandbeyond.com/product.asp?SKU=14682678&RN=831&KSKU=113088&)</p>
<p>I use a single serving French press and compost the grounds. Personally, I can’t bring myself to support the expense or the waste generated by unrecycleable k-cups.</p>
<p>I can’t believe I am posting on a thread about coffee as I hate coffee and have never had a cup in my life! </p>
<p>My husband drinks coffee a LOT. </p>
<p>Recently he bought and has been using this stovetop pot like happymom mentioned in post #12, except not an expresso maker one. He has two. One is for regular coffee and looks similar to that Moka one she mentions. The other one is smaller and is a capucinno maker on the stove top and the maker is Bialetti. Both prepare coffee for one person.</p>
<p>“I have been seeing the Senseo pads slowly disappear from local stores recently” - I buy mine on Amazon grocery, with free shipping for orders over $25. Mine come to about 30cents each, but some flavors are more expensive. Lots better that 90cents at the coffee machine. </p>
<p>This Senseo pot works well at the office, shared by many coworkers without any cleanup hassle. We don’t have water in that room, but we take turns filling the gallon jug.</p>
<p>Another vote for the Keurig. H uses the cups from Costco. I use the refillable My Cup one with Starbuck’s Italian Roast from WalMart.</p>
<p>Always hot. Always fresh.</p>
<p>This is one of those gadgets that has also peaked my interest. Need it , no - want it, maybe yes! I am just an occasional coffee drinker, H and I both use something to heat up hot water, the kids like an occassional coffee or hot chocolate and I don’t own a coffee maker so this could be used for the occassional guest who wants coffee. </p>
<p>Is it worth it? Cons, beside price? And how much do you figure the cups end up costing per “piece”???</p>
<p>How about the Bosch machine. This is a machine I would only use a couple of times a week. It would reside in the cupboard. Our standard 12 cup is on the countertop. (a machine that I do compost the grounds from)</p>
<p>Another question: can Keurig machines only use Keurig cups and so on???</p>
<p>Yes, Keurig uses only K cups. The K cups cost between 40 and 50 cents per cup depending where you by them (Costco, BBB, online).</p>
<p>If you fill up the little plastic reusable cup (which costs about $14), it takes maybe 2T coffee (maybe a bit less). So for this route, even netting out the cost of the plastic cup (which usually lasts 3-6 months when it is used multiple times per day - I replace it when one of the plastic flanges chips and doesn’t hold the grounds properly), it is way cheaper than the big coffee pot since with the big pot I usually over made “just in case”.</p>