Where to find one cup coffee brewer similar to those in hotels

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<p>We have accumulated a huge amount of one cup coffee brewing packets from hotel stays over the last two years. These are not the round filter types, which I send to my mom in the nursing home. These are the kind that the coffee in encased in a plastic container that goes into the single cup coffee pot that is placed in the hotel room.</p>

<p>Does anyone know where we can get one of these coffee pots? We don’t want anything fancy, just something that would accommodate these single serve plastic coffee packets.</p>

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<p>Wouldn’t it be cheaper to buy coffee than to buy a coffee maker that accomodates your free coffee?</p>

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<p>Open wasteful plastic single serving packets into a regular filter coffee pot and use it.</p>

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<p>Ha, ha, I knew I’d get that response!</p>

<p>Of course I buy coffee for my coffee pot at home!</p>

<p>Our coffee pot is getting old, and we’re thinking of actually switching to this kind of pot, as husband rarely drinks more than a cup on the weekend. He is the only coffee drinker in the house.</p>

<p>I tend to bring all the little goodies home from the hotel because I donate it to various needy people. My mom in the nursing home likes the filter coffee packets, the little packets of sugar, sweetener, creamer, and stirrer, plus tea bags. She doesn’t have a lot of space, so she has a little basket that she keeps them in.</p>

<p>As for the soap, shampoo, conditioner, body wash, our ladies club collects these and sends them to the troops overseas.</p>

<p>I have to admit, I do keep the notepads and pens for myself for grocery and to-do lists.</p>

<p>So, I’m not taking home free coffee from the hotel because I’m too cheap to buy my own coffee.</p>

<p>So, the question stands, maybe better put:</p>

<p>Can anyone recommend a single serve coffee pot that is not fancy and not expensive?</p>

<p>If it fits the free plastic single serve coffee packets at the hotels, great. If not, we’ll look at those, too.</p>

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<p>Keurig has several different models of single cup makers, in a range of prices. Bed Bath and Beyond sells them.</p>

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<p>^^^Thanks, alwaysamom. I’ve seen single cup expresso type machines and some coffee makers that are over a hundred dollars. I was hoping for a recommendation for an inexpensive model. I’ll check out BBB.</p>

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<p>ya know, ground coffee that is 1- 2 years old is NOT going to make a nice cup of coffee, no mater how it was stored. BBB does have a wide selection of coffee makers, but buying one to justify using old coffee may not be all that sensible…just saying…</p>

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<p>I googled and found courtesyproducts.com selling what appears to be the coffee maker you’re thinking of.
I have a Nespresso machine at work. It uses their proprietary pods. Very handy for fresh coffee when I want it.</p>

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<p>There was a thread about Keurig type coffee pots a couple of months ago, if you have the patience to scroll through this forum, you might hit it.</p>

<p>My go-to one cup coffee maker is an ancient small espresso pot that I sto-er borrowed from my mother-in-law years ago. [Moka</a> pot - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moka_pot]Moka”>Moka pot - Wikipedia) It makes one small regular cup of coffee, or two tiny espresso cups of coffee. I’ve successfully made coffee in it that is not espresso-grind.</p>

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<p>Keruig coffee makers are expensive, and the cups of single serve coffee are expense. I LOVE my Melitta (pod) one cup coffee maker. The pods are less expensive. And I bought a pod maker and filters on sale. For $30 I have a pod maker and enough pod filters to fill and to last years. I bought a few boxes of pod filters, not realizing how many were in each. They were a few bucks a box. It makes a great cup of coffee.</p>

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<p>Good point about the couple of year old coffee. I’ll throw that out. </p>

<p>I’m actually thinking of getting one of these for my mom, as she was always so thrilled when I was going out of town, she knew she’d get her little hotel coffees. As more and more of the hotels are giving these little single serve packets, she’s been disappointed at not getting her coffee goodies. </p>

<p>She won’t be able to keep the pot in her room, but there’s a little kitchen the residents share that she can keep it in. She loves to make herself a cup of coffee around three in the morning when she wakes up. Another reason I’m looking for an inexpensive model, as it will be in an open area, and while we’ve never had that problem, expensive items do tend to grow legs and walk when they’re easy pickings.</p>

<p>Good to know the espresso makers may work. I’ve seen more of them available at discount stores than single serve coffee makers.</p>