OT -- Coffee: it is an awesome thing

[DreamDiver]

I'm good with Folgers decaf crystals.
It's mountain grown... er... crystallized...

[idamtnboy]

One of the best coffees I've ever drunk is Community Coffee's Cafe Special blend when I lived in Louisiana. Forget the chicory stuff. It's bad!

[drj130]

I'll only drink Germany coffee. Jacobs

[Steve of Cornubia]

We bought a Saeco fully auto espresso coffee machine about four years ago. It took a couple of weeks to get the settings just right but, once we nailed it, the coffee has been great, and very consistent. We love it.

The machine went in for a service last week, at which point the coffee counter read just over 7600 shots.......

[drj130]

We bought a Saeco fully auto espresso coffee machine about four years ago. It took a couple of weeks to get the settings just right but, once we nailed it, the coffee has been great, and very consistent. We love it.

The machine went in for a service last week, at which point the coffee counter read just over 7600 shots.......

Never thought that I'd see the day where a coffee pot has to go in for services like a car. lmao

[mollete]

Right now I'm liking

[Madalot]

I have a wide assortment of K-Cups including 8 O'Clock original & columbian. I am a Dunkin' Donuts type person, rather than Starbucks, so all my coffee leans towards Light & Medium Roast. I have at least 20 different coffees and an assortment of teas (hot & cold) and hot chocolates/cappucinos. Every morning I look and decide which I will have for my morning coffee. Today is Brown Gold Peruvian Roast from coffee.org. Very nice coffee.

My station racks hold 125 K-Cups and I have storage on the shelf for 945 more. I buy boxes of K-Cups through mail order services and stock up. Currently, I buy from coffee.org, Green Mountain & Gevalia.

A trip to Target over the weekend found a new coffee, Archer Farms Kona roast. Wonderful!! I'm sending my son today on his outing to the City to buy two more boxes.

People that see my setup say I'm my own coffee shop!

[pootsie]

I have an irrational hatred for those "cup" machines.

Or maybe it's rational based on the price per pound.

I use a cone with fresh, locally-roasted beans. Currently sipping on Biker Blend from these fine folks:
http://www.backroomcoffeeroasters.com/

There is something so satisfying about pouring the water on the grounds myself. And no more trouble than the machines, really.

Plus, I am not going to kill myself today. Not with coffee this yummy to drink!

[Madalot]

I have an irrational hatred for those "cup" machines.

Or maybe it's rational based on the price per pound.

I was using a percolator before. I resisted the K-Cup brewers for the same reasons. How could anything be better than fresh, PERC'D coffee???

My physical issues made the percolator/drip makers problematic. I had to set up the percolator/drip maker, then the clean up each day. The K-Cup, despite the cost of the cups (which IS better using a mail order service), works for me. I have almost no clean up and since we moved everything to the dining room, I CAN do my own coffee, by myself, without the danger of falling and injuring myself. This works, is safer for me and saves me that precious energy that I hate to waste (up & down from my wheelchair is a pain).

Plus, I LOVE the taste of the K-Cup coffee. Each cup is freshly brewed. A little more expensive, but necessary for me.

[49er]

This is where I had the best coffee since I started drinking it when I was a teenager.

http://www.zingermans.com/

The coffee I had made Starbucks seem like instant coffee in comparison. Didn't need any cream, sugar, or artificial sweeteners.

49er

[pootsie]

Madalot, if it works for you, that's awesome.

I mean, I'm still silently judging anyone who has different needs, tastes or preferences. But I'll try to be polite

OK, I'll admit it, I'm a judgmental coffee snob.

Now don't even get me started on articial "creamer."

[Madalot]

Madalot, if it works for you, that's awesome.

I mean, I'm still silently judging anyone who has different needs, tastes or preferences. But I'll try to be polite

OK, I'll admit it, I'm a judgmental coffee snob.

Now don't even get me started on articial "creamer."

LOL -- no worries. If not for my disability, I wouldn't be doing it this way either. I'd be sticking with my percolator.

I drink my coffee black (always have) so I won't argue one way or the other about creamers. When I have guests coming that I know use cream, I tend to have my guys buy REAL cream. I don't have that powdered stuff here anyway.

[pootsie]

You just earned back my respect

When can I come visit?

[DreamDiver]

I have an irrational hatred for those "cup" machines.

Or maybe it's rational based on the price per pound. ...

K-cups are convenience-based. They are 'luncheables' or 'snackables' for adults. The convenience comes at an environmental price. As you've pointed out pootsie, besides being outrageously expensive for a home-brew, the only thing they have going for them is assumed convenience. I'm not really sure it takes that much longer to make a truly excellent cup of coffee with a simple espresso machine. A lot of cafes would be out of business if it did.

Keurig has posted this "greenwashing" webpage as their response to the k-cup dilemma. It says absolutely nothing in several paragraphs. Here's the inventor's response, similarly meaningless. Their "solution" is to densify packaging so they can sell you more k-cups in a smaller box at a higher price.

However, there are reusable K-cup adapters.

My wife uses one of these espresso makers, and loves it. $30... Target. It just works. No filters necessary. Decent coffee.

[Pachyderm's Nose]

I looked at the k-cup brewers but too expensive for me. I bought a cheap ($18) black & decker single cup brewer use 4 cup paper filters and what ever coffee is my current favorite. Brews 1 cup in about 2 minutes and it's always fresh.