Keurig

[ChuckO]

Bought it Mother's Day, returned it today. Kept giving "Prime" message which required unplugging to resolve. If we get another one, it will be the smaller model, we never used all the features of this model

 

[ChadVKealey]

Our first Keurig lasted about 2 years, after which (as a previous owner), the customer support folks sold me a refurb of the next model up, which is now about 2.5 years old and still working well. For my wife & I, who have very different tastes in coffee (among other things), it's ideal. She can brew her flavored crap and I can make my espresso blend and we each get what we like. BTW, I had some guilt about the waste issue (non-recyclability of the cups, etc.), but most of the coffees I buy now are the San Francisco Bay brand, where the only plastic is a ring around the top of the cup, the rest is basically coffee filter material. The only downside is that you often end up with some sediment at the bottom of the cup unless you drink really fast, but to me that's like the prize at the bottom of the cereal box...a little extra jolt of caffeinated goodness to finish it off!

 

[Ron A]

K-Cup cost: 12 for $5.99 or about 50 cents/cup (or more)
Costco dark roast whole bean: $6.50/lb

1 lb of coffee will yield about 10 pots of coffee (10-12 cup coffee maker)
Cost per pot: $0.69 cents
Cost per cup: appox. 6 cents

So, the K-cup coffee is about 8 times more expensive than traditionally brewed coffee. Is the convenience REALLY worth it?

 

[Frank H]

And that's the reason I hadn't bought one until now. The one I bought has a "basket" (for lack of better description) that you can use your own coffee. I like Peet's Major Dickerson. I fill the basket not to the top, probably 3/4's full. I run the maker twice (making two cups) and it's perfect coffee. I buy my Peet's at Winco, it's $8 for 12 oz's. When I was brewing, I would have to buy coffee every other week. I've had this maker a month now, and I'm still on the bag of coffee. So in all seriousness, it's actually cheaper than brewing. Believe me, I was surprised at this

yes , that little basket makes the keurig a money saver. The cheapest I've found the k cups is BJ's ....80 cups for about 37 bucks....all one flavor , tho.

 

[Chuck Bench]

K-Cup cost: 12 for $5.99 or about 50 cents/cup (or more)
Costco dark roast whole bean: $6.50/lb

1 lb of coffee will yield about 10 pots of coffee (10-12 cup coffee maker)
Cost per pot: $0.69 cents
Cost per cup: appox. 6 cents

So, the K-cup coffee is about 8 times more expensive than traditionally brewed coffee. Is the convenience REALLY worth it?

When you look at it that way, then yes it's definitely more expensive...

But let's look at this another way...apples to apples not apples to oranges...

I can buy Folgers in the can for $9.88 per 33.9 ounces...

now the fact of how much the coffee costs doesn't matter...because either way the coffee is coming out of the same can...

The REAL savings in using a Keurig is where you brew a 10 cup pot of coffee, I brew a 2 cup mug of coffee..same coffee grinds per cup, same price per cup...

The REAL savings are that I'm brewing what I'm going to drink, instead of you brewing multiple cups of coffee you're probably not going to drink...

The REAL savings are when you use the coffee basket and use coffee out of a can not the K cups...K cups are a rip off...

I can understand where you're coming from with K cups being more expensive than can coffee...I agree...

but my wife and I only drink 2 cups of coffee each per morning or maybe a cup later in the afternoon too...that's 6 cups of coffee in the morning that would be wasted money AND the Keurig is much faster at making a cup of coffee than a traditional coffee pot

 

[ChuckO]

As mentioned, the Mother's Day Keurig died out and in all honesty, I missed it. So I got this lil one at Target for < $30

So far, so good. I really like just having one cup right now. You know, when you're up at 4:30 smokin' a butt