Coffee by K-Cup

We got a Cuisinart Single Brew coffee machine in the middle of December from Bed, Bath and Beyond. It was for sale as well on Costco.com, but not in the actual Costco brick store we go to. There was a great package of coffee with the Costco.com machine for a good price. The same machine at BBB was $20 more and had less coffee & water filters in the package. We had a coupon for 20% off, using that it pretty much met the Costco.com price and so we did it, bought it and brought it home from BBB, just so we would have it right then, not have to wait for shipping, as we were so sick and tired of our 10-cup SS Carafe Cuisinart coffee maker.

We like bold coffee, hot coffee. The machine we had for over a year just wasn’t up to snuff anymore, not that it ever was, or wasn’t but I was over tired of the big routine every morning to get the carafe hot enough to hold the 10-cups of coffee for me and hubby. That wasn’t the pot I liked. I liked the second pot we brewed. It’s not that I didn’t try …  I ran a pot of water through the machine without any coffee grounds first.  Then in an electric water heating pot I boiled water for the carafe,  I let the machine sit for 10-min then dumped it and added the hot water, let that sit while heating up water, dumped added then heated water, then when it was heated dumped and added and either let it sit 10 or more minutes or pretty soon or later dumped and made real coffee with the machine, water in it, and coffee grounds.

I developed that over a long trial period of time, it was best I came up with, and wasn’t good enough. It was better, but still ick, and the second machine pot of coffee after the first was way better. Letting hot water sit in it for blah, blah, blah from here or there made no difference. It was just the way of it, we wanted it better, it wasn’t HOT enough, was mucky at the end, half-mucky in the middle. Ick. Not grounds, just ick feeling, ick feeling, ick, feeling. You get it.

A second brew of coffee in that pot made for a nicer pot, not ick in the middle, just OK, hot enough. Problem was we didn’t always drink it all, plus when hubby out of town I was very unhappy with the coffee situation having to do it all alone, and only have 1 pot of ick.

Enter Keurig, for years I’d heard of it and never gave it one whit of thought really. Until late 2010. I did.

1. Keurig machines in Costco all the time, noticing them but not caring ever.

2. Demo at Costco using Keurig Platinum machine. Hubby got a sample. I only tasted it. Impressed for the HOT of it.

3. Same day as 2. being at Bed, Bath & Beyond for something else, saw K-cup machines and looked deeper at them and the K-cups. Saw Cuisinart for $199 and loved it. DH not as impressed. Would buy one at Costco made by “Keurig” the one was $139 and that’s as much as he wanted to pay, sometime, but not even then or soon.

4. At home went to Costco.com and saw they had the Cuisinart K-Cup machine I wanted. Started reading more about it and fell in love with K-cup idea and Cuisinart model.

5. Within a few days hubby OK with it and we bought the one at BBB.

We have bought several varieties of K-Cups since. The machine came with a small sampling that we found some we liked OK, others we’ll pass on. We’ve bought a box of 80 at Costco, some 18’s at BBB, and a few 18’s at Target. My favorite is only at Target, Caribou Obsidian. Yum!

Hubby was using the My K-Cup, but the last few days he’s doing that less and less. I don’t NOT want to use my own coffee, just hate the My K-cup, looking to use the Perfect Pod E-Z Cup with E-Z Cup paper filters maybe … something with paper filters, I DO NOT want a “have to wash the basket out” method. I DO NOT want a “have to replace the holder to use my own coffee in my machine” method. E-Z Cup solves those problems, and I also want paper filter for good coffee and healthier coffee reasons.

All in all very happy with my K-Cup machine, K-cup coffees as long as they are bold, bold, bold. Caribou Blend is as weak as I can stand it. FWIW