My wife bought me a Keurig coffee maker for Christmas and, being cheap as I am (at least when it comes to coffee:) ), can you let me know a good place with low cost coffee pods for sale?
Thanks, Happy New Year’s!
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If you’re really wanting to do the best combo of price and flavor, get one of the modular cups you can fill with your own beans.
After that, Costco is where I find the best value for my office (we have one and my minions drink this like it was free…oh, wait…for them it is…)
Register your machine and get on the frequent flyer card for Keurig. You may find drop ship a better deal with the points you’d accrue and then use to discount future purchases.
Now that the patent on the cups has essentially expired there are many ‘competitor’ cups out there (read: Costco et al) - which has brought the price per cup down from $.50 to about $.30 from what I’ve seen.
Lastly, depending on how you like your brew - do your own taste test. Run your preferred cup strength twice thru the same cup. Have your pride serve it to you double blind. See if you can tell which is ‘first run’ and which is not. I have a salesguy that has a huge 22-24 ounce cup that barely fits under the spigot. He does a full cup (icon to the furthest right) and then a short cup (icon to the furthest left) with the same cup in the machine.
Different strokes.
Enjoy John.
costco, they have their own brand now, best price I have found anywhere
Have you really found this to work out well? If so, what is the trick? I picked up one of the Ecobrew cups a while back on sale, and I’ve been really disappointed with the results. I’ve tried it with a few different types of beans from Blue Bottle, and I’ve never managed to get a cup I actually wanted to drink. Vastly inferior to the pre-made K-Cups. I make coffee with the same beans using French Press and Aeropress, so I know what it is supposed to taste like…
I have one of the “use your own coffee” adapters and have had similarly disappointing results. The coffee comes out acidic and bitter. I also rarely drink more than one cup a day and if I grind too much coffee it goes bad before I’m able to brew it.
Sean - i made sure the temp setting on the Keurig is as hot as possible. This helps - but yes, not anywhere close to an AeroPress or French or Chemex for sure.
Put another way I find it’s an acceptable solution to an adequate tool.
Take apart a cup, compare your grinds and see if you can match it. I think they go for a coarser grind than you’d normally use in drip.
the key to improving the quality of the “use your own coffee” adapter ) is to take a used k-cup and open it up, take out the paper filter and used grounds, use a scissors to trim the top edge of the cup off just below the rim, than you sit the filter basket inside the used k-cup. this creates a sleeve around the filter basket and helps keep the water in contact with the grounds much longer, since the only exit is now the pinhole in the bottom of the used plastic k-cup. If you used the adapter without doing this, you will note the water flows through the grounds far faster than when you used a real k-cup.
still not quite as good as a store bought k-cup (which is also far inferior than real brewed coffee as well), but much better than just using the adapter as-is…
Kevin for the win.
bravo
Thanks, but can’t take credit for the technique, I found it some time ago when I was googling about the poor coffee results from those DIY filters…
Ah, very interesting. I’ll give that a try. I’m glad I asked 