rampant consumerism question of the day

[rmd]

so, aside from being wasteful because single serving extra packaging etc, any opinions on k-cup type keurig coffee pod systems? someone i know who lives alone and has started drinking more coffee is potentially interested. and the single-servingness appeals, as does the variety of available flavors and such.

also, where are k-cup pods available for retail purchase? or is it all mail-order?

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[johnromkey.livejournal.com]

You can buy k-cups on Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/gp/search?ie=UTF8&keywords=k-cups&tag=shinythings-20&index=grocery&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=9325), which is still mail order. I've seen them at BJs. You may even be able to get them at some grocery stores. Green Mountain Coffee actually offers a pretty good deal with free shipping if you buy a certain amount.

We had a K-Cup machine for a while. If you like flat diner coffee, you'll like K-Cup coffee. It's not really bad... it just doesn't have much depth of flavor. I was pretty disappointed by it, but then I also roast my own coffee now. They do offer a basket that you can use with your own ground coffee but I didn't find that it tasted better than the usual K-Cups. They have a line of "extra bold" flavors which were better but still disappointing. Eventually we replaced the K-Cup machine with a Jura-Capresso (http://www.amazon.com/gp/search?ie=UTF8&keywords=Jura-Capresso&tag=shinythings-20&index=garden&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=9325) automatic espresso machine, which makes much, much better tasting coffee but obviously costs quite a bit more too.

[rmd.livejournal.com]

this is my stepmother, who is currently drinking the flavored instant coffee stuff, so k-cups would be a step up. and there's a variety of different flavors available.

[johnromkey.livejournal.com]

Yeah, K-Cups are definitely a step up from instant!

[penk.livejournal.com]

We ended up with some awesome extra bold coffee - I'll have to ask catya about which one it was - the normal flavors are, as you say, pretty bland, but she found (she says "tiger coffee or something like that") which was awesome.

Unfortunately, at work they don't have these super-yummy flavors (we have a keurig there too), so we're in bland land. Alas!