ghostgotcha Loc: The Florida swamps

For those of you who already own and brew your coffee using the K-cup. Kudos. Every cup the same, coffee is fresh and the girls love it because you just put in the K-cup, brew your coffee and then remove the cup and toss it in the trash. Load another cup and away you go again.

Not only that but there are hundreds of choices in which coffee you can chose. Everything from Tea, to Coffee to just about any brand of gourmet coffee you prefer. You can brew one brand for your husband, switch and brew what you want. Heck you can even brew hot water into a cup and mix in some soup or wh**ever.... Very nice. The cost is as low as 50cents per cup and that is a fraction of what you could pay at a coffee shop.

NOW BE WARNED: Keurig has just introduced a new brewer. The Keurig 2.0. You can get it with a carafe and there is a new k-cup which will make four cups for when you have guests...

Here is the problem. The standard k-cup which you find available just about anywhere will not work in the new model 2.0..... Buy the new model and you will be very limited in your se******n and pay much more per cup of coffee.

Now I find that everyone, including Wall Mart and Sams Club are reducing the price because people are returning them as fast as they sell them.

Can you imagine buying the new 2.0 because you are so happy with your existing model, then when you get it home it will not work with your existing k-cups.

This is an example of a corporation playing games and it could well come back and bite them in the arse. It should.

no propaganda please Loc: moon orbiting the third rock from the sun

I have yet to figure out why people pay all that money for a "fresh" cup of coffee. On line you will find hundreds of companies that sell exotic coffees in whole beans. Coffee grinders are cheap and easy to use, and that way the fresh ground coffee really is fresh. There are pots that make coffee one or two at a time, as well as the 12 cup ones we use. We can grind our own, change the mix daily, and chicory when desired and it costs us less than 15 cents an 8 ounce cup. Well worth it as far as I can see, and no artificial additives in any of them.

archie bunker Loc: Texas

Good to know. We are planning to get one of those next time they are on sale. The one cup option is great because we don't drink a lot of coffee, she likes the foo-foo stuff, and I just want a cup of coffee.

ghostgotcha Loc: The Florida swamps

Well you are correct in all the things you say. We also have a grinder and a bag of KONA which was sent to us from Hawaii, it is sealed in the freezer for a big party coming up. Sitting beside our Keuring is a Cuisinart 12 cup brewer which does a great job.
Why don't we use it every day. T***hfully, we are spoiled by the Keuring.

1. If I am going to go to the trouble of bringing the "burr" grinder in from the pantry room and set it up. Then I am going to grind more than one pot of coffee, so I then have to put the grounds in a jar and try to keep them out of the air. Of course, the moment it hits the air it starts to go stale. Then of course, I have to clean up the grinder before I put it away.

2. When you brew a cup. and our brewer, like yours makes some great coffee, but you have to drink it promptly because if you leave it sitting on the warming pad it will grow strong. (even if you remove the used coffee so it does not keep dripping down into the pot.)

3. Then once the pot is empty you have to clean it, dig out the coffee filter and holder and clean it, then when you are ready put in a new filter, find and open your coffee jar, grab the spoon and measure out your coffee again.

So. All these problems are solved with the Keurig and they deserve kudos for the originality of their design. Now if they would only be a bit less greedy.

Here is just one example of why IBM originally captured the market in personal desktop computers. The same applies to Keurig today.

In the beginning. (for you old farts who can remember this)... There were a number of new fanged personal computers. ?Texas Instruments had their TI-94(a), Atari, Compact and all kinds of manufactures such as Radio Shack etc. were marketing theirs at the same time. They were really cool toys, even if they did not store anything, and you had to plug it into a regular TV. Not to mention how slow it was. Yet all you could do was play games or go onto a host computer through a dial up modem. If you had a business and needed accounting software or a point of sale system you had little to no chance of getting one. Why?

Well; each computer company had their own operating system, and they restricted third party companies from writing software for their system.

Then along came IBM and MSDOS and they opened the code to write and compile third party software for their computers and the future was born.

Now if you own a business, you can find all kind of specialty software with solutions for it. We all know who owns the market now. Radio Shack, Atari, Commodore, etc. ? Gone with the wind.

If you think about it, this is what made the Keurig so popular, and now that they are trying to go back in time what could k**l them....

Why would they do this? Simple. Their patents for the k-cup has expired and just about every coffee brand now offers k-cups. Competition lowers prices. The new Model 2.0 restricts the coffee choices to the Keurig brands and that limits the choices the public has. Not only that but other manufactures making their own brewers.

What will solve this? Well when you get down to it, other than a included carafe and some other features like the code on the actual k-cup there is not much to keep all those other manufacturers like Mr. Coffee etc. from coming out with their own brewers. and that will k**l the 2.0 faster than standing still in a gun fight because there are (and will continue to be) hundreds of choices in your (fresh) cup of coffee. Coffee even fresher and the choices more than in any coffee house, and you can get your own, in your own kitchen (or office) in just a minute or two. This is the American way of business. This is good progress.....

no propaganda please Loc: moon orbiting the third rock from the sun

We have a little grinder that grinds no more than 5 scoops, sits on the counter and takes up less room than a water glass. Clean it out by running your finger around the inside to get it all in the basket, after unplugging it of course. Actually we have two, the other one we use for fresh ground spices.

missinglink Loc: Tralfamadore

I got the old original style Keurig for Christmas from my daughter. I've been grinding beans myself for years and was happy when I got the reusable screen insert. Pain in the ass but saves tons of money and i can stick with my old favorites. Really like that second cup being fresh and not made bitter by setting on the warmer on the old pot.

alabuck Loc: Tennessee

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I'm not a big coffee drinker as it gives me heartburn. MAYBE, I'll drink 1-2 cups a year. I prefer getting my caffeine via Pepsi Max or Coke Zero. My wife, however, is a coffee-a-holic. She's the one that'll pay $5 for a cup of Starry-bucks. Anyway, her coffee-pot-of-choice is the, Cuisinart Grind'n Brew. Over the years, she's gone through one about every nine months. In fact, the last two times she bought a grinder/brewer, she bought 2; with the extra as a backup until she could get to Belks for another pair.

Now, as to her coffee, she's found a little coffee shop on the courthouse square of our little bedroom community of Nashville, that the owners of are her new BFF's because they roast their own beans. That doesn't stop her from buying coffee beans at Costco or from Starry-bucks, though.

Anyway, I thought I'd just through in a pitch for Cuisinart. It's a good grinder/brewer and from what I understand, it allows one to vary the amount of coffee being made so one isn't making more than wanted/needed.