I'm not a big coffee drinker, but I don't mind a cup on a cool morning, so long as it's easy to make. I also run a small office with five people, and we didn't have a coffee maker, so people would get their joe at one of the coffee stores - wasting their time and money.
I was visiting a friend in Barcelona, and he had this cool Euro coffee maker that used disposable cups to make espresso. It was great, but it was slow, tiny, and the coffee was expensive. But I loved how easy and tidy it was. A month later, I saw the Keurig machine in Costco, and figured it was worth a shot.
It has been fantastic. Better than I could have expected. It heats up fast, makes coffee, tea, or hot water fast. I never thought coffee could be this clean and easy to make - there is no clean up. Maybe once a month, we wipe the drip pan. Every one of the staffers loves the coffee, gets a hot, fresh cup whenever they want, and get to choose their blend and boldness of beans.
The machine has two ways of working:
1 - from "off" it needs to power up, warm up the water in the internal tank, then it's ready to make a cup of joe. Total time, about 4 minutes.
2 - from "on", the internal tank is always pre-warmed. Thus it takes just 60 seconds to brew a first cup.
If you're trying to brew many cups in a row, it will take a couple of minutes per cup, since it does need to pre-warm the water in between cups.
The machine has a great timer that has two key functions I like:
- you can set it to be "on" based on an timer. Ours is on at 8AM, off at 11AM. This makes ours "ready" for a fast cup during the mornings, and slower otherwise, but saves power.
- you can set a "auto off" timer, so that if it is turned on at any time, it will turn itself off after an hour or two. Saves power.
I love the Amazon coffee choices, have tried many blends and found a bunch we like. We "subscribed" to a Timothy's Kona, which means Amazon sends us a box every month automatically, free shipping, and discounted. Subscribing is pretty cool! Amazon also has new packaging for 50-count boxes, which reduces the amount of packaging, while further lowering the price per cup.
This unit paid for itself in the first month. I bought a second Keurig for my family's lake house, and it is being equally well-received.
WEAKNESS: The hot chocolate, being water-based is not very tasty. It's OK, but don't expect to impress anyone using the cocoa K-cups produced by this machine.Get more detail about Keurig B60 Special Edition Gourmet Single-Cup Home-Brewing System.
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