Keurig B60 Special Edition Gourmet Single-Cup Home-Brewing System This instant

Adding my review to the mix. Clearly from the reviews this unit is considered outstanding and I was really blown away by it. It was my first single cup coffee machine and I reviewed them all thoroughly. It was between the Senseo and the B60 - frankly to me the B60 struck me as a better made, workhorse coffee machine which is what I wanted. At this price, I want a machine that will last. Why did I go for a single cup machine? I am the only coffee drinker is my large household. During the week its always too rushed to make coffee before I leave for work with kids in tow to school. So I either stopped at Starbucks and spent $5 which also took 15 mins or I got fast food coffee (yuck) which still cost $2.

On the weekends, I would use my black & decker 4 cup coffee maker but frankly, the quality was inconsistent. It was prolly me more than anything else really. For some reason I could never really make a "great" cup of coffee even tho I bought good coffee. Maybe it was the machine, or the filters, etc. I was looking at buying a "better" coffee machine & the regular ones start at about $45 so i thought $129 wasn't a huge stretch since I love coffee.

Enter Keurig B60 Special Edition :

Pros:

Set up was amazingly simply. Instructions not needed but the quick start useful.
Your first cup of coffee in minutes of setting it up.
Big reservoir of water, makes about 5 cups at the 9.25 size. Enough for me for the weekend.
Comes with 18 mixed coffee kcups!! I didn't expect that!
This is a beautiful, well built unit. Very solid. Buts it bigger than you might think, so give it room.
Coffee tastes great, very consistent quality. Temperature is perfect at the hottest setting.
You can program the auto on & off time, no need to program when to make the coffee, its takes just a minute.
Insane variety of kcups out there. I need to find a place that sells variety packs.

Cons:

I wish it made a bigger cup of coffee. It makes 5.25, 7.25, and 9.25oz sizes but you might want to measure this out first in a simple measure cup. 5.25 is really small, like a few mouthfuls. It takes me two 9.25 to fill my average size travel mug in the morning. But it is what it is. The up side is the coffee taste exceptional.

It spoils you on all other coffee! Now I am thinking of getting the mini Keurig for my office!

Notes:

My kids are eager to want to make coffee but I really don't want them drinking it at their age. To counter this, I bought a few boxes of Tea (english breakfast and earl grey) so they can use the machine but not actually make coffee.

Also, avoid the hot chocolate kcups, awful. All the coffee and tea kcups are leaf & bean brews, the choco is a powder mix and its terrible. Not really a mark against the machine, just FYI really. Most of the powder stays in the cup, bleh.

I feel a little guilty throwing away 1-3 plastic kcups a day in the trash. Could they be recycled if I cleaned them out first I wonder?

If you forget set the auto on then you have to wait in the morning for it to "heat up" the water. Takes about 2 minutes. Still, this is a piddling issue. So it takes 4 minutes for that perfect 9.25 cup of coffee as opposed to 1-2 minutes.Get more detail about Keurig B60 Special Edition Gourmet Single-Cup Home-Brewing System.