In the beginning, there was Cuisanart. I used to make a killer cup of coffee in the mornings, but what a chore! Grinding the beans (they did smell good though) then using the paper filter and measuring out just the right amount, brewing, cleaning all of the components after every pot, and there's always wasted coffee left over in the pot. It's hard to spend the first 10-15 minutes in morning "zombie-mode" making coffee. Of course I could have prepped it all ahead of time the prior evening but I'm usually too tired to remember before bed. Anyway .... My mother recently got a Tassimo which uses coffee pods. What convenience, I thought. Being the coffee connoisseur that I am, I tried it just to compare. I was surprised that the Gevalia Espresso really is a pretty good brew, and so simple to make! So I came home and did my online research. Turned out that the Keurig ranked higher; quieter, more versatile, more coffee blends available, so I purchased one. Although I would agree that it is in fact quieter than the Tassimo, and it is simple to use and convenient, I reluctantly have to say that it doesn't make a great cup of coffee. To date, I have spent a small fortune trying blend after blend (buying boxes of coffee K-cups at a time) only to taste a mediocre flavor at best. By the way, as a Starbuck's addict, Keurig does not make a Starbuck's K-cup, or a Gevalia for that matter, and the adapter you can purchase separately still doesn't accommodate Tassimo's "pods". You can however, use their included filter basket and measure out your own ground coffee but then you're back to the same time and inconvenience as before. The closest I've come to a decent cup of coffee in a K-cup would be Timothy's Rainforest Bold. So now, as I sit here drinking my mediocre cup of morning coffee, with a cupboard filled with K-cups of other mediocre coffees, the reality hit me! Life is too short for mediocrity! One of my simple pleasures was a really good cup of freshly brewed coffee in the morning, filling my house with that wonderful aroma saying to me "Wake up! It's a beautiful day!" [pulling the Cuisanart back out of the cupboard] Sometimes things take a little more time to achieve perfection but in the end, it's worth it!
Keurig Rating:
Ease of Use = 10
Quality of Coffee = 2
Going back to the conventional method for that wonderful aroma and taste that you can get only from a slow-brewed, pot of freshly-ground coffee = priceless!
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