Ever Wonder Why Keurigs Are So Expensive?

[LongBlade]

I think the Keurig craze is just nuts.  It uses ground coffee.  Do you guys know the level of allowed impurities in ground coffee?  Coffee plantations put their absolute worst coffee in ground, especially instant.  I read up on this and threw out all of the ground coffee in the house.

Bunn home coffee makers come with heated tanks of water so the brewing process is both fast and excellent.  You can use much better coffee than the ground crap they put in Keurig's. 

Get a Bunn & a good thermos and you will be drinking excellent coffee if you guy good whole bean stuff.

R. Dalton Coffee is simply excellent for example.  See: http://filadelfiacoffee.com/  Best coffee I've ever had in my life.

You make an interesting point there, Airboy. Thanks. Will take that under advisement.

[undercovergeek]

aah-ahhh! You have a woman's hand, milord! I'll wager these dainty pinkies never weighed anchor in a storm.

LOL - now I have to go and watch Blackadder again............

today is your lucky day sir - i have in my possession the aforementioned missing manuscript and 4 other accompanying documents - i have Gloing towers' location written down - expect a mysterious brown package quite soon

[bob48]

Well, I do have the Blackadder boxed set, so it must be those back issues of a certain GW mag to which you refer?

[undercovergeek]

Well, I do have the Blackadder boxed set, so it must be those back issues of a certain GW mag to which you refer?

indeed, you can retire to your boudoir and entertain yourself to dirty TAU pictures

[bob48]

Hubba!

[undercovergeek]

lol - away for a few days and then theyre yours - do not check the prices of the new 'apocolypse' stuff - a very, very clever way of getting ass-raped by GW - to an extent im impressed

[bob48]

I have every intention of never setting foot inside a GW store ever again. They have had enough of my cash in years gone by. However, I shall still drool over the figs, especially the Tau ones.

I do wish I still had all my Space Hulk stuff though..........sigh.

[TheCommandTent]

Very interesting look inside of the machine.  Also nice zombie killing weapon you have there LB.  :)

[LongBlade]

Very interesting look inside of the machine.  Also nice zombie killing weapon you have there LB.  :)

My thinking is it would fit nicely into a trebuchet.

[Centurion40]

Actually, this time it wouldn't even turn on. Power button just failed to work.

I suspect it's bad wiring, though a board could have gone bad.

That's pretty much how ours died.

[Centurion40]

I think the Keurig craze is just nuts.  It uses ground coffee.  Do you guys know the level of allowed impurities in ground coffee?  Coffee plantations put their absolute worst coffee in ground, especially instant.  I read up on this and threw out all of the ground coffee in the house.

Bunn home coffee makers come with heated tanks of water so the brewing process is both fast and excellent.  You can use much better coffee than the ground crap they put in Keurig's. 

Get a Bunn & a good thermos and you will be drinking excellent coffee if you guy good whole bean stuff.

R. Dalton Coffee is simply excellent for example.  See: http://filadelfiacoffee.com/  Best coffee I've ever had in my life.

Ok, so when you say "ground coffee" do you mean only shitty coffee beans that are ground in a factory?  I ask because isn't all coffee "ground coffee"?

FYI, my Keurig machines have all come with a device to brew your own ground coffee- you can get your own beans and grind them yourself, or buy coffee already ground- either prepackaged or ground to your specifications in a finer coffee retail establishment.  One does not need to use the prepackaged K cups.

All of the being said, I don't doubt that your coffee, brewed in your own Bunn, is far better than my usual Keurig brew!

[airboy]

I think the Keurig craze is just nuts.  It uses ground coffee.  Do you guys know the level of allowed impurities in ground coffee?  Coffee plantations put their absolute worst coffee in ground, especially instant.  I read up on this and threw out all of the ground coffee in the house.

Bunn home coffee makers come with heated tanks of water so the brewing process is both fast and excellent.  You can use much better coffee than the ground crap they put in Keurig's. 

Get a Bunn & a good thermos and you will be drinking excellent coffee if you guy good whole bean stuff.

R. Dalton Coffee is simply excellent for example.  See: http://filadelfiacoffee.com/  Best coffee I've ever had in my life.

Ok, so when you say "ground coffee" do you mean only shitty coffee beans that are ground in a factory?  I ask because isn't all coffee "ground coffee"?

FYI, my Keurig machines have all come with a device to brew your own ground coffee- you can get your own beans and grind them yourself, or buy coffee already ground- either prepackaged or ground to your specifications in a finer coffee retail establishment.  One does not need to use the prepackaged K cups.

All of the being said, I don't doubt that your coffee, brewed in your own Bunn, is far better than my usual Keurig brew!

Packaged ground coffee sold in the USA has a very high level of acceptable impurities according to government standards.  It is totally appalling.  I have visited numerous coffee plantations over the last 6 years.  Every single guide I have had says that the best coffee always goes to whole bean, worse coffee goes to ground, and absolute crap coffee goes to ground decaff or ground flavored.  After I read a couple of stories about this I threw all of the ground coffee away and never, ever bought ground again.

If you get whole bean, grind it yourself, and stick it in the Keurig it is probably quite good.  But how many people use the Keurig that way?

I drink beers with a lot of people in the Ag school and who are in food science.  They all stopped buying ground coffee after we compared notes.

But hey - its your body do what you want!  After all, some people also choose to drink lite beer.

[LongBlade]

If you get whole bean, grind it yourself, and stick it in the Keurig it is probably quite good.  But how many people use the Keurig that way?

I don't. It's a pain in the butt to clean the coffee holder after every cup.

Airboy, I think we're going to take your advice. Chatted with my wife. Amazon has a Cuisenart grider/carafe (we like the carafe because the burner shuts off and there's no risk of fire) for ~$100.

Looks like the way to go.

There are a couple of other options we're looking at. Some coupons came in the mail that we're going over to see if a local dept store has anything we like better.

[Centurion40]

There is a coffee retailer in my city that sells around 100 types (give or take) of whole bean coffee, and then will grind it to your own specifications.  They say that a coarse grind is best for Keurigs.

Ever get a cup of coffee (from a diner, or where ever) and notice a film on the top of the coffee that kind of looks like gasoline?  Apparently it's pesticide.

[Barthheart]

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They say that a coarse grind is best for Keurigs.
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Now I don't drink coffee, but my wife does and I've become pretty good at making it for her. (Preventative protection plan in the morning  ;))
She just recently got a Keurig and we've been messing with the manual fill filters because coffee is way cheaper than in the pre made cups.
She has found that extra fine grind works better for her. She likes her coffee kinda strong and if you put medium grind in the manual filter the coffee is too weak.
We've also found that you tend to use more coffee per cup with the Keurig as compared to a regular drip maker.

She is still not sold on it being a good switch from her trusty 2 cup drip maker.... but it's nice for company to get what ever kind of coffee they like 1 cup at a time (Only time we use the pre-made cups).

I'll tell her about Airboy's comments.... she's pretty germaphobic so we'll probably never buy the pre made or pre-ground stuff again....