re: any Kuerig coffee people here?

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coffee seems so-so

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Seems?!

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What's your favorite coffee?

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something with actual flavor and depth

The keurag coffee is garbage, and it's so wasteful with all that plastic trash, hot water going through plastic can't be good for you.

i recently bought a case of some type of san francisco bay coffee from amazon for my wife to try because it was cheaper


it fits in the keurig because it has a plastic rim, but its not a full plastic cup, beneath the rim is a filter "sack" with the grounds inside

its different than the k-cups for sure, and the coffee is decent...we only tried one flavor though




found a pic:

I have a Kuerig VUE coffee maker my son bought for me for Fathers day last year. The VUE coffee is very hard to find locally and there is not a lot of choices like with the K-cups. I useually have to by coffee for this machine directly from Kuerig. The Starbucks offerings for the VUE machine is not bad nither is the the Newmans brand.

isn't that what the inside of all the k-cups look like? a little pouch/filter.

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hot water going through plastic can't be good for you

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You do realize that PVC piping may deliver the water inside your house...bottled water (like Kentwood, Dasani, etc) is shipped in unairconditioned trucks in the dead of summer, and stored in uncooled warehouses before it is delivered? The average plastic bottle of water spends far more time "hot" and in contact with its contents than the 30-second heated pourover of a a k-cup.

Re: wasteful, sure it is. but no more wasteful than any other packaging. Bottled water, plastic-wrapped individual serving size snacks, Clif bars, etc. Perhaps reducing your packaging consumption in another area can offset the impact of k-cup packaging.

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I have a Kuerig VUE coffee maker my son bought for me for Fathers day last year. The VUE coffee is very hard to find locally and there is not a lot of choices like with the K-cups. I useually have to by coffee for this machine directly from Kuerig. The Starbucks offerings for the VUE machine is not bad nither is the the Newmans brand.

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honestly, the original Keurig is much better for the average consumer than the VUE

keurig's whole reason for creating the VUE was because the patents on K-cups were running out, and 3rd parties could start making their own K-cups

keurig made most of their money selling coffee, not coffee makers.....once the patents were running out, they hurried to change it up so they could renew their monopoly, but the VUE system hasn't caught on as intended

i was happy to replace our Kcup machine with another Kcup machine because the price of the cups has come down a bit with all of the new competition

Keurigs are awesome. People who tell you otherwise are being nitpicky as hell. It's a fantastic invention. The Community Coffee K-cups are great and the Starbucks Pike Place is good as well.

Has anyone ever experienced an acrid, urine smell coming from their Keurig when brewing? Don't know if its the filter, the water or what. It's pungent but does not seem to affect the coffee's flavor.

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Thanks for the definitive answer. I'll throw away my french press and fresh coffee beans and bow down to the "awesomeness" of spending more money for a poorer quality product in the name of convenience.

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I only do k-cups at work...but my coffee geek better half asked for a Nespresso as a birthday present. We used one on vacation, and he quickly became enamored with the uber-convenient espresso. Is it world class? No, but the Nespresso pods yield a better than coffeeshop average espresso, and the machine gives you the option of a ristretto, regular, or luongo pull. No tamping, grinding, cleanup, etc.

Basically, Nespresso allows him to be semi-conscious and still get a decent espresso.