ewww, I love my Kerig! Everyone mentions the simple noise of it, but I don't mind that at all. It really serves hot fresh coffee. I find the best deal at coffeewiz.com. Anyone else with better offers for the cups?

It is good for one or two cups a day thing, if more it could get expensive.

I gave one to my husband for the office and he loves his. We just buy the k cups at Costco. We also have a Delonghi super automatic machine for home. I used a website when comparing coffee makers called coffee geek. Beware, some of the reviewers need to switch to decaf! Good luck!

I have a Keurig because my husband doesn't drink coffee so one or two cups a day is all I need. I was throwing away a lot of coffee before I switched, but the on a certain level, the waste of the cups bugs me. It took awhile to find a cup I liked. I'm a big "Donut" fan. Oh, and I do like the pumpkin spice. One box will do me for the season.

In the summer, I use a Toddy for iced coffee. If I had insta-hot, I'd probably go Toddy year 'round.

My daughter has the student Keurig at college. She loves it and so it seems, do all her dormmates, as they congregate around it wanting their own individual favorite k cup. Costco has the best prices on the k cups.

We have it at work. We can buy our pods at a discount, but I must say, thanks for the coffewiz tip, I think those prices are better! We average $0.50 cup. Problem I found with Costco was all the coffee was the same flavor. It's nice to have a mix. It is great to have hot water for tea too.

We sampled one at work and I have to say the samples of coffee we tried seemed kind of weak. I was also put off by the waste of all the pod packaging. But, I'm big into recycling and not wasting all that packaging.

We enjoy our Keurig! I order my coffee from Amazon with the automatic delivery. You can have them delivered once a month or every 6 months. I pay $19.95 for 48 K cups.

I love my Keurig. I buy a variety of coffee at BB&B with a $5 off coupon. So I get two boxes of 18 each for $14.98 or 42 cents a cup. If you like strong coffee even the 'bold' cups may not be strong enough. I recycle the pods and used the grounds for our vegetable garden this summer. It's a tiny garden so it worked.
My daughters love it for hot chocolate and chai tea.

Love it! I'm on my second one. Pump on original unit failed, so I called Keurig for repair info, they sent me a new coffeemaker. I like being able to serve regular or decaf in any flavor to guests rather than one generic pot. I like a very strong dark roast for my first cup, and weaker for my second, so I'm able to brew twice on one K-cup, and that cuts the costs in half for me. I also use it to run hot water for herb tea in the evening.

There is also an adapter cup that you fill with any coffee you choose, you don't have to buy the K-cups.

Expensive and not that great a coffee if you really actually love good coffee. Even if you only like the occasional cup of mediocre coffee, it's still expensive and not that great a mediocre coffee. Nothing beats home ground fresh brewed for best flavor.

I tried the Keurig coffee from single-serve machine for first time recently after reading raves here. I didn't care for the coffee at all though the machine was easy to work.

For a while I've been lusting after a Nespresso machine. Same idea but really, really good coffee. And the machines are beautiful.

Here is a link that might be useful: Nespresso

My daughter used one of these when housesitting and can't stop raving about it, but I have questions: Some of you mentioned guests, but it's also been said that some have replaced, or plan to replace their regular coffee maker with one of these...If you have several people drinking coffee, won't some be almost finished by the time the last ones get theirs? Won't you still need a regular coffee maker for holiday dinners, etc., when making individual servings just wouldn't be at all efficient?

Thanks.

You may get decent coffee out of a Keurig, Nespresso, or any of the pod-esque machines, but you'll never get good coffee from one.

Unless you want the appliance itself, I'd get a good blade grinder ($20 Krups, or similar), a $5 paper-cone "Melita" filter, and a box of filters. Go whole hog and buy a nice boiler pot like the Capresso for about $60, a larger cone and filters for guests, and for all under $100, you've got the ability to choose your coffee to meet your taste, and to grind it yourself so it's fresh.

I love this forum! I just posted the question and came home to 12 answers :)

I know someone selling an open-box Keurig b77 (the one you can use with your own coffee instead of the K cups)for $80 (retail is $179) so I thought it might be worth trying. I am so sick of bad coffee every day. I usually have 2 cups myself weekdays and my husband also has 2 on weekends. I thought the one you can use with your own coffee would be good on the weekends, and I can use the k cups during the week (or not, since it can get expensive).

So...if my main objective is to get a coffee maker that makes really good coffee, is this the one for me? I don't want to spend a small fortune, which is why $80 is sounding pretty good. What do you guys think?

We got the Breville stainless one and enjoy it. I think we used coffeewiz.com once or twice. They have a large selection. BBB with coupon is good and Target has some pods too. CHeck out K-cap.com (or something like that) for a cap that you can use to re-use your pods and use your own grounds.

I did a lot of research and decided the Technivorm Moccamaster sounded like about the best out there...then when I was watching America's Test Kitchen, I felt smart when they came to the same conclusion. ;-) But I just couldn't spend the $250 when we make coffee to use primarily as flavoring in froo-froo drinks (mostly soy milk with about 1/3 c of coffee), and to occasionally serve to guests. I decided that for about $90, the Zojirushi got pretty good reviews and would be the best compromise. (The best thing about the Technivorm was the best temperature, and to emulate that with the Z, we start with hot water.) I'm not an expert or finicky judge of coffee, but our friend who is likes it.

Maybe I am a coffee snob. We have these units at work, they make the worst coffee in my opinion. The coffee is so bad that I just drink hot water when I want coffee or tea to try and perk me up. It is so bad, that I will actually run to Starbucks when I have moment instead and I think Starbucks makes really bad coffee. I do have a La Spaziale at home and grind my own coffee. I have never met a Brazilian coffee that I did not love. I would invest in a grinder and get a Bialetti Mocha pot before I buy one of these for home use. Just my opinion. We all have different preferences.

Good luck!

you're paying for the convenience. I got a Senseo a few years back when the company I worked went cheap and stopped supplying coffee to employees. It was fine, neat and clean since the pods are easy to through away.

But you have to like the coffee.

Well  I like good coffee (French press) and I love my Keurig. The water really makes a difference, I use distilled. Also  finding the right coffee and the right size of cup is important too. I have one at the office, one at home, and I gave one to my Dad. My dad is running a spread sheet on the different coffees and which size is best. :-)

Oh  And if you have a family  it is very handy for tea, hot chocolate, and cup-o-noodles. Ours gets a lot of use. :-)

My husband bought himself a Keurig for his office and likes it. I have a Cuisinart Cup o matic SS 1 which I use for tea (I use the round tea bags -either Tesco or Marks and Spencer extra strong... both British) but it makes an outstanding cup of coffee as well. We also have a Tassimo which we use for Chai lattes. The Keurig is a good machine but according to those at singleservecoffee.com there are others that are also good.

I love the Keurig that we have at work.

I am a total coffee snob. Love starbucks and my husband has a $3000 Jura Capresso fully automatic machine that he makes me a latte with every morning. Before you all go thinking that I have money to burn on a frickin coffee maker - it was free with a point reward system through work - crazy, huh? But I digress..

The Keurig at work is amazing. The coffee is really good. The water matters and so does the actual coffee that you buy. Everyone has a different preference and there are so many varieties out there. Those that say the coffee sucks may have bought crappy K-cups. We are getting the coffee delivered through WB Mason, but before that we ordered from the Keurig website or coffeecow.com. Costco is cheap but sells only 1 variety. BB&B sells more varieties and you can use a coupon, but they are smaller packages (18 count as opposed to 25 count from the online places). So check your apples to apples when comparing costs.

Believe it or not, it has actually increased business where I work. We work with attorneys who make appointments to come to us, so no walk in traffic. But these attorneys have options, and since we provide them with great coffee, yummy shortbread cookies and jelly beans, they keep coming back. Oh and our product is better than others.

As far as the noise and the timing - it's really pretty quiet and it only takes about 10 seconds a cup - you can deliever 10 in a pretty short perios of time.

This is apparently quite a subjective topic.

I think of myself as a coffee snob, too, and cannot stand K-cup coffee. But that might be because my preference runs to very roasted, very black coffee. I would not dream of defiling it with sweetener, dairy or flavoring - LOL.

I like Guinness, too, and dark chocolate.

I like my Keurig because I only make 1 cup in the morning as I rush out the door to work. I only drink decaf and the choices for decaf flavored coffees are more limited. I like it for making tea in the evening. I agree that it could be stronger and hotter, but I have gotten used to it for the convenience. I have thought of using two K cups in one cup to make it stronger, but have not tried it. When I have company I let them choose their own flavor from the mixed box and as another poster mentioned, it doesn't take but about 10 seconds per cup.

Some of you feel the coffee is weak...has anyone tried the my K cup filter with your own coffee? Is that just a gimick or does it work well using your own?

They have one of these units at my kids' orthodontists office. Lots of variety, even tea, but it is pretty expensive for psudo-instant coffee, around $30 per pound, IIRC. For that kind of cash, you can get some of the TOP rated coffees in the world.

I use the TMM that Rhome mentions. I have used one for several years and am very satisfied, but that's just my opinion. Down and dirty cheap is a pour over cone with paper filters as mentioned by sfjeff. You can get a herkin' big one and brew directly into a thermos or carafe (try sweet maria's website).

The Keurig offers convenience. Coffee is mediocre and expensive. But if you don't drink it often, maybe the expense isn't an issue if you're having to throw out stale coffee. Have you tried the coffee? Do you like it? If so, go for it. You can buy a "pod" that let's you use your own coffee when you've got the time and inclination.

BTW, coffeegeek.com has a forum of consumer reviews for all types of coffee makers.

I have a hard time with anything that uses pre ground coffee--it's just not right. :-) As soon as coffee is ground, many of the compounds that make it taste good begin to volatilize--poof, gone. Grind your own beans, it makes a huge difference. Get a good coffee maker that gets to the proper temps to brew right, or the pourover mentioned above, and the coffee will totally blow away anything done with any preground bean any day of the week. If you like good coffee, it's worth the few minutes a day that it takes to make it and clean up after it. At least, it is for me. Your mileage may vary.

Cj

We have 2 machines at work and I like using them occasionally...but for tea (particularly the Chai!) I don't know how the coffee is, though, since I really dislike coffee. It makes OK tea. I haven't yet seen my favorite teas at work in a K-cup (Tea of Good Tidings from Republic of Tea & Constant Comment from Bigelow), so I really can't compare them.

I love my Keurig because it's great for tea and hot chocolate. We don't actually drink coffee, but our family does, so we got it as a way of providing fresh coffee for our guests. We kept throwing away larger bags of coffee after only one or two uses. We have the insert so we can use our own tea leaves.

Dr_nik...how is the hot chocolate? I was thinking about this topic and was also thinking it would be useful when DH's parents come to visit...they drink coffee. Right now, I end up freezing the coffee b/w their visits. But it does seem that we end up throwing away half a pot of coffee or so every day when they're here...this would be much better!

I could see using it if I have the insert for the tea leaves, especially when my mom is here since she's constantly making tea from leaves (she's a "tea snob"...if tea isn't loose it's probably mediocre at best in my mother's opinion! She also uses filtered water and MWs it in a glass measuring cup. I'm not so picky...)

BTW...The Keurigs we have in our office also have a "hot water" option...but I tried it once & seemed to detect a slight coffee taste in the water. It wasn't noticeable when I made tea with it, but it was there when I tasted the water "straight".

We received a Keurig for Christmas and love the convenience, but don't care for the coffee. We've ordered Newman's Own and Gloria Jeans and very disappointed with those too. I am a lover of black Starbucks, so that could be the problem. I also have a reusable coffee filter so I can use my own ground Starbucks, but found it left a mess of grounds in the holder. Anyone have a suggestion of how I can have the convenience and great coffee. What am I doing wrong with the reusable filter?

We replaced our cuisinart with a Keurig last year and absolutely love it! Couldn't be easier to use and no cleanup!
We order our k-cups from Amazon. If you do a regular delivery order, we have found that this is the cheapest and easiest way to go. There is one decaff drinker and one regular coffee drinker in the house and this is the primary reason we bought it. No need to make a pot of each! Check out Costco for purchasing the unit...good luck and enjoy!