Author Archives: lisa

Ice, Baby, Ice!

In a previous blog I mentioned that I had gotten a tip that making ice cubes from brewed coffee will help chill your iced coffee and not water it down as the ice melts. Since I bought my ice cube trays and started doing it this way, I’ve enjoyed very chilled iced coffee. I like drinks that are either piping hot or icy cold – tepid is not my thing. However, I was recently discussing cold brewing […]

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Lessons from My Cold Brew Journey

So, it’s been a little over a week of experimenting with cold brewing.  I really love the results. I haven’t had a bad batch. Although I admit that some were better than others. But now I think I’ve gotten down. The Coffee Blend At first, I used one of my favorite regular fresh ground beans from Peet’s – Garuda. It was good but didn’t quite elicit that really intense (almost syrupy in consistency) that I wanted.  Next […]

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Peet’s Single Cups Are Finally Here

OK, it is been three months now since Peet’s finally released its version of the single coffee cups that work with Keurig Brewers. I was going to write about when it happened – mostly because I have been waiting for years and was so excited. However, I decided to wait and see if my excitement lived up to the reality and quality. And I have to say it does. To date, I have only seen packages of […]

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Eco-Friendly K Cups

One of the biggest concerns that I had when moving to a single cup brewer about 10 months ago was the amount of waste generated by the K Cups. I am a big recycler and it bothered me  for our household to be tossing out about 6 to 8 of these little plastic pods each day – even more when we have guests. I’ve seen some data that claims the more than 5 billion K Cups were […]

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Cuisinart/Keurig One-Cup versus Soda Stream

I have mentioned I am a coffee fanatic and really only drink water, coffee, ice tea and an occasional glass of wine or two. Yes, my beverage roster is pretty limited. I use my Cuisinart/Keurig every day (all day) to brew coffee but I also brew iced tea with it and I love it. On a recent trip to Costco my hubby was mesmerized by a demonstration of the Soda Stream, a machine that lets you make […]

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Giving Thanks for My Single Cup Brewer

My Cuisinart/Keurig gets a pretty rigorous workout on a daily basis, but Thanksgiving Day was a new test for the machine as we had a house full of guests that all are big coffee drinkers. The single K Cups made it so easy for me to keep up with the rapid coffee consumption. In the past when we’ve hosted a gathering I am brewing, washing, refilling, and grinding beans. It’s a non-stop job. It’s also one task […]

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Tea Time

Why, oh why have none of you wonderful coffee people never bothered to clue me in about brewing iced tea with the single cups brewer systems? Had I known more about the ease of brewing iced tea, I would have not spent the last two years actively avoiding the purchase of single cup brewing machine. I was just so hyper-focused on the coffee aspect of the brewer that I never even thought about iced tea. Maybe it […]

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My K Cups Runneth Over

In my last post I told you that I just exchanged my Cuisinart Grind and Brew (we had two different machines with faulty grinders in a span of less than 3 months) for a Cuisinart/Keurig Single Cup Brewer. My big dilemma was what the heck I should brew in the new machine. I tried the reusable filter with my staple of Peet’s Costa Rican but I found that the ease of using the machine was washed away […]

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Tempest in a K Cup

After years of scoffing at the single cup brewers as inferior to the many brewing devices I already own (a French press, a grind and brew automatic drip, a siphon pot, and an espresso machine) I broke down and got a single cup brewing machine yesterday. It seemed like the logical choice after buying a Cuisinart Grind and Brew that had grinding problems right off the bat and needed to be exchanged twice in the span of […]

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