Tag Archives: Keurig brewers

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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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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Breaking the Rules

Coffee lovers are a diverse and interesting bunch. We have rituals and rules. I, for one, have a lot of rules about coffee. I only like to drink my brewed drip coffee in the morning. Afternoons are for iced lattes and if I have a cup later in the evening it can only be French press or cappuccino. I also enjoy my daily iced lattes but not iced coffee.  I hate iced coffee.  It’s a small distinction […]

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The Coffee Conversion

At Christmastime I was trying to figure out what to give an uncle that has everything. I thought maybe he’d enjoy a gift of things that are local to my area of San Francisco – items that  he might not be able to purchase at home in Massachusetts. Remembering that my mom always talked about what a big coffee lover my uncle is, I thought that I would leverage my proximity to such great local San Francisco […]

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Ever Run Out Of Coffee

This morning I woke up to a scary nightmare, I was down to my last 2 cups of coffee. As you guys know I am a K-Cup up user. I would’ve sworn I had the whole other box here, I guess I was wrong. Normally I have 15 to 20 boxes in the house all times but I guess I just haven’t ordered lately. It is my own fault, I keep saying I’m going to order by […]

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