In article >,
"Ed Pawlowski" > wrote:

> "Lloyd Parsons" > wrote in message
> >> Russell Patterson > wrote in
> >> :
> >>
> >> > , the cost per cup is at
> >> > or under 50 cents a cup.
> >> >
> >>
> >> you call that reasonable?
> >>
> >> I could understand it if home brewing resulting in under 20¢ a cup, but
> >> 50¢?
> >
> > Actually it isn't too bad if you think about it. If you like drip
> > coffee, I suspect that each cup costs more than you think if you
> > consider that you throw out a fair amount of each pot pretty often.
>
> For the price of an 18 pack of Keurig you can get a lot of good ground
> coffee.
>
> Three cups a day in our house would be $45 a month with Keurig. My wife
> buys a bag of coffee at BJ's for $15.99 and gets a couple of months from it.
> Let's see, $90 versus $16. I'm thinking, just as you suggested.
> 90 - 16= 74 x6 = 444 per year more for the Keurig + the cost of machine =
> $600 additional outlay the first year. . I'm thinking, I'm thinking.

I'm not a big fan of the single-serve makers, but you do get fresher
coffee from them than you will from that bag of coffee after it is
opened the first time.

Whether that's worth anything to you is certainly up to you.

If stale coffee produces a cup you like, then don't buy a single serve
of any kind.

I like good, fresh coffee. That's why I roast my own and grind on
demand. My roasted bean are at most 1 week old when the last one is
used. And that produces a horse of a different coffee than you'll get
from your bag of coffee, or the single-serve machine for that matter.