"Lloyd Parsons" > wrote in message
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> In article >,
> "Brian Colwell" > wrote:
>
>> "Ed Pawlowski" > wrote in message
>> ...
>> >
>> > "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.
>> >
>> Have you looked at the Tassimo ? Both the pods and the unit appear to be
>> cheaper. Not sure there would be much difference in the end product !
>>
>> bmc
>
> A couple of things about the Tassimo. Go to the website and see what
> the disks have in them, as I remember it, it is more than just coffee.
>
> And most of the cups produced are of the much smaller 'european' style.
> One of the discs was called something 'petit' and I jokingly said that
> meant 1/2 a cup of coffee...
>
> And many of their discs are nearly a dollar each...

Here in BC their 100% Columbian ? :-)) a pack of 14 pods go for $4.99Can.

bmc