On Thursday, January 9, 2020 at 8:24:23 AM UTC-10, Jinx the Minx wrote:
> jay > wrote:
> > On 1/9/20 9:41 AM, Dave Smith wrote:
> >> On 2020-01-09 11:27 a.m., jay wrote:
> >>> On 1/8/20 3:55 PM, U.S. Janet B. wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> I'm kind of thinking about getting one.Â* Give me the pros and cons
> >>>> please.Â* I would probably use the My K-Cup filter approach.Â* How do
> >>>> you find the maintenance for the unit?
> >>>> I don't like Mr. Coffee or percolator type coffee and want to avoid
> >>>> something like that.
> >>>> So far, we are a pot of coffee in the morning family.Â* I think with
> >>>> the Keurig my husband would probably make coffee for himself more
> >>>> often.
> >>>> Are there places where you can get the pods more cheaply?
> >>>> Thanks
> >>>> Janet US
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> 100% agreement on Mr. lousy Coffee.Â* I have several 30-60$ coffee
> >>> makers and MC is the worst of all.Â* If you look at the grounds 3/4
> >>> through the process they are not even all wet. The hot water delivery
> >>> process misses the bullseye so the extraction is not what it should be.
> >>>
> >>> We have used Keurig many times traveling and at best it is OK.Â* Not
> >>> something you may want on a daily basis.
> >>
> >> IMO, even that might be generous. I think it tastes more like instant
> >> coffee than real, freshly made coffee.
> >>
> >
> > Maybe so. I do know that there is a big difference in taste based on the
> > Kcup brand. One place we were staying had maybe 15 different brands and
> > various roasts and some were far better than others. Still not "real"
> > coffee.
> >
>
> I think that may be true. DH likes one of the Starbucks k-cups so we mostly
> buy those, but we also have Guatemalan and Ethiopian Yirgacheffe pods at
> the moment that guests tend to gravitate to.
>
> The good thing is, most stores will take the Keurig back if you hate it,
> especially Costco. If you do get one, Id recommend buying pods from coffee
> brands you love, not necessarily the cheaper variety boxes widely
> available. Otherwise, buying one of those separate refillable pods you can
> use your own fresh ground beans in.

I have returned a Keurig machine that had a faulty water metering system. I tried to fix it but fail so I dumped it. Someone suggested that I return it to Costco. This did not occur to me because the machine was nearly a year and I didn't have the receipt or the box. It was suggested that I might get a refund so I took it to the service desk and they gave me cold, hard, cash. What a deal!

One could probably get free coffee by getting one of these machines with the intention of drinking all the coffee and then returning it. Currently, the Costco Keurig machines come with 15 K-cups. You pretty much have to do this at Costco though.