/ck/ - Food & Cooking

what are your favorite k-cups?

>>4298540
Or The Newman's Own Special Blend. I can get 80 K-Cups for 36 bucks at Sam's Club.

I bet the guy that invented this machine is rich as fuck, I've seen Folger's k-cups, Dunkin Donuts ones and Starbuck's, too.

you know what this sucks at doing yet claims it can do? use grounds to make coffee. pain in the ass going through the two containers i had

>>4298565
Are you talking about the function where you put your own grounds in to make coffee? I've never done that.

>>4298570
yeah, its a good coffee maker with the k-cups, but it claims to make just as good of a cup with grounds

till you realize you need to clean it out pretty much every cup

>>4298538
b-but what about my Moka?

>>4298538
>upwards of $100 for a single serve drip coffeemaker
>not pretentious

Sorry but I'm in line w OP.
It makes good coffee in 44 seconds.
I'm usually late and don't have time to cock around with a french press.

>>4298761
>get up 5 minutes earlier
i feel you though

I've only ever tried Aldi brand coffee in one of these things, I wasn't really impressed.
I don't really like the idea of being forced to buy pods of coffee and all the waste they produce can't be good for the environment.

Girlfriend's mom bought us one of these. They're nice for the convenience factor and that's about it. I laugh when I see a box of 10 hot cocoa k-cups for like $9. The cups in general are kind of expensive but paying that much for hot cocoa when the same company makes a big canister of loose powder for less than half the price is just stupid. Who in their right mind would purchase such a thing?

My girlfriend's parents got us one for christmas (2011). I use it a lot, been really enjoying the Folger's Black Silk lately. It's also nice to use for tea, instead of boiling water I just hit a button and the super hot water comes out ready to steep my tea.

||>>4298577||
you know you dont pour the grounds straight in there right? i have one, and my parents have one. my dad uses grounds for his and has this special wire mesh k-cup thing for fresh grounds. ive never heard him complain about it.

||>>4298774||
>I don't really like the idea of being forced to buy pods of coffee

I don't get it, how is this really any different than being forced to buy ground coffee and filters? You just put the pod in the machine, you don't have to take any wrapper off, it's easy.

||>>4298844||
>forced to buy ground coffee and filters

Neither of those are proprietary. Also, having to buy ground coffee is not very good.

||>>4298538||
Fuck that, I percolate mine over a fire like a real man. Blacker than the darkest redgaurd and burnt worse than darth vader.

>>4298844
The shitest espresso machine and a crap coffee grinder will make better coffee than one of these pod things.
Pod things are just a fad and will all end up in the bottoms of cupboards or land fill.

I never just drink one cup so...
Why punish myself with shitty coffee and have to keep making it?

>>4298883
>The shitest espresso machine and a crap coffee grinder will make better coffee than one of these pod things.

I don't agree with this post, it makes a damn good cup of coffee, in my opinion.

>>4298894
Good, maybe.
But it's awfully expensive

>>4298927
Yeah, I guess, my dad bought it for the family for about 130 at Sam's, and an 80 k-cup pack is 36 dollars there, too.

The convenience is a huge plus, though, you put about 10 cups in the side water dish, put one of those packs in the machine(you don't have to peel the top part off, I thought you had to when I first saw them), then just press the button and it's made in about 45 seconds.

>>4298894

Even dunkin donuts fast food coffee is better than what I've had out of keurig machines. Either there's something wrong with your mouth, or you've been drinking something worse than fast food coffee your whole life. Which is it?

>>4299007
>Never drank somewhat old shitty gas station coffee and a mediocre bacon egg and cheese sandwich at 6:20am while driving to a 7am class

You haven't lived.

200 degree water forced through thin, disposable plastic cups, now that tastes great!

This is what you really need, and the cups are metal.

Sorry, but I can never drink coffee from another machine again.

You haven't lived until you've experienced this.

>>4299015

This man knows what's good. I grew up with one of those in the kitchen.

The espresso that it makes isn't as good as what they have at the place near my current job that uses a Kees van der Westen Mirage, but at 1/15th the price it's still pretty good.

>>4299012
Get the pod idea out of your heads.
It's shit.

>>4299007
You're being a little ridiculous, or you drank coffee out of a broken machine, I've had really good coffee, this isn't as good as that coffee, but it's got the convenience factor on it's side, so I like it.

>>4299028

What convenience factor? It's inconvenient to use a spoon to put some coffee grounds into a filter and pour hot water over it?

People who think that they can get drinkable coffee out of plastic pods containing 1 gram of 18 month old coffee are the ones being ridiculous.

>>4299028
Not that guy, but I'd be tempted to agree with you if I didn't own one of these myself. It's a nice hot water dispenser but seriously, the coffee from these things is so watered down and has an always-present aroma/flavor of plastic if you carefully smell/taste it.

I don't even get a mild caffeine buzz from a cup from one of these, they're shit, and if you ever open the cups afterwards and look inside you'll see the water doesn't even permeate some of the grounds.

Entire thing is a scam preying on people who have shit taste in coffee unfortunately.

>>4299023
Yeah, these are wonderful. I love waking up a bit early just to use it methodically and unrushed, it's always a nice morning ritual.

>>4299028
It really isn't that hard to get a halfway decent cup of coffee quick.

1. Grab some beans and grind them to whatever consistency you want while you start to almost boil water. Trader Joes Dark Sumatra is my favorite at the moment.
2. While you wait for the water, clean the grinder.
3. Put the coffee into the press, put the almost boiling water into the press while stirring slowly.
4. Wait 5 minutes
5. Plunge it
6. You have coffee

It really isn't that hard or time consuming. Start the process while you do your three S's or something.

>>4299047
>1. Grab some beans and grind them to whatever consistency you want while you start to almost boil water. Trader Joes Dark Sumatra is my favorite at the moment.
>2. While you wait for the water, clean the grinder.
>3. Put the coffee into the press, put the almost boiling water into the press while stirring slowly.
>4. Wait 5 minutes
>5. Plunge it
>6. You have coffee

Or
>Insert K-Cup
>Press brew

Man has entered the 21st century anon, embrace it :)

>>4299047

Way to aspie it up and make it sound too complicated for the ADHD kids. Here is how it's done.

1. Put already ground coffee in the french press
2. Boil water and pour it in
3. Wait 5 minutes and press

All that extra "stir gently while whispering sweet lullabies" shit is just ritual shit for foodies, the hair splitting differences aren't going to be noticed by the K cup crowd.

>>4299052
I have both machines and I always find the taste of the KCups are shit.

>>4299056
You're right. I should've lessened my autism.

>>4298538
Get on my level.

afaik, op is right. it uses the correct temp and pressure, and doesn't break too often

I really wish people would stop over using the term pretentious.

Pretentious wouldn't be someone who has developed a pallet capable of discerning between burnt folgers coffee from a dinner and freshly roasted, single origin; correctly weighed, and carefully ground at a precise size, processed through a syphon immersion method.

Pretentious is someone buying beluga caviar, just because it's the most expensive type of fish egg, but can't discern anything special from it--except that it's "salty" and has a "weird texture". And they haven't tried all the varying rungs to really appreciate subtleties and nuances of each type.

There are differences in quality, and to say there aren't means that either your pallet isn't properly tempered, or you're lying to yourself which is pretentious.

>>4301397
>pallet

>>4301397

>pallet

that's a wooden form that products are stacked on.

a palette is part of your mouth, and is also "taste".

and finally, an artist uses a palate to hold his paint.

>>4301403
I think a note concerning the correct spelling of palate should go into our non existent sticky.

>>4301403
>>4301409
Thanks, I get it.

>>4301409

You fucked up the bottom two.

is this an ESL board?

>>4301423

Every board is an ESL board, unfortunately.

But I'm poor

>>4301423
>mistakenly use one wrong word
>is this an ESL board?

>>4299032
Much less convenient than placing a pod in a machine and hitting a button.

I appreciate high-quality coffee as much as the next guy, but you really are blowing this way out of proportion.

>>4301443

we have standards. if your going to post here, you better use proper grammar.

>>4301447

This post is supposed to be ironic right?

>uses the wrong you're
>can't find the shift key

>>4301453

there should be a comma between ironic and right. ^_^

Enjoying a Keurig coffee as we speak (Green Mountain Co.).

I was steadfast against them but my gf started working early and would be leaving the house at 5:00am. So I bought one for her so she could have a quick coffee and I really like it.

On the weekend we make espressos or use a drip machine, vacuum pot, etc. but I pretty much have my one Keurig coffee every morning mon-fri.

It is still cheaper than buying a coffee at the local coffee shop and much more convenient. The quality isn't as good as the local coffee shop, but it is definitely acceptable.

>>4301457

You're wrong, and I bet you can't tell me why.

>>4301461
He is correct.

>>4298538
>spend $100 on a machine
>now get to pay $.65/cup and get really weak drip coffee instead of $.25/cup for strong french press coffee
>people who don't do this are being pretentious

>>4298538

Great coffee maker as in convenient? Certainly. Great coffee maker as in, makes great coffee? I'm afraid nope

>>4299032

It's convenient to place a cup in the machine, have it pour out coffee directly into your thermos in 30 seconds and you're out the door. That's the definition of convenient. The quality of the coffee suffers, but let's not diminish the convenience

>>4301488

And then what? You drink it while walking/driving/riding on the train? That's your idea of convenience?

I prefer to drink my coffee at home, or at my desk at work. That's why I make coffee with a V60 to drink while reading the news first thing in the morning, and then I get a cup at the coffee truck around the corner from work to drink at my desk.

No steamer no care.