Ditching the Keurig

hunterdan

hunterdan

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I have had a keurig for past 7 years. Wife and I have decided to go back to the regular coffee pot with timer. We loved that keurig for years but have become sick of the $1 per cup costs. Yeah k cups can be bought cheaper but then usually tastes like cheaper coffee.

Here's a list of reasons we opted out,
Cheaper
Fresh ground option
Coffee is ready before I am
Aroma and gurgling sound
If I add to much sugar- top it off with new
Hotter coffee
Never needs more water added in AM
Stronger batch without sacrificing quantity
Anyone else switch back?
 
We have the re-usable Kcups that allow you to use ground coffee Of your choice. Still kind of a hassle though. For me, can’t beat the old aluminum percolator coffee can on the stove for the best full flavor. It gets used on weekends. The keurig used on weekdays.
 
tlucier said:
We run both. The coffee pot with a timer gets used the most. The Keurig get used when I want a coffee but the wife doesn’t, or she wants a coffee and I don’t. Easier & faster to make one cup with the Keurig.
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This is us as well. I'm a coffee addict so my wife got me a Gold Cup certified Bunn home machine. It's fantastic.
 
I’m the only one that drinks coffee in my house, so I use a hario v60 plus a hand grinder for the beans. We use a chemex if we have company.

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I have an Espro French press (a few actually), and a Baratza grinder. It's perfect for one person, but a French press makes a very different cup of coffee than a perc or pour-over setup, and needs a coarser grind so you're not going to be buying ground coffee from the grocery store. Not the set-the-timer method of automatically making coffee when you wake up, but makes a damn good cup to start the day.
I also love the Hario and Chemex stuff, but have never got around to buying one for myself.
 
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I've been considering making the switch because of the cost & waste. Like you, I'm paying $1/kcup. But I'm also the only one who drinks coffee & we use the keurig for tea, hot chocolate, & oatmeal quite a bit so I haven't pulled the trigger yet.
 
I've done a Keurig twice now and gone back to my trusty french/aero press both times.

The $1/pod doesn't bother me near as much as forgetting to add water to the reservoir and the shit taste of any of the pre-filled pods that I've tried.

The process of hand-grinding and smashing hot water through the bean juice is way more satisfying than pressing a silly little chinese button.
 
We switched back just because of the ability to walk in kitchen and instantly refill mug. And with working from home volume increased.

but what’s all this talk about sugar and coffee?
 
I switched to high caff tea. Fast Lane from Celestial is my usual go-to. Cheaper and better for you. I just leave the bag in my mug and top off with more hot water throughout the day so I'm slowly titrating off the caffeine dose.
 
Cuisinart conventional with k-cup on the side. Regular side is programmable so it’s ready before we wake up. Kcup is used as mention above for convenience. I personally despise the taste of keurig stuff.
Also have French press and grinder for holidays when we are just sitting around and enjoying coffee rather than just getting as much caffeine for the day.
 
We are going to keep the keurig downstairs for the kids hot choc and the occasional night time decaf cup.
Best coffee I've had in a while was royal cup brand when at golden corral. Maybe it was the bunn? machine they used.
 
RatLabGuy said:
I switched to high caff tea. Fast Lane from Celestial is my usual go-to. Cheaper and better for you. I just leave the bag in my mug and top off with more hot water throughout the day so I'm slowly titrating off the caffeine dose.
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What's all this "better for you" nonsense? Coffee has lots of benefits, a study a while back showed it does a great job at protecting the liver of those who consumed too much alcohol.....if I give up coffee, I gotta start drinking in moderation.......I can't chance that!
I have had a couple Keurig machines, all have broken in the first year of ownership, cost, waste, fill volume discrepancy (half the time a mug is half full, even if reservoir is full). It is a junk machine that makes brown water, dump it, feel good about the decision, and drink more coffee with less fillers (read: sans cream and sugar).
 
Press the coffee for my weekend bourbon coffee. Otherwise, I have an 8 year old brick of a Keurig that gets a Gevalia cup through it before work every morning. The wife does some sorta fancy cold brew she has all kinds of equipment for.


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We spend $0.25/count for both regular and decaf (decent, regular medium roast flavor) k cups through Amazon subscribe & save. We don't use cream or sugar, unless there's leftover cream from some other recipe and, well, I'll suffer through. ;)

We make a pot in the Mr. Coffee on the weekends, if we have company, etc. We're usually up and about long before we're ready for coffee, so the timing isn't an issue for us. I also use the keurig for hot tea (Jocko tea bc Get After It). Our machine looks like @UTfball68 and is 9 years old. It only recently decided not to spit out water but @shawn fixed it.
 
Regarding the k cup cost... back when we used ours, I had a reusable cup with a flip up lid I just refilled with a fresh brick of coffee. So net cost was not different.

I liked that better than s normal pot bc it made it easier to track in discrete units of how much I had.
 
We have a Keurig at the house. Gets used mostly for apple cider, ill occasionally make a coffee on the weekend. Now... the one on site on the other hand, I make a cup a day to get through the meeting. I prefer maxwell house medium, but the pikes place is good too.
 
shawn said:
This is true of perc. French press is likely bad for you.
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Paper filters are what the studies seemed to list as primarily responsible for removing whatever bad stuff. So if the perc uses a paper filter instead of a metal/no filter, yes. The studies also seemed to imply that you'd have a drink a lot of French press coffee for it to actually matter.

Keurig coffee is far healthier for me, because I won't drink it.

I can get paper filters for my Espro press (it already has two fine mesh filters), but have never bothered.
 
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trailhugger said:
But, babe, you're my hero! You're the best thing to ever happen to me!
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@shawn quit logging into @trailaccount and complimenting yourself...it's like public masturbation
 
UTfball68 said:
Press the coffee for my weekend bourbon coffee. Otherwise, I have an 8 year old brick of a Keurig that gets a Gevalia cup through it before work every morning. The wife does some sorta fancy cold brew she has all kinds of equipment for.


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We ditched the Kurig, too. Cold brew a batch once a week usually lasts about a week, cold brew, condensed, plus hot water from Chemex is a great cup of coffee, just almost faster than the kurig depending on how much water is in it. We tend to keep it half full instead of waiting 10 min for the full pot to boil.
 
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