Originally Posted By: GMFan
Originally Posted By: Jarlaxle
They're great, if and only if you want an overpriced cup of bad coffee.
This. My old Mr. Coffee 12-cup coffee maker and I have a have been greeting each other first thing every morning for many years.
Why I prefer traditional coffee makers:
- Keurig coffee doesn't taste good.
- Keurig coffee to me is a solution to a "problem" that never existed but just costs more.
- Every Keurig I've used sporadically decides to dump only 2 inches of coffee in a mug for seemingly no reason.
- It's way cheaper.
- Your not wastefully disposing of little plastic cups the Keurig uses.
- You can make a pot of coffee and keep it hot for 2 hours.
- When you have company over you don't have to stand in front of a Keurig to make 10 cups of coffee or have your guests line up to make there own. It's much easier/faster to just make a pot of coffee.
- Brats don't fight over which Keurig cup they want or demand specifics. With a coffee pot it's either served black, with milk with or without sugar.
Interesting opinions.....and somewhat subjective. Saying that the coffee a Keurig puts out "doesn't taste good" is really not what I have found. It depends on what you put in it. And I've had a Keurig for years and had no problems with the "2 inches" issue. Even the abused one at work performs perfectly. But the part about coffee quality....and the fact that you prefer a drip maker and have the ability to "keep it hot for 2 hours", kind of seems contradictory.
No, the Keurig is not for the cost conscious....nor the die-hard environmentalist...and certainly not the coffee purist....it really does as advertised and works remarkably well for being abundantly made with plastic.
