marked, the wife is talking about getting a Keurig, I may use this thread to direct her elsewhere
The Keurig is about convenience. But, that comes at a cost. Look at the price per pound for those pods - 2 weeks ago, I was compelled to point out to my wife that at Walmart, those pods, for a variety of brands, were all $25-$30 per pound, for mediocre coffee. Works out to about 75 cents per cup - cheap compared to Starbucks or something, so, not really a break the bank type of purchase. But, for example, I go through about 25 pounds of ground coffee at school each year (top of my head calculation. That's $200 vs. $625 for coffee each year. Again, trivial for many people, but in the grand scheme of things, it's more than some people consider. If that's for 2 people, double it. Is the $850 extra cost at home per year, plus the extra $100 for a Keurig really worth the horrible inconvenience of making a small pot of coffee - a task that mindlessly takes me almost 30 seconds to start each morning?
Okay, so then you get the reusable pod for the Keurig and buy coffee the old-fashioned way. I ask, if you're going to clean out pods, then why the hell did you get a Keurig instead of a cheap, $10 small coffeemaker??
<-- $10 coffeemaker in classroom, $9/lb coffee, and people will often walk down the hall to my room just to smell the coffee when I'm brewing a 4 cup pot in the morning.
Re: those cheap coffeemakers "burn the coffee" - maybe those 16 cup ones, if you leave them on for an hour or so, but the coffee is in my coffee cup and consumed long before the warming plate has a chance to heat it to that point.
Data to back up my claim:
http://www.walmart.com/ip/Eight-O-Clock-Original-Medium-Roast-K-Cups-Coffee-18-count/21311564 Cheapest I could find at Wallyworld; $9.38. 18 servings. Shipping weight (includes packaging) .55 pounds. So, around $20 per pound for the cheapest stuff. Compare that to Eight-o-clock coffee sold in bulk: $5.99 per pound at the grocery store. So, you're paying more than triple the cost on coffee for the sake of a trivial amount of convenience.