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Minerva
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Our department is getting a pod coffee maker. Basically, you put in a pod which makes one cup of coffee/tea.

We're responsible for providing our own pods.

Has anyone used one of these before? Any brand recommendations for the coffee?

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On "America's Test Kitchen" they did a thing on coffemakers, and said that you have to use the pods for that particular brand of coffemaker, because they don't fit in each others' systems.
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Farmgirl
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Was looking at them on the 'net. Can you only use each pod once? That could get expensive. I think I would try to use mine twice -- even if it meant a much weaker second cup...

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Stray
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Pod coffee makers make terrible coffee, Farmgirl; I wouldn't invest in one. It's because the coffee is ground so far in advance and sitting in the pod for so long, it gets stale and tastes like crap.
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Yep, pod coffee bears a resemblence to real coffee even less than boiled teabags taste like real tea.

It's both tastier and less expensive to buy a small "4"cup coffeemaker with a reusable filter than to go the pod coffee route.

And nope, ya can't reuse pods to make a second cup. All the pleasant coffeeness is taken by the first run-thru of water.

[ May 04, 2005, 05:42 PM: Message edited by: aspectre ]

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romanylass
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I'd skip the pod coffe and buy a travel press mug from Starbucks. They make pretty good coffee on the go.
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Where's Pod for this thread? [Big Grin]
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Rappin' Ronnie Reagan
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I got a pod coffee maker a while ago. It's a lot easier to make coffee with than a regular coffee maker, in my opinion. Plus I don't end up wasting a lot of coffee like with a regular coffee maker. I didn't notice that the coffee tasted worse than from a regular coffee maker. In fact, it tasted better than the few times I've made coffee in the regular coffee maker we have. I haven't had any problems with different brands of pods not fitting my coffee maker, but sometimes two pods don't fit in even though they're supposed to. Last time I tried two pods the lid didn't close completely and hot water started spraying out halfway through making the coffee.
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Minerva
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RRR, what brand of pods do you use?
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