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Title: K-Cup creator John Sylvan regrets inventing coffee-making system
Category: Business
Posted By: Regina
Date: 2015-03-05 09:09:25
Canadian

[DrCaleb]

I don't understand it either. Lousy coffee and tea, and too much junk afterward.

[herbie]

It's convenient. So convenient you find yourself buying $80 worth of coffee a month instead of $8
Went to the stepdaughter's for the funeral of a family member, so many were staying there and visiting that the next morning we bought her a $20 drip coffee maker and a can of coffee. She'd used $30 worth of Keurig that fist night...

[ShepherdsDog]

Buy the cartridges that you fill with your own coffee, as that ends up costing you mere pennies a cup , but you still have the convenience of single serve.....Personally I have a regular coffee at home and at the office maker I bought bunch of da Vinci(mostly) sugar free syrups. English Toffee, German Chocolate, Peppermint, Irish Cream, Gingerbread, Tiramisu, Vanilla hazelnut and Salted caramel

[DrCaleb]

herbie herbie:

It's convenient. So convenient you find yourself buying $80 worth of coffee a month instead of $8

That's the part that gets me. I see 14 servings of Keurig tea for $11 or something? I go to the grocery store, and there are 200 bags of tea for like $5.

Can people not do the math?

[BartSimpson]

ShepherdsDog ShepherdsDog:

Buy the cartridges that you fill with your own coffee, as that ends up costing you mere pennies a cup , but you still have the convenience of single serve.....

For me a pot of coffee IS single serve!

This is my 32oz (about a liter) coffee cup:

https://islandvintagecoffee.com/index.p ... duct_id=65

[Regina]

ShepherdsDog ShepherdsDog:

Buy the cartridges that you fill with your own coffee, as that ends up costing you mere pennies a cup , but you still have the convenience of single serve.....Personally I have a regular coffee at home and at the office maker I bought bunch of da Vinci(mostly) sugar free syrups. English Toffee, German Chocolate, Peppermint, Irish Cream, Gingerbread, Tiramisu, Vanilla hazelnut and Salted caramel

That only works for the older versions. The newer K-Cup 2.0 version can only use it's own cups. They are coded so that no other brand will work and the machine will not blend it.

[ShepherdsDog]

If you want a pot, why would you buy that system? We tossed our tassimo a while back.

[Regina]

ShepherdsDog ShepherdsDog:

If you want a pot, why would you buy that system? We tossed our tassimo a while back.

Yup!

[DanSC]

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

For me a pot of coffee IS single serve!

Agreed. I have a friend who's office switched from drip coffee machines to K-cups. She hates it, as she's the type to drink an entire pot before it gets cold.

[Unsound]

I have a Keurig, a drip coffee maker, and a french press. Different applications for each. The drip is for large gatherings or weekend mornings when I'll happily drink a pot while sitting at the kitchen table. French press is for when I feel pretentious. ANd the Keurig is great for filling y travel mug in the 10 minutes between when I get up and when I leave for work. I also like that I can buy variety packs of K-cups and check out different coffees without comitting to a couple weeks worth of grounds.

[housewife]

Daughter left one here it is taking up room and gathering dust.

I have a drip coffee maker, an old perk, and 3 french presses of different sizes. Hubby even has a propain drip coffee maker. I have a pot a day. It's a bitch on the weekends when people think I should share.

[Public_Domain]

[fifeboy]

Whatever happened to:

[Jabberwalker]

I heard the interview with this guy, yesterday. He never meant it for the individual, at-home application, anyway. He sure doesn't think much of the manufacturer. He only got $50,000 for his invention, which is peanuts. It's far more than almost every other inventor working for someone else gets. Most of them get a salary. In my experience, others benefit from the invention.