A 2013 Harris Poll EquiTrend(R) Equity Study declared Keurig "Brand of the Year" in the coffee maker category. Keurig K-Cup single cup coffee systems were recognized for “emotional connection, functional attributes, brand awareness, influence and familiarity.” This poll showed the 38,814 U.S. consumers polled viewed Keurig the best single cup coffee maker for the second year in a row.

Consumers love Keurig K-Cup systems for the convenience of single cup coffee brewing but also for the vast array...

In the last hours of 2012, we want to raise our mug and wish our customers a Happy New Year of great coffee and well-being. We have worked hard to up our game in 2012 at CoffeeForLess, providing more helpful infographics and articles to our customers and striving to provide the best prices on coffee beans that we could.

Our efforts to build a coffee community have really paid off, with our customers returning over and over again and offering great feedback and helpful reviews on the coffees that...

When it comes to single serving tea brewing, the community is divided between those who love the ease and convenience provided by T-Discs and K-Cups and those that feel some finesse is lost when tea is put in individual serving pods and brewed through a single cup coffee maker. For today’s post, we are not going to debate the merits of analog tea steeping versus digital single serving tea brewing and instead focus on which single cup system is best suited to meet your tea drinking desires.

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K-Cup coffee makers are very popular. Purchasing one, though, can be stressful. They vary greatly in price, yet all use and brew the same coffee. You might be wondering what differentiates one Keurig K-Cup coffee maker from another or what makes a Keurig different from other single cup coffee makers.

Keurig K-Cup coffee makers are unique in the single cup coffee maker world because they have the most extensive selection of coffee refills available. These single serving coffee refills are called...

Single cup coffee makers are here to stay. Americans from coast to coast are  taking to the convenience, variety, and time-saving single cup coffee makers at a pace that few expected. It could be the efficiency of the machines, or it could be the freshness of the coffee, but one thing is for certain, we all seem to love our single cup coffee.

CoffeeForLess has your back, America. If you are looking for great deals on single cup coffee makers or are looking for the best prices on the K-Cups,...

Being on a budget doesn’t mean you want to sacrifice convenience or quality for cost necessarily, and coffee is definitely one of those things in life where quality matters. So, if you are on a budget and shopping for the best single cup coffee maker for you, then read on. Today, we evaluate some of the competitively cheap single cup coffee makers on the market today.

By comparing the features available on the Melitta One:One Coffee Maker, the Senseo Single Cup Pod Coffee Maker, and the Keurig...

The single serve coffee world is abuzz with news that Starbucks and Walmart have announced plans to release their own proprietary single serving coffee maker. This has some wondering what the ubiquitous Starbucks and the ever-cheap (both in price and quality) Walmart entering the single serving coffee market means for those of us who are already quite attached to our Keurig or Tassimo Machines.

Currently, single serving coffee makes up just eight percent of the coffee sales nationwide, leading...

K-Cups offer Keurig coffee maker owners a wide range of coffee options, making them one of America’s favorite single cup coffee products. Few realize, though, that K-Cups also offer one of the best selections of decaffeinated single cup coffees available today.

Decaffeinated K-Cup coffee is great because many coffee brewing environments don’t need a whole pot of decaf coffee brewed every time one person wants a cup of decaf. This makes brewing a single serving of decaf K-Cup coffee ideal.

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Proprietary single serve coffee makers are flooding the market, and while each may have its own character or advantages, the sheer number of them may confuse the consumer. This often leads to the question: which is the best single serve coffee maker? It is not an easily answered question, as it is a bit like asking someone the best coffee. Everyone has a different answer because coffee is such a personal experience, such a subjective preference, that we all consider our intimate perspective on...

The New Year is a time for a fresh start. People stay up to greet it and welcome the myriad possibilities it holds. If you are looking for a fresh start, why not try a new coffee maker? The effects on your life, the impact of a more satisfying coffee experience, are of a daily nature. One simple replacement, one little change, and every day of the new year ahead is impacted, all from replacing your old coffee maker with a new one.

Maybe it is time to modernize your coffee maker?  Today’s...

The many options now available in the single cup coffee maker realm have a lot of people asking which of these machines is best for them. The reality of it is that each type of single serve coffee maker has its advantages and disadvantages. Today on the CoffeeForLess blog, we are going to look at the differences between two of the leading brands in the single cup coffee machine market: Tassimo vs. Keurig.
 

In the battle of Tassimo vs. Keurig, we’ll discover what sets each style of machine apart...

K-Cup coffee has revolutionized the way that we drink coffee by adding a level of convenience nearly unsurpassed in the coffee marketplace. The first coffee offered in K-Cups was Green Mountain Coffee, making them the trailblazer of K-Cup coffee. This move into single serve coffee by Green Mountain Coffee has not only allowed them to innovate but also to perfect their coffees for this new medium.

Being the first to put their coffee in a K-Cup, Green Mountain Coffee uses this new single cup...

Office coffee workers the world over are embracing fresh brewed coffee at their desk or in their home office with the recent trend of compact single serve coffee machines. These highly engineered single cup coffee machines produce a single cup of coffee at a time from coffee makers that advances in technology have allowed to be so small as to be perfect for your desktop.

Single serve coffee machines of this size make it possible to brew coffee right at your desk. Gone is the need to halt your...

Lattes and cappuccinos are hoity-toity coffee house fare, but these days they are as common as fast food despite lacking fast food prices. For many of us, a stop by Starbucks or some comparable coffee shop is a daily ritual. That daily ritual hits the wallet pretty hard, making finding any way one can cut into the cost of the habit a great idea. The luxury of steamed milk espresso drinks is not something most people are willing to give up, and so the advancements in single serving coffee brewing...

Best Single Cup Coffee Maker

Trying to decide which K-Cup brewer is the best single cup coffee maker, we found that it really came down to two: Keurig Special Edition B60 K-Cup Brewer and the Keurig Mini Plus B31 K-Cup Brewer Platinum. We used a number of traits to determine what would be the best single cup coffee maker with the average coffee drinker in mind. Taking into account the ways in which different coffee drinkers brew their coffee, we sought to determine which K-Cup coffee maker is...