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...

A few companies are marketing branded cleaning discs for a variety of single serving coffee makers, including such CoffeeForLess favorites as Tassimo and Keurig coffee machines. These products appearance in the marketplace has led some in our coffee community to ask if these products are necessary when it comes to coffee machine maintenance. Today, we put to rest he question of whether you need a branded Tassimo cleaning disc or some sort of special cleaning K-Cup to clean these machinese.

While...

CoffeeForLess is offering a great deal that will make Christmas shopping this year far easier for a lot of us coffee fanatics. CoffeeForLess is offering Keurig coffee maker gift sets that combine a variety of Keurig K-Cup coffee makers with samples and accessories.

These Keurig Coffee Maker Gift Sets make the ideal gift to get a friend, loved one, or associate enjoying K-Cup coffee as soon as they open their K-Cup coffee gift set. Give the gift of K-Cup coffee this holiday season with the help...

As anyone who reads the K-Cup Blog here at CoffeeForLess knows, I love coffee, and I love K-Cups. So naturally, I think coffee when I think K-Cups.  This time of year, though, brings with it a delicious treat that I look forward to every year: Hot Cocoa K-Cups! Hot chocolate K-Cups are great. They let me enjoy hot chocolate any time I want it without having to spill cocoa all over the counter ripping open an instant hot cocoa packet.

With hot chocolate K-Cups, I can simply pop a K-Cup in the...

Fall has brought back one of the most popular seasonal coffees on the market today. Green Mountain Coffee Pumpkin Spice Coffee is universally appealing, blending some of the first spices ever blended with coffee in such an arrangement as to conjure memories of Norman Rockwell Thanksgivings.

The overall experience that Green Mountain Coffee Seasonal Pumpkin Spice Coffee creates has mass appeal but limited supply, being seasonal and produced in limited quantities. Today, we discuss this, one of...

Keurig K-Cup coffee has me a bit overwhelmed these days. These K-Cups offer so much variety that I do not know where to start or finish with the joy of single cup coffee. I started with a goal of trying a new Keurig K-Cup coffee every time I ordered more K-Cups for my Keurig brewer. Since then, I’ve learned that the variety offered in terms of coffee in K-Cup form is amazing! There are so many varieties!

I thought it would be a good idea to share some of my favorite Keurig K-Cup coffee roasters....

Those who do not know about all of the efforts that Keurig undertakes to ensure that their K-Cups are as ecofriendly as possible often ask if there is a way to enjoy K-Cups with less waste. While convenience always comes at some cost, K-Cups are as low impact upon the environment as such a product can be. If that is not enough for you, though, the reusable K-Cup is the solution to your green guilt.

This innovative product for your Keutig K-Cup brewer gives you all of the convenience of K-Cups...

K-Cup coffee or tea is a product of advances in both the K-Cup filter and our understanding of what it actually means to steep or brew hot beverages. As these two technologies have developed side by side, we have gained such products as K-Cups, Tassimo T-Discs, and even coffee pods of certain types.

The K-Cup filter that ensures a quality cup of coffee every time that you use your Keurig K-Cup brewer is not actually that different from a regular coffee filter. How it does differ is in scale. The...

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...

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...

The best thing about owning a Keurig K-Cup coffee maker is the limitless options that such single cup coffee makers have to offer you. To fully allow you to take advantage of these broad coffee vistas, many coffee roasters offer variety packs of K-Cup coffee, and at least one domestic tea company has started doing the same.

The vast majority of K-Cup samplers available are coffee K-Cup variety packs. These are either focused on one specific coffee roaster or are generally more focused on a...

Coffee fanatics, my kith and kin, I think I have been thinking about coffee way too much lately. Last night, I woke up screaming from a horrible nightmare about coffee pods, and I awoke with a terrifying craving for Kona coffee. All in all, the juxtaposition was enough to addle my normally befuddled brain the entire stagger to the coffee maker. Allow me to tell you the visions I’ve had.

The dream started with me going to my good friend Mike’s house. We were going to do our usual figuring out...

The marketplace for prepackaged coffee has been flooded in recent years with scores of products and proprietary brewers. This leaves the average coffee drinker wondering if they will ever have a regular cup of coffee ever again, but we should embrace this change. Convenience is the future of coffee, letting every single cup of coffee a coffee machine brews be personalized to the coffee drinker. K-Cup and T-Disc coffees offer the coffee drinker single cup coffee brewing, but for those who think...

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...

I am very happy to announce that CoffeeForLess is carrying the best single cup coffee filter on the market today: the K-Cup.

Okay, okay, you knew that, but now, CoffeeForLess is carrying the refillable K-Cup, and this means that you can enjoy single cup coffee convenience without sacrificing that obscure Turkish cat poop coffee roasted by Middle-Eastern eunuchs during the Autumnal Equinox. Now, put all that personal preference goodness into your own K-Cup and enjoy it a single cup at a time! Just...

Hot chocolate is a delicious winter treat, and thanks to K-Cups, I get to enjoy it all winter with almost no effort.  The problem comes in when this warming that happens every spring and refuses to abate until the nethers of autumn these days starts to get in the way of my chocolate fix.  What I need is a good way to enjoy K-Cup hot chocolate cold.

Hot Chocolate in the Summer

The Internet, as always, offers a number of solutions to this problem, some odd and some unreasonable but inspiring. It...