K-Cups often receive the criticism that they are wasteful in terms of trash production, a claim that Keurig has refuted in terms of proportion of waste produced per capita. Certainly, Keurig has heard the criticism. Their new Vue single cup coffee maker uses #5 recyclable plastic, a plastic being recycled in more and more communities across North America every day, in its inserts.

However, many single cup coffee consumers still feel the need to find ways to reuse or repurpose spent K-Cups in...

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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Starbucks has announced their new single serve coffee maker, the Verismo, and many are wondering if Keurig will soon have a serious competitor for their Keurig K-Cup systems. The truth of the matter though is that the Verismo is more similar to the Tassimo T-Discs coffee makers already on the market. While Keurig holds much loyalty in the single serve coffee maker market, the Verismo may well give Keurig stiff competition thanks to the mass brand recognition of Starbucks.

The Verismodoes not...

By now, you have seen them everywhere. Keurig K-Cup coffee makers are in homes, restaurants, and even many hotels. Pod coffee makers have been ubiquitous in hotels, restaurants, and offices for over a decade. Tassimo’s T-Disc coffee makers are gaining a foothold in many coffee serving venues, and it seems that new single cup coffee makers are being developed with regularity.

Single cup coffee makers appear to be the wave of the future when it comes to coffee consumption, so maybe it is time to...

When it comes to coffee, Americans tend to prefer speed and convenience over most of the other details that go into coffee brewing, and our coffee consumption tends to reflect this. Our quick coffee preferences have brought about new technologies that suit our desire for efficiency.

Crystallized instant coffees were once the way to a quick morning coffee on your way commute, but we are designing ever more advanced technologies to make a cup of coffee as quickly as possible. These technologies...

Just like Starbucks before them, coffee pods and K-cups have revolutionized the beverage world, allowing at-home coffee lovers the same high quality roast they normally buy in cafes. 

With a small initial investment, daily coffee drinkers can reap hundreds of dollars of value using single serving machines made by manufacturers like Keurig and Tassimo.  Whereas K-Cups remain a popular, albeit less environmentally friendly option, coffee pods are gaining popularity due to their ease, simplicity...

A recent study to be published in the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease describes the results of observation of 124 people between the ages 65 to 88 over the course of either a 2-year or 4-year period. What the study found may just surprise you. Those who had blood caffeine levels equivalent to those experienced by those who consume three cups of coffee peer day were significantly less likely to develop Alzheimer’s Disease as well as a number neuropathic disorders.

Further study will be necessary,...

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...

Single serve coffee brewers are all the rage, and while we have covered some of the differences between the various brands of single serve coffee brewers and their refills, we have not really discussed the more traditional coffee maker features on these single serve coffee brewers and how  they match up to one another.

Today, we discuss the features that traditional make a coffee maker a quality machine and which single serve coffee brewers match up to traditional standards. Certainly, coffee...

The profusion of such prepackaged single serving coffees as coffee pods, T-Discs, and K-Cups has left many of today’s coffee drinkers a bit perplexed as to which kind of single cup coffee will work in their coffee maker. While Tassimo T-Discs and Keurig K-Cups are proprietary refills for their specific branded coffee makers, many coffee pods are capable of being used in any pour over or drip coffeemaker.

This universal functioning alongside the convenience of a prepackaged paper filter and...

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...

You have probably heard of world-famous chef Wolfgang Puck. He is famous for his fabulous dishes and amazing preparations. He has leant his name and palate to a line of coffee that truly lives up to his reputation for quality and excellence. Today, we look at Wolfgang Puck Hawaiian Hazelnut flavored coffee.

Wolfgang Puck Hawaiian Hazelnut flavored coffee combines rich roasted coffee with delicious hazelnut flavor. This flavored coffee is full-flavored and aromatic no matter how you brew it.

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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...

Espresso roast coffee is a delicacy to some. It is exquisite and robust, complex and nuanced. To a serious coffee drinker, espresso is one of the culminations of coffee history. Its rich, roasty notes and deep, earthy fragrance can pull a coffee connoisseur from the sidewalk all the way to the barista as if compelled by some siren’s trance.

In honor of espresso roast coffee’s immense contribution to so many avid coffee drinkers’ lives, we at CoffeeForLess put our many espresso roast coffees to...

The day has come, my fellow coffee fanatics. The cooling days of late August, the hint of Autumn in the early days of September, these things tell me of the return of one of my favorite seasonal coffee flavors. Pumpkin spice coffees are top on my list, and I look forward to their return every Fall. Nothing is better as the length of the day wanes. Nothing signifies the coming of cool weather comfort food and its flavors to a coffee drinker like me than the cinnamon and nutmeg taste of seasonal...

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...

Occasionally I get questions about coffee pods and other single cup coffee. People ask me, why a k-cup, why a coffee pod, what’s wrong with good old fashioned ground coffee, and more. These are good questions, and the answer to them is simple: convenience. Those coffee styles offer you variety and ease that is just far less attainable from traditional whole bean or ground coffee. Those good questions are occasionally accompanied by another odd one about coffee pods or K-Cups: Is coffee...