I am a coffee lover. I love the
taste and smell of coffee. I wasn’t a big coffee drinker until I retired in
2006. Before that time, when our department moved into a new building, I would
have one, maybe 2 eight ounce cups a day. And that was only because I was the
first one in the building and I made the coffee, and we had one of those large
two pot coffee makers. Of course the coffee was fresh and always I got the
first cup.
When I retired I found out about Gevalia
coffee, so I subscribed and was delighted with the flavors they offered. On one
hand, I really don’t care about the flavors, per se, because I really, really
love the taste of black, dark roast coffee. On the other hand having different
flavors spiced up my day. But, to be honest, I really craved the Breakfast
blend, and the French roast.
At that time my only problem was, I
didn’t know how to make a smaller pot of coffee. I would make one pot and I
would finish it in an hour or so. This went on for quite a while and what made
it worse, my son who was living with me, after work he would bring home those little
donut balls. In the morning I would feast on coffee and donut balls.
The donut balls continued until my
son joined the navy and my sugar level got high enough to cause alarm. The pot
of coffee continued until 2012 when my coffee pot burnt out and was virtually useless.
I then had to go out to the local coffee shop and get a large cup of their
breakfast blend. My other son gave me a one cup coffee maker and I kind of
liked the idea, one cup. But that device died within a couple of weeks,
considering it had been sitting on the top of my kitchen shelf for quite a
while.
In the meantime I couldn’t keep my
thoughts off of the Keurig coffee maker. The one I wanted was expensive, to me,
but I had to have it. For some reason, I don’t remember what, I got a check
from my old company, so that day I went and purchased a Keurig Special Edition
Brewing System, it was a decent price. Of course there were cheaper coffeemakers
out there, but I just liked the way this machine looked.
All in all I thought this was a
great coffeemaker and it came with a box of 12 of those K-cup packs. They were
great for, 12 cups of coffee. And those pack piled up, in the trash, as luck
would have it I believe in recycling. The one thing that troubled me was; those
K-cups packs were expensive.
Expensive, yes, running anywhere
from 60 cents apiece to, depending on the company that provided the K-cup pack,
up $1.20 apiece. What made it so bad was the Keurig Brewing system I purchased
only had three cup settings with the largest being only an 8oz cup. All my cups
are 16 ounces. Adding an additional insult to me, those K-cup packs can only be
used once! So, I would have to use two packs for one cup of coffee.
To me, this was expensive, wasteful
and a stupid idea. I did find out, a couple of months later that there was a
device, Keurig My K-Cup Reusable Coffee Filter that would fit into the
coffeemaker and you could use your own coffee. And, even if coffee was, the cheapest
being around $7.00 for one of those large one pound cans of coffee, to which
you can get up to 90 cups of coffee per container.
I purchased the device from
Amazon.com for only $5! The shipping and handling was $6, though. I later
figured out that I could have a great cup of coffee even if I used the same
coffee twice, in the filter, to fill my 16 ounce coffee cup. I felt that was
much better. I was really on the verge of getting rid of my Keurig coffeemaker
and getting a good old fashioned coffee maker that makes one whole pot at a
time.
Now that I think about it, though,
I am still drinking about a pot a day anyway. But, I love coffee, I love the
taste of coffee, and I love waking up in the morning to the smell of coffee
brewing. I also love my Keurig coffeemaker. In the past nine months I have had
no problems with it, well except the coffee cup selection, but I have gotten
over that, now. Coffee, coffee, coffee, you gotta love it! I do!
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