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Bob_Skurka · 12-03-2004, 12:08 PM

Find BOONDOX, he works at Green Mountain Coffee and to my knowledge they are the only ones who have a consumer version of the K-cup. In the past few months I've had commercial versions of the K-cup presented to our company's foodservice division, but couldn't figure out the economic payback for the applications we place equipment into.

A similar (but different) concept are the new coffee pods.

I tried several versions of the consumer "coffee pods" from a couple different machines, the most commonly seen is the Senseo machine. Coffee pods are supposed to be the next greatest thing since sliced bread and they are expecting sales of the pod machines to be big Christmas sellers. To me, the best of the pod machines are the Senseo modified machines only available from Baronet Coffee Company out of Hartford, Conn. The pod machines all leave a foam on top of your coffee, it is supposed to be similar to the crema that a properly set up espresso machine produces, but my experience is that it looks like a bad crema and adds nothing positive to the coffee. Baronet modified the standard Senseo machine to virtually eliminate the foam. All that said, the $59 coffee pod machines make a decent cup of coffee, and are probably better suited for home use than a K-cup, but for people who want a k-cup there is no substitute I can see.

12-03-2004, 12:08 PM	#2 (permalink)
Bob_Skurka Super Member Join Date: Jul 2003 Posts: 7,505	Re: Keurig coffee brewer Find BOONDOX, he works at Green Mountain Coffee and to my knowledge they are the only ones who have a consumer version of the K-cup. In the past few months I've had commercial versions of the K-cup presented to our company's foodservice division, but couldn't figure out the economic payback for the applications we place equipment into. A similar (but different) concept are the new coffee pods. I tried several versions of the consumer "coffee pods" from a couple different machines, the most commonly seen is the Senseo machine. Coffee pods are supposed to be the next greatest thing since sliced bread and they are expecting sales of the pod machines to be big Christmas sellers. To me, the best of the pod machines are the Senseo modified machines only available from Baronet Coffee Company out of Hartford, Conn. The pod machines all leave a foam on top of your coffee, it is supposed to be similar to the crema that a properly set up espresso machine produces, but my experience is that it looks like a bad crema and adds nothing positive to the coffee. Baronet modified the standard Senseo machine to virtually eliminate the foam. All that said, the $59 coffee pod machines make a decent cup of coffee, and are probably better suited for home use than a K-cup, but for people who want a k-cup there is no substitute I can see.