Keurig K350 2.0 Coffee Maker

We have an iCoffee Machine and it is like a Keurig. It makes a good cup of coffee for the hubby and tea for me.

2gypsies wrote:
I hope the OP got his questioned answered before we all went off on a tangent! :)

Naaahh. If we didn't spend the day in idle internet chat we'd have to get dressed. Where's the fun in that?

Our stovetop perculator makes wonderful coffee while we're RVing. Our Keurig makes wonderful coffee at home. Good coffee can be had in many ways.

I hope the OP got his questioned answered before we all went off on a tangent! :)

bid_time wrote:
I don't need a $350.00 coffee maker to brew my Sumatran Reserve. I thoroughly enjoy the fine taste from my $80.00 Keurig. To each his own I guess.

I don't disagree with you. But the long-term cost of Kuerig will surely not be less than my alternative.

Comparisons are always interesting. We buy a high dollar RV, a $50K truck, endure hundreds of dollars monthly for TV/Internet/Cell Phones/Insurances, cheerfully hand over our credit card for $20 to $50 per night for campsites, and many many other expensive luxuries. Yet somehow the high cost for a nice coffee maker is too excessive (an appliance that gets used daily), or we find it absurd that we should spend a $100 more to get better tires, or we put off roof maintenance because the sealer is pricey, or we start a thread on RV.net about why a certain campground has laundry facilities that cost $1 or $2 more than we think it should...

I could care less to bash anyone's choices...I have a Technivorm at home and a $25 basic function Mr. Coffee in the RV. And yes, I can easily tell the difference.

My personal choice
Is an old black and Decker under the cabinet drip maker
I don't have to store it every time we move
I do grind my own, but I buy from Ralph's, target or whatever store is available..we do prefer the flavored medium roast coffees, like Irish, hazelnut, creme brule..etc.. Or unflavored Kona blend
I grind several days at one time and keep it in a sealed container
My pallet isn't sensitive enough to notice the coffee was ground two days ago and not this morning

obgraham wrote:
These threads always degenerate into the same argument: "You Keurig folks just don't know how to make good coffee". Followed then by some elaborate routine someone uses, growing their own beans, roasting them in a custom roaster imported from Estonia, grinding one bean at a time, then putting them through some elaborate Italian processor with a Tibetan silken filter.

Well that's fine if you want to. I'm cynical, but not critical.

But it's the put-down of those of us with less esoteric desires that irritates me. If I like my Keurig, or if I like my Nescafe, just leave me alone!

myself I will only drink coffee made from beans grown on the west side of the mountain as the exposure to sunset dries the plants before the evening.
bumpy

Who'da thunk Rv'ers would be so passionate about their coffee and coffee makers ? :B

I enjoy coffee very much..pretty much any brand, flavor,and, any way it gets made. Keurig really tapped in to something and seems to be doing great business. Do need to keep an eye on potential mold issues in the RV Keurig during periods of prolonged storage. I like my coffee like I like my bride...smelling good, and, hot. ;)

Charles

These threads always degenerate into the same argument: "You Keurig folks just don't know how to make good coffee". Followed then by some elaborate routine someone uses, growing their own beans, roasting them in a custom roaster imported from Estonia, grinding one bean at a time, then putting them through some elaborate Italian processor with a Tibetan silken filter.

Well that's fine if you want to. I'm cynical, but not critical.

But it's the put-down of those of us with less esoteric desires that irritates me. If I like my Keurig, or if I like my Nescafe, just leave me alone!

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2gypsies wrote:
Folks mention the high cost of a cup of Keurig coffee but don't flinch when drinking their beer, wine, liquor, smoking and even a cup of coffee in a restaurant.

We all have vices and pay for them in some way. :)

I have no qualms with the high cost of the K-cups. If folks want to pay it, then so be it. But for me, I'd at least like to know that I'm getting a good tasting, high quality product for that much money...which is something that Keurig has yet to be able to provide.

I have no additional information about your particular dining experience on this occasion, but taken by itself, $1.50 for a cup of tea isn't really out of line. If it takes 3 minutes of serving time to take the order for the tea and to clear it down once done plus an additional 3 minutes to clean the dishware and restore it to a proper place for re-use then you're looking at a labor burden of 90 cents for the transaction alone based on a $9/hr average wage. Add in the costs to make the hot water, the tea bag, more how water to wash the dishes, and an admittedly miniscule percentage of overhead for lights, heat, napkins, condiments / fixins, janitorial, insurances, taxes, advertising, office supplies, etc, etc, etc on a $1.50 transaction and you're up to about $1.28 in costs and a 15% profit. Drink up...you're getting a good deal on the tea and they're losing money on your ice water.

WTP-GC wrote:

bid_time wrote:

WTP-GC wrote:

2gypsies wrote:
Folks mention the high cost of a cup of Keurig coffee but don't flinch when drinking their beer, wine, liquor, smoking and even a cup of coffee in a restaurant.Don't get the impression that we're a bunch of hippie tree-huggers...but...we choose FRESH roasted organic beans, and our preference is a Sumatran or Kenyan bean. We grind it daily (usually

We all have vices and pay for them in some way. :)

I have no qualms with the high cost of the K-cups. If folks want to pay it, then so be it. But for me, I'd at least like to know that I'm getting a good tasting, high quality product for that much money...which is something that Keurig has yet to be able to provide.

So what coffee are you drinking now that you can't get in a K-Cup?

that's me at about 5:30 AM) and normally only make enough for that day's coffee. We use the Technivorm coffee maker, which I linked too earlier in this thread. There is actually a science behind making coffee, and several factors that make the difference between "great" and "good". There are very few coffee makers on the market that are capable of making "great" coffee. Nothing I've ever had from a Keurig machine (either the high end models or the cheap ones) is hardly worth being called "coffee".

Now that we're WAAAAYYYY off topic, I could launch into a rant about our so-called "disposable culture", but I like using paper plates when I'm camping so I won't self-judge.

I don't need a $350.00 coffee maker to brew my Sumatran Reserve. I thoroughly enjoy the fine taste from my $80.00 Keurig. To each his own I guess.