Are You Using A Single Cup Coffee Maker?

Are You Using A Single Cup Coffee Maker?

As you might have noticed there is a growing popularity for the single cup coffee makers. You see them when you go into other people’s homes, into break rooms, or in the individual offices of other associates you work with. What is the big appeal? Is it the fancy little k-cup carousels with the huge variety of coffees and hot beverages? Is it the though brewing process that makes a single cup just for me and no one else? Maybe it is the great taste and the quality of the coffee itself?

What happened to the old, automatic drip coffee maker? They are still around and there is nothing wrong with them. They still make an excellent cup of coffee and when you are need of making a quantity of brew for a party or a family get together there are still some excellent automatic drips on the market. I still have mine and use it especially during the holiday season and on any of those special occasions like birthdays.

Is it really a step up from the old percolators the grandparents used to have on the stove? You remember the old grey or blue percolators that either set on the wood burning flat top in the kitchen or the one that was placed on top of the pot bellied stove in the dinning room. I can still remember it to this day the smell of the old stale coffee bubbling away in the pot. Yes those were the good ole days.

The popularity has made companies like Green Mountain Coffee one of the top 100 fastest growing companies $1 billion-plus in revenues and sending a shock wave through the coffee industry. They have bought up Tully’s, a Seattle, Washington-based coffee roaster very popular in supermarkets and Californian roaster Diedrich. You will find them in hotels, motels and offices everywhere now.

If you have looked around your local grocery store you have noticed a little shuffling of products in the coffee isles. I some of the stores you will see that the fresh coffee bean dispenser has been totally removed from the isle. In its place, smack-dap in the middle, waist high to eye level you will find a whole section of K-Cups, T-Disks, and Pods, made by every name brand coffee maker out there. Folgers, Maxwell House etc.

Green Mountain, bought Keurig, a one cup coffee maker company and they have different brewing systems on the market coming into 2012. Their top three systems are the Keurig B70, Keurig B60 Special Edition, and the Keurig Elite. These systems have different dimensions of cup/mug sizes you can use, water reserve levels etc. They of course vary in price as you go up in features.

There are of course a lot of different brands out there on the market today. Brands like Bosch/Tassimo, Braun, Hamilton Beach, Black and Decker, Senseo, Cuisinart, just to name a few. They of course have different types of coffee delivery systems. There is of course the K-Cups and then there are the Pods, and T-Disks. K-cups for the Keurig, one cup coffee maker being the most popular delivery system.

What every brand you decide to go with, if you are in the market for a new coffee maker or maybe looking for a great gift. You have to admit, having so many varieties of coffees, flavored coffees, teas, cocoa, apple cider, etc., at your finger tips is pretty cool. The one cup coffee maker will be around to stay and they have been welcomed with open arms.