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Recertified Breville K-Cup Coffee Machine, for $129.99 + $5 shipping
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1 Breville K-Cup Coffee Machine

$129.99 + $5 shipping

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seems awful expensive for one cup of coffee.
anyone know how fast it fills a cup?

Buzzillions has a decent amount of reveiws to review on...
http://www.buzzillions.com/dz_1582378_breville_keurig_single_serve_brewer_reviews

It makes the coffee in a matter of a few seconds as a general rule (unless you are making multiple cups at once) - my wife refers to ours as being like an insta-hot because it keeps some water ready to go at all times. As good as Starbucks? No. But we really like ours and use it when we don't want to make a full pot. That said, you are using the same K-Cup size for each coffee size - I would imagine a 12 oz. out of a k-cup would be pretty watery.

tbergy wrote:seems awful expensive for one cup of coffee.
anyone know how fast it fills a cup?

I work at Bed, Bath and Beyond as a sales associate.

It fills up one cup of coffee in a minute.

Breville makes top-notch products. It comes with a cup to scoop out the grinds for the K-Cup (is included) as well. Outside made entirely of stainless steel. I highly recommended it considering the price our store offers (even with our usual 20% coupons this is still a great offer).

Any additional questions, please PM me.

raubin wrote:As good as Starbucks? No. But we really like ours and use it when we don't want to make a full pot. That said, you are using the same K-Cup size for each coffee size - I would imagine a 12 oz. out of a k-cup would be pretty watery.

I would say it is just as good as Starbucks unless you want something with espresso and or milk in it (ie - cappuccino, latte, mocha, etc.). It definitely beats paying $5 a cup and is prepared faster than Starbucks.

The milk you can always add later and get one of these if you are in a hurry.

If you really want your Starbucks, get the beans/grinds and place them in a K-Cup.

And if you are worried about it being "too watery" just put in another pod for another 6-8 ounces if you are that paranoid.

I agree that Breville makes great products, but it doesn't make this. It's a shell designed by Breville over Keurig's B70 model.

A review:

http://www.singleservecoffee.com/archives/014878.php

I've had the next step down, the Keurig B60, for about a half-year and find it a little noisy but fantastic otherwise; reviews say that the Keurig B70 unit this Breville-branded machine is based on was designed to be quieter.

I use a very select few commercial K-Cups occasionally, but mostly I use the My K-Cup filter with beans freshly roasted by a roaster a few blocks from me. If you like a large cup, choose a roast and blend that support that. Note that you can create very full-bodied cups indeed if you choose a dark roast and a small cup. I can't imagine worthwhile results by using two pods for a single cup.

Since this is a redo, you don't get the sampler pack of K-Cups that come with new machines (note that, contradictory to some observations, you also don't get the scoop or the My K-Cup filter that come with new models), but you can often get them at Target or other suppliers (even Best Buy sells 18-packs of K-Cup coffee) and decide which roasts and blends you prefer. I didn't find any surprises; certain suppliers I never liked made awful K-Cups (I'm looking at you. G.J.) and suppliers I already enjoyed made K-Cups I liked. The My K-Cup filter that allows you to use your own freshly ground beans is widely available at stores like those for $15, and I recommend it. The filter has markings for single-strength and double-strength coffee (which of course can also involve the amount of water you're using); the review of the reusable filter is at

http://www.singleservecoffee.com/archives/004250.php

(I have no affiliation with that site beyond reading its reviews, which I think too polite but otherwise reliable.)

If I didn't already have one, I'd be all over this. With a 20% off coupon from a national chain, I paid about this for the machine that's the next step down, as I say.

Call me crazy, call me a coffee snob, but I don't get it. Spend lots of money to get a coffee maker to make one cup of coffee out of beans ground who knows when and put into what looks to be a plastic cup (ready to reside in landfills) .
Last I knew coffee logic dictates that beans start loosing their freshness when roasted. Grinding of said beans makes them deteriorate faster. Further reading from a bag of *bucks coffee as well as instructed by the all food knowing Alton Brown you are to use two Tbsp/6oz water. The k-cup looks to be about 2 Tbsp. So to get what I, *bucks and A.B. would consider a decent cup of coffee I would have to run this thing twice?
Yes I realize I can grind my own beans and bother to fill the re-usable cup (sold separately). How does this compare to my $20 Black and Decker that I can brew anywhere from one cup to 3/4 of a pot. Using a filter that costs a penny or less and can be tossed directly onto the compost heap. Does anyone know if the k-cups are made of that compostable plastic?
It looks like each K-cup comes to a little less than fifty cents. I'm gonna hazard a guess and say to make a cup of coffee with a standard maker it would come to less than 35 cents, maybe even sub quarter, a cup even when one makes it A.B. style.

Silly consumers, K-cups are for um, well I guess you.
So go forth and spend more on your single serve lifestyle.
I for one will own my house $135 sooner.

What's the difference between K-cups and the pods that are used for the Juan Valdez Pod Coffee Maker that woot has sold a few times?

Yes, my library has one of these. If you have it preheated, it can fill up a 16oz. cup in about 45 seconds.

I have a Keurig K-cup machine. To save energy, I have my "Auto-off" setting on, so in the morning I need to wait maybe a minute for the water to heat up. A buddy does not do that, so it is seconds to the first cup of coffee.

As to the quality of coffee - it is OK, but not great. I generally drink Starbucks or Equal Exchange, and those are much better coffees than what is available in the K-cup containers. You can get a contraption where you can use your own coffee, which is better (but not quite "really good" yet).

K-cup cartridges (make one cup) can be bought for $0.50-$1.00 normally. Amazon is currently having a sale on a well-reviewed brand with Obama or McCain boxes for $8 for a 24 K-cup box ($0.33/cup). Buy 4 to get free shipping.
http://www.amazon.com/Coffee-People-K-Cup-Obama-24-Count/dp/B001DBPQEU/ref=pd_rhf_p_t_2
http://www.amazon.com/Coffee-People-K-Cup-McCain-24-Count/dp/B001DBRQ7A/ref=pd_rhf_p_t_3

K-cups are available for teas and hot chocolate (pretty good stuff) too.

Overall - it is a really, really neat machine. For convenience it cannot be beat. For quality coffee, it could do better - but then, I am still experimenting with it.

If you're brewing in under a minute, using some generic beans roasted and ground god-knows-when, and using the same amount for anywhere from 6 to 12 ounces of joe you simply have no idea what a good cup of coffee is anyway.

Seriously people - is your life /that/regimented that you can't tale 5 minutes for a real pot of coffee? And @ $129 PLUS the what I am sure is outrageous cost of the "K-Kups" I can, in fact, brew an entire pot and only drink one cup and STILL come out ahead.

This thing is 100% "████ factor" - right down to the super-cool blue LEDs

For the same amount you can get this:
http://store.shopila.net/memb1b082846800150.html
and this:
http://www.paradiseroasters.com/product/FRESH-ROAST-PLUS-8
...and REALLY whip out your coffee ████ by telling Chad and Muffy that you roasted your own - and bonus, it will actually taste like something worth drinking.

But then, this is clearly aimed at the crowd that believes the burnt brown swill that StarBLECHs kraps into a cup for $3 is "the real deal"...
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I bought my K-Cup machine at BJs - $129 plus it came with 88 K-Cups. They also sell a huge box of 80 K-Cups for about $30.

This price is pretty good but if you are really bargain hunting check out the bigger-box stores or even order direct for Green Mountain coffee.

http://shop.bjs.com/Keurig-Single-Serve-Brewer-with-88-Free-Cups-of-Coffee-and-Cocoa--Black-and-Silver--Front-Page_stcVVproductId49016586VVcatId428349VVviewprod.htm

Great concept for college dorm rooms, but a little pricey. I bought a similar machine for my son and he loves it. Saves him a couple of buck a cup over Starbucks and is fast. If you want the best cup of coffee get a french press and grind your own beans.

For all the downers on a quick "Krap" Coffee, just stick to your special home brew or SBUX. This machine is great for a cup on the go. I have the equivalent K-Brand one in my apartment and i fill a travel mug in the morning for work, and when my girlfriend is up and ready, she can make a cup. we wasted so much coffee before this because we were never going to drink a pot of coffee - and i never liked her flavored Krap. This also gives each person their own taste and variety. The coffee isn't AS good as what CAN be done...but its good enough for the normal daily cup or two. Plus the hot water feature is great if you want to make your own tea, etc. I have the equivalent K-Brand Machine...but i wish i had this, the stainless probably adds some weight, cutting down the vibration of the K-Brand. Awesome price for a good cup of coffee again and again!

I have a Keurig K Cup machine and love it... We wanted this one, but new, it was still too pricey.

The advantages are simple: you make a cup at a time, when you need it vs. making a pot that sits for an hour or so. You want french vanilla and the wife wants columbianm blend? No problem. I buy my k-cups from my corporate vendor, so a box of 25 is $8.00. It's a .32 cent cup of coffee... No waste.

I set my machine to auto on so the water is hot when i come downstairs for my first cup of the day, and it's set to turn off one hour later, so my wife gets a hot cuppa joe too.

Good price for a good machine in my opinion.

Oh, as an added thought... For about $15 you can buy a special filter insert which allows you to use your own coffee grind instead of the retail k-cups... Get it at Linens & Things or Bed Bath & Beyond using their $5.00 off coupon...

these things are great. you can get the refills on amazon

Disgracefully wasteful!

Coffee companies (and coffee drinkers) who put ground coffee in tiny plastic containers for one-time use obviously don't care much about how their coffee tastes.

Green Mountain Coffee Roasters should be ashamed.

CrazyBear wrote:It comes with a cup to scoop out the grinds for the K-Cup (is included) as well.

That is for the new unit. The scoop, reusable k-cup, and water filter does not come with the respiffied.

We have the Keurig and love it. I can only drink cold brewed coffee so hubby uses the Keurig. Rather than waste and entire pot of coffee he can have a cup or two a day and it's always fresh. He's not a coffee snob but he does like the Kona blend.

If you drink more than a couple of cups of coffee a day this is probably not for you. But if you just want one cup in the morning I think it's well worth the price mainly because you don't wind up throwing out a whole pot of brewed coffee because you didn't drink it all or worse (what we used to do) ... brew up a pot, pull the plug then reheat in the micro for the next two days. Now THAT'S icky.

Honestly those of you putting down those of us who own this need to check your attitude at the door. If you don't want one then DON'T BUY ONE. and if you have never used one then take your "opinion" elsewhere.

I just bought the Keurig at BJ's for $129. This came with 88 free K-cups and a rebate for 50 more free (rebate only good on purchases through 11/31). Seems like a much better deal than this one. My biggest complaint is that it doesn't fill a large mug. I have experimented and put the Extra-Bold cups through twice on the small and medium settings. Now I get a full mug and surprisingly the coffee is not watery at all. The convenience factor is great! There is a flavor/brand out there for everyone or make your favourite by using MY K-CUP (about $10.00 at BB & B or L & T with $5.00 coupon)

I can wait for a pot of coffee, but the main reason I like the K-Cups is just for variety. I don't want 4 or 5 open bags of coffee beans, and it's also good for company, everyone can choose the flavor of coffee they want to drink. GreenMountainCoffee.Com has boxes of 24 for about $13.00, with free shipping if you buy four boxes. Comes out to about $0.54 a cup.

As far as the landfills, I'm not buying a large DD or $tarbuck$ cup every day, so I'm thinking I'm saving the landfills just a little bit because the K-Cups are that much smaller, a little larger than a single serve coffee creamer at a restaurant.

I got the K-Cup maker as a housewarming gift, and would never spend the money on it myself because it was never something I thought I needed. Now that I have one, I use it every day - still a little expensive for a coffee maker, good for a gift I guess.

If this doesn't have the water filter built in, it's not worth it IMO.

I bought this exact machine NEW at Williams Sonoma for my wife last Christmas. It cost a whopping $300, but also comes with the W-S lifetime exchange warranty. If you're looking for value, as others have noted, buy a Keurig at BJs or Costco. The coffee will be essentially the same from any Keurig model, although the more expensive models allow for scheduling turning the machine on, larger tanks, filters, wider variety of cup size support, etc.

The main reason to get the Breville over the other models is pure aesthetics - our kitchen is all stainless appliances, and this goes much better.

As far as cost goes - between my wife and I we were spending an obscene amount of money at Starbucks (I worked the numbers but am too embarrassed to say).

Now that we have the Breville we go to Starbucks maybe once a week. Even with the high upfront cost we've easily saved money overall in the 11 months we've had this. Granted the less expensive Keurig models (which cost about the same as this respiffed edition) would pay back faster.

If you're happy with McDonald's coffee this is not for you. If you like flavored coffee and only make a cup or two at a time - or you like decaf and your wife likes flavored coffees - this will save time/travel to Starbucks/Dunkin as well as save lots of $ over time.

The best place we've found for getting K-Cups is Kenoza Coffee: http://www.kenozacoffee.com/
They offer Gloria Jeans, Green Mountain, teas, supplies, etc etc. all at good prices. They also offer "build a box" which allows you to sample a wide varies of K-Cups at a low cost.

As for filters - this model has an (optional) built in filter. This is basically required if you use tap water. We buy gallons of spring water at the local grocery store (about $0.30 per bottle - super cheap store brand) so don't use the filter.

Let's push back on the coffee snob perspective leaking through some of these posts. If you live your life around ensuring that every cup is exquisite, perhaps priorities are worth examining and, ideally, readjusting. If you want a good cup of coffee once or twice a day, this machine and some freshly roasted beans (as I say, I live near a roaster ranked as one of America's best) will make you happy; this machine and commercial K-Cups that you choose based on your own taste after trying some will make you satisfied.

To those of you justifiably concerned with this machine being earth friendly:

I recently implemented an eco-campaign in my office to cut down on waste, resuse the resources that we can, and recycle the rest, and we use K-Cups.. With 200+ employees, you can imagine the bulk of spent cups. I inquired with the folks at Tully's as well as Gloria Jeans, and they both stated that while the k-cups are not bio-degradable, they ARE recyclable. As such, the K-Cups go in our recycling bin with cans, glass and plastic bottles...

We are doing this at the office as well as with my machine at home.

i think this is a great looking machine.

but one cup at a time from a pre-measured pod thingy is just not my thing.

some times i like a stronger cup, other times not so strong. i like having my coffee pot where i can determine how much coffee per cup of water is used.

now, if i could find a machine that looks this good and works like my normal coffee pot, i might be interested... if the price was right.

KarenMarie wrote:i think this is a great looking machine.

but one cup at a time from a pre-measured pod thingy is just not my thing.

some times i like a stronger cup, other times not so strong. i like having my coffee pot where i can determine how much coffee per cup of water is used.

now, if i could find a machine that looks this good and works like my normal coffee pot, i might be interested... if the price was right.

This has 4 cup sizes, so you can take your dark roast with 4 ounces of water... Breville has a toll free number so they can dispatch someone to peel you off the walls...

FWIW, Dark Roast != more caffeine

The process of roasting breaks down the caffeine in coffee. So although it may taste stronger, you're getting less of the drug you seek.

Just ask anyone who roasts their own what it's like to have coffee from an underroasted batch. :D

firestix wrote:Call me crazy, call me a coffee snob, but I don't get it. Spend lots of money to get a coffee maker to make one cup of coffee out of beans ground who knows when and put into what looks to be a plastic cup (ready to reside in landfills) .
Last I knew coffee logic dictates that beans start loosing their freshness when roasted. Grinding of said beans makes them deteriorate faster. Further reading from a bag of *bucks coffee as well as instructed by the all food knowing Alton Brown you are to use two Tbsp/6oz water. The k-cup looks to be about 2 Tbsp. So to get what I, *bucks and A.B. would consider a decent cup of coffee I would have to run this thing twice?
Yes I realize I can grind my own beans and bother to fill the re-usable cup (sold separately). How does this compare to my $20 Black and Decker that I can brew anywhere from one cup to 3/4 of a pot. Using a filter that costs a penny or less and can be tossed directly onto the compost heap. Does anyone know if the k-cups are made of that compostable plastic?
It looks like each K-cup comes to a little less than fifty cents. I'm gonna hazard a guess and say to make a cup of coffee with a standard maker it would come to less than 35 cents, maybe even sub quarter, a cup even when one makes it A.B. style.

Silly consumers, K-cups are for um, well I guess you.
So go forth and spend more on your single serve lifestyle.
I for one will own my house $135 sooner.

would that perchance be: "Maxwell House?"

CrazyBear wrote:I work at Bed, Bath and Beyond as a sales associate.

It fills up one cup of coffee in a minute.

Breville makes top-notch products. It comes with a cup to scoop out the grinds for the K-Cup (is included) as well. Outside made entirely of stainless steel. I highly recommended it considering the price our store offers (even with our usual 20% coupons this is still a great offer).

Any additional questions, please PM me.

Read the story, the scooper, holder and water filter are missing... Maybe the BBB one is worth the extra money? The Crusinart got at Costco for $55 is great! 12 cuos (room for 14). Push the 2-4 cup button and coffee still comes out great!! just dont forget to push it or you get less coffee...

It's not very often I feel this way about a Woot that doesn't involve the Master Chef knife set, but: I'd rather have chlamydia.

Does anyone else get a strange feeling when looking up product reviews for this product? I'm not usually the first one to cry wolf, but if you look at the following two product review sites, I think you'll find there is not a single typo.

http://www.buzzillions.com/dz_1582378_breville_keurig_single_serve_brewer_reviews

http://www.amazon.com/review/product/B001I73TKC/ref=dp_top_cm_cr_acr_txt?_encoding=UTF8&showViewpoints=1

Oh, I was wrong. There is one non-perfect review:

NICE LOOKING BUT WEAK COFFE MAKER

I am a person that dont like coffe singles from those coffe supliers dont taste strong enough I like a good cup of coffe in the morning but with this machine only in the small setting I get a ok coffe cup of coffe not enough for me.well another machine that is a waste of money I have 6 coffe maker in my basement this one will last only couple of weeks until I get tired of it.

I make spelling errors occasionally, but spelling "coffee" incorrectly fives times in a row for a product that has coffee in the title?

Would like to be in for one... but feeling kind of shady.

Patchitect wrote:would that perchance be: "Maxwell House?"

No, I tend toward 8 o'clock. Value and good taste. Wish I had a close by roaster so I could take the final step in coffee snobbery, to see if that has a good dollar to taste ratio, before jumping in and getting the roaster someone else posted about earlier.

But, just to prove a point from the bag of Dunkin' Coffee I almost bought today on sale has a full price of 7.99 and says it makes 60 6oz cups. A cup for me is a standard mug in my above example so lets make 12 oz cups, or 30 per bag.
so: 7.99/30=0.263333 plus one cent for the filter and the round up comes to 28 cents per cup. Not to mention I get free addition of nutrients to my local plants. My filters with grounds, as I said previously, get tossed on to the compost heap to help make yummy soil.

Now, that said, I get it. Its convenient. It allows a variety of choice. Actually it would probably be just the thing for where I work. Where the customers get instant and the two other "serious" coffee drinkers have a tendency to never clean the communal coffee maker after using it. I have seen mold in the full basket and carafe.

My answer was a mug and a basket that fits perfectly atop the mug, that I ripped out of some ole 4 cup maker and hot water available from the instant machine. Virtually the same effect as this machine only a lot cheaper. Now, how to get past the multiple open bag thing for variety. I guess I do have a foodsaver vacuum packaging deal, if I really wanted to go to that trouble.

Got it today.... Love it!

firestix wrote:Call me crazy, call me a coffee snob, but I don't get it. Spend lots of money to get a coffee maker to make one cup of coffee out of beans ground who knows when and put into what looks to be a plastic cup (ready to reside in landfills) .
Last I knew coffee logic dictates that beans start loosing their freshness when roasted. Grinding of said beans makes them deteriorate faster. Further reading from a bag of *bucks coffee as well as instructed by the all food knowing Alton Brown you are to use two Tbsp/6oz water. The k-cup looks to be about 2 Tbsp. So to get what I, *bucks and A.B. would consider a decent cup of coffee I would have to run this thing twice?
Yes I realize I can grind my own beans and bother to fill the re-usable cup (sold separately). How does this compare to my $20 Black and Decker that I can brew anywhere from one cup to 3/4 of a pot. Using a filter that costs a penny or less and can be tossed directly onto the compost heap. Does anyone know if the k-cups are made of that compostable plastic?
It looks like each K-cup comes to a little less than fifty cents. I'm gonna hazard a guess and say to make a cup of coffee with a standard maker it would come to less than 35 cents, maybe even sub quarter, a cup even when one makes it A.B. style.

Silly consumers, K-cups are for um, well I guess you.
So go forth and spend more on your single serve lifestyle.
I for one will own my house $135 sooner.

Paul Katzeff of Thanksgiving Coffee replies:
You should get 40 cups to the pound making a $10.00 pound of coffee cost you 25 cents a cup.