SteveR Loc: Michigan

I understand Dunkin and even McDonald's has good coffee.

edwdickinson Loc: Ardmore PA

Pass on the Keurig, use a French Press. You can't beat fresh ground beans for the best cup of coffee and the French Press doesn't wear out.

BebuLamar

It's OK. We have the Keurig Starbucks K cup at work. It's OK but I wouldn't buy the K cups for home it's too expensive.

starlifter Loc: Towson, MD

I tried the reusable cups for my K cup machine and found it a pain although it was cheaper. I get my K cups at Aldi's. You get 12 for 4 to 5 $ depending on the type / flavor.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

My house was built in 1963, and it had indoor/outdoor carpet in the kitchen. That was a thing back then.

I've seen those "wall toilets," but I'd be nervous using them. Some public lavs have toilets that are tilted downward. They're designed to be uncomfortable to keep people moving - no pun intended (well, yes it was intended. )

We have an odd toilet situation here. The upstairs toilet had the standard offset from the wall, but the one downstairs has a smaller offset, and it's not always easy to find a replacement. A plumber told us that that offset is more common in the south, but another plumber said that isn't so. I installed Totos upstairs and down, and they're excellent.

cdayton

I have a Moccamaster one-cup coffee maker but I find it frustratingly slow. I agree that it is far superior to Keurig that I also own, but no longer use, because I could never make a truly strong cup with it. Now I use a Nespresso with one of their dark roasts and two capsules per cup. Nice and strong but not cheap.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

I agree with the price difference!
We get Peet's Big Bang in pods as a treat, expensive and only 22 in a box, not 24.

Red6

My 93-year mother still perc's her coffee as she has done for the past 70 years. I bet she has gone through a dozen electric percolators over those decades. She also still has the stovetop percolator pot if the electric one breaks down.

I am a big coffee drinker but I can only take about one cup of her coffee. I usually drink mine black but with Mom's, I need a little cream or milk and maybe a piece of pie with it.

My favorite way of making coffee is the French Press. Makes 1 or 2 cups to near perfection. My son likes the pour-over method, but I have not mastered that technique.

dpullum Loc: Tampa Florida

Jerry, do not open your box, return it immediately and while they are on sale order a better machine, the Jura Z10 Automatic Espresso Machine.

COFFEE AT ITS BEST

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

I buy a box of pods for my son for his birthday and Christmas.

dpullum Loc: Tampa Florida

In Argentina, the only coffee one bought was espresso. Coffee stores had an array of machines. You bought your coffee prescribing how and which beans were blended and how it is custom ground at the store. Some beans were soaked in a sugar solution before roasting to give a delicious caramelized flavor. In restaurants strong coffee was in small demitasse cups, Small Expresso Coffee Cups, ... only crude yanks got Grande cups polluted with sugar and cream.

You could not buy ingredients to do home baking... every few blocks had glorious bakeries where you made a choice and enjoyed slowly along with small sips of brew.

In crowed coffee brew shops strangers would discuss politics passionately ... shake hands never knowing each other before or after, they loved the discussions, great to watch the animated hands an faces. Two parties, no many, and many elections until it was the two most popular went face to face and that determined the winner. Coffee or wine were the universal political solvents. I enjoyed my life there. At a party I danced with a former first lady, there were 5 that year.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Interesting

sgt hop Loc: baltimore md,now in salisbury md

ii have an old keurig, still perking and i do use the refillable cups....

radiojohn

There are third-party makers of items for the AeroPress [looks like a BIG hypodermic needle that squirts coffee].

One of them is a dirt-cheap adapter that allows you to fit a K-cup on the end of the Aeropress and force the water through it. Includes a thing to pierce the top and bottom of the K-cup.

You can adjust how fast the water flows through the K-cup by how hard & fast you press the Aeropress plunger.

Zero mechanics, zero electricity aside from heating the water in a kettle.

[Another adapter replaces the Aeropress cap with one that has a silicone restriction that opens under sufficient pressure. Allows you let the grounds steep and gives a bit more espresso-like brew.]