Are you considering a one cup coffee maker?  One cup coffee makers are starting to make more and more sense as they come down in price, especially when you consider how many entire pots are brewed for the sake of filling one coffee cup.  There are a few different types of one cup coffee makers, and you have to be sure that you use the right coffee pods with the right 1 cup coffee maker.

K-Cups coffee, for instance, only works with Keurig’s K-Cup brewer.  No one else makes the K-Cup brewer.  These are not so much coffee pods as individually sealed packages of coffee intended to fill only one coffee cup.  If you have multiple coffee cups to fill, look further because as far as I can tell, Keurig only deals with one coffee cup at a time.  Keurig licenses the K-Cup coffee to other coffee producers, including Green Mountain Coffee.

T-Discs are something else entirely.  Their disc shape allows them to be used to make things far more complicated than just coffee.  They’re a bit pricier, but if you want things like mocha cappucino with froth on a daily basis without going to a coffee shop, they’re worth it.  The company that makes T-Discs is Tassimo, or actually Bosch, but they use the Tassimo name.  Like the Keurig, it won’t fill multiple coffee cups, but since you’re saving a ton of time and money on specialty coffees by avoiding the coffee shops, it might just be worth it to run a Tassimo twice, or three times.  Only a few companies make T-Discs.

Then you have your generic coffee pods.  They also go by the name Home Cafe.  It’s ironic that these use the term “Home Cafe” since it’s the Tassimo T-Discs that make cafe type drinks, but whatever.  Regular coffee pods are good if you’ll need to regularly fill up to four coffee cups as some machines can brew that many pods at once.  The neat thing about those 4-cup brewers is that they can usually brew just one as well.  Used in an office, that kind of efficiency can help offset all the waste created by all those disposable coffee cups everyone is always using.  Pretty much everyone that makes coffee makes regular coffee pods, except those few that are making K-Cups instead.

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