Single Cup Coffee Pod Makers

For many working Americans, the morning cup of coffee is as much a prime ritual as brushing your teeth or frantically searching for misplaced keys before jumping into morning rush hour. The irony for many decades has been this: in order to get one cup, you must make a full pot. The modern arrival of coffee pods and single cup coffee makers has revolutionized morning sip time for those who drink coffee in moderation.



Coffee pods most resemble round tea bags, except there is no cotton string with a tag label attached and there are ground coffee beans rather than tea grains inside the pouch. The pods are prepackaged with filter paper already inside and sealed to keep the coffee fresh. After coffee drinkers place a pod into a single cup coffee maker, water drips through the pod and is collected in a mug below the drip.



Those who are into experimenting with many different flavors of coffee will find the coffee pod is a lot more practical as well. There is no need to brew an entire pot of a flavor that you do not like very well and have to either discard it or drink it in order to move on to the next flavor. If it is a flavor you dislike, you simply remove the coffee pod, throw it away, wipe away any residue of the previous pod and insert another.



Environmentalists and the budget conscious may not be too excited about coffee pods or single cup coffee makers. Those who are really pinching dollars will have to shell out more money per pod. A cup of coffee brewed with a coffee pod will cost from 20 to 40 cents per cup, and usually pods come in packages of 18 or 25. Conservationists balk at the idea of having to throw away each pod after use. It does nothing to assist our landfill efforts.



One other challenge that those who use single cup coffee makers find is not every coffee brand sells its coffee in pod quantities. Drinkers are limited to the brands and flavors that are offered in the individually prewrapped packages.



Lone household coffee drinkers and singles have much to celebrate with coffee pods and single cup coffee makers. This is a product whose enjoyment is not based on a large number of people in order to serve users. Since this is a coffee maker that can conservatively give you a single cup, the magic number is one.