okay I am debating on a coffee machine both seem to do about the same looking for personal users so feedback on which one you use, if you had one and switched, which is better and where can I get the coffee discs or cups the cheapest thanks!!
keurig I have two of them and love them both. You can get a thing to use your own coffee and the cheapest spot to buy them is online. Roughly $12 for 24 cups of coffee. From what I have heard the tassimo timmys cups aren't very good
I have a Breville Keurig (http://www.keurig.com/brewers/breville-brewing-system). I love it! It makes a variety of different sizes from expresso to 12 ounces as well as the right size/strength for iced coffee. I love a strong but smooth cup of coffee. I buy Timothy's Parisien Nights (about $14 for 24), make a 12 ounce cup and it's always perfect, just the way I like it. If you like a medium roast, however, you can get either Timothy's or Van Houtte's breakfast blend coffees at Costco, 80 for $39.99. Finally, you can get a My K-Cup for about $16 or it comes with some of the coffee makers and use it with any fresh ground or canned ground coffee, which is the cheapest was to go.
My daughter had a Tassimo, didn't like to flavor of the coffee or the varieties available or find it versatile and switched to Keurig. I had a couple of coffees from her Tassimo and didn't love them either.
I used to sell Keurig wholesale throughout Eastern Ontario about 10 years ago, before they went retail. I have always found that K cups have a subtle plastic flavour in the coffee-many agree with me. They offer an excellent variety of coffees however and this is a huge plus.
I own a Tassimo and have had great difficulty finding a coffee that has good body and flavour. For the first year I owned it, Tassimo featured Starbucks coffees and they were great. Unfortunately, Starbucks ended their agreement with Tassimo and that left a big hole in the selection again. About six months after Starbuck left, Tassimo brought on Gevalia. I like a darker roast flavour and Gevalia delivers. Its a good full bodied cup of coffee. I agree with a previous comment on the Timmies - its not great, but its not too bad either for a one cup maker (there's always drawback with one cup machines in either camp).
One other significant difference between the two makers, is that Tassimo offers Latte and Cappucino capabilities that Keurig does not. My wife and her friends find these drinks very good and we often use this feature at dinner parties etc. and people think they are great.
I vote Tassimo for versatility and deep bold Gevalia coffee (if you like a bold cup of coffee).
Good luck on your choice!
thanks guys I aprreciate the feedback, I like the idea of latte (for my daughter especially) I prefer a full bodied coffee personally I prefer an esspresso instead of caps personally
we've done both :) and right now have the tassimo...the PC coffee isn't bad either, Gevalia is delish!!
the thing I loved about the Kcups is you could do your own loose leaf teas or grind your own coffee...tcups don't have that :(
but nothing beats a press ;)
Keurig hands down! I go to Timothys and choose between a million different flavours. I LOVE my Keurig!
Keurig for us as well, I've never tasted plastic in mine...
Tweed and Hickory lets you mix and match k-cups to make a box at a reasonable price.
Keurig. I have one, love the coffee - and I can make more than 8oz at a time. Tassimo is all programmed by the barcode and only makes 8oz. My buddy just got tassimo and DOES love the lattes. He insisted that he's saving money by not going out for a $2 coffee every morning until I reminded him that it's roughly $1 per coffee with Tassimo and he uses 2 of the Tassimo disk things per cup. He didn't argue. :)
My Keurig machine works great. I can do 4 to 12oz cups...
If you guy a Keurig machine - get Keurig brand. I had a Cuisinart machine originally. It was the most expensive one out at the time, so I thought I'd be safe. Well, after 6 months, it stopped working right. I found that it's a common problem with Cuisinart's K machines, and they did NOT cover it on the warranty. :(
There are a couple places in town with a great variety of coffees.... There's a store called Tweed & Hickory with a GREAT select (and you can order online from them).... But I've found that Canadian Tire has a good variety, and there's always a good seasonal variety pack there for around 50 cents a cup.
Tassimo: we bought ours (T65) at Black Friday sale at WalMart for $88. So far we love it. The Latte and Cappucino we've tried are good. Bought a value pack of Tcups at Costco for $29.
We're really happy with the coffee but looking forward to more variety. I'm sure it will improve over time. Also looking forward to a "make it yourself" t-cup like they have for Keurig.
Keurig is the Xerox of cup-at-a-time coffee brewers. Soon, when the market is flooded with copy-cats (copy-cats like the Tassimo!), people will call all of them "keurigs" just like everyone would call a photocopier a "xerox machine".
Don't get a fake Keurig! :)
LOL seems everyone hates the tassimo LOL
Quote from: Darth on December 10, 2012, 01:50:08 PM
LOL seems everyone hates the tassimo LOL
Not sure about that - both the Tassimo and the Keurig were on sale at Walmart for the same price. The Tassimo were out selling the Keurig at least 2 to 1 in the hour we were there...
just relaying an observation, not saying one is better than the other.
Quote from: ajm1961 on December 10, 2012, 12:15:09 PM
I'm sure it will improve over time.
Hasn't Tassimo been around longer than Keurig?? Tassimo seems to be stuck where it is now, since it does everything that you'd think it should... It makes coffee, latte/etc, tea, hot chocolate... The Keurig can't improve aside from coffee makers getting onboard with more varieties of coffee. Keurig has a couple instant latte cups that are "OK"... But they are not much more than what you'd get from a "Just add hot water" mix from the grocery store. (My wife likes the Chai Tea Latte better than starbucks, by the way)
Now Starbucks came out with the Verisma or whatever, which is a hybrid of the Keurig and Tassimo, from what I can tell. I don't thing it's going to have the following that Keurig & Tassimo have because ONLY Starbucks coffee will work in it. I was told that Starbucks will continue making K Cups, at least.
I have heard that if you want a GOOD cup of coffee from a single cup brewer, the one to look for is the Nespresso machine. But again, I don't think that one will have the variety of a Keurig.
Jura makes a bunch of nice units. We have the impressa F9
To be perfectly honest, the only reason Keurig is better that Tassimo (in my opinion) is the optional "My K Cup" thing that allows you to use ANY coffee in it. I've used if a few times, and found that the Presidents Choice Candy Cane coffee ROCKS in there.
We have had both the tassimo and Keurig before but Nespresso is much better than either of them.
Nespresso has a similar pod style delivery system but makes a WAY better coffee imo.
Only downside to nespresso is you can only buy their coffee at the boutique's or order them online.
And there is a really sweet refillable pod that is pretty awsome (thanks isabelle!)
You can buy the machines at home outfitters and you can stop in and try them there before you buy them.
Jura is pretty awsome too.
I think the major problem is the availability of coffee for the machines...I LOVE variety in coffee, and am kinda stuck with the tassimo! UNLESS you order online...and also in the USA they have a bigger variety it seems!! sooo guess going to have to get my sister to mail coffee up again :D
okay so here is where I am at :
Kuerig-has add your own coffee option but supposedly better coffee ( I know a matter of opinio)
tassimo-lattes and more options
and now nesspresso and jurra -nesspresso is specialty or online only, and jurra??
AGHHHH!!!
Don't forget about the Verismo!!! (don't get one, but don't forget about it!) :)
Keurig, my gf sells them at her shop, she says some rubber inside of the tassimo burns out, lots of returns, the keurig has a better warranty also. yet the tassimo has a better selection. At super C in aylmer i think isle 3 i seen them for 89$!!!!!!! sale nmight be done but might be worth it to go look
Quote from: Greatwhite on December 10, 2012, 02:55:26 PM
Hasn't Tassimo been around longer than Keurig??
Keurig has been around since the 90's, Tassimo is much newer.
Keurigs patents expired this fall. You're going to start seeing lots of other companies with their own brewers that use actual k-cups. It will be the defacto standard.
Quote from: 76brian on December 12, 2012, 09:24:12 AM
Keurig has been around since the 90's, Tassimo is much newer.
Ahh.. shows what I know. I guess it makes sense, since Tassimo's barcode technology is waaaay more advanced than k cup's "25% more coffee in the cup = bold".
ahhh so thats why there getting so cheap. the real veterans of coffe would know this and hold out till the cheaper coffe makers are out :) eother way good luck with your purchase and enjoy that cofee :)
I agree for the bar codes, its wacked, my freiend has one, my gf think there over rated :) hence why we dont have one, i like the idea of it just not the price of the coffee :) who does like the price of coffee to start with???
well I am personally a reg black coffee guy, I drink brown coffee as well I am not into lattes or anything, I don't even like steamed milk in my esspresso, but my daughter loves the french vanilla and the lattes so I may go with a tassimo
I should also point out a drawback of the barcode system... Sometimes you may get "mess" up on the lens for the barcode reader, and then the system is completely useless. My grandmother constantly yells at her Tassimo machine and always has "goop" all over the reader. Of course, she's 90% blind so probably can't see when it makes the mess (and is likely the CAUSE of the mess).