Coffee Pods: Brew for Only You

The average working American cannot usually start a good working day without that first morning cup of coffee. It has taken priority for some over fixing school lunch, finding lost keys or giving the dog drinking water for the day. There has been one glitch in the morning coffee program, however: you usually have to brew a whole pot in order to get your single cup. With the marketing of coffee pods and single cup coffee makers, you no longer have to worry about being wasteful with the extra grinds.

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.

If you are an indiscriminate coffee drinker and like the variety of different flavors for your morning cup, coffee pods will be an easy practical way for you to "sip around." You eliminate the need for making an entire pot of coffee that you will not drink - in a flavor you really do not like. If you happen to try something that disagrees with you, simply take the coffee pod out of its compartment and throw it away. After you take a paper towel and wipe away any residue of the discarded pod, insert another.

Environmentalists have been up in arms about the idea of having to throw away coffee pods and not reuse them. Single cup brewing has, for that reason, has not been labeled as a green act. Budget weary drinkers also worry sometimes about the cost per pod to drink coffee made in single cup coffee makers. Coffee pods are sold in 18 or 25-pack quantities and end up (after all the math) costing about 20 to 40 cents per cup. This is far more than the full pot costs per cup.

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.

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