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What’s Most Important – Lattes, Espresso, and Cappucino Or A Delicious Cup Of Coffee?
The single serve coffee makers are one of the fastest selling items in the US right now. Trying to decide just which machine will be the best for you can be quite a challenge and it’s important to determine what is really important to you. Are you primarily looking for a single cup machine that brews great coffee or do you want a brewer that will turn out lattes, cappuccinos, and macchiatos – with coffee almost an after thought.
Keurig brewers outsell all others available today and they have won rave reviews for their dependability and consistence in making a great cup of coffee. Compare the Keurig Platinum model with the Krups Nescafe Dolce Gusto, a hot beverage system and then decide which will be the best for you.
The Keurig B70 Platinum
- Brews over 200 different coffees, teas, and cocoa.
- Uses K-Cups, which contain an exact portion, perfect for one cup.
- Automatic Brewing System – Makes coffee with a push of a button.
- Brews in less than 60 seconds.
- Programmable Controls
- Auto-Off feature
- Adjustable brew temperature
- Digital Clock with programmable on/off control
- Has blue back-lit LCD Display and water reservoir.
- After initial heating time of 3 minutes, machine will brew in 60 seconds and is immediately ready to make another cup.
- Set your favorite cup size.
- Brews 4 cup sizes
- 5.25 ounces for a bold cup of coffee
- 7.25 ounces for the traditional brew strength
- 9.25 ounces for taller mugs
- 11.25 ounces for tall travel mugs (Keurig recommends that you use the taller cup options with an Extra-Bold K-Cup
- Has 60 ounce removable water reservoir.
- Makes up to 6 cups before refilling reservoir.
- Has water level sensor.
- Has de-scale indicator for long life of machine.
- Price 169.99
Now compare the Platinum Single Cup Coffee Maker with the Krups beverage system.
Features Of The Krups Nescafe Dolce Gusto
- Brews 8 beverages
- Café Lungo
- Café Lungo-mild
- Café Lungo-Decaf
- Espresso
- Cappuccino
- Cappuccino Ice
- Latte Macchiato
- Chococino – Hot chocolate
- Uses Nescafe Capsules of coffee and powdered milk for coffee and milk drinks.
- Water is heated in a minute due to Krups Thermoblock technology.
- Custom Control Lever is manually controlled by user.
- Brews espresso with 15 bars of pressure.
- Removable Water Reservoir
- Water reservoir holds 51 ounces.
- Auto-Off Control
- Adjustable height drip tray for different sized cups or glasses
- Stainless steel drip tray cover is removable and dishwasher safe.
- Available in 3 colors: black, red, white
- Price $169.99
The Krups machine and the Keurig B70 Platinum are similarly priced but their functions are quite different. What do you want? Is it a great cup of coffee whenever you want it or a fancy latte?
Add comment June 1, 2009
The Ten Best Selling Single Cup Brewing Systems
In December 2008, Single Serve Coffee (singleservecoffee.com) released a list of the Ten Best Selling Single Serve Coffee Makers, which included three machines made by Keurig. The most popular brewers are:
- Keurig B60, the “Special Edition”, was the top seller.
- Keurig B40, the “Elite”, captured second place
- Aeropress Single Serve Coffee Maker
- Keurig B30 Mini introduced in 2008
- Braun TA 1400 Tassimo
- Hamilton Beach Brew Station
- Keurig B70, the “Platinum”model
- Braun TA 1400 Tassimo
- Bosch Tassimo Suprema
- Breville Gourmet K- Cup Brewer.
This is made by Keurig and is a high-end, single cup coffee brewer.
Single Serve Coffee listed the Braun TA 1400 Tassimo in 5th place as well as 8th place. The Tassimo brewer was first made by Braun and there were some complaints about the machine. The new model, Tassimo 1400, is made by Bosch and it appears to be an improved, single cup brewing machine.
All of the Keurig brewing systems win consistently high reviews and rating for durability and reliability. They all use the same brewing mechanism so the tiny Mini B30 will produce as good a cup of coffee as the larger, Platinum B70 model.
Keurig also gets universally high marks for turning out delicious hot coffee, cup after cup. All of the Keurig brewing systems make coffee using a K-Cup. These patented little containers hold an exact measure of vacuum packed coffee from Keurig partners, all top notch coffee roasters, who are respected for having consistently good products. Users of the Keurig single serve machines can choose from over 200 different types of coffees, teas, and cocoa. There are flavored coffees from Emeril, Bellaccino, Gloria Jean, and others as well as Newman’s Own Organic coffee. Green Mountain Coffee, Timothy’s, Tullys, Caribou Coffee, The Coffee People, and Diedrich all package a variety of roasts in K-Cups. There are teas from Bigelow, Twining’s, and Celestial Seasonings,, as well as Timothy’s White Hot Chocolate and other cocoas.
The Tassimo markets itself as a hot beverage system and it can turn out everything from an espresso to a latte or cappuccino. There is less variety of coffee packaged in T-Discs, which the brewing machine uses. There have been complaints about the coffee’s quality and freshness. This may have improved recently with the appearance of Starbucks and Seattle’s Best in T-Discs.
Add comment January 23, 2009
What is your Favorite Keurig Machine
Add comment January 11, 2009
