DBlain | 12-03-2013 07:40 AM | I just put mine in the closet, and pulled out my old Mr Coffee. For tons of reasons it did not work for me. I have the single cup kind. I will give you examples
1. I add a creamer that is sweet, or sometimes milk and stevia, but I don't like it to sweet and often I do not get it exactly right, so with the pot I would be able to add a little more coffee to make my cup less sweet. Not possible with the One cup machine.
2. I found that I was hanging around my kitchen longer than normal waiting to finish that half or third of a cup so I could make a new cup. Normally I would have topped off the coffee and headed up to my office
3 I like a large cup and even on the setting that allows for the most water it would not really result in a large cup. Overfilling it would often result in water pooling out of the bottom of the unit.
4 I drink decaf which limits where you can buy it, it is more expensive and forget about finding flavors.
5. I bought the four pack of fillable cups that they sell at Joanns' they did not let enough water through, so my husband drilled a few holes in them, still did not work that great.
I will say I did drink less each morning, since often I would not want to bother making a second or third cup
6. I bought the fillable cup sold at Kohls for the machine, that worked for a while, and now regardless if I use the prepackaged coffee cups or the refillable one it sporadically only fills the cup half way.
7. If you want just a scooosh more from your already used coffee pod it is a challenge. If you only add a little bit of water to the machine, it seems not to sense it so it will not run through, you have to almost completely fill it to just get a little extra coffee. So I would add a bunch of water, stand there with my cup to get the little extra, then have a second cup ready to catch the rest of the light collared brown water
It really became comical and a big waste of time each morning with me trying to think about ways to out smart the machine because I wanted to add a little more to my current cup or get a big cup. So I finally gave up and went back to my old coffee maker. I think that this machine would work best for someone that drank just one medium size cup, drank it black and never tried to top off their current cup. |