It works well for me but I don’t use my pod machine as much as I drink a lot of coffee in the morning and any leftover gets put in the fridge and freezer for chilled coffee drinks, so it’s more efficient to brew larger quantities.( plus my coffee cup is a mega sized dollar store one that holds about 16 oz.) But when I’m in the mood for one cup then I use the pod machine. ( I also own a Bodum Santos Vacuum coffee maker. If you’ve never seen coffee made with one of these, check out their site.)

Pods? Seriously? OK, a year from now, maybe two, Pod company “A” has gone out of business. Pod company “B” only makes pods for CoffeeMachineCompany “2″. Which has also gone out of business or is now making their machines of sanitized lead-cadmium bindings, in China. Your CoffeePodEatingMachine only takes Size 43b (metric). This is BS.

If you want to go Single Serve, just do:
a) pour over. Easy, cheap, full control. Just get good coffee.
b) get a coffee-rocket ™ — an Aeropress. Not quite as convenient, but gives the best danged coffee outside of the International Barrista Championships (w/out a $3000 machine).

I recommend the Aeropress. You use coffee a scoop, two, three, or four at a time, and you get one, two, three, or four “shots” out of it. Yeah, it looks like I’m saying SHOTS, like espresso, but you know the purists would be at my door w/ torches, pitchforks, and those little hard rock-candy swizzle sticks that wussies and women use.

You get a couple of shots in a mug, add some additional hot water to taste (technically, an “americano”), and fix to your heart’s content. I won’t tell if you use honey or fat-free “creamer”.

How’s the milage? Let me see… one Aero, w/ 300 filters, is about $28.95. A little more or less online or locally. 300 filters sounds like a lot to me — supposedly a YEAR’S worth, but maybe not — but you can re-use your filters until you start freaking out your friends who have taken microbiology, but dang it, you can sterilize them or just get a new filter. I usually get 10-12 pressings from a single filter, unless my queasy friend is watching, then I get 20 pressings.

A pound of REAL coffee (fresh roasted, thank’s local coffee shop) runs me $11. I get about 32 shots out of that. Normally, that’s about 35 cents per, but I drink double-shot mugs, and usually have a couple of mugs per day. That puts me at about 70 cents per mug, before real cream and sugar. Ok, I lied. I use Splenda.

I can make a fantastic cup, any time, day or night (works great w/ decaf). You can “git ‘r done” in less than 5, w/ the clean up. Less than 3, if you practice. You can shoot over ice, shoot into cake batter/dessert, etc. You can drink it straight, if yer a man (like me), or mix it w/ flavorings, if you’re smooth and sophisticated (er, like me). Amazingly smooth.

One more thing… read up a little on coffee, self-serve. Hit the coffeegeek.com forums. There’s lots of info on coffee, making, drinking, roasting, etc. If you think your Mr Coffee is doing you right, then you’re in for a whole new world of awesome. You’ll get so good, you’ll have the Starbucks clerks stopping by on their way to work for a quickie. Or something like that.

Jessica

There’s a call from a Mr. Orange… he’s asking why you are comparing him to the Apples?

I doubt your french press is still warm after 2 hours…

You included the “keep warm” along with the “make” functions.

avg. coffeemaker = 900 watts
2 hours running (brew+warmer) = 1.8kWh

avg. range eye = 1400 watts
6 minutes to boil = 0.14kWh

Depending on what the electric company charges per kWh, that’s quite a difference in electricity savings.

Folgers Singles from Discountcoffee.com: $5.99 for 19 bags = $0.315 per serving.

Buy at 12 box discount level: $69.00 for 228 bags = $0.303 per serving.

Gave the web site example only because it is most easily verifiable. There are some places local to me that sell a box of 19 bags of generic coffee (which still tastes fine) for under $3/box.

Just brew Bustelo!