It sounds like it’s a winner, Lambie. Enjoy! 
My Senseo takes less than a minute to brew a cup of wonderfully creamed Espresso - or whatever coffee You choose…
Well, I guess confession is good for the soul . . . I’ve never actually had espresso.
I’m not sure why, either, except that the concept hadn’t seemed appealing until now. The usual American coffee is somewhat bitter and sour. Thinking that espresso would be a more intense version of that, I never considered trying it. Now that I’ve experienced intense, yet smooth, coffee coming from that Keurig, I’m wondering if I might like espresso.
So that I won’t be embarrassed at Starbuck’s . . . how does one drink the stuff?
With true espresso, the roast is different. So, the taste is much less sour but much more bitter. Coffee’s supposed to be the more healthy, the more bitter and the less sour it is, since the parts making it bitter help Your stomach to properly work with it, whereas the acid seems to add rather too much to the gastric-acid Your body produces anyway… I compare the difference in taste to that between lager and stout…
See other thread about gadgets. To me, it’s a gadget. Okay for B&B experience or something, but not daily. And french press is just a PIA to clean; that’s its only drawback to me.
I have to disagree, Weeks. I’m gadgetphobic, too. But these machines make a qualitatively different kind of coffee that can’t be made in a non-pressurized system. They’re just finally-affordable home versions of the commercial machines found in any good Parisian café.
…and no prob’s with cleaning - put the parts in touch with the coffee into the dishwasher every 3 days and it’ll be fine…
Well, okay, then.. I tend to respect the MTone.
How much different is the coffee than the old mocha pots which also use pressure but are a much simpler design?
…but if I was going to go through the trouble, I would make Turkish coffee.
Does that sound right?
good one
I’m just in shock that Weeks doesn’t consider me a commie wacko, so he can call me whatever he wants. Watch out, Neo …
I never had much luck with those mocha pseudo-espresso pots. The grounds always end up bleeding through the metal filter, and the aluminum ones give the coffee a horrible metallic taste. And no nice “crema” either.
I have never been so popular in my life . . . . 
OK, my mini-model got a good workout. There was a trail of folks coming in to use it. At times, they had to circle outside the door in a kind of holding pattern. We arranged for a trial of a larger commercial model. After just one day, and for the first time EVER, the office not only agreed, but CLAMORED for a permanent one. As soon as possible! We finally agreed on something–without arguing and almost without discussion. There was no question of ever going back to a coffee pot.
A delivery person showed up Monday with 6 cases of coffee, our new Keurig OfficePro was installed today, and we’re now one happily well-beveraged bunch.
Thanks to all for your suggestions! I think this is going to turn out to be a most excellent decision. My mini-Keurig is at home, where I’m truly enjoying being able to produce a very good, hassle- and mess-free cup of coffee in about 2 minutes any time I’d like to do so. Even on my way out the door to work. 
Glad to hear you were instrumental in an office-beverage coup. You should be proud.
…just get those INOX-re-usable k-cups, and You’re the winner on the ecological as well as the financial side!
Oh, and the taste is still better than all those normal filter-coffees… 
Thank you, Emm. I am proud, darn it! It’s not often that my plotting is agreeable to so many. (These folks keep a supply of tar and feathers with my name on it . . . )
The My K-Cup? I have one of those and love it! But, my sink has a garbage disposer. We do not have one at work, raising the spectre of a perpetually clogged sink drain. The machine we chose doesn’t accommodate them. Heh.
One could still use the little cap that fits on a stripped-down reused K-cup, though we’re hoping no one discovers that.
You’ve always been a star around here.
Aww! You’re the bestest Chiffer there is, Fly!