Finally got with the times and got a decent coffee machine (Keurig) over the weekend. Its pretty cool cause i use to hate the cleanup with the grounds and such. I had the green mountain dark magic this morning and am feeling pretty good

Any reccomendations on coffee to try with this thing?

I don't like coffee but we have one of these machines at work. The one we go through the most is Emeril's Big Easy Bold.

This isn't a boobies thread?

sadly, no, but I believe it will eventually go that way

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k-cups...

b4p I love the one I have I picked up one of the filter cups that they have you use your own coffee. If you like the Timothy's breakfast blend check out Vitacost.com $9.93 for 24 cups

I enjoy the Donut Shop Coffee by the Coffee People. In fact, I'm drinking it right now.

Also, the Nantucket blend and Wildlife blends by Green Mountain. Green Mountain is probably my favorite overall brand.

If you have kids or people who like hot chocolate, get the Godiva packs. MMMMMMMMMMMMMMM

sweet i'll check those out......def want to get some of the emeril blends too

definitely want to get something that goes well with a morning smoke

Ohhh. We don't have Godiva Hot Chocolate.

If you use hot chocolate in your machine make sure you run it through a couple cycles with no K-cups in it. It can gum up the machine if you don't.

^9 no worry that it will gum up works the hot water goes thru the mix and that goes into your cup doesn't flow thru machine

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Good to know, the GF/fiancee has had at least 4 or 5 Hot cocoas since we got the machine

It can clog the hole under where the cup is. Trust me--we had this happen.

Jim - send me your address. I want to make sure I have the correct name and address and I had a hard time reading the label on the box you sent me.

tjm at eqdepot dot com

Oh cool, glad you got them

EMS - no return fire necessary

Hope you enjoy!

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Nice K cups TG, real or paid for?

We have one, but I still use the regular coffee maker in the mornings for both me and my wife. I imagine it's cheaper that way instead of me using up k-cups. I've experimented with our Kurig when filling larger cups (travel mugs), using 2 k-cups, and using the smaller cup setting to see how the strength varied...but I haven't done it enough to come to any one-way-is-best conclusion. I like a bolder coffee. So far the coffees I've liked are...pretty much all of them.

In no particular order:

Newman's extra bold

Caribou (ok, not the best)

Emeril's Big Easy

Donut shop was alright

One I just tried recently and liked because it was pretty bold compared to the others, using the same cup size setting, was the Timothy's Italian roast.

I haven't tried any of the teas, and we have a big box of the Green Mountain hazelnut decaf. That's for those that want decaf (not me), plus I don't like hazelnut.

It's a nice machine, and beats the others hands-down. And they are quiet. My parents switched to the Keurig over the other brand with the little plastic discs. That one is noisy.

My parents had that plastic disk thing too, and i remember it being the loudest machine in the kitchen

I think it was the laser disk of coffee machines

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Why are you putting the Godiva cocoa into the machine?

Just put it into your cup and run a cycle w/o a k-cup to get hot water to fill your cup.

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that's not as much fun. 🙂

Chilly--it wasn't me. Personally I don't like the hot chocolate we get. Now if we had Godiva HC I may drink it and I would probably do as you suggested. Although I would just use hot water from the tap on the side of the machine. That way no trace of coffee taste would happen.