One of the disadvantages of single serve coffee systems is that you are always limited in the coffees you can brew. You have to choose from the available line-up of coffee pods, K-Cups, T-Discs etc.

With Keurig K-Cup brewers, you can address this with their My K-Cup Coffee Filter. This enables you to brew any coffee you want in your Keurig machine.

And now you can get the Coffeeduck for your Senseo brewer. It serves the same purpose, allowing you to buy loose ground coffee, or grind your own, and then brew it using your Senseo machine.

In addition to giving you an unlimited choice of coffees, the Coffeeduck, and the My K-Cup, also help you save money.

It costs a lot less to buy a pound of coffee and use one of these reusable filters than it does to keep buying K-Cups or coffee pods.

If you have a Senseo brewer, I recommend you try the Coffeeduck. You can buy the Coffeeduck at Amazon.com.

Bunn MC My Cafe Coffee Pod Brewer

Well, this is good news.

There haven’t been too many new coffee pods brewers hitting the stores recently.

Better still, Bunn already has an excellent reputation making pod brewers. The trouble has been that until now, those brewers have been commercial grade, with a price to match.

The new Bunn MC gives us all access to a quality coffee pod brewer at a reasonable price, for home or office.

The advantages of a good pod brewer are numerous.

First, you’ll pay less than you do for other single serve coffees, which come in plastic, single-use cups of some kind. You pay a premium for those plastic cups, without any discernable increase in the quality of the coffee.

Second, coffee pods are a lot more environmentally friendly. Use the pod once, and then throw it into your compost. No waste, and no recycling required.

With the Bunn MC you can choose from a huge variety of coffee pods, from numerous different roasters. You can also make tea with it.

Here is a rundown of the Bunn MC’s key features:

- Brews coffee or tea, and you can choose your brew strength

- Brews hot coffee or tea in under a minute

- Pulse brew option extracts a bolder coffee flavor

- Patented sprayhead, which propels water through the pods for better flavor extraction

- Pod drawer is compatible with hundreds of coffee and tea pods plus tea bags

- A stainless steel hot water tank, which keeps water at 200F for a perfect brew

- The Bunn My Cafe MC comes with an assortment of coffee pods and tea pods, so you can start brewing right away.

- Comes with a 2 year limited warranty

You can buy the Bunn My Cafe MC at Amazon.com for just $99.99.

If you are looking for a one cup coffee maker and are happy with the coffee pod format – but have limited money to spend – this may be the brewer for you.

It doesn’t have any of the bells and whistles of the more expensive single serve brewers.

You just add water to the reservoir each time you want to make coffee, add a coffee pod to the tray, and press the brew button. If you want stronger coffee, you can add two pods instead of one.

User reviews are mixed.

The general consensus is that it makes OK coffee, but not great coffee. And several people use it as a second brewer, to take to work or when staying in hotels.

In other words, it’s small, convenient and inexpensive.

Not a great choice for true coffee lovers, but a decent option for when you are away from home and want to be able to make coffee for yourself, with no fuss or bother.

Here’s what you get:

* Includes 18 Senseo coffee pods
* Fresh coffee made fast
* Brews up to a 12 oz. cup
* Choose regular, decaf, & a variety of coffee blends & flavors
* Brew basket is dishwasher safe

Buy the Hamilton Beach Personal Cup One Cup Pod Brewer from Amazon for just $19.95

Senseo SL7810/65 Coffee Pod Brewer

After months of being off the shelves, the Senseo SL7810/65 is now available again. This is great news, because this is the most popular of all the coffee pod brewers.

Where did it go? There was a safety issue with all the Senseo brewers and they have been unavailable since April of this year. You’ll find more details in a previous post.

Here’s the weird part – both their disappearance from the shelves, and the reappearance of the Senseo SL7810/65 at Amazon have taken place with almost no publicity.

When I went to the Senseo site there was never any mention that I could find that the brewers were no longer available. And this morning I checked back at the site and there was nothing about the Senseo SL7810/65 being back on the shelves at Amazon. But it is.

Anyway, I assume that the technical problems have been resolved, and it’s good to know that the Senseo SL7810/65 is available again in good time for everyone who will want to get one for the Christmas season.

Buy the Senseo SL7810/65 at Amazon…

Read our review of the Senseo SL7810/65…

Keurig K-Cup Brewers

A year ago it was a tough call as to which of the one cup coffee formats would come out on top.

Now the picture is a little clearer. Keurig’s K-Cup coffee makers are flying off the shelves.

This isn’t just a story of success for Keurig. The coffee pod format took a big blow in April when the Senseo line-up of brewers was withdrawn due to some safety concerns. I wrote about this in an earlier post.

Senseo was leading the charge for the coffee pod format and plenty of other manufacturers were happily creating their own pod brewers. And a ton of roasters were offering their coffees in the pod format. With Senseo out on the sidelines, at least for now, a lot of the momentum for coffee pod brewers has been lost.

So how about the other proprietary one cup coffee formats, like the Tassimo with its T-Discs, the Nespresso with its coffee Capsules, and others?

These formats and brewers are fine, but they lose out to the Keurig brewers in some important ways.

First, they don’t offer as broad a range of different coffees.

Second, they don’t have an equivalent of Keurig’s My K-Cup, which allows you to use your own, loose coffee with the Keurig brewers.

Third, the brewers, and the T-Discs and capsules cost more.

Fourth, the Keurig brewers are better built. They are totally solid compared to the flimsy feel of the Tassimo brewers in particular. (That said, the Nespresso brewers are very nicely made, but you have to pay a lot more for them.)

Keurig has achieved excellent penetration with some outstanding brewers and coffees. Even when Senseo comes back, it may be too late for the coffee pod format to catch up.

Keurig brewer reviews:

The Keurig B60

The Keurig B70

The Keurig B40

The Keurig B30

The Breville BKC600XL