22/07/2008
10:01 pm
Senseo Pod People
Senseo® - Gourmet Coffee Everytime Anytime™
Right before the holidays I broke my Senseo single-cup coffeemaker. It’s been utter hell. I even resorted to grinding beans in the blender with banana, vanilla, and soy milk…
In the course of looking for good deals on a new Senseo, I found the above website. You take the quiz, you share the Senseo with a couple of your other friends’ email addresses, and a couple of days later they send you an offer by email to get a new Senseo for $15 shipping and handling. You can’t beat that!
It arrived today, two days later. I’m amazed.
The coffee pods for the Senseo come in packs of 16 or 18 for $4 or $5 a pack. If you’re used to a 10-cup coffeemaker, 30¢ a cup sounds pretty pricey. However, if you drink that overpriced swill from the Coffee Nazis at St*rbuck’s you’ll save over $1 over a Tall latte. Use 2 coffee pods for espresso or a Grande, and you still save. Heh, I like my caffeine thick.
Why do they call their small coffee “Tall?”
When I got tired of the limited selection of coffee pods for the Senseo, I bought an Ecopad Refillable Coffee Filter from amazon.com. It saves me money and enables me to use whatever coffee I want. I’m rather partial to Cafe Bustelo. Anyway, I’ve tried other coffee pods for the Senseo and they don’t work well - I think they don’t allow enough pressure to build up in the Senseo.
The best part of getting a Senseo is you don’t have to learn a whole new language just to get a cup of coffee. Has anyone else noticed that if you don’t say your coffee order right, St*rbuck’s is sold out of your first choice in scones?
