People always asked me if there is a universal coffee maker, a coffee machine designed for everyone. I finally found one, and it’s known as the single serve coffee maker!
The single-dose coffee machine is a coffee machine that is very easy to fall in love with. It comes with the ease of instant coffee and the quality of roast and grind. I know there will be some coffee snobs who would disagree with the quality of the single serve coffee machine, so let’s just say that’s a personal opinion.
So how easy is ease of use for a single coffee machine? There is no need to grind, dose or tamp to get the correct coffee pack before your espresso extraction. If you want to have an espresso, simply choose an espresso capsule, insert it into the single-serve coffee machine, press a button and take out your espresso.
Yes, it is that simple. But, what it makes up for in quality, there is one area it can never provide and that would be experience. Espresso is all about the thumping, grinding, tamping, dosing, and hissing sound of steam (if you’re making cappuccino), a single-serve coffeemaker right now can’t provide such an experience.
However, if you are someone who likes to wake up to an aromatic espresso that is brewed on site and doesn’t leak overnight with a programmable coffee maker, then this is the machine for you!
On the other hand, what coffee drinker can turn down a fresh brew in the morning and that’s why I said the single serve coffee maker is designed for everyone?
And it is also a fact that the single-serve coffee machine is the fastest growing segment for coffee machines, there are more consumers buying these pod coffee machines than any other coffee machine.
But, single-serve coffee critics always bring up the closed system issue, trying to use that to discourage people from buying. Sure, in the past, individual coffee machines worked in a closed system.
Only the coffee that the coffee machine represents can be purchased. So for senseo, you can only buy douwe egberts, and Melitta, you can only insert Melitta pods. But that has since changed with changes in the business model of some of the machine builders and also with the introduction of some great devices.
Currently, some of the machine manufacturers allow the use of other brands of coffee pods in their machines if they are in their partner network. So there are some great gadgets that would allow you to make whatever coffee pods you want!
One of the easiest to use would be the Perfect Pod Maker. You just need to choose the ground coffee you want, place it in the filter paper they provide, and then use the perfect capsule maker to seal it into a coffee capsule.
With devices like the Perfect pod maker, you no longer have to worry about the limited range of coffee blends, and there is no longer any closed system for single-serving machines.
So not only do you get a coffee maker that is easy to use and maintain, but your choice of coffee is similar to what you can get for a drip filter coffee maker, isn’t that something of a perfect coffee maker?
