When people talk about coffee pods, they generally speak highly of the convenient single serving portions and lack of waste. While the individual pods are pretty nice, it's easy to forget that the brewer itself should have an advanced feature set in order to future proof your unit. The market for these machines is getting pretty saturated with fancy features and interesting industrial designs. In this article, I'd like to take you through some of the cooler features on offer:
Convenient, Time-Saving Interfaces
Thankfully, we have a lot more options than the simple "on" switch these days. I'm continually surprised that only a few short years ago there was a lot of guess work in making a decent cup of coffee with a traditional brewing unit. With the newer coffee pod maker units, you can often find a touch-screen interface that will allow the user to directly dial in his/her desired settings. This sort of feature really makes sense in a machine that is mostly oriented at the medium to large sized business market. However, these features are also incredibly useful in the home, especially when you have a lot of people over.
Single Serving Portions That Remove the Guesswork
All the companies that are currently in the coffee pod maker market use one of the many available pod formats. Without a doubt, the most popular of these formats has to be the "K-Cup" system from Keurig, the leading company in the realm of single serving coffee. While this name is a bit of slick marketing on the part of Keurig, the concept itself is really quite useful. With a normal coffee brewer, you have to worry about the waste that comes with only drinking part of a pot of coffee and letting the rest sit and go bad. When you're brewing one cup coffee packs, this worry becomes a non-issue.
Conclusion
While there are plenty of other interesting features, the above two are some of the most important when it comes to choosing between a single serving coffee brewer and the more traditional 12 cup brewer. I hope the descriptions have shed a little more light on your decision!
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