Coffee Pods: Single Serving Perfection
Everyone loves a fresh brewed cup of coffee, but not everyone wants to make a whole pot of coffee to get one. Enter the single serve coffee pod. Coffee pods are relatively new to the coffee scene in terms of how long coffee has been around. Pods are single servings of freshly roasted coffee, perfectly ground and tampered into small disc-shaped paper filters.
You can’t brew them in a regular coffee maker; you need a specially made coffee pod machine to brew them. These may seem a little exorbitant in price but the single serving is ideal for when you want just one cup and don’t want to waste a whole pot making it.
In the long run, what it cost you to purchase the pod coffee maker you’ll save in wasted coffee by brewing single coffee pods. There are never any coffee ground spills to worry about or messy filters to throw away. You just pop out the used coffee pod and toss it in the trash.
They are not complicated to use in the least. In fact, coffee machine pods are by far the easiest solutions to the coffee making experience you can find. They are fairly straightforward and very similar to using a coffee machine that uses a filter.
The only difference is that coffee pod machines make single servings. There are plenty of times when you are wanting to have just one cup of coffee but you know in order to make you’ll have to brew a whole pot and waste all that coffee doing so.
Coffee pod machines eliminate the waste of excess brewing, allowing you to conveniently process one cup of coffee with a simple little pod of coffee in its own little filter. Making coffee really couldn’t be any simpler than this.
Coffee pods were first made in the late 90′s by a company called Illy Caffe. While they strove to achieve a coffee machine pod standard, many makers today have varying sized pods for their coffee and thus not every pod of coffee fits all pod coffee makers.
Adapters For Coffee Pods
Some manufacturers sell adapters you can use to accept pods into a regular coffee machine though. But if you are going to purchase a machine specifically for pods it’s probably a good idea to do some research on the different makers to see who makes the most affordable machine and also to see whose coffee product is most compatible with other pods.
While brewing may be different from brewer to brewer, the steps are pretty close. You should dampen the coffee pod a little to create a decent seal and let water flow more easily through the filter. The word to look for in various coffee pod makers is pre-infusion.
Make sure the holes of the brewer are clear of old grounds. If you can’t easily wipe out the grounds you may try running a few cycles using white vinegar to clean out the pot. Use filtered water whenever possible for the freshest tasting brew you can make.
Once you are all cleaned up push your pod of coffee into place and press brew. Place your coffee cup beneath the spout and within seconds you’ll hear the machine gurgle. After another few seconds your fresh brewed, single serving cup of coffee exits the machine and fills your cup. Once that is over, clean up is simply the matter of popping the used coffee pod out of the machine and throwing it away.
