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 - We love our Keurig - AND it's saved us money!I bought my Keurig B70 from Amazon 6 months ago and my hubby and I simply LOVE it! When we remodeled our kitchen, we searched for the best coffeemaker and ended up with a great one with a thermal carafe. However, we rarely used it! Hubby feels it's a real pain to clean up (well, it is!), and we don't agree on what kind of coffee we like. He likes extra-strong and I like it milder and flavored. So we ended up at Starbucks more often than I'd like to admit. He would stop on the way to work, and I'd stop for my Iced Venti Nonfat Caramel Macchiato a few times a week. We had seen a Keurig in action in an office setting and couldn't believe it! When I suggested getting one, he obviously had been thinking the same thing, and as they say, the rest is history! The other, very nice coffeemaker is stored and now our Keurig lives on our counter and is used MANY times per day. Some people might wonder if you really need the 4 drip sizes, but we enjoy having these options. Especially for making those specialty drinks I loved getting from Starbucks! I use the smallest drip size and a strong K-cup, add Splenda and Mrs Richardson's Butterscotch Caramel (so it can melt and disperse). Then I pour it over a tall glass of ice, and add a couple of ounces of milk and it's positively heavenly! If you like, you could drizzle the caramel on afterwards, like Starbucks does, but I prefer it mixed throughout. We've had NO trouble with our Keurig - we use filtered water from the fridge, and we leave the water canister in place for filling. We buy K-cups from Amazon, but have found that our favorites aren't always in stock, so we go to Big Cat Coffees, where they have ALL the kinds at all times! You can even buy an assortment pack from Big Cat - you choose 5 different varieties and you get 5 K-cups of each. That's how we found out that for the strong brew that my husband prefers, Tully's Kona and Green Mountain Extra Bold Dark Magic are the two favorites. I use those to make my Caramel Macchiatos, but if I drink it hot, I prefer the flavored varieties. Your Keurig will become a conversation piece the first time you have company over! They will love being able to choose their own kind of coffee! We're in a church small group that meets in the evening and most of those people prefer decaf at that hour - no problem! We have an assortment of decaf as well as flavored coffees, bold, medium and mild blends, and you can also get Hot Cocoa K-cups for the kids, and K-cup teas! We rarely go to Starbucks anymore, and we know that our Keurig has more than paid for itself already! K-cups might be 40 cents or so each, but everyone gets what they want and there's NO waste like there is with a pot of coffee that you have to dump out! Don't have a Keurig yet? What are you waiting for? Get one today from Amazon - you won't know how you ever lived without it! Rating:  - "not ready" EVER - on the first tryjust got my Keurig premium ( 9/27/08) and looked forward to firt cup - set up as per instruction --> did not prime, but after a while went into "not ready" blinking message - won't reset, wont power off, no buttons responding, tried manually by unplugging and replugging multiple times to no avail. the web site with no advise, very disappointed! Rating: - Great machine and serviceKeurig provided a replacement of a B70 at a below market price when my B60 started to act up after 4 years. Unfortunately the B70 they sent was defective--it made awful noises and water would not flow. It was just a bad unit. Contrary to what has been written by others, the people at Keurig were prompt, courteous and efficient. They had a replacement out to me in no time along with quite a bit of coffee by way of an apology. Also, when the B70 is working properly, as the replacement has been, it is not a noisy machine at all. I like the selection of coffee and the convenience and I'm not usually looking for the kind of coffee I get with my French press. But it isn't a requirement to eliminate one just because you have the other. Rating: - I LOVE THIS COFFEE MAKER!!!It's ridiculous how much I love the Keurig B70!! I never seemed to be able to make a small pot of consistantly good coffee. I was spending $1.93 every day at Dunkin Donuts. Since my Keurig arrived 3 weeks ago I haven't been to DD once! This coffee maker makes a great cup of piping hot coffee every time in less than a minute. My kids make hot chocolate every morning- no fuss, AND no mess! I use Green Mountain Breakfast Blend K-cups and I my estimate is that each cup costs less than 60 cents. It was worth the $$$! You won't be disappointed! Rating: - Can you worship a coffee maker? I adore this coffee maker. No longer do I have to make a whole pot of coffee if I only want one cup. No longer do I have to have 2 coffee makers because my husband likes one kind of coffee and I like another. Everyone who comes to my house falls in love with this machine. I have saved so much money because I never go to Starbucks anymore.. notice their stock has dropped in value? That's my fault. :)
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