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Series of Savings: Ways to save more on coffee K-Cups, Pods, and other stuff (Installment 1 of 3)
Posted by Andrea on 05/15/12 at 11:00 AM
If you’re like most of us out there, you like to get a good deal. Whether it be for a house, a car, dinner, or maybe the most important…. coffee! We can’t help much with the big-ticket items, but we certainly know a few tricks to save you big bucks on what we know best: coffee. (Coffee K-Cups, Coffee Pods, and Flavia packs included.)
Our first tip in this series of savings:
Don’t invest before you test! There’s nothing worse than buying an entire box of one flavor K-Cup and finding out that you don’t like it. That’s why at Coffee King we offer K-Cup 6-Packs. For only $5.25 (sometimes lower when they’re on sale) you can purchase a sampler pack without the risk of filling your carousel with a blend that won’t make your morning brighter.
Here are a few suggestions that are worthy of testing:
Mahogany K-Cups by Caribou Coffee
A satisfied customer recently wrote: “This blend is absolutely the best coffee available if you like full flavor but no bitterness. After trying many other k-cup flavors and manufacturers, this rose to the top immediately.”
CoffeeIndustryKeurig K-CupsMedical
Does all this yummy flavor in my K-Cup mean more calories?
Posted by Andrea on 04/24/12 at 10:52 AM
Coffee beans on their own contain next to zero calories. Each cup of coffee brewed by the typical K-Cup may result in two or three calories as a result of traces of bean oil, but these calories are negligible. But what happens to that calorie count when you brew your favorite flavored K-Cups like Hazelnut, French Vanilla, and Southern Pecan?
Not much, is the answer. Because of the way the flavors are extracted from the original source, and then added to the coffee beans (after roasting) the flavors add virtually no calories to your favorite K-Cup brew. How’s that for permission to indulge?! The Coffee King team gives you permission to go for it! But wait…
Why does flavored coffee sometimes SMELL so aromatic but then taste much milder?
Posted by Andrea on 04/17/12 at 11:20 AM
We’re putting great K-Cup flavors like these under a microscope this week:
Gloria Jean’s Butter Toffee K-Cups
Green Mountain Chocolate Glazed Donut K-Cups
Green Mountain Island Coconut K-Cups (Limited Edition - shop soon!)
Many coffees are flavored by extracting the flavor or aromatic component from its natural source (cinnamon from a cinnamon plant, hazelnut from the hazelnut plant). The manufacturers then use a spectograph to identify the precise molecular structures that comprise the flavor. Many times the molecular structures are then duplicated scientifically…. Hence the phrase “Natural and Artificial.”
