Use a Sandwich or Single Serve Coffee to Give Thoughtful Answers

This cup of single serve coffee is your
key to success in the business world.

Want to know how to get ahead at work and use a single serve cup of coffee to do it? Web Worker Daily tells the tale of a an senior manager at HP.com that knows how to give the impression of always being considerate and listening to all of his employees thoughts and wishes. His secret? Keep his lunch sandwich nearby to immediately bite into upon being asked a question, along with a soda for quicker but still-important questions.

We're pretty sure this would work with a cup of coffee as well - especially single serve coffee. Imagine this - employee walks in, and you grab your piping hot cup of single serve coffee and sit back for 10-15 seconds. Now you can remain silent for most of the time the employee tells you something interesting, and then have a sip or two of coffee to seal the deal, and of course let it all sink in thoughtfully.

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How to Make Espresso Souffle

We're always looking for something different in the coffee world to do with our weekend. Besides travels to see fabled single serve coffee machines like the Clover, we often look for coffee treats and snacks. We came upon a recipe for Espresso Souffle the other day, and thought for any of our readers who have a Nespresso, Tassimo, Lavazza, or other single serve coffee makers that make a nice espresso shot, this recipe would make for a very yummy and caffeinated treat.

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Does the Breville BKC600XL Gourmet Single Cup Brewer work with the Perfect Pod Holster?

The Perfect Pod Holster works great with the Breville.

Does the Breville BKC600XL Gourmet Single Cup Brewer work with the Perfect Pod Holster? Yes it does and quite well. Like the other Keurig single serve coffee brewers - the Keurig Elite B40 Brewer, Keurig B50, Keurig Special Edition Ultra Elite B60, and the Keurig B70 Brewer - the Breville BKC600XL Gourmet Single Cup Brewer uses the same brewing chamber, and thus any after market products for Keurig brewers will work.

Here's our test of the Perfect Pod Holster with the Breville BKC600XL Gourmet Single Cup Brewer. using a Baronet Galapagos coffee pod (which we highly recommend).

Get your Perfect Holster and Coffee Pod ready...

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Keurig K-Cup Brewing Tip: Get Extra Bold Coffee with Regular K-Cups

We just had a reader write in a pretty amazing tip on how to make your regular K-Cups make an extra bold cup of single serve coffee.

I have a B70 Kuerig B70 and figured out how to get the extra bold effect with a regular k-cup.

Just put the k-cup in then start the 5.25 oz cycle until the k-cup just starts dripping.
Then lift the handle and let it sit for 30 seconds (or a little less) then go ahead and make the 5.25 oz serving.

Comes out much stronger this way! This method would probably make an extra bold coffee fill a taller cup and taste as good as the small size. Yum!

We've tried this and think the extra brewing time in the K-Cup does get a better extraction. This Keurig brewing tip will work in your Keurig Elite B40 Brewer, Keurig B50, Keurig Special Edition Ultra Elite B60, and the Keurig B70 Brewer.

How do you Store your Keurig K Cups, Nespresso Capsules, and Coffee Pods?

There's a pretty amazing set of threads in the Single Serve Coffee Forums on how to make a mess of those pesky K Cups and other single serve coffee pods, nespresso capsules, and gadgets. We simply have a large pantry that we put most things on shelves, or we use small bowls to store our Nespresso capsules. Whatever you do - see what's being done by other Single Serve Coffee Forums members and perhaps you have a technique or tip to add.

I got a Keurig B50 from Costco two weeks ago, and set it up in my kitchen. Between the 18-packs that came with that and some 5-packs and 25-packs I ordered from Keurig, I had a storage mess on my hands; you can't get into the 18-packs when they're stacked, and I didn't have enough counter space to leave them all out.

I went shopping at the big-box mall, and found the Sterilite #2003 Small Countertop Drawer unit at Target. Each unit's about 7" high, 7" wide and 8" deep and they stack. 3 drawers per unit are just barely deep enough to hold 9 K-cups each when arranged just so; the Tully's cups bulge on top and I have to be careful with opening and closing their drawers! I've filled each drawer with a different variety or an assortment of singles. The remaining 5-packs will sit nicely on top. I have the 25-packs and a bin of loose K-cups from the 18-packs under a counter on the other side of the kitchen, and I'll refill the drawers from there when they get empty. Now I can see what I've got when I'm getting going in the morning.

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How to Green Your Single Serve Coffee

We recently read a pretty amazing guide at Treehugger about greening up your coffee and tea consumption. Did you know that coffee is the world’s most commonly traded commodity after crude oil, but what about single serve coffee? Well, the single serve coffee category is growing, and because of the packaging and other factors, single serve coffee might not be seen as green as drinking regular coffee, but it can be.

One of the big factors when using single serve coffee at work or home - get your own mug. Owning your own mug over the course of the year can be a huge contribution to using less paper. Recently we created a mark for every paper cup we would have used, had we not had a coffee mug at our desk - average weekly number? We would have used 47 paper cups every week for a total of 188 per month and a total of 2,256 per year. Ouch.

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Coffee Tricks for Lattes and Cappucinnos

Sent in from our good friend CS, these coffee tricks are for doing designs on your latte or cappuccino. Perhaps a nice rabbit on the top of your whipped milk? Or perhaps a nice radish? Okay - so not all of these topping tricks for coffee are amazing, but the person doing them is very talented.

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Tips & Tricks: Wet Your Coffee Pod & Heat Your Brewer

We get questions over email all the time regarding our best tips and tricks for Single Serve Coffee. We have what we think is one of the best tips you can use with coffee pod based brewers like the Senseo, Bunn My Cafe, Krups Home Cafe, and simplehuman single serve coffee pod brewers. - Wet Your Pod Before Brewing.

It's really that simple. If you have an instant hot dispenser or even a little cool water, moistening the pod will improve the overall extraction of the coffee. Some pod brewers like the Grindmaster pre-moisten the coffee pod before brewing, but most don't have this feature.

Another trick is to take the pod holder and simply run hot water over it. This achieves a moist coffee pod when you place the pod in the holder and a better overall extraction due to the seal the wet pod will make over a dry pod.

We also recommend heating up the brewer and running some water through it to heat up the brewing area. In any of the brewers we test, we always run an ample amount of water through the machine prior to making a cup of coffee and we don't just do this for coffee pod based machines - this trick will work for all single serve coffee machines.

Trust us. A moistened pod and a hot brewer will make a much better cup of single serve coffee coffee.