Toy Wooden Single Serve Coffee Maker and Breakfast Set
People are always asking us when do you think the single serve coffee market will go from fad to a reality all coffee drinkers must face? Well - how about when the toy coffee maker you get your kids is no longer a drip coffee maker, and is in fact a single serve coffee maker. This set has both a toaster and single serve coffee maker to help make your kids breakfast play a little more realistic.
Toaster includes two pieces of bread, plate, honey jar, and Velcro"sectioned stick of butter kids can "cut" with the play knife. Just like its reallife counterpart, the toaster actually"pops" out the toast when its done.
Coffee Maker includes cup, milk carton, sugar bowl and spoon, and features movable parts for realistic play.
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August 31, 2010
Review: Cappuccino Ice capsules for Nescafé Dolce Gusto
With the end of Summer drawing closer, we continue our reviews of iced single serve beverages with another one of our favorites in the Dolce Gusto line-up… their Cappuccino Ice capsules. Most of you are likely used to making your own “iced caps” with a brew-over-ice K-Cup and adding your own sugar & cream or perhaps you’ve had a go at some of the new Gevalia iced coffee T-Discs for the Tassimo recently, but when we tried the first cold water drink for the Dolce Gusto (it’s been around since the machine’s launch this side of the pond) we were a bit skeptical. How much of a crema layer could powdered capsules create anyway & just what kind of espresso flavor would powdered coffee yield?
Well, lots it would seem. You get 8 coffee capsules and 8 milk capsules in each box and you start by prepping the milk capsule first, followed by the coffee capsule afterwards for a drink that’s roughly in the 10oz range. We didn’t notice much of the crema until we started adding the coffee and saw the various layers slowly build up from seemingly nowhere. Aromas kicked-in when brewing the coffee capsule to reveal very light, earthy, somewhat smoky notes of Arabica (not a small feat considering this is powdered coffee after all).
Hot and Cold Coffee Mug Tells You What's Up or Down
We love coffee mugs that change color, but we really love coffee mugs that change color based on temperature like this hot and cold coffee mug. You can make the mug go all cold, all hot, or even half and half depending on what single cup coffee you put into it. And because you'll always know the temperature of the coffee in your mug, you can easily avoid scalding your lips accidentally.
We're going to feature a bunch of the brew over iced K-Cups over the next week, and we kick things off with the Celestial Seasonings Sweet Peach Iced Tea K-Cups and notice a light peach aroma filling our nose as the hot liquid melts over the ice. This aroma quickly becomes muted after the drink cools down a bit.
We didn’t really notice much acidity as the ice cuts down on it somewhat. Things were smooth overall and there was barely any aftertaste. The thing which threw us off a bit was the initial punch to the face of bitter flavoring… we couldn’t quite figure out what caused it. The peach flavoring? The cane sugar? (unlikely) or perhaps it was the hibiscus? Once we got accustomed, we started noticing more of the natural peach flavoring hiding below the light sweetness of the cane sugar. The longer we sipped on the drink, the more peach notes started coming through. A flavor score of 5 thankfully got changed to an 8 as a result.
Mark M from Australia made this Playstation Coffee Table for his year 12 major work as an Industrial Technology project. It has been made plywood, MDF, and veneer on veneer, and we think looks amazing. Too bad this coffee table won't be made for consumer consumption, but maybe Mark M will invite us over for a night of gaming.
Tassimo T20 Hot Beverage and Single Serve Coffee System Arrives for Review
That's right we've finally gotten our hands on a Tassimo T20 Hot Beverage System to review. The footprint is smaller, and so far we like it but miss the digital LCD display of the T65 model. We'll have more details as we put together our review, but so far so good.
1.5 litre tank which should mean that you don't need to refill constantly
As well as coffee, cappuccino, espresso and macchiato drinks from Carte Noir, Kenco, Seattle's Best, and Starbucks the Tassimo Tassimo T20 Hot Beverage System can also make Milka hot chocolate, Starbucks House Blend and Twinings English Breakfast Tea.
Melitta To Release Caffeo CI Intelligent Coffee Maker
Melitta plans to roll out its new premium coffee machine 'Melitta Caffeo CI' this fall. The Melitta Caffeo CI will debut at the IFA 2010 from September 3rd to 8th in Berlin, Germany. Wondering what's CI? It means Coffee Intelligence. The coffee maker comes with the easy-to-use 'My Coffee Memory' function, and the new 'Plug-in-Milk System' that conjures up the milky foam. The coffee maker is user-friendly and eco friendly too with energy saving functions.
Nestlé Nespresso to Unveil Kazaar Limited Edition 2010 - Super Strong Coffee
Turn it up to 12 (sorry 11 is so old school) with the upcoming fall Nespresso capsule called Kazaar. The Kazaar Limited Edition 2010 will be the strongest coffee in it's entire line of Grand Crus, because until recently, Ristretto with its 10th level of roast was the strongest coffee. To create the exclusive Kazaar Limited Edition, Nespresso experts roasted the beans at the maximum 12th level.
Exclusively for the Kazaar Limited Edition, Nespresso collaborated with famed French interior-designer Andree Putman to develop the white Ritual Collection, which included elegant ristretto cups and refined saucers.
Kazaar Limited Edition will come to the Nespresso club and boutiques in September 2010.
Designer Ben Gruen is bringing back the Atari pixelated hits to your coffee table, and we're psyched. The pixelated coffee table is for us a killer design wrapped in the nostalgia of our early gaming days. We'd like to see it in a variety of colors for the younger ones in our lives, but the brown and black versions are excellent as well.
There is a new article on Green Mountain Coffee Roasters that is more of a conundrum for us here at Single Serve Coffee, than insightful. We've seen several articles featuring the company with the pros and cons of single use K-Cups, coffee pods, T-Discs, and even Nespresso capsules with respect to the environment, and this one has nothing really new to offer.
We know that Green Mountain has built a reputation as an eco-friendly company since it was founded nearly 30 years ago, and we also strongly believe in the future more of the single-cup offerings will be even more recyclable and eco-friendly given all the research and development they are working on in the area. We also believe not wasting an entire pot of coffee, and also recycling the majority of the K-Cup is a great start. You can use the coffee grounds in compost along with the paper filter, and we peel off the top to put into our regular recycling which takes all comers.
There is one really interesting tidbit which is the all-paper K-Cup Green Mountain is working on with respect to tea brewing which would be fully recylable. A fully recyclable K-Cup option at least for teas would be a big step toward getting a 100% recycling option.
Jim Evans from CoffeeWiz.com has sent over this updated box art for Melitta's coffee pods. Also - expect new coffee pod flavors from Melitta sometime soon.
Jeff sent this really cool set of 25 different designs for coffee mugs. There's a treasure trove of cool coffee mugs, and it's just the thing to peruse prior to the fall setting in and lots of single serve coffee drinking.
Cool Beans Pods Redesigns Web Store and More Coffees On the Way
Not only has Cool Beans redesigned their web site, but the entire line of packaging for their single serve coffee pods has been updated as well. The new site design is super easy to navigate, and we really love the new Cool Beans logo. Peter from Cool Beans also wanted to let everyone know they will be introducing another 20 to 30 selections of coffee, and a line of Fair Trade / Organic coffee pods.
Review: Nestea Peach Iced Tea Capsules for Nescafé Dolce Gusto
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With the recent heat wave occurring on the East coast these past several weeks, most of us here at the Single Serve Coffee kitchens have been ditching our usual hot coffee drinks for the iced variety instead and with the explosion of "brew over ice" K-Cups that have hit shelves for Keurig systems, it's nice to know that Nescafé wasn't asleep at the wheel as they also pushed out a new iced capsule of their own. Today we review their Nestea Peach Iced Tea capsules for the Dolce Gusto.
We've been fans of Nestea products and went through tons of various flavors in our lifetime, so we were anxious to see if these new capsules were on-par with what we've tried in the past. Little did we know that "on par" would be the biggest understatement of this review. Billed by Nescafé as "the perfect Summer drink", we were hard pressed to disagree as we used the supplied latte macchiato glass which came with our machine, popped in a few ice cubes and pulled about 6oz of cold water only to notice a Guinness-like froth effect which slowly started to build up to a frothy top layer. An iced tea that froths like a Guinness? All we can say is if Nescafé were going for visual "wow factor" they frickin achieved orbit!
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Review: Cappuccino Ice capsules for Nescafé Dolce Gusto
