Sense disappointment
Sense disappointment, originally uploaded by Peru Tha Damaja.
Last week at the auction for my local food bank there was a Philips Senseo up for grabs. There was a magical combination: I’m a sucker for gadgets, a miserable coffee addict, and the bidding was below cost so I went for it. This morning I had my first cup from it and am not won over. The pod system means it’s convenient to set up and clean but also means you can’t really choose your coffee and you’re locked into the proprietary setup, so that’s a mixed bag but you don’t quite know how it’ll work out until you try the coffee.
Ugh.
But the money went to a good cause! And I’ll just cross my fingers that the cappuccino is better.
Nick said,
October 12, 2007 @ 8:23 am
Jason and Katie have that, and they love it. I think they offer a pretty wide variety of coffees for it, and I’m also under the impression that you can get generic, standard pods that work on any pod coffee maker. I’ve had decent “espresso” out of it.
We’ll be sticking with our stainless steel, double walled French press - it’s great. Those Bialetti stovetop espresso makers make great coffee too, but I recommend getting the stainless steel one over the aluminum.
Patrick said,
October 12, 2007 @ 8:42 am
Hmm - please let me know what their drink of choice is! The coffee I drank this morning has me almost ready to throw up, but then I should have known better than to try flavored (almost instant) coffee.