My Tassimo coffee maker
A couple of years ago Carrie bought me a wonderful birthday gift: a Tassimo single-cup coffee maker. It allows me to drink coffee in the morning without having to look up online how to use the very complicated regular drip coffee machine wasting space on our counter. (When the quantity "cup" is mentioned, it may refer to the official baking measure, or to the amount of water to feed the machine, or to the post-brew amount of coffee produced. Ridiculous; I didn't take home ec. in high school, so pardon me for just not getting it.) Besides, I need only one coffee all day, and that's hardly worth firing up the big brewer for.
The invention (or purchase, rather) of a hassle-free one-click machine is definitely an improvement. You buy pods with barcodes on them so the machine knows exactly how much water to add to create your beverage. (Note to self: remember to use a mug large enough to hold the size of coffee about to be produced.)
Anyway, this was all great when I first had the machine. There were a number of coffee (or tea or hot chocolate if that's your cup of, um, tea) flavours. My favourite happens to be café crema, with a package of 14 pods costing $5 at that time. That $0.36 a cup, quite an affordable habit at about 6 coffees a week.
Well, I'm not aware of any coffee pod crisis happening in the world, but lately prices have gotten ridiculous. Average price now for a package is $7.50; that's a 50% increase in three years!! Of course some retailers are nowhere near that mark: Sears will let you buy in bulk at a rate of $9 per package... that's just sad.
So I figured there must be a place to still get them cheap. After some searching I found them on sale at Future Shop (online only) for $7/pkg, but if you buy 3 the 4th is free. That puts the price at a very reasonable $5.25. Combine that with free shipping and no tax, and I've got 12 packages coming in the mail for under $63. At one coffee a day, that will last me half a year! Take that, Mr. Horton.
As I know some of my readers have a Tassimo, I thought I should share. The tip, not the coffee!
those are awesome coffee makers we use ours all the time. recently laura found a website online that was giving away sample packs of italian dark roast coffee so she signed all of us in the family up needless to say they sent us full 12 packs each 72 cups of coffee. if you are looking for cheaper coffee look at staples and also ebay from germany with shipping it is actually pretty cheap.
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Thanks Jason! I'm always wary that duties will dampen any international purchases.
ReplyDeleteWe love our senseo coffeemaker.At Foodland the pods cost 7.99 for 36 pods or at the dutch store 8.99. Also we like the refillable pods, but not everyone likes those. Mom
ReplyDeleteYeah we don't have the option of refillables, although I'm not sure I'd have the patience for them!
ReplyDeleteAndrew, you are way too hard on yourself. You made great coffee at our house last month!
ReplyDeleteYeah, I'm pretty sure Carrie was there to hold my hand, Marian. And if I recall, I was still traumatized for weeks afterward.
ReplyDeleteoooh...great tip! Thanks!
ReplyDeleteJason forgot to mention that although we got free coffee (shipping included, just 'like' tassimo on Facebook for their offers), we factor in the fact that we paid $0 for our machine. (and no, it was not a gift.) Much less then our big one :) Makes buying the pods a little less painful.
ReplyDeleteNow, any word on the Cadbury hot chocolate? We can't find any here!! Send us a pack if you find it! :)
Glad you found a good deal. Why have coffee prices gone up? Natural disasters, I'm afraid. They warned us about this a few months ago when the coffee bean crop was destroyed in South America. Do you think the price of coffee will go down when things settle back down? Yeah, right!
ReplyDeleteLaura: London Drugs may be the best deal on your hot chocolate (although I don't know what you generally pay). $8 shipping means you should buy a whole winter's worth at once though :).
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