The battle of choosing between a coffee machine that uses a k-cup and a machine that uses ground coffee has been going on since a long time.
Keurig K-Cup coffee machines favor k-cups and since they tend to produce a rich and high-quality coffee consistently every time, we don’t question if its taste if superior to other coffee machine’s coffee taste or not.
But while ground coffee takes a lot of effort, it still makes the best coffee and can beat k-cups any day.
Here are a few points which help in understanding the difference between a K-cup coffee and a Ground Coffee taste.
Coffee Taste
A lot of people might argue that ground coffee doesn’t taste as good as a K-cup coffee because it is not airtight and tends to lose its scent and flavor within minutes if kept in the open.
But the fact remains that K-cup coffee is not fresh at all and even though it might retain the flavor and aroma, it just doesn’t taste the same.
K-cup coffee is roasted and then kept immediately inside an airtight container and since freshly roasted coffee emits CO2 for next 2 weeks, all this CO2 gets accumulated inside that container.
On the other hand, ground coffee is fresh and retains its rich flavor and aroma for some time after it is freshly ground and hence deliver you with a freshly flavored coffee. To avoid your ground coffee from becoming stale, you can use a grinder to ground your fresh whole bean coffee before every brew and ensure that your coffee doesn’t lose its richness at all.
Customizations
Another great advantage of a ground coffee is that you can adjust the texture and the strength of your ground coffee by adjusting the temperature and everything to provide you with either a finely coarse ground coffee or a bold ground coffee. It is all in your hands.
But in the k-cups, you are provided with pre-defined ground coffee which you cannot alter to according to your needs. You have a choice of k-cup flavors but if your favorable coffee blend isn’t manufactured by any brand, then sadly you can do nothing about it.
Flavor variety
One great advantage of using a k-cup is that you are offered with numerous flavors to choose from to provide your coffee with an additional taste. You just need to search and with more than 50 flavors out there, you can easily find the ones which you find appealing.
On the other hand, when grinding coffee you can’t always add the flavor you like and you can only alter the coffee strength. You can make sure that your coffee is not bitter but that’s as far as the ground coffee goes in flavor.
Cost
While it is said that ground coffee doesn’t come cheap, if you buy a grinder for your home it would be cheaper in the long run.
You will only pay an initial cost and then you can grind your own fresh coffee whenever you want whereas, for K-cups, you will always have to buy it which can cost you about $1 extra for every serving. To save costs, I’d suggest trying out a Cuisinart espresso machine and see if that aligns more along your budget.
So if you want a cheaper and better alternative, ground coffee is the best option for you which provides you with the richest taste and aroma that no matter how hard k-cups coffee try, it cannot be replicated.
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