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06/27/2005: "The Hype about Coffee Pods."

If you haven’t heard the buzz, you soon will. The newest adventure in single cup coffee is the “coffee pod” and pod machine. The concept is great, a universal one-cup coffee maker that has refills readily available for it. The pod it’s self is a relatively simple concept, a single serving of coffee in a filter packet. By using a small filter pack you can make a single cup of freshly brewed coffee or tea quickly and conveniently.
The goal of the majority of machine and pod manufactures is to make a pod that will fit all of the different machines to give the consumer the choice that they currently have with the 12 and 4 cup coffee makers but the luxury of the one cup coffee maker. The development has been a slow process and the machines lag behind the pods themselves but it’s starting to all come together and it’s really becoming a great single cup option.
Pods currently range in sizes making some pods difficult to use in the home models vs. the commercial models. Folgers, Senseo and JavaOne offer themselves as an option for all of the pod machines except the Melitta machine. The Melitta Company started with a smaller pod that fit only their machine but will soon be marketing a larger more universal pod. Green Mountain recommends that their larger pod, containing 11g of coffee be used only with the commercial machines that can handle the larger pods. However, it looks as though it will rapidly trend toward pods and machines that are versatile and universal.
As pods continue to gain ground in the single cup coffee arena the variety of machines and coffees will continue to grow making this a winning option for the consumer. At CoffeeGIANT.com we are watching the pod trend closely in an effort to offer the best machines, coffee and tea pods available to our customers.