Reusable Coffee Pod (Each)

Cost savings:

These filters will allow you to use your own ground coffee, which means that you can buy whatever brand of coffee you prefer at a fraction of the price. Don't believe me? Play with the calculator some more ....

Coffee Quality Improvement:

Using reusable pods results in a direct improvement in the quality of your coffee. Why? In a nutshell, the coffee is fresher, the oils aren’t stripped out of the beans and you have complete control over how much coffee you use and how it's ground.

Some interesting things to consider about reusable pods.

Better Extraction

The stainless steel mesh has a better flow than factory sealed plastic pods. Coffee exits the pod through a greater surface area of a stainless steel mesh. This is provides a better extraction than the little pinhole the machine punches into the bottom of the pod.

Better Freshness

If you control the pod, you control what goes into the pod. That means, fresher coffee right? Absolutely it does. and no one likes stale coffee. Factory pods are made in extremely large production runs and wind up sitting around for a long long time. That's the opposite of fresh...

Better variety

Not only will you save heaps of money, but you will also be able to choose which types and brands of beans you want to brew.

Better control over the brewing process - Weight & Grind

Sounds like a fancy Toronto restaurant... but they are the two factors that matter most after freshness and actually being able to choose what goes into your pod.

Also known as the throw of coffee and the grind of coffee. The throw is how much coffee goes into your cup, while the grind is how fine or coarsely ground your beans are. So in practice, if your coffee is weak, you could add a little bit coffee to the pod and make the grind a little finer. The point being that you can now dial in the coffee and not suffer through a lousy cup of coffee as you drive into work. That's nice right?