Keurig Special Edition B60 Coffee Maker

I love this coffee maker primarily for the convenience it offers. My wife and I used to argue over who would get up in the morning and put on a pot of coffee. Now, we just get up, pop in a K-cup of our favorite flavor, and less than a minute later, we've got a fresh brewed cup of coffee. It's ready even quicker, if we've programmed the time to have the unit turn itself on, already -- but it heats the water so quickly, that function is hardly necessary.

The B60 looks great, too, with it's chrome accents and drip pan. The water tank is extremely easy to remove and replace; or, simply remove the lid, and fill it from a pitcher. The tank hlds 48 ounces of water, which is enough to keep you going all morning. Clean up simply involves dumping the used K-cup and periodically cleaning the drip pan. That's nothing compared to removing and dumping the used coffee filter (from a drip brewer)and having to clean the pot and filter holder. PLUS -- no more left over, wasted coffee that has to be dumped!

I have two very small gripes:
1 -- the priming period is actually longer than the inistructions indicate. It takes a few brew cycles to get rid of the bitter machine taste; afterwards, though -- nothing but fresh coffee taste.
2 -- the machine makes a little noise as it sucks water out of the tank for each brew. The pump makes the machine vibrate enough to cause the drip pan to rattle, too. The combined noises are not necessarily loud, just annoying at times. The machine would be PERFECT if they somehow incorporated some dampers to insulate that noise and vibration.

Finally, K-cups (the coffee) are available in a variety of flavors/blends, from a variety of sources and at very reasonable prices. I have memberships with a couple of coffee distributors who offer free shipping when you buy 4 or more boxes of K-cups. Each box contains 24 k-cups, so 4 boxes is a total of 96 K-cups and the price for those 4 boxes is about 45.00. That comes to just under $.50/cup of coffee -- a lot cheaper than Starbucks! And, a lot more convenient, too.