Using a personal coffee maker saves time and there is a great deal less waste of coffee beans. With the beans being the highest cost involved, if you use less per time brewed you can save more money and maybe use it for the Starbucks blend instead of the Eighth O’Clock coffee from the grocery store. You will not have to wait for the pot to be done brewing or worry if what is left in the pot tastes OK or not. Just take your personal coffee maker and make your cup right away. Hot coffee in seconds.
Personal coffee makers run from a simple filter shaped cup (where you put the paper filter before adding grounds) with a sieved bottom that fits over the top of your coffee cup with small openings for the coffee to come through to a true personal coffee maker that actually brews the coffee into your mug and has its own power source. Some even have a travel mug as part of the package.
Most of the major small appliance makers have a one cup or one mug coffee maker in their arsenal. Black and Decker, Toastess, West Bend and others have models starting at less than twenty ($16.99) dollars while not going over thirty dollars. All of these models require the use of a #1 paper filter for each cup. There is an item from Keurig that runs $79.99 and uses patented “K” cups for the coffee so that you do not need any paper filters. In fact the model comes with a permanent metal mesh filter and eliminates the need for grinding. This model comes with a ten pack of assorted “K” cup coffees and has one touch operation for easy coffee making. Additional “K” cup coffees run around twenty three dollars or a little over a dollar each for a twenty two count box.