Gevalia coffee & pot ?

uncle Alan

uncle Alan

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Is it a deal or dud ? On the face of it ,it appeals to us because Patsy & I have 3 great passions. We love coffee,home cooking & 'er,uh , bodysurfing .

Incidentally, she has a 1 & then a 2 day session of cancer treatments & we hope to go to N.C. 21 April & get married.

Uncle Alan:D
 
I liked the "coffe of the month" thing. Gevalia is good stuff, the pot is usally a Braun, pretty good quality. Their customer service is not bad, all in all, IMHO, not a bad deal.
 
Congratulations Uncle Alan. I'm glad to hear that you are settling down and leaving more for the rest of us.
 
They are OK but not great. The coffee can be quite good but Im not a fan of drip coffee makers other than the best ones that cost well over $100. We signed up for the Gevalia coffee subscription in a program office I was working in a few years ago - everybody else used the drip coffee maker but I brought in a French press to make my own using the Gevalia beans. I'll never forget this young fella asking me "Are you a coffee snob?" and then shaking his head sadly at my affirmative response as he added "My girlfriend is one too". :D I told him "Dude, I'll tell you what to get her for gifts and she'll be crazy about you"...and I did. :)
 
The great thing about using a small French press is having that one decent cup of coffee when you want it. Using the office drip machine, you get coffee sitting around all day. :barf:

I used to come in to work, head for the supervisors' office & grab a cup, and later go to MY office upstairs and fix something worth enjoying. One morning, I came in, grabbed that first cup, took a sip -- and almost stopped breathing.

One of the guys decided his wife's coffee was so good, he'd share it with us. So he brought in a fine grind, dark roast, and tossed in a couple of extra scoops yet, just to make sure we appreciated the flavor. I should have noticed how thick it was when I poured it ...

Gevalia. Unfortunate phonetic similarity to gevalt! Not bad, really. My sister liked it and set my parents up with it, too. You do get a basic level of quality which beats buying the bargain coffee of the week at the local supermarket. :)
 
Since there's no obligation, it's a good deal to get a decent enough maker and a couple half pound packages of coffee. After that, it's up to you whether you want to continue to receive their offerings.

To their credit, there was a small crack we recently discovered on the maker we received a few weeks ago. They replaced it without question and didn't ask for the original to be shipped back.

(Oh, and best wishes to you both for a long happy future! :cool: )
 
Esav Benyamin said:
You do get a basic level of quality which beats buying the bargain coffee of the week at the local supermarket. :)
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You have reduced Gevalia to its essence. It is a fair place to start on a life's journey 'cross the wilderness, from the desert to the well, in search of decent coffee. Their coffeemaker is also a slight step forward from your typical Mr. Coffee/Black and Decker Thermocraft drip maker.

Your points regarding coffee left to its own devices maturing into advanced bio-waste should be noted. Even (and I shudder at hearing myself utter the unmentionable) Starbuck's has a one hour time limit on their coffee of the day being left in their makers. Some other solutions for single cup enjoyment are the little one cup drip filter cones:

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or the AeroPress:


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Well, at home I always liked my little Melitta pot, and for a while I was on Medaglia D'Oro, then Bustelo and El Pico, all of which are so different from cardboard cup coffee that I found the offrice coffee at its best was undrinkable after a couple of hours, max. That doesn't mean I didn't drink it, only that I had the good taste to gag while doing so. :)
 
Esav Benyamin said:
Well, at home I always liked my little Melitta pot, and for a while I was on Medaglia D'Oro, then Bustelo and El Pico, all of which are so different from cardboard cup coffee that I found the offrice coffee at its best was undrinkable after a couple of hours, max. That doesn't mean I didn't drink it, only that I had the good taste to gag while doing so. :)
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There ya go! That's what I have and I LOVE it! I use other coffees as well. One of my favorites is Bucks County's Blueberry Blend. It isn't so much that it tastes of blueberries as it has the scent. And that takes me back to my childhood, picking wild blueberries at my Grandmother's place in the Berkshires (South Egremont, Mass.) and then having her or my Mom bake the ones that I and my sisters didn't eat right away into a deep dish pie.
 
uncle Alan,

I've had the Gevalia 12-cup coffee maker for about a year and it's worked fine. Comparable to a $40-$50 drip coffee maker in the retail stores. I canceled my membership with Gevalia after only 2 shipments of coffee... not because it was bad, but because I just wanted the free coffee maker. :D Their coffee is rather expensive for what you get (the pre-ground stuff). Not sure about the whole beans. I remember getting the French roast and some other specialty roasts. Good stuff!

I use the coffee maker on a daily basis. I used to grind my own beans and also own a French press. I've backed-off on the coffee snobbery a bit and now enjoy pre-ground Folgers Coffeehouse Series coffees from the grocery store. Probably just as good as that Gevalia stuff.

Also, congratulations on the upcoming wedding! :thumbup:
 
I have a french press and grind my own beans and I find I drink less but better coffee. If you have a whole pot you tend to drink more to not let it go to waste.
I am not a total snob though as I use cream and sugar. Coffee beans stay fresh way longer than grounds so even if you use a cheap drip it makes a big difference.
 
Unsub said:
I have a french press and grind my own beans and I find I drink less but better coffee.
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Of course you have a FRENCH press. Yu're CANADIAN! :D

I used to work nights for the post office, and drank any coffee I could get. Terrible. Young and strong I was, and the coffee didn't seem to do me harm.

One night I got to work and went right to the nurse. I told her I felt very shaky and a bit queasy and she laughed and asked me how many cups of coffee I'd had that day. 12. How many did I think I'd drink that night? Probably the same. She just laughed.

I switched to tea as my regular drink for at least a year after that, and I hunted down better tea, not cheap stuff. MUCH better. When I started back on coffee, it was with the Melitta pot, and two or three small cups a day, with tea on the workfloor.

Now that I've got a French press, I am really impressed. Using a variety of good coffees, I can actually appreciate the difference. I really have to get a grinder. Maybe I'll go with coffee and attendant equipment from Natasha's Cafe.
 
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