My in-laws got us this new coffee maker as a joint graduation present.

I still don’t know what to think of it.

Rather than use the old fashioned method of brewing coffee, this contraption uses little air-sealed discs (I try not to think of the packaging waste this thing encourages) and brews up hot beverages fairly quick. So far, the hot chocolate is disgusting (my wife likes it; it’s not hot chocolate unless it’s dark chocolate to me), the coffee is so-so (I think I’m just brainwashed into fresh-ground brewing), but the tea is smooth and the cappuccinos are dead-on.

So, I use it almost exclusively for cappuccinos and revert to Mr. Coffee for the regular stuff. Fortunately, this thing makes me exempt from being one of those proud owners of a cappuccino maker that never gets used, but it renders me as a defenseless, lost male looking for disc packs at Bed Bath and Beyond.

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