Is K-Cup coffee as good as coffee made from fresh ground beans?
That’s a reasonable question. After all, there is a whole mythology based around the process of buying whole beans, grinding them carefully and then making a wonderful, fresh brew. Here’s the bottom line. A K-Cup coffee will likely never be quite as good as a pot of coffee made from top quality, fresh-ground beans. While K-Cups are sealed and the coffee inside is protected from both oxygen and light, the coffee was ground quite some time before you actual use the K-Cup. But…will you really notice a difference? The answer to this question is, “Probably not.” There are some coffee drinkers who approach coffee the way a wine connoisseur looks at wine. They have a great “nose” and can taste the difference between coffee beans grown in different parts of the same region. These are the professional tasters and the hard-core enthusiasts. But for most of us, K-Cup coffee tastes every bit as good as fresh-ground coffee. Maybe there are subtle differences, but we probably don’t even notice the
