MyInvento

Several appliance makers manufacture pod brewers. We recently did a quick web search and found pod brewers by Mellitta, Cuisinart and Hamilton Beach on Amazon.com.

The My Invento Coffee System is an elegant new pod-brewing system. Manufactured in Europe, this striking coffee maker can brew one or two cups of coffee at a time. The My Invento brewer is made of a unique polymer-coated steel that resists scratches, smudges and corrosion. It’s priced at $99.95 at Amazon.com.

Owned by Sara Lee Corp., Senseo was one of the first companies to introduce pod brewers in America and still has a leading position in that market. Visit Senseo’s website to learn more.

Bunn Pod Brewer

Around the same time Senseo entered the market, Procter & Gamble (Folgers), in partnership with Black & Decker, Mr. Coffee and other appliance companies, introduced their HomeCafe pod brewing system. As evidence of the declining market for pod systems, today, neither Black & Decker nor Mr. Coffee appear to make pod brewers.

Bunn makes a pod brewer for offices that has a reputation as a very high quality coffee maker. However, it sells for about $300, considerably more than the $30-100 price of many home pod brewers.

Popular One-Cup Coffee Brewers

We’re here to help you decide which one-cup coffee maker you might like best. Then, once you make your decision, we’ll try to provide more information if you have questions about your one cup brewing choice.

We do know of a few different sources that have compared different one-cup coffee makers. A couple of years ago, CoffeeReview.com (“the world’s leading coffee buying guide”) tested a number of one cup coffee brewers. Their preferences seemed to be for the Keurig system and the Senseo pod brewer. Here’s a link to their article.

You may also like the “Keurig-vs-Senseo-vs-Tassimo” entry posted by Tony Martinez at his blog: “Attention Deficit”. He tried the three different systems and decided that Keurig was the one he liked best. Tony’s post has received over 100 comments, so other opinions are represented there as well. Click here to read it.

Finally, from time to time, we look at how often Internet users search for the different brewing systems on Google. If you use this as a measure of the popularity of each of the systems, then Keurig seems to be winner, followed by Tassimo. Coffee pods were a common search term a few years ago, but since then, pods seem to have lost much of their popularity. Here’s the trend lines we look at.