Can the Keruig Coffee Maker Make More than Coffee

Ben Freedman: Hi there and welcome to Neo-fight.tv the technology reviews with two points of view. My name is Ben Freedman Tiffany Young: And I’m Tiffany Young and today is Friday, August 18th. Ben Freedman: Friday! Tiffany Young: Thank God It’s Friday!! Yeah!! Ben Freedman: Another Friday! Tiffany Young: And on Fridays as you I am sure probably well aware, we answer some of your email questions sent to us. Our first question is regarding a part that we covered I don’t know a few weeks back. Ben Freedman: Yeah. Tiffany Young: Called a Keurig, Ben Freedman: Keurig. Tiffany Young: It was a Keurig coffee maker. Ben Freedman: Right. Tiffany Young: The question is, “I saw your review of the Keurig coffee maker. Can it make hot chocolate tea etcetera, etcetera?” And the answer to that is very simple, actually yes it does make hot chocolate and tea but with the hot chocolate, what it does is you just put that hot chocolate powder in the bottom of your cup— Ben Freedman: Let's just review what the Keurig is for the folks who did not see it. Tiffany Young: Okay sorry. Ben Freedman: I'm sure you all watched it. Tiffany Young: Right! But for those of you that missed it. Ben Freedman: But the Keurig coffee maker uses these little K-cups. I’ll put a picture up. They are little things called K-cups where the coffee is already inside it. Tiffany Young: Right! Ben Freedman: And you stick that in the machine and actually for tea they sell— Tiffany Young: Tea—Thai tea, green tea. Ben Freedman: Tea in the K-cup but a hot they don’t have I did not say a hot chocolate in a K-cup. The hot chocolate comes in bags of powder. Tiffany Young: Right! Just like you buy in a store. Ben Freedman Just like you buy in a store. Tiffany Young: Right! Ben Freedman: How do you make hot chocolate? Tiffany Young: Just, you know, pick your hot chocolate of choice which, whatever it is. Ben Freedman: What's you hot chocolate of choice? Tiffany Young: I like Swiss Miss Ben Freedman: Swiss Miss? Tiffany Young: Swiss Miss. Ben Freedman: I don’t know if you got Cadburys here, can you get Cadburys? Tiffany Young: Cadburys is good. Ben Freedman: I used to get that in Canada when I lived in Canada. I don’t know if I have seen it here. Tiffany Young: Cadburys, it’s been a long time since I had hot chocolate but anyway it is a Swiss Miss. Ben Freedman: But please— Tiffany Young: Anyway. So you just put the powder in the cup. Ben Freedman: So powder goes in the cup not in the little K-cup. Tiffany Young: Exactly just goes in the cup and then you just you actually don’t put a K-cup in a little basket. Ben Freedman: Holder basket. Tiffany Young: And you just push your cup size for as much water as you want to go in your cup. There is small, medium and large. Ben Freedman: So you could actually use this for like soup. Tiffany Young: Oh yes! Ben Freedman: And if you want soup in a cup, like soup mix. Tiffany Young: Its instant hot water too. Ben Freedman: Its instant hot water. Tiffany Young: Basically that’s all it is. And then for the teas there are a zillion different kinds of teas that you could order from— Ben Freedman: In the K-cups. Tiffany Young: From the websites and the K-cups and there's one of my favorite the Chai tea add a little bit of milk and honey and it’s the best. It’s the best. Ben Freedman: And for recipes go to Tiffanyyoung.com Tiffany Young: It’s so good. I love our Keurig coffee maker. Actually Ben has one, I have one now. We are a big fan of Keurig. Ben Freedman: It’s a great product. Our next question is, “How big of a monitor should I buy? I want something large but they seem very expensive.” You know this is a question that I have seen several times because you can get monitors s now in every size. You got the 17’s, the 19’s, the 20’s, the 23’s and they all go in price. Tiffany Young: Up to 50’s. Ben Freedman: You're not going to buy 50-inch for your computer. Tiffany Young: No, I've seen them in real estate offices where they have the big 50-inch plasma. Ben Freedman: Hooked up to the computer. Tiffany Young: Hooked up to the computer but they are using that as a monitor for— Ben Freedman: Your personal computer. Your personal desktop. What size is your computer? Tiffany Young: Okay, I don’t know it’s my laptop— Ben Freedman: So you have a 17-inch laptop. Tiffany Young: 17 yes. Ben Freedman: So you don’t have a desktop at all? Tiffany Young: No. Ben Freedman: Yeah and I have a Dell 23-inch which is pretty big. Tiffany Young: That’s a good size. Ben Freedman: It is. And the question really is where is the sweet spot on prices these days? And I think that you know because this— Tiffany Young: Oh the quest! Ben Freedman: It is. You want to get the best price. I actually think the best value right now for your money is the 20-inch. I saw it at Costco 20-inch wide screen, I was at Costco and I saw it for $199.00, Tiffany Young: Wow. Ben Freedman: For a View Sonic 20-inch. Tiffany Young: You are kidding, $199.00? Ben Freedman: Wait a second, Tiffany Young: What? Ben Freedman: Yeah I think it was $199.00 for the 20-inch View Sonic. Tiffany Young: Wow! That’s pretty amazing. Ben Freedman: It was a good deal. Tiffany Young: Gees! Ben Freedman: It had built in speakers and that kind of stuff. I think that Costco. But I think that’s where the sweet spot is I think you could get the 17’s now for like 140 or 150. But if you look around it was with the rebate. You have to send in a rebate but once you sent them a rebate they came up to199. So for like 200 bucks and win that $200.00 price range you get 20. The Dell 23-inch that I have is 700 bucks. Tiffany Young: Big difference for three more inches. Ben Freedman: They differ for about three more inches. Three more inches can make a big difference. But you know I like having the big real estate on the screen. Sorry about that. But you know, I think that’s still a bit pricey for most people. Definitely what you can do is you can buy two of the 20 inches and have them side by side if you have a graphics card for— Tiffany Young: For $400.00 right! Ben Freedman: 400 bucks yeah. Although I think it was like a one per customer thing you have to leave the store and go back. Tiffany Young: Right or send in your wife. Ben Freedman: Send in your wife. Tiffany Young: Somebody else right? Ben Freedman: It does not come out where you know, 16 or why can’t they leave at Costco without buying a hair dryer. Tiffany Young: Without a hair dryer? Ben Freedman: A hair dryer. Tiffany Young: I’m telling you that. Ben Freedman: It’s like all this different hair dryer. Tiffany Young: I like hair dryers too. I do I probably like have five so I’m guilty as well. Ben Freedman: Right. The question is what is the right size of hair dryer? Tiffany Young: Well it depends if you traveling or not. Ben Freedman: That’s a different show. Tiffany Young: I could go on and on about that but I won’t, I won’t. Ben Freedman: And that’s all the time that we have for so. Just to answer that question. 20-inch is where I would go. Tiffany Young: 20 inches. Ben Freedman: 20-inch I think is where the sweet spot is for monitors. The best is not the cheapest or not the most expensive is the best price for each. Tiffany Young: And because three inches does make a difference. Ben Freedman: And with that, is all the time that we have for Neo-fight.tv this week. Please don’t forget visit our website, www.neo-fight.tv. And find out all about the show and subscribe to the pod casts. 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