Before we begin to explore the differences of each type of Single Cup coffee unit, it’s important to understand how they differ at the core. For many years many different types of Single Cup brewing system have come around, some take coffee in bulk then grind and brew coffee by the cup, others require a proprietary coffee packet to brew a single cup. Among the most popular in the commercial business environment in the USA Keurig became very popular in the office setting along with Flavia. During this time as well Sarah Lee along with Philips had developed a home brewer in Europe that used a pod coffee for brewing single cups, it became wildly popular in Europe and a few years later was introduced in the USA with great clamor. Now comes the question of how they differ. As Keurig and Flavio became popular in the USA only a handful of roasters were allowed to develop coffee in their proprietary packet to brew a single cup, Flavia actually only had their own coffee type. After a few years the Coffee Pod became the product that would be introduced that would have no proprietary linkage to any coffee roaster, all types of machines would use the coffee pod and all types of roasters would be able to develop their coffee blends in pods as well thus serving an open market. Basically, Coffee Pods single cup coffee just like Keurig, Flavia, Tassimo, Nespresso, etc, however Coffee Pod Brewers have no Exclusive coffee that you are forced to purchase. This gives way for many options of coffee for you to try and consume as well as finding better priced high quality coffee since you aren’t forced to consume one type of coffee from a specific company. I hope this give some clarify on the big difference between each of these units and types of pods/packets. In the next post we will discuss how they each differ in detail, from brewing mechanism to brew quality.