K Cups, T Discs and Coffee Pods

There are several different single serve coffee machines out there and they use different containers for making coffee. That’s the reason we have coffee pods and T Discs, K Cups, Smart Capsules etc. Here is a short list of some of the most common ones.

Keurig K Cups

These are used by Keurig single cup home brewing systems. They are not limited to coffee only, but are also available for tea and cocoa. Altogether they have over 200 different varieties from several brands like Green Mountain Coffee, Van Houtte, Caribou, Timothy’s, Twinings etc.

Tassimo Discs or T Discs

T Discs are used by Tassimo single serve coffee machines for making coffee, tea or hot chocolate. You can choose from several different varieties from brands like Starbucks, Carte Noire, Jacobs, Kenco, Twinings etc. T Discs have unique bar code system that machine uses to determine necessary brewing time, temperature and water amount.

Nescafe Dolce Gusto Capsules

Used by Nescafe Dolce Gusto system and produced by Nescafe. There are several different variations available like Cappuccino, Caffe Americano, Latte Macchiato, Espresso etc.

Coffee Pods

Coffee pods are to coffee what tea packs are to tea, sort of. These are used by several different systems and are somewhat interchangeable. One of the best known systems that uses them is Philips Senseo. Now, all pods are not created equal meaning that there are different sizes of them and therefore all pods cannot be used in all systems. Most common sizes are 44mm, 55mm and 62mm. Senseo uses the 62 mm size, Bunn MyCafe however has a specific kind of pod holder that allows many different sizes. Since coffee pods are one of the most common options in single serve coffee world, then there is a wide variety of different tastes and roasts and you are not limited to only one or two brands.

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