Tassimo Coffee Machines
When it comes to brew an entire cup of coffee, Tassimo is a wonderful solution. It’s as easy as 1 2 3. Just pull it out of the box, plug it in, fill it with fresh water, insert a T-Disc (Tassimo coffee pod) and press a button! In less than 1 minute, you will hold a fresh brewed cup of coffee. It compact size fits nicely on any countertop.
With measurements of 13 1/4″ x 8″ x 11″, you can place in the middle, pushed back to the side, or – and a personal favorite of many – tucked in a corner.
The Tassimo brews a cup of coffee so quickly it can be compared to instant coffee. But make no mistake here, it does taste like brewed coffee, no instant! There are many advantages to the newer models. One of them is the convenience of the power button and the filter change notice light right on the front of the coffee machine.
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Sugar, spices and flavorings added to our Coffee
We know the first thing added to coffee beans were cloves, cinnamon, cardamom and anise. Today that has expanded beyond spices to sugars and flavorings. What is responsible for all this expansion is called coffee aroma along with the mouth-feel and sweet, salt, bitter and sour taste attributes that are perceived by the tongue. All the present day specialty coffee flavor attributes are desired because of the aroma first. Instant coffee and decaf coffee have components that are responsible for stimulation of the taste buds. Instant coffee’s difference is that it lacks most of the aromatic volatile compounds that create a decrease in the overall flavor of the coffee.
There are many decisions to be made before anything is added to the coffee beans to alter its flavor. There many kinds of coffee beans that came from all over the world. These beans, it is believed, all originated in Ethiopia and were taken by merchants back to Yeman and Pakistan where they crushed and boiled the beans in a coffee maker called an ibrik to make the first coffee. From there they ended up in Europe where Dutch traders took them to different parts of Asia, the Carribean and South America. English sailors brought coffee beans to America and later brought coffee plants. These beans were known as Aribica because they came from Arabia. However, these beans when planted in the different soils around the world took on different tastes. Today, we have Ethiopian coffee, Brzilian coffee, Java coffee, Kenyan coffee, Jamaican coffee, Sumatran coffee, Haitian coffee, Vietnamese coffe and Argentine coffee are just a few of the beans from countries around the world that have there own unique taste.
How you make the coffee from all the different beans makes an added diffence in the taste. We have French press made coffee, perculator coffee, pourover drip coffee methods, and espresso machines and other modes to make our coffee. This is just the beginning before adding anything to the beans. However, we can mention at this point that your taste buds may want to add a sweetener and /or a dairy product such as cream, milk, half and half, or soymilk. The flavored creamers available also add to change the taste of your favorite cup of coffee.
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Green Mountain Coffee & Environmental Responsibility
In a time and age when ‘environmentally responsible’ has become the latest buzzword in marketing for many corporations, Green Mountain Coffee Roasters of Vermont is refreshingly different and sincere. For Green Mountain, social and environmental responsibility is not a trendy marketing move. It is a key concept that has been part of the company’s core commitment and values from the time when it was housed in a tiny storefront café. The company considers itself a steward, responsible for helping to preserve the Earth’s natural resources for future generations and their history of socially responsible business and corporate decisions reflect their commitment to making the world a better place for us all.
For 25 years, we have been on a deliberate journey to create and sustain a values-driven company that views profit as a means to achieve a higher purpose.
Thus begins Green Mountain Coffee Roaster’s statement of corporate responsibility. That higher purpose is, simply stated, to leave the world a better place for having been here. Green Mountain has taken that commitment seriously, starting small and growing their responsibility to the planet as the company has grown. In an open letter written in 2006, Green Mountain president Bob Stiller talked about the evolution of that commitment, starting as early as 1983, when the little café in Rutland, Vermont decided that composting was a socially conscious decision – and the right thing to do. In 1984, the employees – less than ten at the time – began informally taking on environmental projects, including a recycling program. In 1986, Green Mountain introduced its first Organic coffee, and in 1989, the company’s Environmental Committee developed Earth-Friendly coffee filters that are dioxin free.