Pod people

Prepared Foods, August, 2004

The latest news in coffee and coffeemakers in the U.S. is the concept of the pressure-brewing system that requires coffee "pods" rather than loose, ground coffee.

While this concept has been in Europe for a while, both Procter & Gamble (Cincinnati) and Sara Lee Harrison, N.Y.) have partnered with appliance manufacturers to offer systems that take the coffee pods to produce what they say is a superior cup of coffee.

Procter & Gamble's product, Folgers Home Cafe, uses Folgers or Millstone coffees. Each pod produces a single cup of coffee; a box of 18 pods costs about $4, making it most definitely a gourmet cup of coffee. It will be interesting to see if the concept takes off in the U.S. as well as it has in other parts of the world.

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