"coffeemaker" news and stories

Target plans to slash prices on toasters and coffeemakers, selling the appliances for $3 on Black Friday, the huge day of sales the Friday after Thanksgiving, according to one of the chain's advertisements.

Gotadeal.com obtained a leaked circular for the Target Black Friday appliance sale, which revealed $3 Chefmate appliances -- from toaster ovens to coffeemakers and sandwich makers, CNN reports.

A Target official did not confirm the prices to CNN. The flyer will officially be released the week of Nov. 22.

[Via CNN]

I am obsessed with a coffeemaker, and I don't even drink coffee.

My roommate bought the Keurig B70, and it's great. I think it's the platinum edition, all sleek and shiny and modern. It's a single serving machine, using the individual K-cups (my roommate went crazy and bought a dozen different things to make in it - Timothy's, Ghiarardelli hot cocoa, Celestial Seasonings tea, Green Mountain coffee). To be honest, I'm using it mostly to get hot water for my tea. I'd use it to make hot cocoa, but for some reason you can't buy the K-cups with the Ghiarardelli in them, you have to buy the full-sized packets. Maybe it's because the proportions would be off?

I come from a family that bought Swiss Miss Hot Cocoa in the packets and mixed it with water. It wasn't until later on in my teen years that I even knew that there were people who drank it with - gasp! - milk.

Now I can't make it with anything else but milk. Making it with water just makes it too, well, watery. I've switched to Ghirardelli (though I still get Swiss Miss if the store is out of Ghiradelli), and it just tastes better with milk (even the non-fat stuff I use). My roommate just bought one of the Keurig machines and it comes with "specially formulated" Ghirardelli chocolate for the Keurig maker (though it comes in the regular sized packets and not those individual cups things, so I'm not even sure how you're supposed to make it - do they sell reusable cups you can put the hot chocolate in?), but I'm not going to use water. I like it creamier now.

So, what do you make it with, water or milk? And do you call it "hot chocolate" or "hot cocoa?"