This makes great coffee best coffee I've ever had next to my new coffee maker. You'll enjoy it. It takes pods, not k cups I have a metal container you can fill coffee of your choice in it and not buy the pods. That is what I did. But if you can afford the pods they are yummy and wish I could have afforded them but 30.00 for 5 or 6 cups of coffee was outrageous. You can find them on Amazon. But if you like just using foldgers and the grounded-up stuff you can do so with the added metal cup I'm sending along you fill it and set it inside clothes on the top and lock it push the button and you'll have coffee in 2 mins.