who needs all that plastic anyway
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| Author | Content |
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| tuxchick Mar 05, 2014 1:58 PM EDT |
I do not understand the appeal of this landfill-filling gadget. Is it so hard to scoop stale flavorless coffee out of a larger container with your own hands? |
| theboomboomcars Mar 05, 2014 3:50 PM EDT |
I think the appeal is spending 5x-10x the ammount per cup for your drink. With this great technology Kurig customers can be assured that they will only be spending 10x the amount per cup. |
| cr Mar 05, 2014 4:01 PM EDT |
> Is it so hard to scoop stale flavorless coffee out of a larger container with your own hands? That'd be a definite hardship for me. I scoop fresh 100% Columbian out of a cannister kept in the fridge, into a flat paper filter folded to fit the Melitta-shaped basket in the latest of a string of el-cheapo one-cuppers. That coffee does not last long enough to get stale (gakkkh). |
| gus3 Mar 05, 2014 7:30 PM EDT |
Keurig? Bah. I have a percolator that's older than I am. Our combined ages are nearly 100 years old. Now you kids get off my lawn! |
| Steven_Rosenber Mar 05, 2014 8:04 PM EDT |
The coffee out of those things is pretty good, but you can get just as good coffee from a regular drip coffeemaker. With less waste in terms of plastic, too. |
| jdixon Mar 05, 2014 8:06 PM EDT |
I can understand the appeal at a workplace, where different people prefer different blends of coffee, and some might prefer tea or hot chocolate. And where hopefully the company pays for it, of course. :) |
| cr Mar 05, 2014 8:27 PM EDT |
Company coffee is usually a tepid tea that dreams of being tinged with coffee. I always ended up bringing my own travel one-cupper on my contract gigs... unless there was an espresso bar in the lobby. |
| tuxchick Mar 05, 2014 8:48 PM EDT |
jdixon, that doesn't excuse all the plastic. I've seen single-serve coffees that come in little paper filter bags like teabags. Those actually decompose. |
| the_doctor Mar 05, 2014 8:57 PM EDT |
There's only one true way to brew a proper cup of coffee. ;) |
| tuxchick Mar 05, 2014 10:09 PM EDT |
I may be off my dot, but I want a proper coffee in a proper copper pot :D |
| gus3 Mar 06, 2014 2:41 PM EDT |
Office swill can sometimes be improved with a chocolate turtle or two on top of the grounds in the basket. Mocha/caramel/nutty distractions from just what it is you're drinking. |
| BernardSwiss Mar 06, 2014 5:29 PM EDT |
I should'a brought popcorn... Keurig Insists Coffee DRM Brings 'Interactive-Enabled Benefits' And Is For Your Own Safety |
| Ridcully Mar 06, 2014 5:32 PM EDT |
I'm with gus3......coffee percolator. We've got a beautiful pyrex glass one so you can watch it all happen. We even grow a single coffee plant of our own.....not much, but enough to have a cup or two. I'm told by a coffee afficionado that what we grow and roast ourselves has the "kick of a mule". But it tastes very nice anyway. Any pre-packaged stuff like the article that I've tasted so far has appealed to me as coffee coloured mud. |
| jdixon Mar 06, 2014 5:54 PM EDT |
> jdixon, that doesn't excuse all the plastic... Well, on that I'll have to agree. But that's a decision made by the company. Of course, the only use I have for coffee is dipping ginger snaps. I find the stuff practically undrinkable. I'm a tea person. |
| tuxchick Mar 07, 2014 12:39 AM EDT |
Well it's OK jdixon, because it's for our own safety. I feel so much better now! |
| Bob_Robertson Mar 07, 2014 10:15 AM EDT |
ROADS! |
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