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I know several not-well-off folks with Keurigs. I assume it's because they are bad at math. And that they don't give a shit about their increased waste stream.
The people that post to Facebook what flavor they just squirted out of their Keurig are the worst.
It's the little things, I guess.
Really? They’re hugely popular in France, practically every office in Paris has one as do many homes. You need to get out and travel a little.
They're also popular in antisocial workplaces where you can't trust your colleagues to wash the coffeepot.
Middle class America is so addicted to "convenience", they piss away a ton of money on disposable garbage. I don't know a single rich person who owns a Keurig, but I know several lower middle class people who do.
*That* is what luxury and convenience look like to a middle class American. When rich people want convenience, they pay people to do the work for them. House cleaners and dog walkers are the evidence of a very few people having too much damn money, not the popularity of K-cups and disposable antibacterial cleaning cloths.
I use the San Francisco Bay blend from costco. 80 cups costs 26 dollars, and the manufacturer says that the cups are 97% bio-degradeable.
Could I get coffee cheaper? Sure, but the mr coffee machines actually don't taste as good unless I brew at least a half pot. I don't need that much coffee, and I end up buying more whole bean coffee with the other machines.
To me the machine and the cups are perfect. 26 dollars every 2 months for coffee on demand at my desk, or 14 a week for drip blend from a coffee joint.
I am not going to drink the shit coffee my company provides (from office max!) even if it was any good, the impatient motherfuckers here pull the pot before it finishes brewing and the rest of the pot tastes like gym socks.
K-Cups are wasteful. I do have a Keurig, but mostly use re-usable pods which only cost a buck or two each and last for six months to a year. Still, when the family is over at the holidays its kind of nice to screw the environment and buy some disposable pods.
(Except you reusable/biodegradable K-cup types but most people aren't doing that.)
I'm not nerdy enough to keep a grinder at my desk but if I was one of the 1% I'd get one of those groovy $75 Porlex hand grinders from Japan -- not some cartridge piece of crap.
(BTW, one of the major players here is the same one you mentioned a few days ago for ushering in a make-at-home cost-savings soda utopia for Coke.)
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Happy worms, happy coffee consumer.
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I think the advantage is that you can get reasonable espresso out of it, but people also use it for brewed coffee. I used to make lattes with an aeropress and a microwave milk frother which weren't half bad.
Now I'm part of the 1% so I have a Keurig.
But if only rich people buy a cup of coffee for $0.65, then the hipsters at Victrola must be billionaires.
I think Slog works better when the trolls are in the comments rather than the posts.
They're good enough that some of the real serious gearhead coffee shops use them (you know, the kind with thermometers and stopwatches and gram scales and humidity meters and Rube Goldberg drip contraptions hanging from the ceiling).
Really Paul? A wildly popular consumer item which gets sold at Costco is the provenance of the 1%? You might want to check the filter on your Mr. Coffee for interesting mold strains: I'm seriously suspecting ergot poisoning.
- making pour over takes about 14g grounds per cup
- 14 g ~ 0.5 oz, thus
- 32 cups per pound
- 32 * 0.65 = $20.80 per pound
That sounds like a lot, but many third wave coffee roasters (eg stumptown) charge like $16/ 12 oz, which works out to over $21 per pound!
In my experience, Keurig consumers are people who live alone and don't care deeply about the quality of their coffee, or they are people who don't drink coffee every day, but still like to have it on hand for guests
Not exactly high rollers.
I sort of hate them too -- the waste bugs me, and they don't make the best coffee. But if I'm visiting my grandma, it's the best cup of coffee I'm likely to get.
Comparing it to SUVs and McMansions is really an error of scale. A "wasteful" cup of coffee is still, as many people have pointed out, a mere 65 cents a day. A wasteful car is tens of thousands, plus gas, while a wasteful house is hundreds of thousands, plus infrastructure, plus a wasteful car.
(I'm not a coffee drinker, but my wife is.)
You don't even need Melitta filters. The regular generic basket filters work fine. Just flatten them out, fold them in half, and fold the edges to look like a Melitta filter. Takes 10 seconds, add a scoop of decent coffee and pour in some boiling water. When it drains through, dump the remains in the trash, swirl the filter holder under the tap and stick it in the dish drainer. Presto, a fresh cup of coffee for a penny more than the cost of the ground coffee, and the paper filter is very biodegradable, and comes in minimal packaging. And no additional counter space, plumbing, or electrical outlet required.
I fucking hate the entire idea of K-cups.
God, if I'm going to waste money on coffee, I'm going to pay a goddamned starving artist to brew it for me.
I look forward to the anti bourgeois post about how people who don't use a proper safety razor are earth hating SUV McMansion 1% dick wads.
They are super wasteful though. Parts of them are sorta recyclable, but no one is going to separate them, so they are 100% landfill.
Think first, then post.
Think, then post.
And yes, @52, 'tis but a faint shadow of what it used to be in the old days. Sigh.
The second you start writing about how "he's a hypocrite because..." it should occur to you that you've been trolled. And it's not even good trolling by PC's standards. His posts about how shitty really popular things are usually stand up to at least a minimal amount of scrutiny.