I switched to a Nespresso Essenza Mini [Amazon] a while back and it tastes much better. You can send in your pods to be recycled by Nespresso. It’s “espresso”, mind you, not “coffee”. If you want coffee, just get an Aeropress, for Christ’s sake.
Thanks for the advice, but I’m good, thank you very much!
No, it is just finely ground coffee. You can fill your own pods and get comparable output.
Whether it is enough coffee for a sufficiently strong cup is another matter. Americans started drinking our coffee weak during WWII, thanks to a campaign spearheaded by Eleanor Roosevelt (to prevent a coffee shortage in the military).
Titanium seems like overkill. Our espresso machine is mainly steel, brass, and copper (for the boilers).
The Gaggia Titanium is a very fine coffee-maker, but it may indeed be overkill for a private home - but then, I got it because they wanted a new one for the office, where it was going strong from 2013 and until a few months ago.
Everyone likes what they like, and it’s interesting to see all the different types of machines folks use. I rely on a simple, cheap, drip machine for my coffee-flavored coffee. But as far as the pod machines go, they fulfill the basic tenant of consumerism for the past century: make it quicker and easier for me and I’ll buy it. There’s no surprise they sold well, and I even owned one for a time. Ultimately drip coffee tasted better to me, and as I learned about the environmental impact of the pods, I decided to switch back. As long as my machine lets me set up for automatic brewing so it’s ready when I wake in the morning, that’s enough fancy stuff for me.
No no, you’re very confused… not steam, but a fart!
Ah! Closing the loop on the cat bean process. Smells like team civet.
Lovely syrupy output, but how do you keep it from getting moldy after rinsing it out? I’m not allowed to leave the disassembled pieces laying about. Heating it up to dry it out seems inefficient and I’m sure I’d pick up the hot thing by accident.
I’ve never had an aluminum moka pot get moldy, neither in the tropics (where I live now) nor in other damp places where I have lived (including England and Oregon). The aluminum does oxidize and darken, but that is both normal and safe.
Drink more coffee. Problem solved.
Ah, so this explains the generation of kiddies who think someplace is spelt ‘somplace’. I always wondered.
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A Bustelo brick is still about $3 around here, and is great for about two weeks’ worth of coffee. It’s my go-to.
“The first market was the office coffee service market,” he said, adding he is “absolutely mystified” by his product’s popularity in homes.
I’m a bit mystified by this guy’s bafflement. He’s confused as to why people like convenience? “Gosh, I knew busy office workers would like a coffee machine that’s as simple as pushing a button, but lazy people at home? MADNESS!”
I personally think fresh brewed filter coffee is perfectly adequate.
Good old Melitta.
Or, if you only need to be lightly caffeinated, one of these:
I honestly can’t see much difference in time or effort between a Keurig and this method. Grinding your own beans adds another step (well worth it), but even using pre-ground coffee the result is vastly superior*.
I’ve used this method for years, but I only found out a couple of years ago that it’s called pour-over and I’ve actually been cool all along.
*(5280 times better than Keurig, to be exact. They’ve done studies.)
K-cups are great in an office environment where you don’t want to have to worry about who made a mess or who forgot to turn off the pot and let it burn. But for home use, and omg a full pot use, I have to agree with the inventor, it’s an abomination.
It’s real ground coffee - in most cases. A coworker did buy a case of really cheap k-cups only to find out there was a tablespoon of instant coffee in each one. I have 3 things against k-cups, the cost, the plastic waste and the fact that they use less grounds per cup than I would use.
One cup - my french press. A pot - my drip with a stainless steel thermal pot. It doesn’t need a burner so the coffee stays fresh - and old butterfingers can’t break it.
I’ve found they’re pretty much standard in lots of Airbnbs these days (and lots of hotel rooms) since they’re an easy way to offer coffee for your guests that’s pretty much idiot-proof and results in much less mess to clean up. I wish they’d use something like Nespresso pods instead, but here we are.
I think is like office furniture: like this that is very nice for an office, but I think very few people will buy it for the living room: even if one liked minimalism there were some '70s living room furniture made differently, like the one below.
THe big difference is that at home there are few users of a machine compared to an office, so dor instance the problem of used coffee is bigger, so it’s better a cleaner solution compared to a cheaper one. As I have said I have an ESE coffee maker that is elctomechanical, and I have to follow the instructions, like make a purge cycle when switched on and to watch the coffee level. In an office it’s a recipe to spilled bad coffee.
