Best to think of it as they claim to “send a specific amount of hot water through a pod at a specific rate, followed by a short puff”.
They sell licensed pods with coffee, tea, hot cocoa, and soup in them that I can think of. Some unlicensed pods also include other instant powders, including instant coffee.
If that’s producing a product up to someone’s standards is a different topic.
The weirdest ones are the soup pods. Ugh. Not much fun to mix those up with coffee. Not that you can tell the difference, though.
I’m gonna let you drink that. No judgement.
There are tea, hot chocolate, hot cider, chai, even soup pods. If it’s hot and you can drink it, Keurig will make a pod for it.
All of these things are are measurably worse than the worst coffee pod.
Offices often stock them in place of teabags. As they can get samplers of many tea as part of the same order of pods. Samplers are often included free when you by pods through Keurig. And typically come in the box with a new machine.
They seem kinda desperate to get people to start using the non coffee pods.
I wouldn’t bother attempting it with espesso machine. It might actually work given how densely you gotta pack that. And the pressure. The Keurig is really more of a not very good drip Brewer.
It might poison you. You can clean those things by grinding rice. That’s not gonna get the shellac off, but it should clean the burr grinder after.
You have a mortar and pestle? Tea is ridiculously easy to grind up. Especially cheaper stuff like bewleys.
Which by the way that stuff should be available without having to order it from Amazon. Every expat shop has it, it’s on Amazon and a few grocery chains near me tend to carry it.
Ghandi would have found that useful.
It might poison you. You can clean those things by grinding rice. That’s not gonna get the shellac off, but it should clean the burr grinder after.
I wouldn’t use it in a burr grinder; blade whackers are easier to clean. Shellac flakes aren’t poisonous before dissolving in alcohol, but I suspect it does have flavor.
You have a mortar and pestle?
No, anything we can’t grind in the blade grinder or smash/mince with a cleaver on the cutting board gets the hammer-and-anvil treatment.
Which by the way that stuff should be available without having to order it from Amazon.
I ordered from Ireland, not Amazon. (Do they even grow tea in South America?) The local stores do occasionally have Yorkshire Gold, but stale. The YG I used to drink at the cafes in York and Harrogate when I lived up the road was pretty good.
We do have other specialty shops on the island with good tea, but I’m used to/fond of the harsh tradesman’s stuff, and like the price.
Wow, I have two of these that I use for brewing loose leaf tea (without the glass insert). It’s nice to see the tea floating inside, but I didn’t know what it was really for or how it worked!
Now I will have to try doing coffee, thanks.
Keurig is the coffee maker for those who don’t like coffee.
However, since I fall into that camp, I have one and use it once a week or so.
And it is all about convenience. My first hand proof is that before I had one, I never bothered making coffee. With it, it’s just barely worth the inconvenience of having to press a button vs. the annoyance of a mild caffeine headache. (As for good coffee, I find it requires even more cream to blunt the bitterness.)
Complaining about the environmental impact of K-Cups is fine (though there’s plenty of ways to minimize that impact if you still want to own a machine). I do dislike the comments about the quality of the coffee. Maybe it’s crap coffee, but no one is being forced to drink it that I know of. Like, I’m a tea snob. I use loose leaves and a teapot. The only reason I don’t have one of those variable temperature kettles to get it even better is because I barely make enough money to afford the leaves.
But if other people want to chuck a bag of Lipton in some lukewarm water, it’s really no skin off my back. So long as they’re happy with it, there’s not much problem.
For what is is worth, handicapped people with limited mobility or grip issues or serious arthritis would be happy to let this guy know he is a saint to them and their caffeine needs.
I have a blind friend and she has serious grip limitations and other issues that would make using a normal coffee maker hellish hard. She loves her machine as she can make coffee and other hot drinks easily and simply. No need to measure or guess, she can get a decent cup of coffee or hot chocolate etc any time she wants.
Ecologically, they are a f***ing disaster though overall.
We didn’t have instructions until last week. Someone made coffee without putting a filter in the machine, twice in one day.
At my office, we have a keurig, so I have brought in my own coffee, pod, and mini-filters, which work fine. The only waste is the bio-degradable filter and the grounds.
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