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#27 Mar 03 2014 at 4:19 PM Rating: Excellent
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Anyone feel their skin sloughing off their bones?

No? Drooping a bit, maybe? A few more wrinkles than you'd like, anyone? Help me out here.
My butt kinda itches, does that count?
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#28 Mar 03 2014 at 4:20 PM Rating: Excellent
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Sadly, they're all drones. Also, their gossip is less buzz, more zzzzzzzzzzz.
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#29 Mar 03 2014 at 4:24 PM Rating: Decent
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Rather than exploring efforts to hack my coffee maker and disable its DRM, I think I'll stick with my trusty Mr. Coffee.


More or less this (although when my Mr. Coffee finally died, I splurged the extra $20 for a Delonghi with the slide out top thingie that allows you to fill both the coffee and the water without having to move the whole unit). I personally don't get the whole single cup brew pod systems. It just seems amazingly wasteful. And I almost laugh out loud at the commercials about how you can save so much money buying their reusable pods. Um... Isn't the whole point about paying more per cup for the convenience of *not* having to clean and manually fill something with beans? Why not just get a normal coffee machine at that point and save yourself even more money?

Having said that, I know people who love them. So I guess if they get value out of it, that's good for them.

My work provides free coffee, tea, soda, water bottles, etc. They always had free coffee from basic machines in the break rooms. Sodas used to be charged, but it was cheap (like a quarter). But they also would put bowls with ice and a variety of bottles of water and soda in conference rooms for meetings. So people would basically forage for free drinks out of the conference rooms. They realized that the bowls weren't big enough (cause folks were constantly taking them), so to reduce the need for clerks to constantly have to refill them, they installed mini fridges in the conference rooms and just stocked them with sodas and water. Of course, now there really was no reason to spend a quarter on a drink from a machine, when you could just find an empty conference room and get one for free, so they changed the vending machines to vend drinks for free.

Eventually, that morphed into just having "soda machines" that were more or less just fridges with shelves designed for dispensing soda, and you just open the door and take what you want. Seems silly to pay money for a vending machine to do what a basic fridge can do, right?

They also keep changing the coffee machine. They still have some of the old fashioned brewed pot machines, but have shifted to a couple different varieties of fancy dispensing machines that make your coffee (or a variety of drinks) on the fly. Ridiculous waste of money IMO, but someone must have thought it was a great idea.
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#30 Mar 04 2014 at 9:36 AM Rating: Excellent
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And I almost laugh out loud at the commercials about how you can save so much money buying their reusable pods. Um... Isn't the whole point about paying more per cup for the convenience of *not* having to clean and manually fill something with beans? Why not just get a normal coffee machine at that point and save yourself even more money?

Some people just want one cup of coffee a day, so it works out for them. I mean, you could just make half a pot using a regular pot, but that requires measuring things first thing when you wake up.

But if you really want to save money on your morning coffee, you just realize the infallible truth that coffee is disgusting and stop drinking it.
#31 Mar 04 2014 at 9:46 AM Rating: Good
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A good economically-minded environmentalist would create a secondary market to recycle or reuse those little cups.

You can buy non-disposable cups and refill them - more work than using single-serve disposables, but less than making a whole pot of coffee.

One guy here at my office reuses the disposable cups. I think it's wasteful as he washes it thoroughly between uses and has to create this false cover out of scotch tape.

I only use the k-cups occasionally at work, never at home. At home I only use whole beans and grind my coffee just before brewing - there is no replacing that freshness.
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#32 Mar 04 2014 at 10:20 AM Rating: Good
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K-cups are clearly for people who drink a lot less coffee than we do. I'm not really sure who those people are, but I guess someone, somewhere says "well I don't want to make a pot of coffee, I could never drink all of that in an hour"

K cups are what, $.50 a cup? The magical caffeinated wonderland that is Cafe Bustelo is $3 for a 10 ounce can, which makes like 70 cups. WHO ARE YOU PEOPLE?>??
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#33 Mar 04 2014 at 10:24 AM Rating: Good
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On and off topic, but I can't remember the last time I saw a packet of coffee in my MRE. Not that they're not in there, just that I can't really remember. I know they at least used to be in there. Are they still?
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#34 Mar 04 2014 at 11:09 AM Rating: Good
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K-cups are clearly for people who drink a lot less coffee than we do. I'm not really sure who those people are, but I guess someone, somewhere says "well I don't want to make a pot of coffee, I could never drink all of that in an hour"

K cups are what, $.50 a cup? The magical caffeinated wonderland that is Cafe Bustelo is $3 for a 10 ounce can, which makes like 70 cups. WHO ARE YOU PEOPLE?>??
I drink 1 cup of coffee a day and I don't care much for the quality as long as it's not appalling. Those cups are still awfully overpriced though.
#35 Mar 04 2014 at 11:10 AM Rating: Good
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A good economically-minded environmentalist would create a secondary market to recycle or reuse those little cups.

You can buy non-disposable cups and refill them - more work than using single-serve disposables, but less than making a whole pot of coffee.

One guy here at my office reuses the disposable cups. I think it's wasteful as he washes it thoroughly between uses and has to create this false cover out of scotch tape.

I only use the k-cups occasionally at work, never at home. At home I only use whole beans and grind my coffee just before brewing - there is no replacing that freshness.


Why can't you reuse the cup that the original coffee came in? Buy a bag or a can or a plastic jug or whatever coffee comes in these days and use the little cup as a scoop to make just one cup?

I've never seen them, as I don't make or drink coffee, so this is an honest question.
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Some people just want one cup of coffee a day, so it works out for them. I mean, you could just make half a pot using a regular pot, but that requires measuring things first thing when you wake up.

Measuring two tablespoons of coffee doesn't seem like such a burden but I guess I'm not in the K-Cup people's target demographic. I usually make at least four "cups" (one mug seems to hold two cups) just in case I want more later. Even if I dump it, four tablespoons of coffee has to be cheaper than 50¢.
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#37 Mar 04 2014 at 11:29 AM Rating: Good
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Belkira the Tulip wrote:
Elinda wrote:
A good economically-minded environmentalist would create a secondary market to recycle or reuse those little cups.

You can buy non-disposable cups and refill them - more work than using single-serve disposables, but less than making a whole pot of coffee.

One guy here at my office reuses the disposable cups. I think it's wasteful as he washes it thoroughly between uses and has to create this false cover out of scotch tape.

I only use the k-cups occasionally at work, never at home. At home I only use whole beans and grind my coffee just before brewing - there is no replacing that freshness.


Why can't you reuse the cup that the original coffee came in? Buy a bag or a can or a plastic jug or whatever coffee comes in these days and use the little cup as a scoop to make just one cup?

I've never seen them, as I don't make or drink coffee, so this is an honest question.

You can reuse the cups though they're not designed for more than one use. The cover needs replacing each time it's used as the machine punctures it. Also, you'd want to wash the cup before reusing. That creates waste also.

Btw, k-cups are not just for coffee anymore, you can get hot cocoa, iced tea, hot tea, cappuccino, etc k-cups too.
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Btw, k-cups are not just for coffee anymore, you can get hot cocoa, iced tea, hot tea, cappuccino, oppressive DRM, etc k-cups too.

Indeed.
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#39 Mar 04 2014 at 11:33 AM Rating: Good
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On and off topic, but I can't remember the last time I saw a packet of coffee in my MRE. Not that they're not in there, just that I can't really remember. I know they at least used to be in there. Are they still?

Folger's Singles or basically coffee bags - I used to buy them for family camping trips as it was a real pita to perk a pot morning and night just for myself. They weren't good but contained caffeine they are better than instant.
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#40 Mar 04 2014 at 11:35 AM Rating: Good
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Elinda wrote:
Btw, k-cups are not just for coffee anymore, you can get hot cocoa, iced tea, hot tea, cappuccino, oppressive DRM, etc k-cups too.

Indeed.

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Btw, k-cups are not just for coffee anymore, you can get hot cocoa, iced tea, hot tea, cappuccino, etc k-cups too.

Yeah at $30 a pound, you should be able to get lobster meat, too. Christ Americans are a stupid people. These machines make sense for consumer facing businesses, like car repair waiting rooms, or corporate break rooms, but VIRTUALLY NO ONE ELSE. Two ingredients, ********. TWO. An amazing drip coffee maker costs like $10. I need to go invent a disposable one use shoe tying system to replace laces that costs $1 each.
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Btw, k-cups are not just for coffee anymore, you can get hot cocoa, iced tea, hot tea, cappuccino, etc k-cups too.

Yeah at $30 a pound, you should be able to get lobster meat, too. Christ Americans are a stupid people. These machines make sense for consumer facing businesses, like car repair waiting rooms, or corporate break rooms, but VIRTUALLY NO ONE ELSE. Two ingredients, @#%^s. TWO. An amazing drip coffee maker costs like $10. I need to go invent a disposable one use shoe tying system to replace laces that costs $1 each.

Um, someone already invented velcro.

How about disposable hair brushes? You'd never have to clean the hair out of them - one use and toss them. They can be made out of corn cobs or something biodegradable.

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#43 Mar 04 2014 at 11:45 AM Rating: Good
It's not just coffee I don't particularly care for. I just never really enjoyed any hot beverages. I don't care much for iced coffee, either, though....
#44 Mar 04 2014 at 12:40 PM Rating: Excellent
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Woman-in-a-fridge.
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#45 Mar 04 2014 at 12:51 PM Rating: Excellent
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Smasharoo wrote:
Btw, k-cups are not just for coffee anymore, you can get hot cocoa, iced tea, hot tea, cappuccino, etc k-cups too.

Yeah at $30 a pound, you should be able to get lobster meat, too. Christ Americans are a stupid people. These machines make sense for consumer facing businesses, like car repair waiting rooms, or corporate break rooms, but VIRTUALLY NO ONE ELSE. Two ingredients, @#%^s. TWO. An amazing drip coffee maker costs like $10. I need to go invent a disposable one use shoe tying system to replace laces that costs $1 each.



I got myself a new coffee maker for home and the first thing anyone says about it is, "Why didn't you get a Keurig?"

Because they're offensively wasteful and unnecessarily fidgety? I use the coffee maker for coffee in the morning, and then to heat water for tea and cocoa the rest of the day. Grounds are easy to recycle, and I use a gold filter so nothing to dispose of there. I don't need a trash can full of fussy little cups.

But whatever. They've done a good job marketing their coffee delivery system, I guess.


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#46 Mar 04 2014 at 12:58 PM Rating: Good
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Use the old coffee maker as a bludgeoning weapon on those that demand Keurig.
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#47 Mar 04 2014 at 2:30 PM Rating: Good
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Grounds are easy to recycle
My parents just toss them in the back lawn. Apparently it's good for the grass or something.
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Grounds are easy to recycle
My parents just toss them in the back lawn. Apparently it's good for the grass or something.

The compost bin loves them. I was using a gold filter, but it was one more piece I had to wash and keep track of. Once I started composting I was able to switch to a recycled paper filter and compost it.

Recycling is all about easing the guilt.

Now if I could only brush my teeth without having to have the faucet running.....
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The One and Only Poldaran wrote:
Some people just want one cup of coffee a day, so it works out for them. I mean, you could just make half a pot using a regular pot, but that requires measuring things first thing when you wake up.


It requires no more measuring than making a full pot. I normally make a half pot (6 cups, which, just to confirm Joph's measurements normally makes 3 mugs of coffee). I've got the measurements down for this. And if I end out tossing out 2/3rds of that coffee, I've wasted like 5 cents or something. To be fair, I don't make coffee in the morning on weekdays. Just eat breakfast and head to work and have my coffee there. So coffee for me is more about lazy weekend days, drinking whilst playing on my computer or whatever.

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A good economically-minded environmentalist would create a secondary market to recycle or reuse those little cups.


Yeah. It's called getting a normal coffee machine for half the price and then every single thing except the used grounds are reusable.

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You can buy non-disposable cups and refill them - more work than using single-serve disposables, but less than making a whole pot of coffee.


I don't see how this is possible. The effort to make coffee isn't in pouring water into the machine and scooping out grounds. The effort is in cleaning the basket. That takes 10 times more time to do than refilling the basket with new grounds.

This is why I find the entire thought of reusable single cup systems laughable. The *only* reason to use those k-cups is to trade cost for ease of use. You never have to clean a basket of grounds again. That's the only advantage and selling point to them. You're paying 10 times more per cup for that no muss no fuss benefit. Reusing and refilling those little tiny cups just means you wasted a huge amount of money on your coffee machine, while still spending just as much time/effort making your coffee every day, and no longer have the flexibility to make coffee in larger amounts if you want.

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One guy here at my office reuses the disposable cups. I think it's wasteful as he washes it thoroughly between uses and has to create this false cover out of scotch tape.


Yup. That's so much less effort than making a normal pot of coffee. Smiley: oyvey

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I only use the k-cups occasionally at work, never at home. At home I only use whole beans and grind my coffee just before brewing - there is no replacing that freshness.


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Elinda wrote:
Now if I could only brush my teeth without having to have the faucet running.....


There's this thing called a cup...
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Now if I could only brush my teeth without having to have the faucet running.....


There's this thing called a cup...
Why would you brush your teeth with a cup?
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