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I feel completely out-nerded here. I shall just spoon some fine ground coffee from the local shop into my moka pot tomorrow and pop it on the hotplate. As others have said, I actually like the reflective few minutes the process takes early in the morning with the back door open...
So what is an option for easily brewing a single cup of coffee without pods that will lock you into a specific machine? The things that I like about my Keurig are that you can get 4 to 6 cups before having to refill the water tank and that it’s easy to clean. While I don’t mind having to throw away a filter I would like to avoid having to refill a machine with water every time I want another cup of coffee.
A modern electric kettle + small cup-sized drip cone / french press? Modern electric kettles are awesome, they're insulated so can keep the water at the perfect temperature for ages... most have a "90degC" setting that's right for coffee. They're perfectly suited to cup-at-a-time usage (and often have a form-factor designed for dispensing into a cup without lifting the kettle). I use a drip-cone on top of my cup, and…
I don't think anyone is buying these things for their quality, but it's a quick, one stop method of getting acceptable coffee.
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A modern electric kettle + small cup-sized drip cone / french press? Modern electric kettles are awesome, they're insulated so can keep the water at the perfect temperature for ages... most have a "90degC" setting that's right for coffee. They're perfectly suited to cup-at-a-time usage (and often have a form-factor designed for dispensing into a cup without lifting the kettle). I use a drip-cone on top of my cup, and…
What a lot of people are ignoring deliberately is that Keurig offers convenience. Pop in the pod and push a button and coffee is ready in a minute. In that minute, I can either do nothing, or make a sandwich for lunch, or go tie my shoes so I can grab the coffee and run when it's done. I don't think anyone is buying these things for their quality, but it's a quick, one stop method of getting acceptable coffee.
[If you want to grind the beans for better taste, that's of course a bit more effort, but not something the keurig offers anyway.]
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And for the rest of us that are not coffee snobs, the Keurig is a great way to get a consistently good cup of coffee without wasting time and effort that could be better spent doing something else.
A consistently mediocre cup of coffee. I drink it every day, but it doesn't fool me into thinking it's good coffee.
This actually reminded me of a friend of my father. This friend was a chef at some over-the-top fancy (or in my book, prissy) restaurants in his heyday. Anyway he pretty much lost the ability to just eat and enjoy food because he would constantly judge it. If I recall, he would generally just eat some bread and some cured meat for most of his meals. I honestly imagine he would jump over a chance to have Soylent. My thought on the matter is that if I ever get my head that far up my ass that I can't enjoy something that tastes good because of some stupid ideal of what something "should" be, well then I've seriously screwed myself over.
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The patent was required to be sufficiently detailed to allow producing compatible cups? I don't think so.
Isn't that the point of a patent?
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If the patent is expired, one wonders if some company may reverse engineer the Keurig 1.0 design, and continue their manufacture (along with all the factories that are already tooled for the 1.0 cups.)
If the patent is expired, then reverse engineering had better not be necessary, or else the original patent was insufficiently detailed to be valid.
This case doesn't have anything to do with DRM as the title suggest. It's more clear in the article: "the java-bean equivalent of DRM". As far as I can tell it's actually just allegations of patent abuse and anti-competitive vertical integration. Keurig had a patent on the technology for both machine and pod. That patent expired in 2012, allowing third-party vendors to start making pods. Treehouse Foods argues (among…
I feel completely out-nerded here. I shall just spoon some fine ground coffee from the local shop into my moka pot tomorrow and pop it on the hotplate. As others have said, I actually like the reflective few minutes the process takes early in the morning with the back door open...
I'm guessing that you live someplace where, unlike where I am, the temperature outside the back door is warmer than -15F ;-)
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Far better coffee with roughly equivalent hassles: http://www.sweetmarias.com/clevercoffeedripperpictorial.php
Definitely doesn't do away with waste, although compostable paper filters are better than plastic pods (unless the pods can be composted?)
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The new pods (Keurig Vue pods) are recyclable[1]. Also, I don't care too much about my coffee taste, so it does a great job getting my caffeine with coffee flavor, especially when I'm the only person in the house that drinks coffee. [1] http://www.vuerecycling.com/
Honest question: If you don't care about the coffee taste, why not drink a glass of water and pop a caffeine pill?