Conservatives are posting videos of themselves smashing their Keurig coffee makers (tr)

Business Insider ^ | November 13, 2017 | Mark Abadi

[Prov1322]

I have been doing Trader Joes basic blend dark roast.

Few years ago when the daughter was visiting we made the trip to ATL for a Trader Joe's...found their Volcano Roast (I kid you not) and loved every pot of it. A few months later found that they had discontinued it. Bad Trader Joe's!

[snarkpup]

Best option: AeroPress. Make one great cup as-needed, waste is 2 sq in filter paper (and can reuse that if you like).

That's what I use. Another neat feature of the AeroPress is that it has absolutely no electronics. Neither the current version nor any future version is likely to be connected to the Internet of Things, get hacked and participate in denial of service attacks.

[Prov1322]

Keurig, because making a single cup of coffee is nearly impossible...

Not really. Mrs Prov1322 has enjoyed a 16 oz fresh cup for years from a "one cup" brewer with a mesh filter that was $10. She grinds her decaf beans, pours the water and hits the switch.

[publius911]

I was actually thinking of buying one but forget it now.

LOL!

Waste of money. A health hazard too?
By coincidence someone I know is trying to give away a new Keurig "individual" coffee maker among 20 fellow employees...
No takers.

[snarkpup]

I just checked YouTube. It looks like the people who do hydraulic press videos have not gotten to work on this yet. I'll check again later.

[cld51860]

Hi have a Flavia coffee maker. Absolutely love it. Very good coffee made by the Mars company.

[pgkdan]

This is really stupid. Why should I smash a perfectly good coffee maker that I already own? How does that hurt Kuerig? I can see not buying a new one but smashing my own property? Not likely.

[RightGeek]

Got mine back in the Dark Ages. I’m sure they are available online and maybe in grocery stores. Here’s one of many - https://shoponline.melitta.com/product/pour-over-1-cup-brew-cone-black/single-serve-pour-over-coffee-makers

[killermosquito]

They make really weak coffee. I’m glad to be rid of ours.

[Prov1322]

In my arsenal of coffe makers I have something very similar to the Hario, a french press, an Aero Press and my reliable daily Chemex brewer. I do not use a hand grinder although I do use an electric burr grinder.

Still smile wide when I think of the perk pots that our parents and grandparents used...and how bad that result was.

[Haiku Guy]

Keurig has already lost my business. The coffee is not much cheaper than what I can get anywhere, and not nearly as good.

Compared to Starbucks, it is a bargain. But only compared to Starbucks.

The Deli downstairs sells a huge cup of mediocre coffee for 50% more than a small cup of mediocre coffee from a Keurig.

[publius911]

I also drink it black. None of the fru-fru stuff for me.

Nothing fru-fru about it.
Every coffee producing country in the Western Hemisphere does NOT drink their coffee black...

[trebb]

I buy the Espresso blend from the local Mom and Pop coffee shop - good Christians who support the 2nd Amendment and have no problem with folks carrying in the establishment and it is really good coffee - and cheaper than the crap they sell in reduced sized bags in Walmart or anywhere else...Regular drip machine for mornings, a single cup machine (cheap from Dollar General) for a booster and a Cheap espresso/cappuccino machine for when we want a “treat”...never cared for the taste of Keurig coffee..

[cyclotic]

So sue me

[gunsequalfreedom]

I’m not sure what the reaction will be at the office when they Kuring thing goes missing.

[publius911]

So sue me

No need.
But if being "macho" is important enough to post about it, why not just chew on coffee beans?

[xrmusn]

but it’s a pain to clean
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Is one supposed to clean their OWN personal coffee pot and mug/cup?

The only way to keep the flavor in the ‘mid watch’ form is to NOT put soap to anything related to it.

My glass pot is so black I have to look down into it to see if anything in it.

I make a pot - 12 cups, get about 3 1/2 CUPS out of it, nuke it till empty, make another pot...etc etc etc

When the ‘floaters’ take on a crunch I will rinse cup with hot water NO SOAP...

Perfect blend for that ‘oil stained’ cuppa Joe.

[wbill]

True enough, they don't care about their coffee makers. The coffee makers only exist to sell coffee at $0.60 - $1.00 a cup.

I looked on Amazon before posting. No idea that the singles were so expensive. But, I suppose, if you're used to buying Starbucks at ridiculous prices, a buck for a cup of coffee looks cheap.

[Prov1322]

I’m not sure what the reaction will be at the office when they Kuring thing goes missing

I expect there will be a rash of unexplained boating accidents in offices around the nation...

[Chuckster]

Navy man? In the Field Artillery, they used to dump five lbs of ground coffee into a ten gallon pot of boiling water and hang a dipper on the side. You had to remember to empty the dipper and skim liquid off the top or you would get a cup (One quart steel canteen cup) of mud. It was an improvement over the old horse artillery days when they would issue soldier green beans to be roasted over an open fire in a skillet, then ground by pounding with a rifle butt on a flat rock and boiled.

Nowadays, I use a french press or Mister Coffee.