Posted on 03/04/2015 10:10:35 AM PST by Responsibility2nd
For one, 'they're kind of expensive,' John Sylvan says
(Newser) If anyone would brew his morning joe using K-Cups, you'd think it would be the inventor of the K-Cup himself. But John Sylvan, whose single-serve pods revolutionized the coffee landscape, sticks with making coffee the old-fashioned way. "I don't have [pods]. They're kind of expensive to use," John Sylvan tells James Hamblin, writing for the Atlantic. "Plus it's not like drip coffee is tough to make." But besides being steeper in cost, the plastic-and-foil pods that made up most of Keurig Green Mountain's $4.7 billion in revenue last year have been called out for being environmentally unfriendly. According to a 2014 article in Mother Jones, Green Mountain made 8.3 billion of the non-biodegradeable, mostly non-recyclable K-Cups in 2013—"enough to wrap around the equator 10.5 times." "I feel bad sometimes that I ever did it," Sylvan admits to Hamblin about his invention.
The Green Mountain K-Cups' lack of, well, green-ness has led to environmental advocate backlash: A 2010 New York Times article said Green Mountain's sales growth, boosted by the K-Cup, ran "counter to its reputation" as an "eco-friendly" company; more recently, a Canadian production company created a "Kill the K-Cup" video that went viral on YouTube. Keurig promised in its 2014 "Sustainability Report" that by the year 2020, "100% of K-Cup packs will be recyclable." But that's five years away—and Green Mountain's competitors are already using reusable, biodegradable pods. The company's chief sustainability officer tells Hamblin, "I gotta be honest with you, we're not happy with where we are, either." Sylvan, who sold his share of the company in 1997 for $50,000, says he has come up with a "much better way" of packaging and transporting the coffee, but that the powers-that-be at Keurig "don't want to listen." (Someday you'll be able to make Coke via something similar to a K-Cup.)
That is a heck of a boulder holder!
I passed on the Keurig and got a Tassimo. The pods for Tassimo have bar codes so that I can make a Latte or Cappucino easily. I can make regular coffee cheaper and better with a French press, but I don’t want to mess trying to make my own Cappucino.
I’ve seen those at the dairy farm...
I use the one piece plastic cups and they are great as I get to change up the coffee I buy and grind at home.
I am still using the ones my wife purchased a few years ago. It sure beats pouring out a mostly full pot everyday as I brew one cup to drink while preparing for work and one for the commute.
the Doi Chaang (Thailand) bean is one of my favorites. I like to try several different beans from around the world, too!
As for beer... “I may not know good beer, but I know what I like” :) Alaskan Oatmeal Stout, Moose Drool, etc. But no American pilsners.
Tea lovers trolling coffee drinkers?
Someone found out it wasn't decaf after all?
-PJ
It isn't really very hard to do as I do it every morning while still half asleep.
Eaker thats my compliant too if im having coffee its for a reason and i want it thick and strong
When you can stand a knife vertical in you coffee cup and it stays upright, it’s done?
Also great when served in slices. ;^}
In my house the freshly brewed pot doesn’t last 30 minutes.
Now that’s COFFEE!
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man up 2nd, drink day old re-percolated coffee!
Just messing with you but yes I have done the above on occasion. BTW, my Farberware 1970 Made in the USA percolator is still working strong and makes really hot coffee.
“.. the second cup of coffee never tastes like the first”.
That’s why you get a really, REALLY BIG cup and drink half the pot at one, silly girl! :)
“Satan”.
You owe me a new computer screen... ROTFLMAO! :)
>>You owe me a new computer screen... ROTFLMAO! :)<<
ya never know if the Church Lady is moderating... :)
I thought the headline had to do with bras.
Hubby had given me a gift certificate a couple of years ago so I got a Keurig. Hated it. Hated the coffee it made so put it on a shelf in the garage. Was doing a Goodwill run awhile back and guess where it went. Lol
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