Posted on 03/24/2025 12:06:42 PM PDT by Red Badger
They had keurig machines where I worked before I retired a few years ago. It’s all I use at home as well. But regarding the machine in my mancave/shop building, I use the refillable filter and only use Kirkland brand “Columbian” coffee.
I have no idea where that falls on the list. It’s certainly not cowboy coffee (boiled).
The coffee machine that supplies the whole office with brewed coffee, likely isn’t regularly cleaned because the people who use it are too lazy to clean it. Before I retired in 2003, we had a Bunn industrial coffee machine that had been there since the beginning of time. Nobody ever bothered to clean it, and the crap that came out of it was like sludge. I never drank the crap.
You’ll have to pry my Keurig from my cold, dead hands.
On the sub, the new electricians first unsupervised was to clean the mess coffee machine.
Yuk!
The purchasing heifer where I used to work purchased the worst commercial coffee on the planet. It’s free, what are you complaining about? Well if it didn’t taste like road tar, that would be a plus. Geez I do not miss that place.
I guess we’ll see soon - I have a physical scheduled tomorrow. Will be the first time I’ve had blood-work in a L-O-N-G time, and then my total cholesterol was a pretty-low 156. My brewer of choice these days is a Jura Impressa F9 super-automatic machine. It grinds, pressure brews, and filters only thru a fine metal screen. Probably better in this study than a French Press or Cowboy Coffee (boiled), but that might be about it.
I wonder how bad a Keurig might be, with the brewing occurring in a plastic container of pre-ground coffee?
I like the ease of the Keurig, but I prefer the taste of French pressed coffee or the Mr. Coffee type machine. On the weekends, hubby makes us the pour over type. My problem is I don’t like to make calculations before I’m fully awake. This is why the Keurig is so handy. I only have to press a few buttons, and out it comes!
I am interested in this, though. High cholesterol is my only health problem. Everything else is great. I’m quite certain it’s hereditary for me.
>>> I’m quite certain it’s hereditary for me.<<<
Me too!..................
“isn’t regularly cleaned because the people who use it are too lazy to clean it”
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In some workplace settings cleaning the coffee maker is absolute blasphemy and I’ll give you an example.
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I worked in the DoD around mostly retired and some active duty Navy and Marines.....I learned early on that tampering with the coffee maker would unlock swift retribution......and don’t get me started on messing with their coffee mugs......people have vanished from the face of the earth without a trace over that one. 😏
“A new Swedish study reveals that many common office coffee machines fail to filter out cholesterol-elevating compounds found in coffee, sometimes leaving behind even more than espresso “
and yet the chart shows espresso 2nd worse only to boiled coffee ... [though no explanation of why some bars are gray and some are solid black ...]
overall, i can’t really tell heads nor tails about this “study”, esp. since the number of machines tested and the number of samples was so minuscule ... btw, i wonder if the “researchers” drank the samples?
Did I ever tell you what I did to a Staff Sergeant’s coffee mug?...............
“Geez I do not miss that place”
A few years after I retired from working at the same facility for 30 years, my wife and I had occasion to drive past it one day......as we drove by and knowing what I was probably thinking she asked me “do you miss it?”
My response was, I DON’T miss a hell of a lot more than I DO miss..people OR work...and it’s not even close. 😏
No.....and I’m surprised you lived to tell about it. 😏
Did USAID monies pay for this Swiss study?
Who does that to sweet innocent coffee that only wants to help you do stupid things faster?
“To determine the precise effects on LDL cholesterol levels, we would need to conduct a controlled study of subjects who would drink the coffee,”
A major problem with this study is any serious link between the compounds measured and heart disease.
The only link mentioned is:
“It’s already well known that boiled coffee contains high levels of the cholesterol-raising diterpenes cafestol and kahweol”.
How much is the cholesterol level raised?
Does raising the cholesterol level have any significant effect on heart disease?
The chain of causation in this study is very weak.
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