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.
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.
“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 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.
“Link Between Office Coffee and Heart Health”
The headline talks about a link, but none is shown.
How about a “study” on office stress and heart health?
The Shocking Link Between Office Coffee and Heart Health
Whatever happened to the word SURPRISING
or UNEXPECTED
or
Good to see paper-filtered at the bottom!
I use a white ceramic Karita cone with Karita paper filters in it. 24 g coffee + 380 g water into my coffee mug. I use the kitchen scale because the mug and Karita ceramic cone are opaque. With the kitchen scale, I know exactly how much water to add to precisely fill the mug.
I use decaf coffee about 80% of the time and regular coffee the other 20%.
I grind the beans and do a pourover. Darker beans so less acid.
Our, “Office Coffee,” sucks. I buy and bring my own, and use a French press. The other guys at work are doing the same after seeing my example.
Nonsense.
What’s the point of this study? After all, cholesterol doesn’t cause your arteries to plaque up, it is in your arteries because SOMETHING ELSE is causing inflammation and other damage that the body repairs with plaque. It’s like blaming the presence of firemen on a street where a house burned down for the fire when, in fact, they are there to put out the fire. Blame the cause of the fire (or, in this case, plaques in the arteries), which is too much in the way of carbohydrates in the diet.