Yeah, actually, your plastic coffee pod may not be great for the climate

You can’t have competing studies. One saying it’s perfect and the other says it’s not. Becomes a joke like eggs which go back and forth on if they are good for you. Consistency is mandatory!

corroboration (not collaboration) on everything? I thought it would percolate down to our collective consciousness that not all studies have equal validity.

Still a few hours of the week yet. Wonder what’s next?

was BS?????

shocking

We use a washable stainless steel pod that you can put fresh ground coffee in, instead of using the plastic disposable pods. Takes about 5 seconds more time to fill the pod and then rinse it but it's much cheaper and eliminates the plastic waste being dumped in the landfill.

I use my espresso machine to make Americano's myself.

I use Cameron's EcoPods. Biodegradable.

Mmmmm, toasted pecan.

Not only does it address this problem of plastic waste, but you can buy your favorite brand of coffee (beans or ground) and save a lot of money vs. buying the pods.

Winner!

at your grocer … it’s now front and center taken over by single use coffee pods …
I still use whole bean, grind my own and my coffee (when I can find it) has been relegated to a bottom shelf at the far end of the selection available.

I had been buying my coffee at Walmart bc they always offered it at a good savings, until 1 day it was gone from the bottom shelf end of aisle.
When I asked about it was told ‘ it wasn’t a good seller’ and it was available online at $10 more a bag. 😑
BS they couldn’t keep it on the shelf it sold out often. So I go online to look for it and found what appeared to me like coffee bean wars, similar to Dutch tulip bulb escalation …
Finally found a bulk supplier at prices similar to Walmart with free shipping even, and stocked up …. YOU DON’T FUCK AROUND WITH SOMEONE’S COFFEE !! 🤨

Last week I noticed Walmart has put it back on the shelf, so enough complaints must have registered to bring it back


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I don't shop at Walmart, we don't even have one in the county. But I met my favorite roaster when I lived in little mountain tourist town, he only sells Fair Trade goods, period. So for maybe $.50 more a lbs I was able to get the best, fresh roasted Fair Trade coffee on the planet IMHO. I am finally, since moving away, able to mail order my coffee from that very roaster, I get 5lbs at a time. It's actually cheapest for around here, and lasts me at least five months.

for many years, many years ago. Supplied most local restaurants and was a booming local business. They ended up closing.
Another was in another city I lived in for a few years, and was a larger operation .
But now as I’m back in my old stomping grounds, I don’t know of any roasters.
They certainly were the best, and the experience on visiting with the aroma of beans roasting … blissful

I have a good friend that traveled on business to the Caribbean and would bring me back a pound of Costa Rican, Guatemalan or wherever he had traveled. Those were my special occasions brews.

But now I feel lucky to find my savings on a regular whole bean commercial that I can depend on.
Funny, it’s 11:20pm and I’m relishing the taste of my 1st cup of mud in the morning …




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When I go to bed, I think about the joy of that cup in the morning, makes my day right away and that's a great way to start the day. So thinking about that rather than whatever I'll have to face after coffee time is over makes it easier to get to sleep too.

I know better than to perk a cup right now, tho I am tempted …
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You have to wait. I am not allowed (by me) to have coffee before 5am. And I get up at 2 or 3 almost every night... can't make coffee till 5.

Ok
There’s always ice cream 😀

Coffee ice cream that is



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The power to regulate and enforce climate compliance on industry is not mine

If only…

Pour the coffee through a strainer to catch the grounds. Put grounds in garden compost. Left over coffee is poured on top of the compost where it adds moisture

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The same pods are reused over 40-50 times each. The Nespresso machines add a 1/2-1 inch creama to the top.

The self-adhesive foil lids are 10 cents. The coffee is about the same and it takes less than a minute to clean, load and place the lid on a pod.

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I still, after forty years, use a porcelain cone with brown paper filters. Not a fan of "electric" coffee that is so hot that it melts plastic.

brewing temps, which is not inferior to common pour-over that is often not correct temp. I think given quality beans and proper grind, most would be challenged by a comparative taste test.

I have 2 gooseneck kettles where one can set exact temp. Used them for years so to pour-over the perfect cup/pot. Finally got tired of the process, broke down and got an automatic brewer that brews at correct temp and never going back . My taste buds aren’t sophisticated enough to tell that level of difference, even though I’ snobby enough to roast my own.

Other plastics? Ecologically catastrophic! But Keurig plastic is a pure good, obviously.

all steel percolator.

Sometimes for small batches I use an all glass vessel, very fine steel filter, no paper or plastic at all. It's called CoffeeGator, looks like a piece of lab ware.

1) It is bad for the environment in general due to single use plastics.
2) It is good for global warming specifically due to lower energy requirements compared to a drip maker.

Many people are focused on CO2 emissions and care less about other environmental issues.

Mass extinctions, huge displacements of human populations, increased disease, the works...

Single use plastics don't seem so scary in comparison.

Of course, I never developed any taste whatsoever for the stuff, so this is no great sacrifice on my part.

A coffee mug holds more than 1 cup.

Automobiles in particular are perhaps the single biggest contributor to climate change.

Black coffee addict, aged 70.

December 1973 moved to Berkeley to go to Cal, turned 21 in January 74.

Several blocks away, there was a coffee shop on a corner and people would line up on the sidewalk to have cups filled or take coffee in paper cup. This was the Peets store on Cedar and Walnut; Peets was still owned and operated by Mr. Peet and there was the Berkeley store and another Peets in Menlo Park.

Got into dark roasts like Moca Java, Major Dickenson's Blend, etc. Bought a gold filter and a French press. Before graduating, had amassed a second identical gold filter and two identical French presses. Also bought two plastic cheesy grocery store Melitta cones that had an outlet that fit into the Stanley thermos I used for work. Was so picky about coffee, one set was my travel set and all needed was way to boil water.

Now nearly 50 years later I use the same two gold filters and French presses. The gold filters are held together by duct tape and crazy glue, only use French press when company and, even then, most often drip into a small crockery pitcher bought in Berkeley in the 1970s rather than use a press. Ninety-five percent of the coffee I drink (2 to 4 cups daily) are gold filter into a white crockery mug. Also have two but maybe 15 years old. One has a shadow of a woman and "Read Like a Dickinson" and the other is Oscar Wilde and would to go look to see the verbiage.

Still buy Peets but at Safeway or Costco. Buy ground as too lazy to grind beans. Sometimes accidently buy beans and need to grind. Ooops.