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Keurig's new K-Rounds coffee pods are plastic-free and could finally make single-serve coffee-making sustainable (www.techradar.com)

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This is quite exciting in that it removes plastic waste. I see no reason why different companies can't make different shape ones to maintain their lock-in. I expect a knock-off market to pop-up, but that exists with plastic pods too. It's a step in the right direction at least.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

All coffee pods are garbage.

Especially espresso pods. There's a place around here that has a 20,000 dollar espresso machine, that serves over-extracted espresso because the owner felt pods were easier or something.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Is it actually a cafe or just part of another establishment? What kind of cafe has a pod espresso machine? I would never go there.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

It's a restaurant run by an Italian. Not even Italian American, but a first generation immigrant.

It's not a pod espresso machine, it's got normal e61 group heads, perfectly capable of making great espresso if he had a grinder. But instead they use pods of pre-ground coffee that just lets the water shoot through, giving like 4:1 brew ratio.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

That's such a travesty and a waste of a good machine... Wow.