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Why the Inventor of K-Cups Doesn't Use Them
Newser ^ | 03/03/2015 | Jenn Gidman

Posted on 03/04/2015 10:10:35 AM PST by Responsibility2nd

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101 posted on 03/04/2015 3:27:28 PM PST by N. Theknow (Kennedys-Can't drive, can't ski, can't fly, can't skipper a boat-But they know what's best for you.)
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear

Commercial Bunn style coffee makers do tend to have hotter pads than most modern home drip makers. If I forget to turn mine off and have just a little bit of coffee left in the pot, it will dry up of course, but it will not burn it into a black carbon residue.


102 posted on 03/04/2015 3:29:44 PM PST by AFreeBird
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To: freedumb2003
The K-cup is too dang small and whole bean coffee still tastes much better.

Yep, I agree as I sit here with a large cup of freshly ground beans made in a french press. No comparison.

103 posted on 03/04/2015 3:33:13 PM PST by Fzob (Jesus + anything = nothing, Jesus + nothing = everything)
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To: KC Burke
Ah yes....the aroma is wonderful from a peculator.

I think it's great you take yours with you on business trips....and you're absolutely right about Hotel coffee...always nasty stuff!

I'm not sure if better to get a stove top peculator or an electric one...I suppose there's pros and cons to both. But I am going to switch from the Bella I have now. BTW...at the log cabin we had on the mountain we use to use a peculator on an outside open fire pit...Oh WOW! Nothing like that anywhere else!

104 posted on 03/04/2015 3:53:27 PM PST by caww
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To: Responsibility2nd
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.

That's AWESOME!

105 posted on 03/04/2015 3:59:08 PM PST by Jeff Chandler (Doctrine doesn't change. The trick is to find a way around it.)
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To: Responsibility2nd
"enough to wrap around the equator 10.5 times."

Environmentalists are always throwing that nonsense out there. Either that or they are calculating how many times to the moon and back if you stacked a given item on top of each other. Or how many football field a given object will fill.

All of it meaningless.

Everything taken from the Earth to make a product will eventually revert back to the Earth. Living things die, decompose and eventually end up as dirt in somebody's back yard pushing up dandelions. Turn a forest into a billion pencils and eventually those pencils will turn into dust and go back into the Earth. That Gatorade you are drinking today will get discharged into an urinal, flushed through a septic system and eventually end up as somebody else's drinking water - perhaps after a few hundred years of flowing through creeks and rivers.

106 posted on 03/04/2015 4:11:33 PM PST by SamAdams76
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To: Sgt_Schultze

“The new 2.0 version have circuitry embedded in the foil seal that enables the brewer”

Uh, not really. It uses some sort of optical system I believe, triggered on a particular color, from what I have read... Anyway, I got a plastic, reusable pod for the 2.0 brewer off Amazon and it works fine. Not a bit of foil in the thing. Not as easy to use as the store bought K cups, but cheaper and I can use whatever coffee I want...


107 posted on 03/04/2015 4:48:35 PM PST by LaRueLaDue (Remember- allah is the Charles Manson of deities, and mohammed is his Tex Watson. - LysolMotorola)
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To: Gator113
Last night we discovered the issue you mentioned. I will try to find a way to defeat this restriction.

There are examples of how to fool the new 2.0 system on Youtube. Basically, you cut the top off of a 2.0 K-Cup then place it on top of the non-2.0 cup. The bar code or whatever is on that top and the machine will brew the old cup.

I also saw one video where they placed tape on the cut off top and when they placed it in the brewer it stuck to the machine as a semi-permanent fix.

108 posted on 03/04/2015 5:20:30 PM PST by OldMissileer (Atlas, Titan, Minuteman, PK. Winners of the Cold War)
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To: Osage Orange

I’m actually a new fan of bulletproof coffee. I will check out the cold brewed method; however, it will be after Lent. I gave up coffee!


109 posted on 03/04/2015 5:51:03 PM PST by goodwithagun (My gun has killed fewer people than Ted Kennedy's car.)
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To: Red Badger
If I had a K-Cup machine I would definitely have one of these devices.

People forget that the water temperature of a Keurig machine is 192° F., easily high enough to make a good cup of coffee. Use that with your choice of your own coffee grinds and it actually comes out surprisingly well.

110 posted on 03/05/2015 9:40:04 AM PST by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's economic cure)
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To: caww
Only one thing though: I hate percolators for making coffee, unless you grind the beans REALLY coarsely. I'd rather have a good drip machine or better yet, a Chemex pour-over coffeemaker.
111 posted on 03/05/2015 9:44:57 AM PST by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's economic cure)
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To: RayChuang88

Dollar General sells some much cheaper screen filter cups, as do some others like Big Lots, for about 1/3 the price.........................


112 posted on 03/05/2015 10:00:20 AM PST by Red Badger (If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
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To: RayChuang88

My coffee, regardless of what used to brew it..is on the weak side compared to many. I use coffee on the “Mild” side of the chart. Unless a “designer” type coffee...and then it takes a couple brews to determine the strength I’m satisfied with.

I honestly didn’t realize how weak I drink it until a family member told me finally..and this after years! HA!

I drink tea the same way..couple dunks of bag is plenty!


113 posted on 03/05/2015 1:43:35 PM PST by caww
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To: Red Badger

Dollar General sells some much cheaper screen filter cups, as do some others like Big Lots, for about 1/3 the price.

Have you ever noticed a “taste” from the disposable fiber filters? It’s like they’re too bleached.


114 posted on 03/05/2015 1:44:54 PM PST by caww
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To: caww

No, but you can get unbleached ones also.

http://www.swansonvitamins.com/if-you-care-unbleached-coffee-filters-no-2-100-ct?SourceCode=INTL405&CAWELAID=1497960371&catargetid=530002460000127310&cadevice=c&mkwid=Sg4TsCif&pcrid=67697600887&gclid=CJetvK6YksQCFQ4BaQodyYoAMg


115 posted on 03/05/2015 1:46:53 PM PST by Red Badger (If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
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To: Red Badger

Thanks...


116 posted on 03/05/2015 1:48:41 PM PST by caww
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To: All

IOW he sold off for $50k and is stuck with nothing.


117 posted on 03/05/2015 1:55:13 PM PST by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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