Remix.run Logo
Remix clone Hacker News
new | show | ask | jobsGithub
▲ sugarpimpdorsey 12 hours ago

Gourmet high-end Keurig pods are like $0.50 each. Make your own coffee.

▲0_____0 12 hours ago | parent | next [-]

If you go through coffee regularly, it's actually quite a nice thing to invest in. There are a really amazing number of craft roasters throughout the country, and simply having a quality grinder is enough. And you don't need a crazy espresso setup to enjoy it. My setup consists of a motorized flat burr grinder, a 20$ kettle from target, and a pour over funnel. The quality is so much higher than anything you can get from a pod that's been sitting around with pre ground coffee, and it only takes a couple minutes while you're waiting for Claude to rewrite your codebase in Rust or whatever it is "Hackers" do these days

▲sugarpimpdorsey 8 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I want a cup of coffee not a science project.

▲0_____0 6 hours ago | parent [-]

If a gram scale and a grinder that has one knob and one button is too much to deal with then I guess you do need K-cups after all.

300g of water over 17g of freshly ground beans will pretty much always beat the K-cup on quality, is cheaper and produces less waste. You don't even need fancy beans, my go-to is the store brand bean from the supermarket.

▲skylurk 10 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

There's some really good hand grinders these days too, minimal effort and only takes a minute.

▲0_____0 5 hours ago | parent [-]

It can wear on you a bit if you make lots of coffee but I went years with a Hario skerton hand grinder until my partner got sick of it and got us a reasonably priced election burr

Truly you could be making great coffee at home with <$75 of equipment. Gram scale, eBay secondhand conical hand grinder, department store kettle, pourover funnel, filters.

▲drivebyhooting 12 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I wonder if the gourmet high end plastic ends up in the brew.

▲sugarpimpdorsey 8 hours ago | parent | next [-]

As opposed to the plastic pipes your water runs through, the plastic water filter, plastic coffee maker, and plastic travel mug you pour it into?

▲drivebyhooting 6 hours ago | parent [-]

I usually don’t run high pressure boiling water through my plastic pipes.

▲wffurr 12 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

It pairs wonderfully with all the plastic in your water.

▲jimbokun 12 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

If you want to save money get a Moka pot instead of that Keurig garbage.

Even cheaper, tastes better, and takes only slightly longer to make.

▲mikkupikku 12 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

You can solve this problem even better by drinking instant coffee. Bonus points for it making yuppies cringe.

▲loloquwowndueo 12 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

lol gourmet (coffee) and keurig pods don’t go together in the same sentence.