What is the pour over ?
I like the cartridges both the Keurig and the Nespresso, but they're expensive. I use sometimes the plastic keurig cartridge.
The Truth About Coffee Pods
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I like the cartridges both the Keurig and the Nespresso, but they're expensive. I use sometimes the plastic keurig cartridge.
Even cheaper if you buy green beans and roast them yourself... of course, quality may suffer!
Perry
Not necessarily. I bought ten cups of coffee one time trying to roll up the rim & win - and I don't even drink coffee
...Bought my SO a big bag of Jamaican Blue for Christmas. I can do no wrong until it's finished judging from the reaction.
French press house. Grind on site.
French press house. Grind on site.
Why stop there. Grow your own coffee.Even cheaper if you buy green beans and roast them yourself... of course, quality may suffer!
Perry
I use an expresso maker and make expresso with regular coffee then add hot water to it to make Americano Coffee. Coffee is much better when you roast your beans a little in a cast iron pan, then fresh grind it just before you make coffee.
The pods cost from .73 to .31 each at Loblaw, at 2.5 cents each on the bargain pods I suspect these pods must be past the best before dates.
The pod companies give you recycling envelopes to send your used pods in for recycling. I suspect they know very few people will collect the used pods. It is just a PR move.
Carnation condensed milk is better. I use a combo of 1/3 condensed milk to 2/3 regular milk.I put steamed milk as I like latte's so it's 12 cents
BTW - No name condensed milk at Loblaw and Carnation brand milk is the same milk made by the same manufacturer. At this time the Canadian dairy industry has oceans of milk that they do not know what to do with.
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The pods cost from .73 to .31 each at Loblaw, at 2.5 cents each on the bargain pods I suspect these pods must be past the best before dates.
You would think so but the best before date on the box is March 31/2022. Purchased it in October 2021. I am not a huge coffee drinker so quality is not high on my priority but the coffee tastes pretty good and others really like it. And each pod is individually wrapped unlike when you buy boxes at most places.
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So this guy is what???? Pissed at a great business model that makes billions a year?????
My K-cup are $.50 a coffee. Cheaper and better tasting the Tim’s. I’ll stick to the K-cups. Happily
Oh and you can brew your own coffee. They come with a Reusable pods for personal brewing.
My K-cup are $.50 a coffee. Cheaper and better tasting the Tim’s. I’ll stick to the K-cups. Happily
Oh and you can brew your own coffee. They come with a Reusable pods for personal brewing.
Found an almost new in box Nespresso Virtuo machine in April when dumpster fishing.
Seemed to be some Chinese students were moving back home and dumping all their 120V gear.
I then dumpster dived a bunch of compatible used pods. We peel the lids off of them and then dump the used grinds to the green bin and then washed the aluminum case. Have a stock of about 30 of them and reload every month or so.
Sourced new sticky edge foil lids off Amazon 100 for $15 or so. We reload with drip coffee and milk foaming powder I sourced from the supplies for the office coffee machine.
We still make a drip pot every morning. The Virtuo runs when we want the odd afternoon or evening cup.
Just prior to Christmas break I found an abandon box of K cup pods from some packer in Isreal. These get opened with a knife, and the contents of four pods is enough for a drip basket pots worth of java. Tasty flavors and extra sweet as it is next to free. Just $.02 for the filter basket paper per pot.
Seemed to be some Chinese students were moving back home and dumping all their 120V gear.
I then dumpster dived a bunch of compatible used pods. We peel the lids off of them and then dump the used grinds to the green bin and then washed the aluminum case. Have a stock of about 30 of them and reload every month or so.
Sourced new sticky edge foil lids off Amazon 100 for $15 or so. We reload with drip coffee and milk foaming powder I sourced from the supplies for the office coffee machine.
We still make a drip pot every morning. The Virtuo runs when we want the odd afternoon or evening cup.
Just prior to Christmas break I found an abandon box of K cup pods from some packer in Isreal. These get opened with a knife, and the contents of four pods is enough for a drip basket pots worth of java. Tasty flavors and extra sweet as it is next to free. Just $.02 for the filter basket paper per pot.
Yea we have those at work. There’s a couple of those I quite like.
After reading this thread - went out and ordered a grinder so I can start brewing my own - didn't even think of doing that with fresh coffee beans. Looking forward to grinding - beans that is, aww shit - looking forward to more grinding in the new year as well .
.I agree. Sometimes, you have to experiment with the quantity of coffee and the fineness of the grind with reusable pods. And then there are pods that work better than others. It’s not an easy choice, requiring fine tuning. It is worth it, however, not to be limited in what is available in the pods preloaded.
I buy the President's Choice West Coast Dark roast. If you but the big box you you 72 pods for $32 or less than 50 cents each. Perfect for when you like only 1 cup at a time. Compostable as shakenbake says and I like them better than most of Starbuck flavours
