From an author of a book entitled "West Coast Coffee"

[madbaker]

"Your book features an excellent section on home brewing and what that entails. I wonder if you have any advice for the nascent coffee enthusiast?"

"Just don't buy a fucking pod machine -- in most cases, you'll be paying upwards of $50/pound for stale coffee. Very little or none of the premium you're paying goes to the people who grow the coffee; it goes to the industrial process of putting generally cheap, pre-ground beans into wasteful little packages."

Comments

Yay!

[learnteach.livejournal.com]

The Trooth!

[lifeofglamour.livejournal.com]

In general, I agree. However, the pod machine has it's place. In my office, for example. My choices are: Disgusting, bitter, stale swill in the break room that burns the lining off the roof of my mouth for free, or the same brand of disgusting, bitter, stale swill in the cafeteria that burns the lining off the roof of my mouth for money.
So I got a Keurig machine for my desk, and the coffee is now a hundred times better than what was previously available to me.
Don't knock it until you've known true desperation.

[madbaker.livejournal.com]

Absolutely, I agree. Note that this is on home brewing, where you have a little more choice.

[lifeofglamour.livejournal.com]

Oh, ha! Missed that it was for the home. NEVER!

[madbaker.livejournal.com]

Not that it was likely an issue, but the icon is directed at disgusting, bitter, stale swill and not at your comment.

[joycebre.livejournal.com]

I bought my pod machine not for the coffee, but for the milk. it makes a delicious foam for cappuccino and a delicious not as foam for latte. The coffee is nothing special, but now that I'm decaffeinated, it doesn't really matter because it's all swill.