Keurig 2.0

[scholarme]

<p>I’ve been trying out this method this week:
<a href=“http://hippielessons.blogspot.com/2012/08/using-teapot-with-infuser-to-make-coffee.html#.U_pPXWDD8v4”>http://hippielessons.blogspot.com/2012/08/using-teapot-with-infuser-to-make-coffee.html#.U_pPXWDD8v4&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>I started trying it because I have the exact same teapot in a different color.
I use a paper filter in the infuser. I boil water then wait 30 seconds to cool it down. Then I stir the coffee grounds a bit before letting it sit 4 min, after which I squish the liquid out of the filter as I take it out.
Makes a good strong cup of coffee, not bitter or acidic.</p>

[mom2collegekids]

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I would think that even though the new 2.0 doesn’t work with the mykcup you should be able to take 1 of their new pods and figure out a way to reuse it with your own coffee if you want.</p>

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<p>I don’t think you need the whole pod. I think that if you just lifted off the foil lid, washed and put on top…the machine would read that logo on top. </p>

<p>I have a different type of my-cup. it is shaped like a k-cup. I wonder if I cut out that logo and glued it on top…would it work? lol</p>

[Lergnom]

<p>Xiggi, he meant coffee beans from different sources, not types of beans. </p>

<p>I’ve been to a cupping thing because the coffee convention was in Boston last year and I happened to be in a coffee bar where a bunch of highly caffeinated people were meeting Guatemalan coffee farmers. It isn’t about drinking coffee, but tasting what the bean has. I was physically vibrating for hours. </p>

<p>As to the 2.0 pods, etc. Give it a week or a month and they’ll be hacked.</p>

[xiggi]

<p>Lergnom, I thought the same after rereading your post. The blending or balancing of the beans with perhaps different roasting times might account for the differences. One element that surprised me is that the darker roast are losing their caffeine content. In so many words, the lighter roasts might be better for that early morning caffeine shot. And the darker ones for a night cap! </p>

<p>About the tastings, I found it interesting how the pros recommended to get the coffee all around your mouth to pick up different hints of flavors on different parts of the tongue. Easy to see why the blending must be an art. I</p>

[BunsenBurner]

<p>Xiggi, I suspect that subjecting the beans to high temperatures for longer times (needed to produce dark roasts) will result in sublimation of caffeine. You are right about lighter roasts being more caffeinated. For example, Starbucks breakfast blend is a fairly light roast that packs a mighty caffeine punch. </p>

[warblersrule]

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@emeraldkity4

Still a very expensive coffee. K-cups go from $16lb to $51lb depending on where you buy them.

There’s also the environmental impact. </p>

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Journalist Murray Carpenter estimates in his new book, Caffeinated, that a row of all the K-Cups produced in 2011 would circle the globe more than six times. To update that analogy: In 2013, Green Mountain produced 8.3 billion K-Cups, enough to wrap around the equator 10.5 times. </p>

<p>Green Mountain only makes 5 percent of its current cups out of recyclable plastic. The rest of them are made up of a #7 composite plastic, which is nonrecyclable in most places. And for the small few that are recyclable, the aluminum lid must be separated from the cup, which also must be emptied of its wet grounds, for the materials to make it through the recycling process. Even then, chances are the pod won’t be recycled because it’s too small, says Darby Hoover, senior resource specialist at the Natural Resources Defense Council.</p>

<p>Keurig just released a sustainability report announcing that the company plans to make all coffee pods recyclable by 2020, among other ecofriendly efforts. The company says it’s evaluating the type of plastic used in the cups, exploring potential biodegradable and compostable packaging, and coming up with an easier way for customers to easily prepare them for recycling.</p>

<p>Some competitors already have recyclable or biodegradable versions of this single-serve pod; Nespresso’s lid and pod is made entirely from aluminum. A Canadian brand, Canterbury Coffee, makes a version that it says is 92 percent biodegradable (everything save for the nylon filter can break down). Finding a substitute is an interesting challenge, says Keurig spokeswoman Sandy Yusen, because coffee is perishable, and so the material used must prevent light, oxygen, and moisture from degrading the coffee.

<a href=“Your Coffee Pods’ Dirty Secret – Mother Jones”>http://www.motherjones.com/blue-marble/2014/03/coffee-k-cups-green-mountain-polystyrene-plastic&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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Some single-serve coffee systems use plastic pouches, while others use aluminum pods, but most, including the popular Keurig K-Cup system, rely on plastic capsules. This is the kind Peet’s opted for. They’re miniature, disposable drip brewers: A plastic mesh filter basket filled with coffee grounds enclosed in a plastic cup and sealed with a plastic-and-foil lid. The single-cup machines then pierce the lid and the bottom of the capsule and flush hot water through to produce a cup of coffee.</p>

<p>“The challenge presented by these single-cup pods is the fact that you have a multi-material item,” explained Tom Padilla, recycling coordinator for StopWaste.org, the agency tasked with creating a sound waste management and recycling program for Alameda County. Even if the capsule components were individually recyclable, he said, they’re impossible to process because they’re fused together.</p>

<p>“They were designed to be trash from the outset,” said Rebecca Jewell, recycling program manager for Waste Management’s San Leandro facility. Hopeful consumers continually toss them in the recycling bin, she said, but they end up in a landfill anyway.</p>

<p>Coffee companies are well aware of the problem. The second brewing system Keurig introduced, the Vue system, tried to address the issue of recyclability in what the company called “an incremental step on our environmental journey.” The system doesn’t work with the original K-Cup packs, which are made from number seven plastic, a blended plastic that’s nearly impossible to recycle. Instead, the Vue capsules use a plastic cup made from polypropylene, number five plastic, and users can peel the foil lid and filter away from the cup.</p>

<p>The cups are then recyclable — in theory. The problem is the cups are too small to be captured in most recycling facilities where machinery separates objects by size and density, said Mark Oldfield, assistant director of public affairs for California’s Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery. Most facilities filter out items under two-inches in diameter. In any case, number five plastic is rarely recycled in California, Oldfield said. “It’s very difficult to deal with something like that,” he added. “It’s something where convenience is trumping our typical mantra of reducing and recycling.”

<a href=“Waste: The Dark Side of the New Coffee Craze | East Bay Express | Oakland, Berkeley & Alameda”>http://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/waste-the-dark-side-of-the-new-coffee-craze/Content?oid=3687220&showFullText=true&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

[HImom]

<p>No one in my nuclear family will be getting any Kerig machines in the near future, I believe.</p>

<p>H got a Hamilton Beach coffeemaker from a door prize my dad won. It seems to work fine for him and makes one cup at a time (I don’t drink coffee or tea, and he tries to limit himself to one cup a day). It takes any K-Type-cup or loose ground coffee (it has a basket that holds the grinds). It meets H’s needs perfectly. S has a fancy coffee pot that I don’t understand but it looks REALLY cool and makes a LOT of coffee. He mainly uses it for company. Don’t believe D has a coffee pot of any kind and she doesn’t drink it much.</p>

[mom2collegekids]

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<p>This totally surprises me. H has been drinking dark roasts in the morning thinking it had more caffeine… </p>

[lookingforward]

<p>^ Well, here’s some explanation, fwiw. <a href=“http://www.kickinghorsecoffee.com/en/blog/caffeine-myths-dark-vs-light”>http://www.kickinghorsecoffee.com/en/blog/caffeine-myths-dark-vs-light&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

[mom2collegekids]

<p>ok…so now I have been using the 2.0 for over a week. I have bypassed the “security” (ha ha) and am able to use other K-cups. The logo on the new cups is what the machine reads. </p>

<p>I like the larger reservoir and other features. I have found that using the Extra Bold cups with 8 oz of water with the “strong” feature is best for me. </p>