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r00t writes:
"Taking a page out of Lexmark playbook, the Keurig company, famous for it's one-cup coffee making system, now comes with new and improved 100% DRM. Apparently, Keurig is upset over re-usable third-party 'coffee pods' which allow the consumer to escape the Keurig throw-away models which carry a retail price 5% to 25% more. Keurig's CEO, Brian Kelly referred to the move as 'game-changing performance.' Perhaps this will finally be the year of Linux on the Coffe Maker?"
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(Score: 4, Interesting) by hemocyanin on Tuesday March 04 2014, @04:33AM
Forget ssh, get a percolator. The kind that sits on a stove, that would only know "ssh" if you stamped it into the metal.
Really, percolated coffee is excellent, and when you pour a cup right after turning the stove off, hot as a lawsuit. Plus, they last for just about ever and you don't even need a filter, though disc filters do make the last cup less chunky. I bought this exact pot 22 years ago: http://www.amazon.com/Copco-Polished-Stainless-Sto vetop-Percolator/dp/B0009U5NEY/ref=cm_cr_pr_sims_t [amazon.com]
Or just make up some espresso, add a bit of hot water for an Americano -- they come with stainless steel baskets, so no plastic waste and no paper waste. They're more complicated than stove top percolators so they do break down.
Alternatively, there's always the stove top espresso makers (Brazilian coffee pots) -- no paper, no waste, and a strong strong brew. I had a prof from S. America in college who said something like this: coffee should be hot as hell, black as sin, and sweet as sex. One of these makes coffee just like that, if you add a lot of sugar: http://www.amazon.com/Primula-Aluminum-Stovetop-Es presso-Coffee/dp/B001J1L59E/ref=sr_1_1?s=home-gard en&ie=UTF8&qid=1393907323&sr=1-1&keywords=coffee+m aker+aluminum [amazon.com]
As for drip. Blech -- tepid brown water. French press isn't much better and what a pain to clean up.
(Score: 2) by Khyber on Tuesday March 04 2014, @05:13AM
" French press isn't much better and what a pain to clean up."
Which shitty french press are you getting? My decades-old Bonjour works like a damned charm and comes apart in three easily-cleanable pieces with a simple twist.
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(Score: 3, Informative) by hemocyanin on Tuesday March 04 2014, @06:30AM
Bon Jour. Purchased around 1996. I even have three of the four glass cups it came with and all the cork coasters. None of the plastic stirrers though.
My complaints:
1) grounds get stuck between metal disk and the mesh. To clean requires unscrewing.
2) grounds lodged at the bottom and I need to scoop them out, rather than merely dump, to get them into my compost bin.
3) the coffee is OK, but not awesome.
(Score: 1) by amicotoni on Tuesday March 04 2014, @08:33AM
The stove top coffee maker are not from Brazil. They were invented in Italy by Bialetti, in 1933: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moka_pot [wikipedia.org]