Seriously, what happened to picking coffee for the taste and not the convenience? If you're not grinding your coffee shortly before brewing it, you're losing flavor and everything is completely ruined forever. Senseo, Keurig, whatever the fuck else you want - if you're roasting and grinding something so far in advance that there's time to package it, ship it, leave it boxed until the store has a free shelf, have it taken home days later by some poor bastard who doesn't know any better, and watch it sit in a pantry for several days before getting consumed, you don't get to call it 'fresh' *anything*.
On top of that, you're paying $100 for one of these contraptions. Would you like to know what else you can get for $100? A French press and a proper fucking burr grinder, that's what - all you need to do then is leave home once in a while to pick up another half-pound or pound of coffee from a local roaster and you'll have 'fresh roasted', 'fresh ground', 'fresh brewed', and all that other 'fresh' *anything else* that these wankers are trying to sell you because they think nobody knows what 'fresh' actually fucking means.
Unless you don't know how to boil your own water or push a damned red button on a black coffee grinder, the 'convenience' of these stupid contraptions is a total fucking *lie*. How hard is it to *not* be a total blathering idiot about making coffee? Unless every kettle of water requires a purification ritual, a vision from the gods of caffeine, and a ceremonial fucking kidney filtration, or you're deathly afraid of anything sharper than a goddamned tennis ball, you can - with no trouble at all - just as easily grind coffee, boil water, put coffee and water into the same container for a few minutes, and pour the coffee out for a good cup of coffee that doesn't have the wretched stink of over-marketed piss-poor coffee that's only around because nobody knows a goddamned thing about *anything*.
Fuck Senseo, fuck Keurig, and fuck anyone else that makes a living pretending that simple things are so inherently difficult that a ridiculously expensive contraption must be introduced, overpriced, and advertised through lies, deceit, and insulting the intelligence of every being that has ever thought about coffee.
Jeff
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