Speaking of phases… for years we used one of those, not to be named, brands of coffee maker that uses individual coffee “pods”… You make one cup at a time.
Well there are problems… One problem: It’s slow, so for a party, we still had to use a percolator.. Another problem is that you generate a lot of waste with those plastic pods, and also the coffee grounds, which will normally decompose are sealed inside that plastic.
But the other big problem is the machines don’t last very long. Like for us, based on the amount of coffee we brew, the machines were lasting only a year, or maybe 2. So that’s more expense, and now a big hunk of electronics waste to get rid of.
So, fed up with that, I bought a drip coffee maker… This maker has metal foil, reusable baskets for the grounds, and it has 2 sides. One side is for single cups, and the other side is for a 12 cup pot.
Now the morning coffee ritual… Get up, and smell the nice fresh ground coffee as you put 5 table spoons of it into the basket… fill up the reservoir, and in a few minutes you have 6 cups of coffee!
The only daily waste, is coffee grounds.
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