I've been pretty happy with it since I get fresh ground coffee and don't need to measure it. You still have to clean the filter after every use, but really it takes me less than 60 seconds to clean out the filter and fill the machine with water. Grinding the coffee and measuring it out manually was the biggest bottleneck in my daily coffee routine, so the Breville has at least eliminated that step.
Now if I could only plumb water directly to it...
It might make me lazy, but every second I am not cleaning my coffee device I can be doing something else.
How does it make sense to project that calculation onto another person to begin with? Their time is not yours, and every person values their time differently. It means your statement of them doing a vast number of things wrong must inherently be false, because there is no objective "wrong" there.
I've been a "time-peeler" for a large part of my life, and when I stopped being such, I became way more productive. This happened because I started to waste less and less time on things which didn't really matter.
In certain cultures where most of the people watches TV, for hours every day (in average), then you start to see what's wrong with saving 57 seconds.
In addition to that, somebody pointed that the structure is incredibly wasteful. For some reason, there's this widespread vision of sustainability where the responsibility is somebody else's. If this is not accepted in simple things at the bottom, where should it starts from?
In this terms, the comments make sense, although of course, it's not possible to say if it applies to a given person.
With these things in mind, while there are no "objective wrongs", in the big perspective, there are objective foolishnesses, to say the least.
Previously I had the Nespresso Lattissima Premium[2] (the top-of-the line pod machine). I liked the Nespresso coffee fine, but the Primadonna makes better coffee and is no more trouble to use (It's also twice the price...).
The clean up is exactly the same for both machines - you press a button to run steam though the milk frother, detach it and put it in the refrigerator. You press the "rinse" button and it runs water through the coffee system to clean that.
~Once a week you empty the grounds container or the empty pods container.
The one trick is to only put as many beans as you a planning on using immediatly in the bean dispenser. It can take a lot more, but as they get exposed for longer they get more bitter.
[1] http://www.delonghi.com/en-AU/products/coffee/coffee-makers/...
[2] http://www.delonghi.com/en-AU/products/coffee/coffee-makers/...
The time I spend grinding the coffee is part of the enjoyment.
http://globalassets.starbucks.com/assets/bbbb918e28fa404b836...
I much prefer that machine to the crappy k-cup machines.
Basically it's a machine with 3 compartments:
Coffee, Decaf Hot Chocolate
And you can push a button, it grinds, and outputs your cup.
I prefer it vastly to the k-cups.
They do tend to be more expensive though.
Like, picking your nose?
http://www.delonghi.com/en-US/products/coffee-and-espresso/c...
Yes... that is also a problem.
Unless, of course, your time is so valuable that you can't even spare the 15 seconds it takes to wash the reusable pod.
Also try the AeroPress: faster brew, smaller filters (reusable metal available), fast clean, excellent results.
Well, aren't you special? There's no difference in time spent using a standard all-in-one grinder/coffeemaker vs. a Keurig, and the results are going to be better-tasting.
Why do you value time in the car (or monster truck) so highly?
Assuming he didn't just make up the weight number, of course.
You don't think about the 30-60 minutes in the car because you are sitting there killing yourself faster, but wasting less bodily energy than sleeping.
The time spent making coffee is probably good for your lifespan, but standing around, moving and cleaning things feels bad for us lazy apes..
Craft beers are superior to generic domestic lite beers, right? No, it's strictly subjective to every individual's preference.
I've known some people that prefer cheap or generic coffee, made in a clunky old coffee pot, slightly burnt. Is their taste wrong / worse / inferior? It can't be, it's their taste.
http://www.amazon.com/Jura-13626-Ena-Micro-1/dp/B008RZFQKO/r...
At four cups per day it pays for itself in about two years.
It's like writing this comment on HN, what value does it bring to you ?
I don't mind if people adopt environmentalism as a religion where all trash is a sin, I just don't want to be a part of it. I want to think about environmental impact broadly and go after the high impact items. Talking about K-Cup trash is a distraction from what is important.
I can't say that I understand the single-mindedness, but congratulations on the electric car or the not commuting so far or whatever.
Unless what you're saying is that you're going to ignore everything that pollutes less than the important high-impact items that you're also going to ignore.
I also think people who obsess over polyethylene grocery bags are bad at math. Unfortunately, many of these people manage to influence public policy to my inconvenience. It is religion, not science.
The restrictions on minor consumer items are a penitential hairshirt.
I think your "big-picturism" bypasses the immediate absurdity of consumer environmentalism, but leaves the deeper contradiction untouched.
"Rational" environmentalism implies some cost/benefit analysis. Is it "bad" for one person to burn 100 gallons of gas per day in his commute? Is it "ok" for 100 persons to burn the same amount? What if the one person produces as much "benefit" as the 100 persons? Who gets to define benefit?