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> Nespresso machines, and other coffee pod brands, replace many styles of coffee brewing. Provide much worse coffee, at a higher price but are superficially con
by maeil 2y ago
> Nespresso machines, and other coffee pod brands, replace many styles of coffee brewing. Provide much worse coffee, at a higher price but are superficially convenient.
I dont think John quite realizes the quality of the coffee at the average office before such machines were a thing. It was much worse than capsule espresso, and I dislike Nestle as much as anyone else. The same for most people at home, really. And those who already made better coffee have kept doing so anyway. No, while capsule coffee is absurdly wasteful and there's plenty to criticize about it, the one positive thing is that it produces better coffee than what used to be the average.
- exitb 2y agoThere are office-grade coffee machines that make espresso-based drinks with a single button press and work with beans. They’re not as good as a real machines with non-pressurized baskets, but not worse than the pods.
- maeil 2y agoAnd those might be the common in SV tech companies, but not as much in the other 99% of the world (and even less so at the time that capsule coffee became popular). They do seem to be popular in places like coworking spaces and other shared facilities. But then they seem to buy the absolute cheapest bottom barrel beans, probably rarely clean the machines and so on, meaning it still just ends up worse than capsule coffee, or similar at best.
- compiler-guy 2y agoIt's not "superficially" more convenient either. It is vastly more convenient and less messy. That does provide some value. It's an environmental disaster, and I never use Nespresso for that reason, but one ought to at least engage with the true reasons people use it.