Why do we try so hard to reinvent the wheel? There are so many ways to make coffee safely and efficiently, yet we managed to screw that all up with k-cups. Keurig, Nespresso, and other coffee pod machines are ruining our planet - and our health.
Welcome to Fatal Conveniences™.
If you laid out all the k-cups in the world, they would circle the Earth 10.5 times.
Coffee pods are one of the most wasteful inventions yet. These tiny little unnecessary single-use plastic capsules are sitting in landfills and floating in waterways all over the globe. We’ve once again created a fatal convenience that saves us a little bit of time with a huge cost to the environment. And it doesn’t even make a good cup of coffee!
This one shouldn’t be a big surprise - we all know how wasteful those coffee pods are. Not only that, but the machine itself is a mold and bacteria petri dish! But if you’ve been holding on to your Keurig despite that knowledge, maybe this episode will be that push you need to finally cut the cord. No pun intended. It’s time to ditch those coffee pod machines and go back to the old-school java methods.
Segment Breakdown:
[00:01:50] The list of reasons to avoid K-cup machines
[00:03:20] The history of the Keurig machine
[00:06:34] Why should you care?
[00:08:20] The horrors of k-cups
[00:09:12] Bacteria laden water
[00:12:20] Are aluminum pods safer?
[00:14:10] Pods and the environment
[00:15:30] Better options (that will also save you money!)
Dive Deeper:
Side Effects of Using Coffee Pods
Are you drinking mold with your coffee?
Here’s why you should stop using your single-cup coffee maker right now
K-cup inventor regrets his invention
Coffee in Capsules
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Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] Fatal Convenience Intro
Darin: It’s that time of the week for another fatal convenience. This is a bite-size segment that addresses some of society’s fatal conveniences and the steps you can take to avoid becoming a victim of them. I define fatal conveniences as the things we may be doing because the world we live in makes us believe we have to, tap water, shampoo, sunglasses, food. I dive into the hidden truths behind some of our everyday choices that could not only be harming us but even killing us, so let’s dive in.
[00:00:41] Fatal Convenience - Keurig Coffee Machines
Darin: Hey, everybody, welcome to the show. This is Darin Olien. This is another Fatal Convenience. This one’s gonna hurt some of you. Oh, I’m so sorry. But I’m not because this freaking thing needs to be exposed. This is Keurig/Nespresso coffee makers. There are so many issues with this thing, it is unbelievable. So if you have one, I’m sorry, go back, get an espresso machine. It barely saves you any time, and you’re not going to be exposed. Listen, you think it’s harmless, you think it’s so convenient. These damn cups, aluminum, leaching into the coffee, plastic, all of this stuff, not recyclable or if it is, it doesn’t get recycled. It just gets put in our environment. Many of them, billions of them, but we’ll get into that.
[00:01:50] The list of reasons to avoid K-cup machines
So these little things, there are so many negative side effects from personal health to the environment. There are strains of bacteria, carcinogenic compounds, destruction of the ecosystem, plastic pollution. Man, do I need to go through the details? Do you get it? I’ll explain to you why and how this is, but it’s pretty crazy. Despite these slick, current marketing campaigns, even the original founder, John Sylvan, has been reported to say, “I feel bad sometimes that I ever did it.” No matter what they say about recycling, those things will never be recycled. Not to mention the way they constructed this thing, which I’ll get underneath it and explain to you from water perspective, this thing is just gnarly, and the quality is horrible.
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