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I've learned to tolerate dripper coffee, but I'll never drink the swill that comes from single use cup coffee ever again. Tastes like licking a cigarette ash tray. However, I'm an Aeropress user and I receive judgement as much as I dish it out. Pour over is my next step, but I also want to get into using a moka pot.
I also wish I had a better grinder than a Hario Skerton Pro, but it really is the best for the budget if you avoid the generic soft aluminum grinders that break way too easily. I will say that the Skerton Pro is a workout when grinding to something like espresso or Aeropress fineness though, but the ceramic burr is decent so far.
I managed to get a used Baratza Encore off Craigslist relatively cheap for $100, and there were other good choices that I could have gone with.
As for K cups, it's the gateway drug, but I sort of quickly moved on. A lot of people started there, so much respect to their marketing department, if not so much their product development and quality assurance.
And the environmental cost of all that plastic...
That's a damn good price, wow. I'm avoiding electric grinders atm, because I live in an apartment building and sound travels pretty loudly through it.
It's honestly the plastic waste that gets me in the end. There's been days I wake up late and wish I could make a coffee in under a minute, but have to go without my morning caffeine and it sucks. Even if it tasted awful, at least I'd have it.
May have to look into those bio-degradeable pods. I have a friend in England that told me about one (I can't remember the name of it), but the machine and the pods aren't available in the US.
Refillable K pods worked great for me, until I tried French press which tasted so much better.
Now my jaded taste buds say even fp tastes weak compared to aeropress, cucumella and moka pot.