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This means opting for 50ml to 100ml espressos, or ensuring that only the needed amount of coffee and water is used when preparing a cup to avoid waste.
100ml espresso?? Are they insane. Who’s drinking those
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Are they discounting the plastic waste in the pods?
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100ml espresso?? Are they insane. Who’s drinking those
That line, as well as a few others was all I needed to be able to feel pretty confident in writing that whole BBC article off as bullshit (haven't read the original).
Also the bit about pods being better for the environment because they have a smaller amount of coffee and thus prevent overconsumption? Wouldn't people just drink more? I used to work in an office that had a half decent bean-to-cup machine and would go through around 6 double "espressos" in a day. Around the same time, spent an afternoon helping a friend dial in their Gaggia Classic, probably had the equivalent of 3 espressos that afternoon and couldn't sleep until around 3am. Definitely a much more efficient use of the coffee! Though that much can be inferred by watching an 8-second espresso piss out of an office bean-to-cup machine.
Definitely a significant amount of useless numbers thrown around in that BBC article.
withered_preacher
mmccarthy
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-64293750