/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>7152164
The problem with any ready-made, sealed into a thing coffee solutions like this or say keurigs and all that crap is that it will always have the problem of the coffee not being fresh.

Coffee beans, once roasted, are constantly going stale. Sealing them up so that they don't get exposure to fresh, un-coffee-saturated air will slow this process, but you can't keep Coffee for long in an air tight container and have it remain airtight. Roasted coffee is constantly generating C02 which will fill up any container it is placed in until the pressure causes a breach where ever the seal is weakest. This is why modern coffee bags usually have one of those one way valves to let the C02 build up escape but hopefully not let too much air in.

How the hell can a little container like a keurig address this reality? It can't. There's currently no simple way to mass manufacture some sort of little one-serving sized things and still have the coffee be fresh by the time you use the thing. The result is that they just put in garbage artificial flavourings to make the coffee taste right and the result is some of the shittiest coffee mankind has ever consumed in our history.

There is no way around this, there is no magic bullet that solves this... nor does there need to be. Just roast beans and then grind them up and make coffee with them, it's not complicated. Corporate America constantly trying to solve this non-problem with instant coffee and stupid little k-cup machines that don't make coffee any faster or better than a regular electric drip machine does baffles me. The general stupidity of the public is never to be underestimated though.