Coffee pouches?
3Who sells coffee in pouches? There’s Keurig selling coffee in cups, but you don’t make whole pots from those cups. Tea is sold in bags, but I wouldn’t even make a whole pot of tea with just one bag.
Meh really destroyed my immersion in the story with this Bob coffee scenario.
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You must be the guy that never makes the coffee in the break room, @MntlWard.
Coffee is widely available in one-pot pouches at office supply stores and warehouse clubs.
Next time you take the last cup, just ask somebody ok?
@therealjrn The only place I’ve seen pouches in is hotel rooms; probably at some diners.
Otherwise it’s cups or cans.
@dashcloud How weird. Sometimes they are called coffee packets. You put water in the maker, a coffee filter in the basket, then open up a packet of coffee for the brew basket.
Sometimes they are like the hotel room ones, but bigger, with the filter and coffee together.
@therealjrn Smaller places I’ve worked had a Keurig or the one place with several people diligent enough to grind and brew a fresh pot (that’s where I really started drinking lots of coffee). But any place with a Bunn or similar commercial coffee pot used pouches.
Hotel rooms generally have single cup filter pouches. Office break rooms have pouches with no filter - you add a filter and open one pouch and pour it in. Really couldn’t be much easier, and yet… we all have a Bob.
@mschuette
@therealjrn I never make the coffee, because I never drink coffee. I guess that’s a big reason why I’ve never heard of these.
@MntlWard I also don’t know about packaging for items I never buy. Cool story.
@mschuette Well, I was raised by coffee drinkers, and many of the friends I’ve known have been coffee drinkers…
@MntlWard @therealjrn Yep, most every company that sells coffee for Bunn coffeemakers used in restaurants and business breakrooms sells their coffee in one pot pouches. Most will even give (loan) you the machine free if you buy their product…
Reminded me of this (non) event.
@chienfou I’ve seen a lot of one pot pouches that also act as the coffee filter. So they put the filter pouch that comes pre-filled with coffee in the commercial machine and the hot water runneth through it.
@medz While I have seen these occasionally in my years in restaurants and drinking coffee from break rooms, I have seen the loose coffee you place in a filter much more frequently. In fact, you still see loose coffee in most fast food places and in cafes and diners. Perhaps that reflects more on my age than on the (seemingly) ubiquitous nature of said pouches.
@chienfou @medz Where I work, the Seattle’s Best is in pouches you have to pour into a filter. The Folgers is in the filter pouch.
@chienfou @medz @limewater I’m shuddering over here, have mercy
@chienfou @medz @UncleVinny I can’t speak for others, but I’m pretty pleased with it. We go through the folgers fast enough that it doesn’t have a chance to get stale®, and every pouch of Seattle’s Best smells good when I open it.
The Folgers tastes like cardboard, and the Seattle’s Best tastes like paint thinner. Things are as they’re supposed to be.
Where I worked previously, we just had a normal coffee maker and people would bring in those big 50oz+ containers of grounds. I’m not coffee snob, but that stuff got pretty sour by the end.
Flavia machines use pouches. They’re great machines, I really prefer them over Keurigs.
Before K-cups, there were coffee pods.
/image senseo coffee pods
@narfcake coffee pads…gee I wonder why they didn’t catch on?
@narfcake @therealjrn thing kinda when south when they did a cross promotion with Always…
@chienfou @therealjrn
if you want a coffee bag like a tea bag - sudden coffee i think it is called