<![CDATA[Coffee Spoons Make Getting a Cup of Joe a Little Faster, More Wasteful - Gizmodo Comments]]> <![CDATA[Coffee Spoons Make Getting a Cup of Joe a Little Faster, More Wasteful - Gizmodo Comments]]> <![CDATA[Coffee Spoons Make Getting a Cup of Joe a Little Faster, More Wasteful]]> Reminds me of the McFlurry stirring spoons

LUV2CattleCall

]]> <![CDATA[Coffee Spoons Make Getting a Cup of Joe a Little Faster, More Wasteful]]> Some people will go to any lenths to justify bad coffee. If you want bad coffee, be proud and just drink the crappy stuff from work. If you want GOOD coffee, you certainly don't want THIS thing.

mvisconte

]]> <![CDATA[Coffee Spoons Make Getting a Cup of Joe a Little Faster, More Wasteful]]> Or you could just cut the crap and get some coffee.

Hey look while you're going...

strider_mt2k

]]> <![CDATA[Coffee Spoons Make Getting a Cup of Joe a Little Faster, More Wasteful]]> For tea drinkers we have Ticolino Bagless Gourmet Tea Sticks.

You can combine pre-measured scoops of freeze dried coffee crystals, non-dairy creamer, and sugar in a small plastic bag or re-useable plastic container and accomplish the same thing.

eigafan

]]> <![CDATA[Coffee Spoons Make Getting a Cup of Joe a Little Faster, More Wasteful]]> The problem I see with this is that it isn't wrapped. You are taking the package that anyone could have touched and sticking it in your cup of coffee.

dvdmovieking

]]> <![CDATA[Coffee Spoons Make Getting a Cup of Joe a Little Faster, More Wasteful]]> Well, you could wash it and reuse (refill) it. My great-grandma always did wash and reuse plastic flatware and cups.
Ew.

avantreese

]]> <![CDATA[Coffee Spoons Make Getting a Cup of Joe a Little Faster, More Wasteful]]> @juliagulia: you could also re-ingest your puke.

Claystil

]]> <![CDATA[Coffee Spoons Make Getting a Cup of Joe a Little Faster, More Wasteful]]> I'd like to know where the need for this small dubious convenience originated? On a train with no snack-bar service?

Could I just pour the contents into my mouth and let the 98.6 degree heat of my own bod make the pseudo-coffee in my very own human mug? Wow...how is THAT for avoiding waste....? Genius eh ?

Later I could use the straw to clean my ears which would surely be clogged after I pass out in a caffeine-induced coma and lay in my own pool of puke.....reducing waste again by re-using the plastic straw.....perfect!

juliagulia

]]> <![CDATA[Coffee Spoons Make Getting a Cup of Joe a Little Faster, More Wasteful]]> "the fact that the first thought in the writer's mind that this would be directed as a solution for the home and not a place of work."

he mentions neither home nor work. so....wtf? really, that was the first thought in YOUR mind, not frooch's.

nutbastard

]]> <![CDATA[Coffee Spoons Make Getting a Cup of Joe a Little Faster, More Wasteful]]> @MaoChan:
what office doesn't have a coffee maker? what coffee drinker enjoys instant coffee? and finally, not everyone wants cream and sugar ruining their coffee.

nutbastard

]]> <![CDATA[Coffee Spoons Make Getting a Cup of Joe a Little Faster, More Wasteful]]> @nutbastard: the fact that the first thought in the writer's mind that this would be directed as a solution for the home and not a place of work.

or even waiting rooms of many types.

oakie

]]> <![CDATA[Coffee Spoons Make Getting a Cup of Joe a Little Faster, More Wasteful]]> @dingus: i was implying that this would be a suitable substitute for an office that normally provides an alternative instant coffee... they could purchase these to reduce office expenditures if the price is right in comparison to providing the necessary consumables.

oakie

]]> <![CDATA[Coffee Spoons Make Getting a Cup of Joe a Little Faster, More Wasteful]]> If the plastic tube is recyclable, what's the problem?

Way

]]> <![CDATA[Coffee Spoons Make Getting a Cup of Joe a Little Faster, More Wasteful]]> I can also see this being super duper useful in travel situations.

tyskkvinna

]]> <![CDATA[Coffee Spoons Make Getting a Cup of Joe a Little Faster, More Wasteful]]> When you want a cup of horrible coffee I guess you would want it as quickly as possible.

blank

]]> <![CDATA[Coffee Spoons Make Getting a Cup of Joe a Little Faster, More Wasteful]]> Ha! Another Yanko "gotcha".

This is about as close as I would come to a "YEnko product:
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Out2gtcha

]]> <![CDATA[Coffee Spoons Make Getting a Cup of Joe a Little Faster, More Wasteful]]> "In addition to saving perhaps 4 seconds of your precious time, it lets you use something disposable rather than a spoon which you can wash and reuse."

Yea I gotta rip on you too for being dumb. First off who has ever heard of a spoon that has coffee, creamer, and sugar in it? I know my JA Henkels silverware are not packed with instant cup o coffee.

Also you do realize that this is meant for the office setting where people with real jobs work. No more dealing with stupid communal sugar bowls or little sugar packets everywhere. Just grab a tube and you are done.

MaoChan

]]> <![CDATA[Coffee Spoons Make Getting a Cup of Joe a Little Faster, More Wasteful]]> there are 3-1 coffee packages right?!why need this? you have the prerogative to not wash the reusable spoons anyway.

Amiash Loves You

]]> <![CDATA[Coffee Spoons Make Getting a Cup of Joe a Little Faster, More Wasteful]]> Wow...giz was way off the mark with this one. I don't think this was invented as a time saver. Rather it seems to be the convienence of it all. Keep one of those in an office drawer or glove box or something.

MrMaestr0

]]> <![CDATA[Coffee Spoons Make Getting a Cup of Joe a Little Faster, More Wasteful]]> @nutbastard: please see my above comment. My sardonic wit does not translate to text at all.

Claystil

]]> <![CDATA[Coffee Spoons Make Getting a Cup of Joe a Little Faster, More Wasteful]]> you can skip the spoon all together buy just emptying the packet in first, then pouring the hot water. When I make my (real, non powdered) coffee every morning I pour my cream in first. One less thing to wash.

spicedham

]]> <![CDATA[Coffee Spoons Make Getting a Cup of Joe a Little Faster, More Wasteful]]> Why do you need water? Its a drug already cut in a straw. Dont you just snort it?

Curves

]]> <![CDATA[Coffee Spoons Make Getting a Cup of Joe a Little Faster, More Wasteful]]> Coffee is overrated.

IrisMR

]]> <![CDATA[Coffee Spoons Make Getting a Cup of Joe a Little Faster, More Wasteful]]> @Claystil:
people say a lot of mindless FUD - it's good to take it with a grain of (cancerous!) salt...

nutbastard

]]> <![CDATA[Coffee Spoons Make Getting a Cup of Joe a Little Faster, More Wasteful]]> @oakie:
"sounds like not having a real job since leaving high school has narrowed your world view."

who is that one directed at, the editor? what evidence do you have he's never had a 'real' job? what constitutes a 'real' job?

nutbastard

]]> <![CDATA[Coffee Spoons Make Getting a Cup of Joe a Little Faster, More Wasteful]]> How much water do you need to "clean" a spoon that was used to just stir some damn coffee? I'd think merely wiping the thing clean after each use, with a real wash at the start and end of each week would be sufficient.

Of course, real men don't need spoons.

Dunny0, ELE Hopeful

]]> <![CDATA[Coffee Spoons Make Getting a Cup of Joe a Little Faster, More Wasteful]]> waste not, want not

mtopper

]]> <![CDATA[Coffee Spoons Make Getting a Cup of Joe a Little Faster, More Wasteful]]> @rdldr1: instant coffee is pure evil.

and 6 oz. of waste water hardly matches the energy and material of a plastic spoon.

Claystil

]]> <![CDATA[Coffee Spoons Make Getting a Cup of Joe a Little Faster, More Wasteful]]> @deenster: when i make coffee at home i use a metal spoon and a ceramic mug. there's little waste. plastic seriously doesn't need to be in the equation. plus, some folks say seeped plasticisers cause cancer.

Claystil

]]> <![CDATA[Coffee Spoons Make Getting a Cup of Joe a Little Faster, More Wasteful]]> While you may think the spoon container is wasteful, its less wasteful than having a separate instant coffee/creamer/sugar packets. Plus the no need for a spoon means no need to toss a plastic spoon or stirrer, or "waste water" washing a spoon.

rdldr1

]]> <![CDATA[Coffee Spoons Make Getting a Cup of Joe a Little Faster, More Wasteful]]> What is it? The 80s all over again?

Poltras

]]> <![CDATA[Coffee Spoons Make Getting a Cup of Joe a Little Faster, More Wasteful]]> But I'd have to heat water up.

SchruteBuck

]]> <![CDATA[Coffee Spoons Make Getting a Cup of Joe a Little Faster, More Wasteful]]> 2-in-1 (coffee and cream) and 3-in-1 (coffee, cream, sugar) packets are all the craze in Asia. They're great because it's convenient, quick and affordable. This is actually more eco-friendly because now, you don't need a plastic spoon to stir your coffee. Now if they can only make the container from the sugar itself and let it slowly melt as you stir it, now that would be even better.

deenster

]]> <![CDATA[Coffee Spoons Make Getting a Cup of Joe a Little Faster, More Wasteful]]> This product is simply stupid. It's coffee for the swiffer generaion. Now I'll wait here to attack the first person spouting off about plastic+heat=cancerdeath.

Claystil

]]> <![CDATA[Coffee Spoons Make Getting a Cup of Joe a Little Faster, More Wasteful]]> @oakie: What office are you working in that:

a) doesn't provide coffee for its employees

or

b) provides coffee that tastes worse than instant?

dingus

]]> <![CDATA[Coffee Spoons Make Getting a Cup of Joe a Little Faster, More Wasteful]]> Have you really thoughtfully tallied the waste materials involved in making a cup of instant coffee with cream and sugar packets? It seems to me that if this is used in a retail environment (which the article claims it is intended for), then you would otherwise have a few sugar packets and a small disposable single serving of artificial creamer, plus a disposable stirrer. This assumes that the instant coffee is not in individual packs, too.

I suspect that this could actually be less waste, since instead of using individual packaging for coffee, cream, and sugar, plus a stirrer, you are using one package that doubles as a stirrer. Let's investigate this more before crying that the world will be destroyed by environment-haters.

joestoner

]]> <![CDATA[Coffee Spoons Make Getting a Cup of Joe a Little Faster, More Wasteful]]> Why not just skip the middleman? If this is so great, OBVIOUSLY a spork/straw combo is better.

Lizard_King

]]> <![CDATA[Coffee Spoons Make Getting a Cup of Joe a Little Faster, More Wasteful]]> These have been formulate to only work in the interior of a Prius, so they cancel each other out.

Kind of like the orange juice in a screwdriver, or eating a bran muffin after smoking crack.

zenpoet

]]> <![CDATA[Coffee Spoons Make Getting a Cup of Joe a Little Faster, More Wasteful]]> @oakie: "

"In addition to saving perhaps 4 seconds of your precious time, it lets you use something disposable rather than a spoon which you can wash and reuse"

because there's no such thing as a plastic spoon or swizzle stick? i dont get it. "

cuz honestly, this would be perfect for somewhere other than the home... maybe an OFFICE, perhaps? sounds like not having a real job since leaving high school has narrowed your world view.

oakie

]]> <![CDATA[Coffee Spoons Make Getting a Cup of Joe a Little Faster, More Wasteful]]> "In addition to saving perhaps 4 seconds of your precious time, it lets you use something disposable rather than a spoon which you can wash and reuse"

because there's no such thing as a plastic spoon or swizzle stick? i dont get it.

oakie

]]> <![CDATA[Coffee Spoons Make Getting a Cup of Joe a Little Faster, More Wasteful]]> Awesome! Every morning I ask myself, "How can I cut 4 seconds off of this so I can have some ME time?" BAM! There it is.

eddiesmile

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