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comment by bioemerl

    Instead, the company, called Juicero, wants you to buy its prepackaged, pre-chopped produce, have it delivered to your home, and then insert its proprietary produce-packs into the juicer to create juice. This is supposed to be more convenient.

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I can see the appeal, maybe, if you are super rich and don't mind paying for services like this, but the time to wash and clean a juicer is well worth it. I'd absolutely laugh or look down on anyone who used something like this because using a juicer was "just too hard".

It's like those stupid little coffee cup things they are selling nowadays. Just learn to use a cheap coffee-maker and grind your own beans.





Devac  ·  3495 days ago  ·  link  ·  
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CrazyEyeJoe  ·  3495 days ago  ·  link  ·  

To be fair, those capsule coffee makers make real coffee, not instant coffee. I've never owned one, but my previous job had one, and it made pretty decent coffee! Certainly a lot better than instant, and much more consistent and convenient than drip coffee. You know for sure that nobody else made a weak ass pot of coffee.

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CrazyEyeJoe  ·  3495 days ago  ·  link  ·  

We used Nespresso. There are non-Nestle caps which are compatible, but probably they're special made for the Nespresso machines.

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Cedar  ·  3495 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I think kleinbl00's post is relevant here: it's an expensive gadget that would definitely appeal to someone out there, it wouldn't have been so well funded otherwise.

kleinbl00  ·  3495 days ago  ·  link  ·  

That thing is designed to be sold to hipster coffee shop owners, though, so they can charge more for pour-overs. This particular juicing travesty is an end-user product with effectively no life in the B2B sphere because it's a single-supplier commodity device with a strangulated distribution chain.

And it's not like "juice" is hard in the retail sphere. A couple of my favorite caters in Hollywood will put out a Rubbermaid table, set a $1000 industrial juicer on it and then surround it with cut fruit and keg cups. Takes 30 seconds, costs "fruit" plus a one-time investment in a Robot Coupe J80.

I think Juicero shit the bed. I mean, this is some straight-up /r/wheredidthesodago bullshit.