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Ultralight hikers have given us the perfect tea cup: titanium with a giant removable open-at-the-top filter that you put the tea in. No bags. No tiny ball that's a pain to open. Titanium doesn't leech and is easy to clean and a folding handle doesn't transmit the heat.
How to make coffee? Whole beans, French press, and a hand grinder. You can get these made from (almost) 100% stainless steel and completely manually powered, and it's still so easy that the marginal convenience of a machine isn't worth the space or mess or microplastics.
I think people have a bad impression of this stuff because the benefits are super oversold. I don't think my own ground coffee tastes 500% better than k-cup coffee. I don't think that counting grams in a tea cup is important for anything except for confirming the material. But the modern crap is also way oversold, it's like Gillette 7-blade razors that are barely better than a safety razor but so much more expensive and less convenient and more wasteful.
Maybe I'm getting old but I'm tired of buying stuff and then throwing it away. I want to keep stuff.
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@apropos >titanium
that sounds overly expensive
titanium crowbar when
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@apropos i expected it to cost twice that lol
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@lina $25 titanium
$20 porcelain with steel infuser
$14 glass
it's more expensive but it's not a luxury good.
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@lina titanium stuff definitely gets up there. You can get a $100 non-insulated titanium water bottle, which is 2-3x the price of fancy insulated bottles that women collect now, and which lets out an awful screech when you unscrew the lid because titanium doesn't rub well against titanium.