With a normal espresso maker, you measure out the coffee grounds (gunpowder), pour them into the chamber, tamp them down, then pull the trigger/make the coffee.

With a K-cup, you just put in a capsule and fire away.

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    American trying to explain how to make coffee: “Imagine a gun”

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      Regular coffee machines are like smash burgers, whereas k-cups are like those pre-frozen white castle sliders you get in the freezer aisle.

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      I mean, they’re also very similar in their use and design. There’s a breech you load. You load it with something that enables one use. That one thing is comprised of a casing with powder in it. When the function of the machine is triggered, something comes out of the machine, because of the thing you loaded into it. As far as shower thoughts go, this one is actually pretty well thought out.