Urnex Blog

  1. What To Do with Used Coffee Grounds at Home?

    What To Do with Used Coffee Grounds at Home?

    If you’re brewing coffee at home, you can reuse your grinds for many purposes. Here are some ideas.

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  2. What's the Best Material for Coffee Packaging?

    What's the Best Material for Coffee Packaging?

    Alejandro Escobar, founder and owner of Pare de Dormir, finds value for his business, his customers, and the environment through a reusable packaging solution.

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  3. Switching to Oat Milk—And Upping Sustainability

    Switching to Oat Milk—And Upping Sustainability

    The newest Onyx cafe serves oat milk as the default for espresso drinks. What US Barista Champion and Urnex Ambassador Andrea Allen found were unique solutions to sustainability issues.

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  4. A Business with a Mission: Chepsangor Coffee in Nandi, Kenya

    A Business with a Mission: Chepsangor Coffee in Nandi, Kenya

    If you’ve heard of the hills of Nandi county, Kenya, it may be thanks to Eliud Kipchoge, a native of this region, who recently became the first person in the world to run a marathon in under two hours. But this part of western Kenya boasts another gem you may not have heard about: its coffee. Among the recent Kenyan entrepreneurs in Nandi county is Dr. Rosebella Langat, who, alongside her husband, started a coffee estate business named Chepsangor Coffee in 2018.

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  5. Composting: At Home and in the Cafe

    Composting: At Home and in the Cafe

    Give your coffee a second life by composting - Rory Van Grol of Ugly Duck Coffee will show you how.

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  6. Cleaning, Sanitizing, Disinfecting: What’s The Difference?

    Cleaning, Sanitizing, Disinfecting: What’s The Difference?

    All three have different applications—here’s how to know which to use to keep your space and equipment safe

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  7. Descale Like a Pro: Understanding and Conquering Scale in Any Coffee Machine

    Descale Like a Pro: Understanding and Conquering Scale in Any Coffee Machine

    Scale can slowly deteriorate your coffee equipment — learn what scale is, what causes scale and how to remove scale from any single serve, filter coffee or espresso machine

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  8. How Much Coffee and Water Should You Use for your Coffee Machine?

    How Much Coffee and Water Should You Use for your Coffee Machine?

    Measuring coffee and water to brew a pot of coffee isn't rocket science. But it does take a bit of math.

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  9. Digital Coffee Events: A Sustainable Future

    Digital Coffee Events: A Sustainable Future

    How the proliferation of digital events will create a more equitable and accessible future for the coffee community.

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  10. Will Travel for Coffee: Sustainability in Global Coffee Travel

    Will Travel for Coffee: Sustainability in Global Coffee Travel

    Most coffee professionals know they contribute a high level of carbon emissions from their coffee travels. 2018 World Barista Champion Agnieszka put a number to it - and it is staggering.

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