By Clara Olshansky, Food & Wine
These cups are a coffee lover's dream come true: you can finally drink coffee out of coffee. So yeah, it's not just the caffeine getting us super excited. The HuskeeCup
is a coffee cup made from recycled coffee husk, the waste material
created during coffee production, so not only are you drinking
coffee-ception, but you're also taking a small step toward saving the
environment.
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Then there are the practical benefits: according to the HuskeeCup's Kickstarter,
the cup is great at heat retention, is dishwasher friendly, and comes
in a variety of sizes (right now, 6 oz., 8 oz., and 12 oz. cups are
available, but, when they go to full production, you'll also be able to
get 4 oz. and 10 oz. cups). Plus, the chic black and white colors and
modern design aren't not half bad to look at.
As far as price, the cups are surprisingly reasonable.
AU$45 (about US$35) will buy you four 6 oz. cups, so that's less than
US$9 per cup. On the other hand, if you're a coffee lover with thousands
of dollars to throw around, AU$5000 (about US$3,900) will get you a 5
day coffee and tea tour of China, with food, coffee, and tea provided.
Okay, so that Kickstarter reward is basically a vacation, plus a few
mugs thrown in.
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The HuskeeCup is one in a series of creative, eco-friendly coffee cup
start-ups we've seen recently. As far as using coffee byproduct in your
coffee cup, you might remember the c2cup, a travel mug made from coffee chaff. The HuskeeCup also reminds us a little bit of Cupffee,
those biodegradable, edible coffee cups from earlier this year that
made the coffee cup part of the experience. Plus, in 2015, there was
that plantable coffee cup
that, once you were done drinking, you could use to reforest areas that
needed more plant life. It seems there are a growing number of options
for you to make the world a better place one cup of coffee at a time.
