r/science Professor | Medicine 17d ago

Health Boiled coffee in a pot contains high levels of the worst of cholesterol-elevating substances. Coffee from most coffee machines in workplaces also contains high levels of cholesterol-elevating substances. However, regular paper filter coffee makers filter out most of these substances, finds study.

https://www.uu.se/en/press/press-releases/2025/2025-03-21-cholesterol-elevating-substances-in-coffee-from-machines-at-work
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u/impossiblefork 17d ago

Usually Swedes make coffee with a coffee machine with a filter.

The pot method is as far as I understand completely historical. No one uses it other than on like a hike or something.

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u/hfsh 17d ago

No one uses it other than on like a hike or something.

Or, elderly Swedish farmers if my brother-in-law's dad is someone to go by.