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if you want to save on coffee, buy green beans and roast. I pay around $30 for 5lbs of green beans that are extremely high quality. you can do far cheaper than
by orenmazor 15y ago
if you want to save on coffee, buy green beans and roast. I pay around $30 for 5lbs of green beans that are extremely high quality. you can do far cheaper than that though.
- mmaunder 15y agoGreat idea! Thanks!!
- orenmazor 15y agono problem. the cheapest (and still good quality) can be found in many middle eastern shops. they wont sell them by the canvas sack, but you can usually get a pound or two for a couple of bucks and its going to be better than walmart brand.
- catch23 15y agoThe taste of coffee is directly proportional to the length of time sitting on the shelf after roasting. Even the worst-grade green beans taste great after a fresh roast. I roast my beans in a $9 popcorn machine I bought at Walgreens.
- bradgessler 15y agoWhere do you buy those beans at? Online or a local coffee joint?
- lsc 15y agoI get mine at http://www.sweetmarias.com http://www.sweetmarias.com - they have info on roasting using a popcorn popper and other cool things.
- mgarfias 15y ago+1 for sweetmarias. Those guys rock.
- bradgessler 15y agoOh wow, this is awesome, they're right down the street from me. Thanks!
- catch23 15y agoIf you live in the bay area, you can probably just drive to sweet maria's. The coffee capital of western hemisphere is supposedly in east bay where all the coffee comes in.
- orenmazor 15y agoI get mine at the green beanery in Toronto. They do online orders but I'm betting if you're in the US there are better options :)
- bdclimber14 15y agoIt definitely is cheaper, but pan roasting coffee on a stove can take quite a bit of time, is a fire-hazard, and causes quite a bit of irritating smoke and fumes for a few days. It sure tastes good though.
- catch23 15y agouse a $9 popcorn machine. it's easier and much much faster (takes me 5 minutes). it does generate lots of smoke, so be sure to do it outside.
- bdclimber14 15y agoIt's certainly cheaper than an official bean roaster. I'll have to buy one and see what a popcorn machine is, because I don't think I've ever seen one, and I assume you aren't talking about the ones at movie theaters.
- colanderman 15y agoI presume the GP is talking about air poppers: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_popper http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_popper Basically, they funnel heated air into a small chamber. My girlfriend's dad uses his to roast coffee and swears by it. I don't drink coffee myself (can't stand the smell) so I can't give an opinion.
- eru 15y agoAre you sure it's still cheaper to roast your own, if you look into the energy bills? (Not to think of your own unpaid work.)
- bdclimber14 15y agoIf you calculate your time, almost certainly no, at least for pan roasting.
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- bdclimber14 15y agoYou should be able to get $4-5/lb of green beans fairly easily. The lower quality roasted beans typically go for $6/lb. I roast my own beans for taste though, it truly is superior if you do a good roast.
- georgieporgie 15y agoI save money on coffee by not buying it. ;-) Instead, I found Jet Alert 200mg caffeine tablets. They're about $3.70 for 90 tablets. Each tablet is equivalent to two cups of coffee, which really means one cup of coffee, the way we tend to serve it. I usually take one around 10am, and another around 3pm. The good: no, uh, 'intestinal distress', whiter teeth, better breath, no buzzy feeling like I get with coffee, and I feel like I'm alert for longer and more consistently. Also, I generally feel mellower than when I'm drinking coffee, and I have no explanation as to why. The bad: I still crave the taste and ritual of coffee once in awhile. I have one or two cups per week, skipping the caffeine pill, of course.
- drivebyacct2 15y agoThat's quite an addiction you have. Have you considered kicking it?
- lsc 15y agoI find it amusing that the guy who has two double-shot lattes a day just likes coffee, but the guy who takes the same amount of caffeine in pill form has 'quite an addiction' when they are both consuming the same amount of the drug in question.
- lwhi 15y agoIf you're not drinking coffee for the taste and experience - stop drinking it. In my opinion, there's no point in sustaining an addiction without any of the main benefits.