>No, buying from a coffee shop with trained baristas making coffee all day is a much better deal Not the OP, but my bar for "good coffee" is pretty low. I thin

>No, buying from a coffee shop with trained baristas making coffee all day is a much better deal Not the OP, but my bar for "good coffee" is pretty low. I think I'm not alone, and for a lot of us the investment is way smaller. In 2017, I spent about $500 for a grinder, kettle, scale, dripper and glass containers. I haven't spent a cent since then on infra, just ongoing expenses for beans (again, not terribly expensive given the bar). I like an amazing coffee now and then, but the number of places where the $8 coffee is really amazing is vanishingly small, IMO.