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My local just went from $3.50 to $4 this week :(
by binarymax 11mo ago
My local just went from $3.50 to $4 this week :(
- sugarpimpdorsey 11mo agoGourmet high-end Keurig pods are like $0.50 each. Make your own coffee.
- drivebyhooting 11mo agoI wonder if the gourmet high end plastic ends up in the brew.
- wffurr 11mo agoIt pairs wonderfully with all the plastic in your water.
- sugarpimpdorsey 11mo agoAs opposed to the plastic pipes your water runs through, the plastic water filter, plastic coffee maker, and plastic travel mug you pour it into?
- drivebyhooting 11mo agoI usually don’t run high pressure boiling water through my plastic pipes.
- 0_____0 11mo agoIf you go through coffee regularly, it's actually quite a nice thing to invest in. There are a really amazing number of craft roasters throughout the country, and simply having a quality grinder is enough. And you don't need a crazy espresso setup to enjoy it. My setup consists of a motorized flat burr grinder, a 20$ kettle from target, and a pour over funnel. The quality is so much higher than anything you can get from a pod that's been sitting around with pre ground coffee, and it only takes a couple minutes while you're waiting for Claude to rewrite your codebase in Rust or whatever it is "Hackers" do these days
- skylurk 11mo agoThere's some really good hand grinders these days too, minimal effort and only takes a minute.
- 0_____0 11mo agoIt can wear on you a bit if you make lots of coffee but I went years with a Hario skerton hand grinder until my partner got sick of it and got us a reasonably priced election burr Truly you could be making great coffee at home with <$75 of equipment. Gram scale, eBay secondhand conical hand grinder, department store kettle, pourover funnel, filters.
- sugarpimpdorsey 11mo agoI want a cup of coffee not a science project.
- 0_____0 11mo agoIf a gram scale and a grinder that has one knob and one button is too much to deal with then I guess you do need K-cups after all. 300g of water over 17g of freshly ground beans will pretty much always beat the K-cup on quality, is cheaper and produces less waste. You don't even need fancy beans, my go-to is the store brand bean from the supermarket.
- jimbokun 11mo agoIf you want to save money get a Moka pot instead of that Keurig garbage. Even cheaper, tastes better, and takes only slightly longer to make.
- mikkupikku 11mo agoYou can solve this problem even better by drinking instant coffee. Bonus points for it making yuppies cringe.
- loloquwowndueo 11mo agolol gourmet (coffee) and keurig pods don’t go together in the same sentence.
- 0xffff2 11mo agoNot a 1-1 comparison. For my daily double shot espresso, actual gourmet locally roasted coffee costs me just over $2. My coffee equipment cost enough that factoring in some kind of depreciation for it seems necessary, which would put my costs somewhere in the ballpark of $3 all in with a 5 year full depreciation. Paying someone else $4 for a them to make a coffee doesn't actually sounds that crazy if it's good coffee.