may have to give up coffee

[Sevens]

Haha, Keurig if you love it, enjoy it, but outside of sitting in a high dollar restaurant or paying some goof to drive to the uppity coffee bar and bring a tall one to your door, it's the most expensive way to have coffee.

This is like saying "Jeez with this $5 a gallon gas price, I may have to re-think driving my Ferrari so much!"

 

[venomballistics]

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[steelslaver]

If you buy the fill yourself pods Keurigs are great. use the coffee you prefer, ground thee way you want it as strong or diluted as you want, every cup fresh. But then I also have a quality espresso maker for my first cup of the day.

 

[quikdraw67]

Haha, Keurig if you love it, enjoy it, but outside of sitting in a high dollar restaurant or paying some goof to drive to the uppity coffee bar and bring a tall one to your door, it's the most expensive way to have coffee.

This is like saying "Jeez with this $5 a gallon gas price, I may have to re-think driving my Ferrari so much!"

I pay .50 cents a cup with my preferred Tim Horton's Keurig.

During the cooler months Mrs. QD67 makes a pot of coffee every morning using TH's, but she doesn't drink it in the summer. We buy it by the 3 pound can.

I pay a buck a cup at Mickey D's for a small black every morning.

Dunkin' and Starbucks are overpriced dog ****.

JMHO YMMV.

JMHO YMMV.

 

[johngalt]

Anyone try roasting their own beans? I have an air fryer, which I read does a decent medium roast.

 

[Racer X]

Received a Keurig machine as a gift several years ago. We love it. Wife can have her favorite flavored coffees, I can have my 100% Colombian or French Roast good full-bodied coffees. One cup at a time, next to zero clean-up work, no waste.

Still have the old aluminum Mirro percolator with a half-century of experience on hunting and camping trips. It makes good coffee but there are always floaters and grit to deal with. Brew up a quart, pour it through a strainer with a Mr. Coffee filter, keep it in a thermos jug for hours of fresh-brewed flavor. Rinse and drain, never any soap, don't worry about the crusty brown stains.

didn't you ever discover the filters that work in percolators?

 

[STCM(SW)]

Coffee every morning. French roast in Mr. Coffee with fresh ground beans.
Afternoon is a Latte with flavor in a Mr. Coffee cappuccino machine.

 

[oldbrownhat]

I bought this sign for my coworker who is as big as a coffee fiend as I am.

I can relate

 

[dmar]

I gave up caffeine 10 years ago and never looked back…. Don't "need" coffee anymore, but will do a cup of decaf once in a while for grins. Really don't miss "real" coffee, or caffeine. Guess I'm saving some money that I can put towards ammo…. .

 

[jcs266]

For 40+ years Folgers 100% Columbian or Black Silk. Dress it up with a dash of Vanilla Creamer and good to go. Until my early 40's i just drank it black, but then started having acid stomach and found that creamer or milk eliminated that and I liked the flavor more anyway.

As to the PRICE of coffee? Mine has gone up about 35% from 2020 prices.

 

[Breakaway500]

6 cups a day for me. Keurig took me over about 7 years ago. I'm a Dark Magic fan or Peets. Every cup fresh and hot.Assuming I remember to change the pod..

 

[ACORN]

This sums it op nicely.

 

[cmj8591]

As an aside, I've found that a Keurig brand machine will usually last less than a year. They will replace them but it's a pain. The last time I had one die, I replaced it with a Cuisinart brand. Way better quality and it's been running great for the last year and a half. Of course I'm sure I jinxed it and as soon as I post this, it will melt down.

 

[Whitehead8]

Dec 29 2021 I bought a box of Gevalia 84 count pods for $29. Now they are $51. Now I never was great at math but that does not look like 8% to me. Also went to get some weed killer and the 2.5 gallon jug I bought last year for $43 is now $60 for one gallon. Rather than drink cheap coffee I will just not drink coffee at all. Maybe I can cut some some weeds chop them up and roast them and make coffee out of that

This is a major problem at the moment, the inflation in the country is alarming... You can still find an affordable alternative if you can do some research not a coffee enthusiast, else I will have suggested a few to you.

 

[Krogen]

Anyone try roasting their own beans? I have an air fryer, which I read does a decent medium roast.

Hello, my name is Krogen and I'm a... a..... homeroaster.

It's an affliction. Many people who start never go back to "the can" or "the bag." Sorta like super accurate rifles. Once you get wrapped around one, it's hard to go back to a lesser performer.

I've never used an air fryer to roast beans. Some folks use hot-air popcorn poppers. I have a bona fide roaster to feed my affliction.

These folks are the enablers who paved my road to coffee perdition. They sell beans and roasters. The site is full of good information on how to get started. Read at your own peril!

Sweet Maria's Home Coffee Roasting

 

[oldbrownhat]

This sums it op nicely.

You must have a very small coffee maker. Here's a bigger image for those who worship The Divine Bean

 

[Skeet 028]

I went to a Keurig quite a few years ago. I used to use a 4 cup Mr Coffee. But kept trying to melt them by not turning them off. So went to the single cup. I drink a mug a day every now and then 2. Get my pods 100 at a time Costco or Sam's Usually 32 cents each. Just a question? How does that Big coffee pot in the sky(Starbucks) with their overpriced coffee stay in business? I have occasionally bought a cup of coffee at some gas and goes but never have bought one that cost over 2 bucks for a big one. Someone asked If I wanted a Starbucks not long ago.. Said the cappucino she bought was like 4 bucks? Have a friend give me something called Kona from a place in Hawaii. He thought it was GREAT. It tasted terrible. I guess I'm just not a coffee commonsewer. Fire house coffee was usually great. We used a Lot!

 

[oldbrownhat]

6 cups a day for me...

You may live long and prosper.

 

[oldbrownhat]

Hello, my name is Krogen and I'm a... a..... homeroaster....

These folks are the enablers who paved my road to coffee perdition....

"The road to hell is paved with good inventions"

 

[oldbrownhat]

Coffee "addiction" is nothing new. Bach wrote a secular cantata in the 1720's about a father fretting about his daughter's need for her daily coffee dose. I had sweatshirts made up for my gf and I (as we're both classically-trained musicians). Note the second stanza:

Zimmerman's Coffee House in Leipzig was just recently built when Bach wrote the Coffee Cantata, operating until 1741. Unfortunately, some nasty person dropped a bomb on the building in 1943

True story: Sandra and I were having breakfast at our fav. little restaurant in Bellingham a few years ago., wearing our sweatshirts. At the next table was a young fellow and his gf. He looked over and said, "Isn't that Bach's Coffee Cantata?" We nearly fell off our chairs. Turned out he was a voice student at the university there. Every time I think of this, I regret not telling our server, "Their breakfast is on me!"

Cultural segment of this thread over now