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..
may have to give up coffee
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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.
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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.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
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
You must have a very small coffee maker. Here's a bigger image for those who worship The Divine Bean
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!
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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!"
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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!"
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I have had to start watching carbs and I gave up tobacco so coffee and salt are my only 2 eating vices. I drink 6-8 cups a day and like the taste of salt and will not give up either.
Maybe if I start drinking more coffee it will help my health and I can go back to cake, candy and tobacco.
Larry
I noticed last week that Maxwell house 25 oz went from $6.50 to $10. My favorite was Seattle's Best until the buyout. It has gone to unobtainable.Krogers private selection k cups went from $14 to $23 for 48. Juan Valdez is laughing sittin there on that sack of beans.
Don't waste, err spend, money on tobacco or alcohol, so not a whole lot of attention paid to coffee prices.
His > Hers.
His > Hers.
Started drinking coffee in the Navy, '64-'68, and enjoy it too much to stop now. It'll have to go way beyond my budget before we (wife likes it too) quit b/c that only leaves water. We don't imbibe and don't care for soda.
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We don't drink coffee and we don't drink soda pop ........ Jack Daniels on the other hand .......
coffee is not drop'n off the menu until we are in mighty poor times (next week perhaps).
i enjoy "death wish" coffee each and every morning and usually a cup or maybe two later in the day.
day.
yesterday, at the farm store, i paid $116.00 for a 2.5gal jug of faux-round-up to kill 180acres of weeds.
this morning in anticipation of all that spraying i drank two cups of my excellent & strongly caffeinated coffee with a nice shot of heavy cream.
it won't be an either - or for me.....for a while!
vfm
i enjoy "death wish" coffee each and every morning and usually a cup or maybe two later in the day.
day.
yesterday, at the farm store, i paid $116.00 for a 2.5gal jug of faux-round-up to kill 180acres of weeds.
this morning in anticipation of all that spraying i drank two cups of my excellent & strongly caffeinated coffee with a nice shot of heavy cream.
it won't be an either - or for me.....for a while!
vfm
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And it'll be very bad times indeed if the cry ever goes up, "Give me liberty or give me decaf!"
fiasconva
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The price of my old school Eight O'Clock coffee is going to have to have some severe increases before I give it up. I don't think my heart or brain starts working until I have that first sip in the morning.
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I have to admit I love my coffee as most retired firefighters do. Until it possibly reaches $10 per cup I'm all in but may reconsider then. It's good to be a bit frugal during your working years so you don't live on Ramen Noodles and ersatz coffee in retirement.
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I can give up a lot of things as I'm pretty self-disciplined but I don't think I could ever give up coffee. And I drink the basic Food Lion store brand!
I think that I will be in the minority here, but it takes me about 4 minutes to make a fine cup of coffee - no percolator or expensive single-serve machines.
Fill cup about 1/2 full of filtered water. Put in microwave for exactly 1 minute and 10 seconds.
Add heaping teaspoon of instant coffee and stir.
Add about 1/4 of a cup of milk. Stir.
Add about 1/4 of a cup of Irish cream. Stir.
Drink. Enjoy.
No sweat - delicious. The Irish cream kills the taste of the coffee, which is what I want it to do. Coffee smells like skunk to me anyway.
John
Fill cup about 1/2 full of filtered water. Put in microwave for exactly 1 minute and 10 seconds.
Add heaping teaspoon of instant coffee and stir.
Add about 1/4 of a cup of milk. Stir.
Add about 1/4 of a cup of Irish cream. Stir.
Drink. Enjoy.
No sweat - delicious. The Irish cream kills the taste of the coffee, which is what I want it to do. Coffee smells like skunk to me anyway.
John
You're probably right, but you're among friends, so it's all good
You might be pushing things a little now....
