Do you have a Starbucks addiction?

[mountainbikermark]

You need to ask for the Drip Coffee of the Day. I think it's just what your looking for..

my last coffee maker was $18 on Amazon, they usually last me about 4 years. Pack of filters,$2 and last about 6 months. Can of Yuban, $5 and lasts about 2 weeks. Set the night before to brew the next morning so no need to speak to a human.
1 cup of Starbucks? And no need to be anything but grumpy until after my first cup.
At this point in my life I don't know how anyone makes it out their front door to get to Starbucks without a cup first.

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[Jeffrey]

I can't do ground coffee. Once you get use to the "fresh grind" nothing seems to taste as good...

 

[Sajo]

my last coffee maker was $18 on Amazon, they usually last me about 4 years. Pack of filters,$2 and last about 6 months. Can of Yuban, $5 and lasts about 2 weeks. Set the night before to brew the next morning so no need to speak to a human.
1 cup of Starbucks? And no need to be anything but grumpy until after my first cup.
At this point in my life I don't know how anyone makes it out their front door to get to Starbucks without a cup first.

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You mean I am not the only one that is grumpy and does not want to talk to anyone until that first cup is gone?

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[kodiak799]

Starbucks has always been terribly bitter, although some of their lighter roasts are ok.

For coffee, my brewing at home is sometimes the best or not that good, and depends a good bit on having the right fresh roast.

Otherwise:
1) McD's
2) Tim Hortons
3) IHOP
3) Coffee Bean, Seattle's Best, Carribou Coffee (all MUCH better than Starsucks)
4) 7/11...love their blueberry flavored, their regular coffee can be pretty good to...
5) Dunkin Donuts (but order black and add sweetener and cream to your liking).

 

[kodiak799]

I can't do ground coffee. Once you get use to the "fresh grind" nothing seems to taste as good...

True. Unfortunately quality home grinders run over $200. I generally buy whole bean and have them grind it for me at the store, and then store at home in mason jars. It stays fresh for a good two weeks.

I hear french press makes the best coffee, but too much work for me. Percolator is easy to clean, easy to make and good coffee.

 

[dezymond]

I stop by Starbucks every now and then for maybe a Green Tea Latte or a Vanilla Frappuccino. I'm not a huge fan of their coffee, tastes like any other generic coffee to me. When I do need a cup of coffee I usually go to Peet's or Philz Coffee, far superior to Starbucks imo. So Starbucks for sweeter drinks vs actual coffee drinks.

 

[FoxKat]

Well like most here, I've been addicted to Starbucks in the past and believe me, when I did the math and figured out how much money I was spending I was shocked. One day looking on the web my wife found a listing on craigslist for a brand new in the box Saeco Royal Professional Super Automatica which is a fully automatic espresso and cappuccino maker.

These things sell for $1,600 new. Apparently the girl had just gotten married and had put it on her Bridal Registry and wound up getting two of them as bridal gifts. Man, nobody bought me a $1,600 bridal gift (let alone two)! Who spends $1,600 for a bridal gift anyway? I want to marry into that house, and with my wife's blessing I'll bet!

Anyway, I wound up buying it from her, unopened for $800 which I thought was a pretty damn good deal tax free. We've crested over 16,000 shots on that machine.

It has a reservoir in the back right for whole bean, it has a built in high quality burr grinder that grinds the beans to pre measured quantity (adjustable for short medium or tall espresso shots or coffee if you choose), then dispenses it in to the tamper, presses it, and from the other reservoir in the back left with water it dispenses the boiling hot water from the built-in boiler through the tamped grounds, producing a perfect shot every time. Then when done it it ejects the now spent coffee puck into a waste bin. This thing tells you when you need water and when you need to empty the waste bin, and it's just awesome. You can also buy the milk dispenser adapter that connects to the frother (seen on the left below), if you're really lazy.

I walk up and push a button twice to get 2 shots put a couple underneath it walk away and come back in about 1 minute to two fresh espresso shots. Dump them into a cup and add milk and sugar and I got myself a latte. You can of course frost the milk if you choose as the frother is built in as well.

And just take it a step further, I recently came across a yard sale where somebody was selling a home coffee bean roaster brand new in the box, including four one-pound samples of different premium green beans in packages. Got it for free at the yard sale because the guy hadn't sold it by the time he was done and put it on the curb. Turns out this thing sold for about $200. Not too bad for free.

I roasted a couple of sets of beans already in this thing and what's really need is you can roast to whatever darkness you choose. You can set and have presets for different types of beans, so if you prefer medium or dark or medium dark roast, you can preset the machine to have more than one roasting time. It actually roasts in three separate temperature stages, and then the fourth stage is a cooling off period.

According to research on the web, beans are roasted begin losing their flavor after only 24 hours. This is no matter how you store them apparently, but oxygen tends to be coffee beans worst enemy so storing them in his children vacuum container will give you the best results for longer term storage. However, according to the same research on roasted beans can be kept for several months or more as they do not begin to release their gases which causes them to lose the flavor until after they are roasted. This means you can keep several varieties of green beans on your shelves for many many weeks and just roast enough for perhaps the coming few days at a time.

Finally, green beans are extremely inexpensive when compared to fully roasted coffee. Some of the prices I saw were outrageously low, something like $15 for 5 pounds of green beans. maybe it was even cheaper from my recollection. Here's a mail order company that sells them by the pounds.

 

[Sajo]

So...when are all the coffee drinkers getting invites to @FoxKat house for fresh espresso?

JK. But those are some great deals...I never find deals like that.

 

[cr6]

I'll stick with my Keurig. Perfect cup of coffee everytime. And with hundreds of types, flavours, teas, etc, you can't go wrong. We even have two of them at work.
I agree with Jeffrey though, nothing better than fresh ground coffee. [emoji106]
Last time I had Starbucks, was last Thanksgiving, when I was out of town visiting family. It was probably a year before that. We've got quite a few speciality drive up coffee kiosks here in town that offer much better coffee at a much better price. I don't use them that often either simply because I can get a great cup of coffee in less than 2 minutes whether I'm at home or work.

Great thread though..... looks like we've got quite a few coffee lovers here. (Which btw.....we do have our own coffee forum don't we? At least I thought we did.... )

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[FoxKat]

I'll stick with my Keurig. Perfect cup of coffee everytime. And with hundreds of types, flavours, teas, etc, you can't go wrong. We even have two of them at work.
I agree with Jeffrey though, nothing better than fresh ground coffee. [emoji106]

S5 tap'n

Hey, I have a Keurig too. And you're absolutely right, it makes one fantastic cup of coffee every single time. But I'm a tinkerer and like to play, and also I do enjoy trying different varieties and believe me when I say freshly ground is better even than Keurig. I've done the comparison of the same bean from a Keurig machine and freshly ground and I can tell you that there's a distinctly different flavor, much more robust with fresh ground beans.

Speaking of deals, there is a warehouse nearby which buys closeouts, odd lots, and pallet auctions of Amazon.com returned items, and every once in awhile I find large bulk quantity of Keurig in different coffee flavors, in cases which typically have I believe 96 canisters in them, and often times I wind up buying those cases for 10 or 15 dollars.

 

[cr6]

You know you can use fresh ground coffee in your Kuerig right? They have a number of disposable kcup canisters you can use your own coffee with.
These are the ones I use at work.

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[FoxKat]

You know you can use fresh ground coffee in your Kuerig right? They have a number of disposable kcup canisters you can use your own coffee with.
These are the ones I use at work.

S5 tap'n

Yes, and in fact the one I have came with its own adapter (the right one) that takes the ground coffee without a filter, but there are several varieties and brands. I also own the middle one - Gold plated.


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[smalltowngirl13]

Great thread though..... looks like we've got quite a few coffee lovers here. (Which btw.....we do have our own coffee forum don't we? At least I thought we did.... )

S5 tap'n

Why yes we do ... Coffee Forum - Active Topics

 

[FoxKat]

Why yes we do ... Coffee Forum - Active Topics

I get bad gateway 502 error on that link.

 

[smalltowngirl13]

I get bad gateway 502 error on that link.

It works for me - Coffee Forum - try that one...