Coffee Musings
2020-02-29 19:19:58.91694+01 by Dan Lyke 0 comments
Huh. I generally buy my coffee beans, either roasted or green, at Petaluma Coffee & Tea. They roast on-premises, don't burn their beans (unlike *cough* other coffee places), and people who drink coffee at my house say "wow". So I think I pay $15-18/lb, depending on the bean.
Petaluma Coffee & Tea also sells the cheapest cup of coffee in town, $1.50 for a 12 oz medium.
Google tells me there are 75 tablespoons per pound of coffee, use roughly 4 tablespoons per pound of coffee, so just under 19 12oz cups of coffee per pound.
Add in the cost of filters and heating water, and I'm not sure it's cheaper to buy the beans...
(I write this as I cheaped out and bought a pound of a Honduran bean roasted by Two Wise Guys from Grocery Outlet, I don't remember how much for but probably half of what similar would cost at PC&T, but for all the flowery language on the bag those beans are roasted so dark there's no flavor from the original coming through...)