Saving money on coffee

[ca2wi]

I recently switched from buying 10lbs bags of coffee beans in the supermarket to purchasing green beans online and then roasting them at home. It is much cheaper - green beans sell for about $4-$5/pound (versus $6/12oz in the store) and then you roast them at home. I use an old popcorn popper that I bought at a garage sale for $9.00!

[gakline]

Uh, that just doesn't sound right. (I also see that Jeffrey edited it). Roasting is a very intense process and using the air-roasting process, you need to get it over 400 deg F.

However if you really want to take the time and effort to do it. Here's a Link to do it right.

I think I'll just stick to buying roasted at the store. (where would you even find green beans?)

[BillsGirl]

I am addicted to the coffee I drink, it's so expensive but i can't switch!!!

[gakline]

I recently purchased an exotic brand really cheap, and now I'm hooked on the good stuff. I don't think I can go back to Folgers.

[amomof4]

Here's what I did to get my coffee costs cheaper:

I quit adding cream & sugar. It was hard at first. I would pour the coffee & it would just sit there until my cravings was stronger than the yuky taste. Eventually I acquired a taste. I would imagine you would have the same problem going from gourmet to regular stuff.

Later, I switched from caffienated to decaf. My consumption went from 5 pots a day down to 1 pot a day.

[CRFSaver]

My co-worker used to buy the coffee for the coffee maker I had in my cube so that was a cheap way for me to have coffee. now that he changed departments I have to buy my own. He was buying coffee at Trader Joes and it was quite good...

[rob62521]

I'm pleased to see so many are buying their own coffee and making it themselves instead of going to the coffee shops and paying huge prices. Wise folks you are!

[Bluezy]

How does the coffee taste using a popcorn popper? Roasting a coffee bean is not the same process as that.

[baselle]

Originally Posted by gakline

I recently purchased an exotic brand really cheap, and now I'm hooked on the good stuff. I don't think I can go back to Folgers.

I've had success in stretching the good stuff out - making pots of pretty good coffee using 1 or 2 scoop of the exotic, really good brand, the rest the cheap stuff. Of course the cheap stuff has to be merely weak and nondescript, not actively bad.