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Originally Posted by Fat Charlie
The cost/benefit has more to do with time, thought and energy than the money. Coffee itself is dirt cheap. Last night I spent $3.99 on 11.3 ounces of Folgers, and it's going to last me a long time. Running a project and going through all the extra steps to do it all up at home would give me better coffee. But the extra enjoyment wouldn't outweigh the extra effort. I'm at just the right level of cost/effort/enjoyment right now.
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I suppose my issue is, I drink decaf only, and so if the coffee is lousy, I simply won't drink it. I've always found Folgers and Maxwell House to be nigh undrinkable even with copious cream and sugar, so it isn't hedonic adaptation.
For me, the minimum coffee I find I can enjoy is considerably more expensive than roasting at home appears to be.
Plus, I'm accustomed to spending a lot of time in the kitchen. A vast majority of what we eat is from scratch. E.g. soy milk from dried beans, pasta sauce from dumpster or canned tomatoes, herbs are mostly from the garden and dried, stocks we boil from veggies, then save the scraps to be blended into something like a split pea soup.
My wife and I tried making bran flake cereal from scratch for a while, and that turned out to be too much work for me. She's also onboard with grinding our own flour, but that's surprisingly not even cost effective.