It’s about $0.50 at home using fresh local beans and organic A2 milk. The machine has already paid for itself.
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The other $6.50 is gas money for the generator, I see no issues here
That sounds low, only plausible if you're drinking very small amounts or if you're getting a really good deal on your ingredients.
Where I live, the local and regional roasters generally charge about $15 for 12 oz/340g. I like black drip/pourover coffee at a 17:1 ratio, so a 20 fl oz cup is 590g of water and 34g of coffee, or exactly 1/10 of a 12 oz bag.
So for me, each 20 oz cup of black coffee costs me $1.50 in beans.
Espresso based drinks use something like 8g of coffee per shot, and 3 shots per 20 oz cup is pretty standard, so we're still talking about 24g of coffee bean, or 7% of a 12oz bag, or over $1 per drink in coffee alone.
If each shot is about 1 fl oz, you've got 3 oz of espresso and 17 oz of other stuff, milk I assume, which also costs money. Regular milk is like $4/gallon, so we're talking about another $0.50 or so of milk alone filling up that 20 oz cup.
Coffee roasted less than 48 hours ago from a local roaster costs me around 1CAD per cup (16g shot)
One local roaster sells a 1 kilo bag at my Costco for $22. One shot of espresso on my machine is 22g, so that’s $0.48 of coffee.
The milk I buy is $12 for three half gallons. A latte has 6 oz of milk, so $0.38.
Grand total is $0.86, a little bit more than the last time I calculated it. This spring when I got the espresso machine, the coffee was $18 and the milk was $9, so the latte was closer to $0.70. Not quite the $0.50 I remembered, that number may have been just the coffee without the milk.
Inflation is a bitch. Thanks Trump.
That just sounds like greater incentive to stay home.
My espresso machine has already paid for itself, although I'll grant that it was a pretty huge initial investment. Coffee shop coffee is just so fucking expensive...
Not only is it cheaper, it tastes better than 90% of what’s out there. The only thing I’m lacking is latte art, I have yet to get that figured out and have kinda given up.
That only motivates me even more to just stay at home.
Ensuring that my dog doesn't shit on the carpet is what gets me out of the house most days.
AU$7 for a large latte is a pretty expensive but not beyond imagination if you start adding extras. For reference, a large caramel latte is $6.50 at my preferred cafe, but it's a speciality coffee roasters cafe and the quality of the coffee is very good.
Assuming that's US dollars I think a large latte (455ml apparently or just over 15oz) at the Costa (about Starbucks level) by me is about £5 (which is about the same as $7). Would probably be an extra quid from a fancier place, probably for a smaller coffee too.
How much is a similar sized latte where you are? It's been a minute since I've checked how much we're comparatively getting ripped off over here
It's about the same in Arizona, USA. Starbucks 16oz Pumpkin Spice latte is $6.76. A local specialty coffee shop currently has a White Pumpkin latte for about $7.83 after tax. I think it's a 16oz. The regular lattes are maybe a dollar cheaper.