/ck/ - Food & Cooking

Because the french press I bought today was just 20 bucks without the fraud.

Though the place I usually buy my beans from upped the price per pound to around 15 usd.

Congratulations. You are one of the reasons that workers get paid less, and why companies have to focus on profits so anally.

>>5330803
>So being the piece of shit I am, I bought a keurig on craigslist for $30, then bought a new one (better one, actually) at target, and returned the craigslist one in its box
Good stuff OP! Very creative and inventive, I admire your chutzpah.

I have at least 8 different methods of coffee prep in my home, but since I bought my Life Partner® a Keurig for XMas 2012 that is what I use almost exclusively.

You can pick up Van Houtte cups for relatively cheap at Costco. I like that and Green Mountain.

>>5330973
>You are one of the reasons that workers get paid less,
Pretty sure things like this are pretty much negligible in the grand scheme of why workers get paid less.

>>5330803
>why don't you have one, /ck?

Because making a cup of coffee is trivial as-is, and I don't need it made any easier.

>>5330970
>not buying dat inexpensive mexican coffee

>>5330973
Good goy! Blame each other and not huge corporations and the government policies that protect them! Remember the 6 million!

>>5330803
Because I am the ubermensch.

>>5330970
You know, according to some scientists, coffee is going to dramatically climb in price and may actually disappear from store shelves as climate change progresses.

>>5330973
Keurig, like any company, throws out a substantial amount of these machines every day. I would say absolute minimum of 3-5% of their machines are defective and get throws away.

OP doing this didn't hurt anything.

>>5331080
>not sticking a plastic cup in your machine, pushing a button, walking away, and returning a minute later to a nice hot cup of coffee in virtually any flavour imaginable, in 3 or 4 different sizes

why does this sound bad to you? the coffee, tea, cocoa, and whatever other shit they make is actually pretty good quality. and you can cook instant ramen with it too.

>>5330803
I've never heard of doing this before. Sounds pretty funny.

>>5331150
>moka pot
my favourite home brewing method, makes a damn fine cup of coffee

>>5330803
God those things are so fucking good.

One of the reasons I enjoy visiting my parents...they've got a kuerig and loads of those cappucino cups. Mmm.

>>5331432
>why does this sound bad to you?

It doesn't. It just sounds unnecessary..

>>5332055
Some would say the daily consumption of an extract of a S. American fruit is unnecessary.

>>5331403
IIRC, the higher quality, better tasting coffee (arabica) will probably go up in price, but the robusta species (which is the cheaper, stronger stuff) won't be as effected. So your specialty coffees will most likely shoot up in price, while your Tim's and McDs and Starbucks shouldn't change too much.

>>5331432
>flavoured coffee

>>5332069
sorry, pedant here, coffee's from sub-saharan Africa

>>5332074
I don't know why I forgot that.

>>5330973
No, Target pays shit because people will work for shit. Companies focus on profit because that is their reason to exist.