No no pods for us, I didn't want to be tied to a particular brand to have our coffee, much less be able to buy them out here on the road..... ours has a bean grinder, and yeah we did calculate the costs ages ago when we bought our Breville automatic espresso machine and if memory is correct it worked out to $1 a cup and that's a large mug too, milk included, far cry from the $4 at most places, if you can get one at all in the outback.Greynomad wrote:I'm a tea man, myself, but Joy drinks the caffiene OD. (Black, no sugar)
She went off instant muck some years ago. Bought a "plunger" thingo.
Swears by it. We no longer carry instant aboard, or at home.
Ash & Wendy (and other coffee pod enthusiasts),
Have you included the cost of generator fuel in the 'savings' achieved with your cafe latte/pod machines?
Perhaps it would be an interesting exercise to convert the cost of the pods to $/kg, then compare the cost of 1kg of pods to buying ground coffee by the kg, which is how we buy it. And every machine takes a slightly different-shaped pod... funny, that. You're locked into the pod type for that machine.
Our gas-top whistling kettle brews for both my teapot and Joy's coffee pot, so it comes under the budget heading of 'cooking consumables.'
We buy the cheap bags of beans (around $15 ) when they're on special.
We too are tea drinkers, we just enjoy the one once a day and tea a couple of times a day!!!
Just heard about this handpresso and thought some folk might like to know they exist.
Cheers
