Yeah, when is the optimal time to buy if we’re not in the South? Like in 3 days will everyone have 3/4 full tanks from the panic buying the last two days? Then will the price fall due to lack of demand???
Where do you buy it? I make my own cold brew but it’s annoying.
I get mine at Kroger. Target also has it. I don’t know if it’s a regional thing?
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Seems like the times I’ve looked here, pre-made cold brew was like $1 a serving which is cheaper than buying it at a coffee shop but a lot more than making it. But I don’t recall the brand.
Of course as it is I end up making it 2/3 of the time and buying it 1/3 of the time from a coffee shop so if I were to properly account for that the math might come out closer!
Yeah, it IS cheaper to make it, but I don’t enjoy the taste as much when I do, so when you factor that in, the cost/benefit equation is satisfied.
We buy Starbucks brand coffee, which runs around $7 or $8 a bag. I use maybe half a bag for a batch of cold brew, and the Stok brand lasts me almost as long, so at $5 ish, it works out for me.
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I don’t like the stuff made with the mesh filter as much because it’s all cloudy. I use bag filters.
I should probably re-run my calculations… I can’t recall how much I decided it costs me to cold brew it. I buy Dunkin’ Donuts coffee from Costco though, so I’m probably starting with cheaper coffee than you.
I’ve got a nespresso. In the past I’ve always preferred McDonalds coffee over our homebrew, and would buy McD’s somewhat routinely. Then I got gifted a nespresso. The coffee is outstanding, it’s a treat every cup.
I just have to balance my love for the coffee with my distaste for providing monthly recurring revenue to the most evil, murdering company in the world. Frankly I’d have never purchased the machine myself but now it’s been gifted to me I’m kinda stuck with it.
Prefacing this by reminding you that my brain is in a fog right now… which evil murdering company are you supporting with a Nespresso that you didn’t buy?
I don’t really know anything about Nespressos. Are you forced to buy the actual coffee from a specific (evil) company?
Or are you just concerned that the person who gifted this to you bought it from an evil company? That’s a sunk cost unless you’re comfortable asking this person to return it.
How do you know it came from “the most evil murdering company”? Don’t lots of stores sell Nespressos? Or is the actual manufacturer the evil corporation (rather than the retailer who sold it)?
I’m honestly not sure whether I’m confused or I disagree but your statement isn’t adding up for me. Confusion on my part is likely though.
I assume he’s referring to the Nestlé Group when he talks about the evil murdering company. And like a Keurig, you kinda have to buy their “pods” to use the machine.
Slowly but surely I am clearing out old, freezer burned crap that has been sitting in my freezer for lo these many years. Wow, some of this 
is nasty!!!
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It’s nestle. They’re evil is right out of sci-fi. They’ve done marketing in the past that has resulted in the deaths of children. They drain groundwater like the alien race in oblivion. And you have to buy their pods.
This is the company that became famous for giving poor women just enough baby formula to prevent their own milk from coming in, leading to massive deaths from starvation and diarrheal diseases among their children.
Thanks, I didn’t realize that they were so evil. Or that Nespresso is Nestle, although that’s a little more obvious.
You do? I see “compatible with Nespresso” advertised on coffee pods all the time. Is Nestle getting a cut somehow? (Like a royalty or something?)
Is Nestle profiting off of these Peet’s “Nespresso compatible” pods, for example? I wouldn’t have guessed that they are, but I honestly don’t know.
Yikes, that’s awful.
If Nestle is somehow profiting off these reusable pods then at least it would be a “one and done” thing and then you could buy the actual coffee from whomever you like.
ETA: oh I guess you’d still have to buy the lids. I gotta think that somewhere, somehow, someone is making a Nespresso-compatible product that Nestle doesn’t profit from.
I’ve read the reviews on the secondary market for nespresso pods, they’re not good. So, stuck with buying the original.
From Lucy’s quote:
Creek beds are bone dry and once-gushing springs are reduced to trickles as fights play out around the nation over control of nation’s freshwater supply
This is distrubing, how is there not an uprising over this, instead of just a bit of background bitching on reddit?
Bottled water is such a waste of resources. All that plastic being used and fuel spent carting around water that is generally of the same quality as what’s coming out of your tap. I’ll buy one sometimes when I need to, but generally try not to.
Yes, if i didn’t bring my own bottle, I’ll but bottled water at the airport, or drink it if it comes with a “box lunch”, but i generally drink tap water.
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Just had to step back to avoid being hit by a car while I was in the crosswalk and the driver had a stop sign there. I guess she didn’t see me because she was eating pizza while driving. By the time she stopped her hood was all the way into the crosswalk and we were nearly eye to eye. I believe I scared the crap out of her when I yelled at her.