The ccost of a coffee

[newstart2380]

i have just seen an aticle on the 10 news about the price of a cup of coffee and people interviewed said they had 10 to 12 cups before lunch so they could get their caffeine fix, the cost must be enormous.

Now if that is not an addiction nothing is - if they are working when do they have time to have 10 to 12 cups beflore lunch.

How many do you have ? Me I drink hot chocolate and an accosional cup of tea, i don't drink coke or any other sugary fizzy drink

[lis351]

Now that Im working in an office, 8-10 per day. I stop at about 4:30 pm and its only water from then on. You can never guarantee good coffee from a cafe, so I drink hot chocolate if I go to one. Rare though, as Muggs said, your looking at $5-$6.50.

[amber-eyed-girl]

I am lucky, wherever I have had a coffee in a cafe in Melbourne it has varied from great to fantastic. Usually well made from a good machine, just depends more on the blend.

I have a favorite local cafe, if I am walking past I will have one, probably two to three a week. One to two a day at home from an old-fashioned espresso machine at the most. It makes an excellent cup 🙂 but was very cheap on clearance at a hardware store! Gave it a try and am so glad I did. Better cup than an Italian cafe machine that was being sold at the same time for 1300$.

Cafe coffee, 3.50$

Home coffee about 60c

[i-need-a-martini]

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@mugssy65 wrote:
You can double that price over here in the West Martini, a coffee from either Dome, Muffin break, or even the drive throughs will cost at least $6:50!!!

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That's ridiculous. But those chains always charge more and the coffee is atrocious even over here in the East.

I shake my head when I see people with supersized coffe cups from Starbucks or Gloria Jeans. It's just hot water with some overpressed and overused coffee beans for flavouring. What is even more bewildering is when they can walk a few shops down and find a cafe with a real machine and proper barista.

[lind9650]

Talking about excellent coffee.

A few years ago I was stuck at Sydney Airport. My connective plane was delayed for four hours due to some staff dispute. I was longing for a coffee and started walking out of the departure area when the whiff of strong, lovely, fresh coffee hit my nostrils. I just followed my nose to that delicious smell and came to a place that sold absolutely fantastic coffee of any kind you liked.

I did not mind paying $4.50 for a coffee that night, and it kept me awake until I landed in Melbourne at 10.30pm with nowhere to go because the last bus to my hometown had left Melbourne three hours before I arrived.

Good thing my son lived in a Melbourne suburb, so I could stay there overnight, but as soon as I walked through his door, I crashed and did not wake until morning to the lovely aroma of freshly made coffee.

Erica

[debra9275]

I love my coffee, I think I probably have about 6 a day otherwise I drink water.

Martini I don't like Gloria Jeans or Starbucks coffee either, it's so weak and tasteless.

Coffee varies a bit in price from place to place here ranging from $3.50 to $6.00

[i-need-a-martini]

My Sydney coffee is $3. I refuse to pay more.

But then again I work in Surry Hills where every 2nd shop is a cafe with a trio of trained baristas so the competition is tough. If the coffee cost any more, people would just go to the next place.

[k0llectable5]

I drink heaps of coffee, is it bad that I dont count how many I have? Mostly in the morning at least 4 maybe 5.  Then if I am out I will buy a real coffee from a cafe.  I hate it how sometimes you can go to a cafe one day and the coffee is awesome, then you go back a week later and it's really average. I put it down to who is making it. 

I also hate it when I see baristas making coffee and they go from pouring one shot to the next without wiping out the filter basket inside the group head.  It's such a small job, takes less than 10 seconds but makes all the difference to the taste of the coffee.  The remnants that are left inside the filter basket will compound and start slowly burning as each shot is poured from the machine through these remnants. This really does taint the flavour of the coffee.  If you've ever bought a coffee from a cafe and it looks the part but tastes weird kinda burnt but not,  chances are they dont wipe...

[amber-eyed-girl]

Chances are they don't wipe...


Agree with you, makes all the difference.

[i-need-a-martini]

The only thing that should be wiped out with every new shot is the basket. There is no point wiping the group because the gunk build up is INSIDE the head. You can't reach it with a wipe. The only way to remove that gunk is to pull the head apart and scrub it screen inside. Takes about 10-15mins and is done at the end of the day/every couple of days.

Most (professional) machines are plumbed in and the groups are purged with water between shots - thats the only cleaning needed.

A dirty machine (either coffee residue in the basket or a large build up of oils in the group) will make your coffe taste bitter rather than burnt.

The burnt taste comes from milk that is steamed too hot.Cappucinos are typically burnt cause the barista thinks he should keep steaming in order to get a good froth. Burnt coffee is something you never taste in Italy cause the milk temperature sits between luke warm to hot. In Australia we like our coffees scalding which is a problem.

[j*oono]

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@newstart2380 wrote:

i have just seen an aticle on the 10 news about the price of a cup of coffee and people interviewed said they had 10 to 12 cups before lunch so they could get their caffeine fix, the cost must be enormous.

Now if that is not an addiction nothing is - if they are working when do they have time to have 10 to 12 cups beflore lunch.

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I think the man said that he has two or three and that costs $8 to $12 a day.  They were talking about the cost, not the amount of coffees.