/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.12140630]

How come more people don't save money by making coffee at home and taking it in a thermos to work?

I got a buddy of mine to do this and it works out he's saving about 1900 bucks a year, by not buying 4 cups of Starbucks a day at work.

You can pick quite nice coffee, and make it at home in a french press and you will still be saving lots of cash

[Anonymous No.12140643]

Because $1900 a year is chump change.

[Anonymous No.12140649]

>>12140630
The real meta is having a workplace coffee-pool and kicking in a dollar a week.

[Anonymous No.12140655]

>>12140630
Why would I go through all the effort of making a tasty instant coffee latte in 30 sec when I can drive my car to the starbucks storefront, park, lock my car and make sure my laptop isn't visible, enter the storefront and stand in line, place my order and give my name, pay & tip, wait for a teenager to make my coffee, and listen to top 40 hiphop over the PA while I enjoy my brew? It's not just about saving money, it's about saving time

[Anonymous No.12140656]

thermos eventually gets gross and moldy

[Anonymous No.12140658]

>>12140655
Kek

[Anonymous No.12140659]

because most workplaces offer free coffee

[Anonymous No.12140663]

>>12140630
I get fancy coffee shop style coffee for free at work every day. Also free lunch.

[Anonymous No.12140664]

>>12140656
Which is why you wash it with hot water and detergent every time you use it sweetie.

[Anonymous No.12140665]

>>12140630
> save money by making coffee at home and taking it in a thermos to work
You what? What kind of workplace doesn't offer free coffee? That's like the most common free thing offices supply you with next to printer paper.

[Anonymous No.12140668]

>>12140630
Because only a real retard would buy 4 cups of Starbucks coffee a day. Does your office not have a coffee machine? Every place I've ever worked does and it's free. What shit country do you live in

[Anonymous No.12140671]

>>12140659
I've literally never even heard of an office not giving you free coffee until seeing this thread. Is OP for real or is this just a make believe b8 thing?

[Anonymous No.12140676]

>>12140643
> chump change

It isn't chump change when you're having to pay for your own healthcare in the land of the free my dude.

[Anonymous No.12140683]

>>12140671
My last job wasn't even at an office, the employee cafeteria just had a coffee maker. Once we got bought out by a larger company they actually replaced it with one of the best damn coffee makers I've ever used.

[Anonymous No.12140684]

>>12140671
> everyone works in an office.

Found the retarded coastie.

[Anonymous No.12140686]

>>12140684
Are you a construction worker?

[Anonymous No.12140712]

>>12140686
Im a ranger

[Anonymous No.12140772]

>>12140630
Why would I drink starbucks? And why would I put a thermos in my pannier when I can just brew it at work?
>>12140671
They have coffee but it’s fucking peets, I’m not drinking that garbage
>>12140684
At least this flyover found work, most of you are on disability

[Anonymous No.12140838]

>>12140686
Nah, garbage collector, one of the best jobs available here in West Jeebusville, AR.

[Anonymous No.12140842]

>>12140838
hear they make a lot of money

[Anonymous No.12140879]

>>12140842
Last year I pulled down over $27k before taxes. Coastie cucks seething!

[Anonymous No.12140897]

>>12140630
Monster is better than coffee from an energy standpoint anyway.

[Anonymous No.12140899]

>>12140879
how much does a place to live cost/month

[Anonymous No.12140913]

>>12140879
It's really fucked how people want McDonalds workers to earn more than an actual licensed garbage truck driver. Also I would unironically like to be a garbageman except that I'm not good at driving even with regular cars. Seems comfy since people consider it a dirty job and probably leave you alone, as opposed to other low wage jobs like customer service or sales where people don't consider it dirty and therefore expect you to do all sorts of degrading crap to earn your keep. Programming's not bad work and it's what I've been doing, but Google and other evil mega-corporations are always trying to make everyone else become a programmer too, so it isn't as much a trade you feel particularly secure or unique in knowing.

[Anonymous No.12141128]

>>12140630
I work at a lab with a coffe machine
I just let the coffe brewing for a while and drink it to start my day

[Anonymous No.12141296]

>falling for the coffee jew
cringe and blue pilled

[Anonymous No.12141299]

>>12140676
>not being able to afford insurance
>not being able to afford regular doctor's visits
Must suck being poor. Like he said, it's chump change.

[Anonymous No.12141318]

>drinking coffee

[Anonymous No.12141387]

I'm 33 and have NEVER bought coffee. I've been given a few giftcards and used those, but I have never actually spent my own earned dollars on coffee. I just don't understand people. At all.

I like instant coffee. As in... I prefer it. I keep some of those Starbucks Via single-servings in my backpack. Shit is dope. Gas stations, universities, offices, just about anywhere... all of them have a coffee machine with a hot water dispenser -- it's usually kept near boiling. I carry a thermos in my backpack. Just tear open a pouch, pour it in, get some hot water, stir, and enjoy.

We live in an time when you can carry in a backpack what would have required a room hundreds of years ago. A gun, thousands of books on a Kindle, a small library of games and movies on a laptop, thousands of hours of music on a smart phone, more data on SD cards, freeze-dried food, instant coffee, flavored drinks (like Propel), thousands of dollars on a plastic card, etc.

People don't understand how good we have it. I'm fortunate enough to come from a generation where I remember not having these things, but also young enough to learn how to use them.

[Anonymous No.12141411]

>>12140630
Free coffee at work (even if it's shitty coffee) prevents me for the most part. I do go to cafes around town to try them out from time to time though, usually on weekends when I'm already out.
Really I'd get my own coffee making setup but I feel like I wouldn't drink enough on my own to justify it.

[Anonymous No.12141633]

am I a brain dead consumer for spending $5 daily on coffee?

[Anonymous No.12141693]

>>12140676
>my dude.
Kill yourself.

[Anonymous No.12141696]

>>12141633
You're a brain dead porn addict.

[Anonymous No.12141702]

>>12141633
Probably, my work gives it out for free everywhere.

[Anonymous No.12141704]

>>12141702
I work online like a pleb

[Anonymous No.12141772]

>>12140630
>NEEDING 4! doses of stimulants just to make it through the day

do wagies really do this?

[Anonymous No.12141775]

>>12141693
>calling everything you don't like reddit in an attempt to "fit in"
>frogposting
Kill yourself

[Anonymous No.12142669]

ach uncultured amerikan swine...
Drinking covfee is an special expierience, you go to a decent coffee shop(not starhacks) and enjoy you're coffee in relaxed enviorment

[Anonymous No.12142683]

>>12140630
>How come more people don't save money by making coffee at home and taking it in a thermos to work?

Because those sugary Starbucks drinks will help you mold the ideal woman for a high test man of refined tastes.
Worth every penny, m8.

[Anonymous No.12142698]

>>12142683
Kek

[Anonymous No.12142740]

>>12140630
I'm not operable until I've had my first cup of coffee. I don't get how anyone could get in their car and make their way to a drive-thru first thing in the morning.

[Anonymous No.12142773]

because coffee is free at work
checkmate NEETS.

[Anonymous No.12142776]

>>12142740
>he gets any reaction from coffee at all
caffeinelets are adorable

[Anonymous No.12143816]

>>12142773
Hahaha yes Bro! I get free coffee inside my Arctic lorry every time I want it haha, every job everywhere has free coffee Bro!!

[Anonymous No.12144617]

>>12140630
Took me about 2 months to realize this. I honestly have no clue. The time spent is miniscule and the quality is unbeatable. I even boil the water while I shower and steep while I change.
I've never bought a cup of coffee better than what I can make either. Of course I'm one of those assholes that shop at local fresh roasted whole bean shops, and not some corporate pre-burnt swill powder shop.

[Anonymous No.12144704]

>>12140630
The architect

[Anonymous No.12144754]

>>12140643
lol tryhard
No matter how wealthy you are saving $1900 a year should be desirable

[Anonymous No.12144776]

>>12140630
>>12140655
>besides, it's only $4.50!

[Anonymous No.12144786]

>>12144704

[Anonymous No.12144792]

>>12140684
As long as you have a base of operations and a break room there should be coffee freely available. Even if it isn't provided by the company for some reason the employees can easily pitch in a dollar or two a week.

[Anonymous No.12144943]

i hate buying coffee by the cup but it's a social thing at my workplace so i just do it and eat the cost reluctantly in secret

[Anonymous No.12144971]

>>12140665
Coffee is for closers.

[Anonymous No.12145970]

>>12144971
Kek

[Anonymous No.12146033]

>>12144776
How much does this homosexuality cost?

[Anonymous No.12146034]

>>12140630
My wife gets an eggmcmuffin and iced coffee at McDonalds every day on her way to work and she thinks I don't know about it and tries to hide it. The weird thing is I wouldn't even care. It's, like, $100 a month or something. She is just ashemed though.

[Anonymous No.12146041]

>>12140630
>You can pick quite nice coffee,
Like most things, it's about convenience - not quality. America runs on laziness.

[Anonymous No.12146054]

I personally ran a water new water line and rigged up a float valve on the Keurig 2.0 in the office so it never has to be refilled. Got passed over for a promotion a few weeks later. My engineering was better than my accounting, apparently.

[Anonymous No.12146064]

>>12142683
>>12144704
>>12144786
Damn redit killed this joke fast

[Anonymous No.12146072]

I like having coffee shops in walking distance as a place to relax every now and then, so I buy a cup every morning just to keep money in the local economy

[Anonymous No.12146081]

>>12140665

This. I drink the work coffee. It tastes like shit, but when you work at 4 am every morning, the last thing you care about is the taste of your caffeine.

[Anonymous No.12146085]

because 50% of people are women

[Anonymous No.12146093]

>>12140643

[Anonymous No.12146097]

>>12140630
Or just give up the caffeine addiction and save even more money.

[Anonymous No.12146113]

>>12146093
>retiring after 30 years
Kek

[Anonymous No.12147069]

>>12140630
Most people do you LARPING unemployed faggot

[Anonymous No.12147226]

>>12140665
>That's like the most common free thing offices supply you with next to printer paper.
Not that anon but it's usually instant. Plenty of people would prefer to pop out for starbucks etc because any kind of instant latte is terrible.

I've worked in offices that had coffee machines and we made our own lattes and saved a bunch of money.
That said, many of the people popping out for a coffee are really just paying $5 to get out of work for 15 minutes, it's essentially a smoke break for non-smokers (but then the smokers just take twice as many).

>>12140671
>I've literally never even heard of an office not giving you free coffee until seeing this thread
I don't think I'ved worked anywhere that didn't have free coffee, though it wasn't usually anything special. Nescafe instant or something is standard. Only one place ever had a coffee machine with actual beans.

>>12140712
>Im a ranger
You should definitely have a thermos then but I'm sure you already do.
Maybe an aeropress and a thermos of hot water? Do you have a kettle or something that runs off the lighter socket in your vehicle?

>>12142683
God I love this meme

[Anonymous No.12147261]

>>12146034
Because your wife is eating 800 calories at least for breakfast every. Fucking. Day

She’s willfully becoming a ham beast while wasting on average 8-10 dollars every work day on garbage brekkie
Ffs sort your bitch out

[Anonymous No.12147294]

>>12147261
No, she's pretty fit. Egg McMuffins are the healthiest thing on their menu, almost. 300 calories, I think? I think I'd have to check. And iced coffee is ... actually, that's a good question. My 16oz of coffee at home is 90 calories (creamer is 30cal per teaspoon or something like that). I know McDonalds uses some sort of syrup. I don't know.

[Anonymous No.12147344]

>>12147294
They’re around 400 at least. Those are doused with sugar, nothing like your home brew. Put a check on your wife’s poor habits
The biggest lie women believed is breakfast is important. The truth is they won’t start putting on weight if they skip a meal.

[Anonymous No.12147572]

>>12140656
>I don't wash my dishes.

[Anonymous No.12147577]

>>12140897
>I hate my kidneys.

[Anonymous No.12147601]

>>12147294
A standard egg mcmuffin is about 300 calories

[Anonymous No.12147630]

>>12140897
cocaine is better than monster and coffee from an energy standpoint anyway

[Anonymous No.12147843]

>>12144617
This

[Anonymous No.12148329]

>>12147344
>LITERALLY DOUSED WITH SUGAR!!!11
>3g

Egg McMuffins are basically the diet food of McDonalds. They taste awesome, can eat while driving, and are (now) available all day long. It's what dieters grab when they have to eat out.

For comparison, the Nutrisystem McMuffins (which are tasty with some salt and pepper) are about half the size and 150 calories/1g sugar. They use turkey instead of ham and some sort of scrambled 'egg product' and the bun is tiny. So the Egg McMuffin doesn't add anything unnecessary like a sugar coating.
https://www.nutrisystem.com/diet-nutrition/shop-a-la-carte/4135/frozen/40070/canadian+style+turkey+bacon+egg+and+cheese+muffin

[Anonymous No.12148336]

>>12140630
Coffee cucks actually spend $1900 a year on coffee kek!

[Anonymous No.12148337]

>>12148329
He is talking about the iced coffee being doused in sugar, brainlet

[Anonymous No.12148340]

Why would I care for 1900 burgers a year lmao.

[Anonymous No.12148362]

>>12148337
It's only doused in sugar if you ask for it, brainlet. It's not a fucking frappe. It's cold coffee. You can ask for it any way you want.

[Anonymous No.12148653]

>>12140630
>mfw i work at starbucks and get free coffee whenever the hell i want

[Anonymous No.12148804]

>>12148653
Starbucks coffee sucks. Only thing worth getting there is a blonde roast iced americano.

[Anonymous No.12148844]

>>12144971
My man.

[Anonymous No.12149164]

>>12140630
mfw coffee at works cost 25 cents

[Anonymous No.12150318]

>>12149164
> paying anything for shit coffee

[Anonymous No.12151693]

>>12148653
Bet you hate the taste the taste of coffee after a year in that job

[Anonymous No.12152905]

You'd save even more money by not drinking coffee and NOT having it on such a regular basis that it becomes yet another morning chore along with your daily commute to work.

[Anonymous No.12152934]

>>12140630
>tfw I get free coffee, tea, soups, cocoa or just plain water at work
Imagine being an americuck.

[Anonymous No.12153533]

>>12140656

[Anonymous No.12153612]

Coffee's free where I work.

[Anonymous No.12153831]

>>12153612
Bet it's shit coffee tho

[Anonymous No.12153956]

>>12153831
Not him but one of my old workplaces had the best coffee I've ever had, the owner must have been a coffee guy because he bought an insane automated machine, you could make some crazy shit like double shot with cocoa, frothed milk.
The other place that had amazing coffee was my local tyre shop of all places. Just a dinky machine but it made perfect coffee. It almost makes up for spending hundreds of dollars on new tyres.

[Anonymous No.12154304]

I stopped drinking coffee. Might have a homemade cup on weekends because I enjoy the flavor but relying on caffeine is just awful.

[Anonymous No.12155917]

>>12154304
Why not just drink decaff?

[Anonymous No.12156118]

>>12140643
Lol still love home don’t you, I make more than that a week and it’s certainly not chump change

[Anonymous No.12156124]

>>12140686
I work on construction an we always have coffee makers in the job trailers

[Anonymous No.12156136]

Makes sense for people who like those stupidly complicated coffees or coffee snobs, I had oic related that had the timer and I’d set it to brew 15 minutes before I woke up, was convenient but I don’t drink coffee anymore, gives me terrible heartburn

[Anonymous No.12156140]

>>12140630
because not knowing how to cook for yourself and getting uber eats for every meal is some kind of zoomer status symbol now

[Anonymous No.12156165]

>>12140712
gib stories about job pls I am super duper jelly

[Anonymous No.12156173]

>>12146093
I'm convinced all the "lol poorfags" people on here are people who still live with their parents and make minimum wage with no retirement plan or any idea how to properly manage their finances and think being able to eat out and spend money on unnecessary things somehow makes them rich.

[Anonymous No.12157213]

>>12156173
Some of us are middle-aged oldfags who live with a family and have no retirement plan.

[Anonymous No.12158980]

>>12140630
>How come more people don't save money by making coffee at home and taking it in a thermos to work?
Because work gives free coffee, and if your work doesn't then they're fucking ripping you off.
t.job I've had for 12 years has free coffee, tea and snacks

[Anonymous No.12159106]

>>12156124
Not true

[Anonymous No.12159124]

>>12146093
Factoring in inflation, that end figure will have actually depreciated in real value. The mental well-being of a person who treats himself on a daily basis, however, does not.