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Two tweets from August 2 2025 or earlier.

bamorav: "What is going on!!! The price of coffee has nearly doubled in the past 6 months. I purchased a 25 ounce container in January for $7.79. Same store, same coffee today is $13.99."

sam.baxendale: "As someone wisely said, your dipshit in chief thought the global economy was 14 years old, so decided to fuck it."

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[-] tomkatt@lemmy.world 11 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

I started buying green coffee and roasting it myself. Went from buying around $38 per 2 lbs to around $17-18 per 2 lbs. Bonus, I’m getting better coffee out of it.

[-] Screamium@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

How are you roasting? Heat gun? Air popper? I've heard it's difficult to get a even roast in small home roasted batches

[-] RBWells@lemmy.world 4 points 6 hours ago

Wait, it's expensive here but $42 for a 2lb bag, whole beans roasted, of the good local one. Steadily rose from $35 over the last couple of years. But not near $76.

[-] tomkatt@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Ack, typo. Sorry. That was amounts per 2 lbs, was buying bulk rate from Fresh Roasted Coffee online previously.

Now I buy green coffee beans from Burman coffee, ranging from $6.50 to around $9 per 1 lb and roast it myself as needed.

I fixed the amounts in the original comment.

[-] Matty_r@programming.dev 2 points 3 hours ago

I was curious about this and had a look to see if it would be significantly cheaper here to do that. Green coffee beans are about $30 per kg, but I can buy ground coffee for about $25 per kg.

Guess I won't be doing that then. Ha ha

[-] tomkatt@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

See if you can get whole bean and grind at brewing time at least, if you can. Roasted beans will keep for quite some time, might not start to go stale for a month or two easily, but they start losing freshness and the subtler notes of their flavor as quickly as 15 minutes after grinding.

Honestly, roasting it yourself isn’t needed, but I like it. I prefer light roast and for several batches my “light” roasts were being delivered solidly medium, and in one case medium-dark. Doing it myself means it’s always roasted to my preference, and if I over-roast it by accident, it’s only myself I’m upset with, as opposed to being pissed at the vendor and feeling like I wasted money.

[-] RBWells@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

I saw the coffee being delivered to the Cuban cafe where I get cafe con leche, looked it up and they had a retail website, so I get it from there. Could probably do better on price but it's exactly what I like. And I agree grinding as you need it is so much better.

[-] Matty_r@programming.dev 1 points 2 hours ago

We have a drip coffee machine that I set on a timer, which means the grounds sit in the filter overnight anyway.

I get the ground coffee because proper grinders are pretty expensive. I got a cheap one for $30 which does a terrible job - inconsistent grinding and hard to judge how long to grind for to fit the drip coffee filter.

I drink black coffee, so having a pot ready to go is great - I'll fill up a travel mug when I go to work as well. So works well for me.

[-] tomkatt@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

Hey, no worries then, glad it works for you. If it's not obvious I'm a bit of a coffee snob. 😅 At least for my own drinks, not judging others.

I used a blade grinder for years, was happy when I could afford a real burr grinder, since blades don't grind evenly and heat up the beans. I gave up on automatic coffee pots a long time ago, something like a decade ago I think. Switched to French pressing, and eventually to a preference for pour-over. Steel in both cases, since I find glass to be a bit finicky.

Do clean your drip pot by running some vinegar or 50/50 vinegar and water periodically. They can get really gross inside and some parts of it you can't really reach without disassembly.

[-] imeansurewhynot@sh.itjust.works 14 points 7 hours ago

I want credit where credit is due. Does anyone have the quote?

Or is that just the setup to his joke?

[-] Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 2 points 7 hours ago

The global economy? Prices are what they were a year ago here in China. Next week I'll report if they went up in Vietnam.

[-] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 15 points 6 hours ago

I believe what they are referring to is that Trump fucked Americans by implementing tariffs, which affects the “global economy” from the perspective of Americans, since we’re the ones who end up paying the additional costs for things we import.

[-] Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 6 points 6 hours ago

So the global economy is kinda like the World Series?

[-] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 11 points 6 hours ago

You know us Americans, and how we like to think we’re the center of the universe. 🤷‍♂️

[-] Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 3 points 6 hours ago

Am American, can confirm we are culturally the center of the universe, was accused of not actually being American in Kazakhstan for not being familiar with some popular song from like 2023 or something.

[-] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

I assume that’s also why you were downvoted just now too. Shame on you. 😉

[-] marcos@lemmy.world 3 points 5 hours ago

That one change in particular fucked-up some people here in Brazil. I remember shoe manufacturers and honey producers complaining they had a bad time.

It just wasn't enough to appear on the economical indicators, that improved instead.

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