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Keurig Cost vs Starbucks vs Home brew<\/h2>\n

We at Delightful coffee are all about coffee, and also cost, so for the sake of this article we’ll looks at the large scale cost differences of having a cup made by a Keurig machine on average, versus visiting Starbucks, versus using your drip maker at home. Read on for more…<\/p>\n

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Environmental Sense<\/h3>\n

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1st things first, lets speak of environmental costs. Millions of Keurig K-Cups end up in landfills a year, that is a face. Millions of Starbucks cups end up in landfills each year. With home brew drip, however, usually only the filters and the coffee grounds get discarded, but did you know that both the grounds and the filter can be added to your compost pile? Or you can simply keep your grounds and add them to your yard or garden! The grounds will get absorbed into the soil, become part of it, they will help make the soil more granular and absorbent, and besides all that, plants love it! Particularly rose bushes. Another thing you can do once you have discovered this, you can ask your local coffee joint, like Starbucks, to save the grounds for you for gardening use.
\nYou could also recycle your Keurig grounds, but really, how messy would that get? Unless you use those refillable plastic Keurig K-cup replacements you will have to remove the foil on each cup and dump out the grounds. Every. Single. Time.<\/p>\n

Dollars and Cents (sense).<\/h4>\n

Today at the local grocery store, Stater Brothers, I did some comparison shopping. Keurig K-Cups “pods” per unit, cup, generally cost 59\u00a2 to 89\u00a2 a unit. So you have the reusable mug that you love, you pour in water into the Keurig if the reservoir is low, tap in this instance but you could use bottles water, which only ups the cost.\u00a0then you turn it on, wait for it to heat up, a couple minutes max, meanwhile you insert your\u00a0coffee pod, press down the lid, feel the satisfying pressure of the foil top getting punctured, and when fully heated you press the start button. Delightful coffee follows right after!
\nNow you also have to figure in that you spent between $89 and $277 for this single cup brewer to the unit cost too, so lets say an average unit cost of $110.00 divided by what, maybe 1000 uses, that there is .11\u00a2 per cup. So your final cost per cup is between .70\u00a2 and $1.00 a cup.<\/p>\n