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Coffee maker = $15 (Wal-Mart has several for less in store)
Filter (reuasable one) = $7
Beans, 1lb, arabica only (no robusto crap) = $10
Pot = came with the coffee maker
Cup = Free at most workplaces when you join
Training = Free from google
Electricity = NegligableAssuming a brew of 36oz per day, 5 days a week. Assume about 1-2 tablespoons of coffee per 6 oz. With good gourmet coffee, brewed strong the way most seasoned drinkers like it, that's about 100 6oz cups per lb give or take on the coffee and the way you like it. To be fair, let's assume you throw 2/3 of the coffee you brew out because you only want the equivalent of a regular starbucks, but you know that when you brew a real small quantity of coffee it never taste right. So let's start doing the math. 1lb of $10 gourmet aribaca coffee (similiar or better than SB, but this is subjective, however with 100's of coffees in this price range you will find something you like), yields about 100 cups. Brewed at an effeiciency of 33%, because at a minimum 36oz is required per brew but you only want 12oz that comes to 33 cups for $10. That's $0.303 per cup, or rounding up $0.31 per cup. After just 7 weeks your own fresh brewed coffee is just $1 per cup. And the longer you drink it and the more you drink it the cheaper it gets approaching a theoritical minimum cost of $0.10 per cup if you drink 36oz per day over several years. I usually drink pure Kona coffee, which cost about $30-$40/lb. IMO it is vastly superior to anything starbucks brews, and I brew it myself for a fraction of the cost. I found out a long time ago you don't pay $4 a cup for the coffee, you pay $0.10 for it and $3.90 for the convenience of not having to brew it yourself. To be fair Starbucks has an atmosphere that my kitchen doesn't quite capture; some young professional people probably go to SB for that, but it's not something one can put a price on. Party On.
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