We Save $500 Every Year by Roasting Coffee Ourselves
Originally uploaded by mikeysklar
Our long term blog readers know that we like to roast our coffee beans in electric popcorn poppers. Now that we have two years of coffee roasting under our belt I would like to share a thought.
We burn through 5 lbs of green bean a month. That comes to $240 a year at $4 a lb. If we were to buy the same bean roasted at $12 a pound from our local roaster we would be spending roughly $720 a year. This means we are presently saving nearly $500 a year while getting the freshest roast possible. There is a case that can be made for the time spent roasting and the air poppers needed, but the time and expenses here are insignificant to us: the power to run the popper is solar generated on site, the roasters come at a buck or two from garage sales and are pulled from the waste stream and we created a life that allows us the time to do our own labor.
2 comments:
Do you buy your green beans locally? I live in TorC and LOVE coffee (it's a staple at our house!) and would definitely roast my own. I could really use $500 elsewhere!
We do have a local source, but they are not willing to expand their distribution. I recommend buying on-line. It is pretty easy to find organic/fair trade for $4-$5 a pound.
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