Raptis Coffee is now on Amazon.com! We have our 12oz Bourbon Pecan in 3 different varieties.
First we have 1 12oz bag for $10.55, plus 4.49 in shipping. I know, it seems a bit much, but this is for just 1 bag, and if you ship a one pound package anywhere in the US, you are going to pay $8 to $12.
Considering that the average price you pay at a local roaster is around $20 per pound, this is not a bad deal.
Our second item is the same 12oz Bourbon Pecan, but in a three-pack. The price is $23.38 plus $4.49 in shipping. With shipping, you are now paying just over $9 per bag.
Our third item is our six-pack. Again, all bourbon pecan, but now we can fit them perfectly in a USPS flat rate box. At $39.91 plus $4.49 for shipping, you are paying just $7.40 per bag of coffee!
$7.40 per bag can give around 8 pots of coffee (or more, depends on how strong you want it). That is about 96 cups of coffee (in a 12-cup coffee maker)
That is about 8 cents per cup of coffee. Now compare that to your k-cups.
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Wednesday, June 27, 2012
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
K-Cups
Gizmodo.com is no fan of K-Cups and I tend to agree.
K-Cups Not Only Make Bad Coffee, They Make Bad Environments
The convenience they offer is nothing to laugh at. These machines brew coffee fast, and they take away much of the consumer's prep time. Instead of scoping coffee into a basket, which you must later empty out, you simply throw a k-cup into the machine, and toss it out after.
My first problem with them is that I can't make them. Green Mountain owns the patents, so it's not that I can't make them, it's that I'm not allowed. All of the k-cups you buy are made by Green Mountain in one way or another.
Second, I'm just not a fan of the coffee. I'll drink it, but to me it tastes like cheap coffee from a vending machine. Some of the problem is in how fast it brews, the hot water does not have time to extract the flavor like it does in a normal drip brewer. This, I believe, comes down to the user. Most people are ok with the taste, but really want the speed, so for them this is a good deal. But you won't be seeing Raptis Coffee in a k-cup anytime soon.
As the article above mentions, there is a big problem with waste. I'm not going to go into that one, but the last problem I have is the price. Here is another article from gizmodo showing that when you buy a K-Cup, you are paying about $50 per pound! Is that really worth the speed?
If you buy just 1lb of the most expensive coffee I currently offer on the website, and paid for shipping on just that one pound, which currently is our Brazil Bob-O-Link coffee, you would still be less than half of the price of a k-cup (per lb, or per cup, however you want to look at it).
These are all the things I think about when customer's as us if we carry k-cups.
K-Cups Not Only Make Bad Coffee, They Make Bad Environments
The convenience they offer is nothing to laugh at. These machines brew coffee fast, and they take away much of the consumer's prep time. Instead of scoping coffee into a basket, which you must later empty out, you simply throw a k-cup into the machine, and toss it out after.
My first problem with them is that I can't make them. Green Mountain owns the patents, so it's not that I can't make them, it's that I'm not allowed. All of the k-cups you buy are made by Green Mountain in one way or another.
Second, I'm just not a fan of the coffee. I'll drink it, but to me it tastes like cheap coffee from a vending machine. Some of the problem is in how fast it brews, the hot water does not have time to extract the flavor like it does in a normal drip brewer. This, I believe, comes down to the user. Most people are ok with the taste, but really want the speed, so for them this is a good deal. But you won't be seeing Raptis Coffee in a k-cup anytime soon.
As the article above mentions, there is a big problem with waste. I'm not going to go into that one, but the last problem I have is the price. Here is another article from gizmodo showing that when you buy a K-Cup, you are paying about $50 per pound! Is that really worth the speed?
If you buy just 1lb of the most expensive coffee I currently offer on the website, and paid for shipping on just that one pound, which currently is our Brazil Bob-O-Link coffee, you would still be less than half of the price of a k-cup (per lb, or per cup, however you want to look at it).
These are all the things I think about when customer's as us if we carry k-cups.
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