Posted on 04/01/2023 8:50:04 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Being a caffeine addict doesn't come cheap in Singapore.
Especially when your choice of coffee is a soy milk latte or a cold brew black at a hip cafe.
Kopi is the obvious alternative — the fact that it often doesn't cause as much damage to the wallet is a big plus.
However, a local coffee-drinker, who goes by JM, argued that downing a cup of kopi daily would still add up to a cost of "more than $40 — 50 every month".
As a frustrated consumer, he took up the challenge of bringing a better coffee experience to people and started Sabana Nanyang Coffee.
On Friday (March 30), he shared more about why he started this home-based business.
JM is aware that high inflation doesn't discriminate.
That $1.50 kopi we so dearly love may not stay the same price at all coffee shops.
With instant coffee being a straight no-go for some, what other option is there?
And just like that, Sabana Nanyang Coffee was born.
Customers have a choice of three blends, the cheapest being the Classic Kopitiam Blend ($9.90 for a one-time purchase) of ground Robusta coffee beans roasted with sugar and margarine.
This 240g packet can make between 12 to 16 cups of coffee.
"A cup of freshly brewed kopi [from Sabana Nanyang Coffee] will cost you just 60 cents. If you drink daily, that's $18 per month," JM said.
Compare that to the coffee bill at the last cafe get-together you had.
It also seems like brewing a cuppa is made easy as each order comes with a simple brew guide.
The step-by-step guide will help you create multiple variations of the local coffee, from kopi-o to kopi-c siew dai, from the comfort of your own home.
In the comments section, netizens were keen on giving the coffee a try, with some asking for him to sell other products too.
"Damn bro, this is a great idea," one TikTok user said.
In July 2022, a home-based business went viral for selling coffee outside the window of an HDB flat in Pasir Ris.
Ground Floor Coffee is run by a self-taught barista who turned his home window into a coffee pick-up station.
Barely a month shy of its first day of operation, the home-based business sells out regularly, on average about 40 to 50 cups a day.
I haven’t done the math, but I’d estimate that I’m spending more $0.15 per cup on Folgers Instant
*more like
Coffee roasting is one of my multitude of hobbies. 2 Days after roasting is best because the coffee has offgass the carbon dioxide created during the roast. Let me know if this is hobby you wish to get in to. Roasting your own either filter or espresso is divine.
.15 cents...I know...
At .60 cents per cup I’d quit drinking it.
Is it good?
I might give it a try. Is it ground or whole bean?
I clicked on this thread because I thought it was a Babylon Bee article. It seems some people think that coffee costs 6 or 7 bucks a cup. In our household, we get our coffee the old-fashioned way. We make a pot of Folgers or Maxwell House each morning, and sometimes another one in the afternoon ( the brand we consume is according to what is on sale and the coupons that are available).
Yes, it has become more expensive in the past couple of years due to Bidenflation, but I’m certainly not going to pay half the cost of a container of decent coffee fixings which would supply our needs for a week, and that can be prepared at home, only to receive a small cup of burnt coffee with a spurt of cream in it. If we have a half or more day of errands to run, we fix a thermos full of coffee to carry with us. Why would I stop at a fast-food restaurant or Star-bucks, and spend money on a cup of coffee that I can just as well make at home?
Yep. It can be done a lot cheaper than suggested. I do it every day.
For a long time I used a French Press.
It made very good coffee.
Now I use a single cup coffee brewer which has a mesh reusable filter.
It is fast, easy to clean up and simple as it can be.
Folgers and a Mr. Coffee
At home I drink instant. I think it’s really good!!
I get a large two jar set from Costco. They were sampling it one day and i was surprised how good it was. Now that’s all I do at home.
I guess the sample promotion worked in this case!
Love coffee…good coffee. No time to get into roasting, but my hubby who is an espresso shot guy might.
I don’t have the numbers but my 16-oz push pot generated cup costs me considerably less than 60 cents.
I’m about to crack open a new coffee can and will mark each cup on a sticky note page.
Yes, Folgers instant is good. The best instant coffee that i’ve ever found and better than Starbucks, etc. And, no, I don’t work for them. Nor do I own stock in corporate owner JM Smucker.
I get the big cans of Folgers and refill the last can I used. I also mark the date of the refill. The cans cost about $12.00 with tax at Sam’s, they last three months or about 90 days. I make four cups every morning so that is 90 x 4 or 360 cups. 12.00 / 360 = 3.3 cents per cup.
When my son visits he makes about a three week dent in my coffee supply in three days as he is as big a coffee drinker as I was in my really wired days.
So, what is the big deal with this article?
60 cents a cup seems pretty pricey for a drip coffee. I use Nespresso pods, which were 60-70 cents each pre-COVID and are now running 80 cents up to $2 each depending on the type of bean. I have cut back due to the increase.
I am very interested. What is the cheapest, decent roaster one can start with? And how/from where do you get the raw beans? Thanks!
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