Starbucks chars their beans because it masks the harsh flavor of the low quality beans. The other benefit for the mega corporation is that all burnt coffee tastes pretty much the same, meaning coffee origin and crop variations aren’t important and every mediocre cup of Starbucks coffee taste the same. Whoever convinced the public that ‘burnt’ equaled ‘high quality’ was a marketing genius, but maybe the public’s waking up to the scam.
Espresso made using even using a moderately priced home espresso machine and high quality beans is far superior to anything Starbucks puts out IMO. The machine can pay for itself in well under a year too.
Costco and Amazon usually have some sub $300 machines around Black Friday including super automatics that do everything for you including grind the beans. I’ve used both supers and manual machines and prefer the convenience of the super automatic even though manual machines produce better coffee, IMO even with moderately priced Costco beans it’s world’s better than what Starbucks puts out.
This is absolutely the case. We love coffee here. For my partner especially, Starbucks used to be a daily habit. So I got a fancy expensive espresso machine, cost like $1,000.
It has paid for itself many times over. Coffee is actually better IMHO- I like straight espresso and when the coffee isn’t burnt you get a much more complex flavor. Fresher too- we get our beans from a local roaster, so the first cup out of the bag is made with beans roasted days ago not months ago.
Starbucks chars their beans because it masks the harsh flavor of the low quality beans. The other benefit for the mega corporation is that all burnt coffee tastes pretty much the same, meaning coffee origin and crop variations aren’t important and every mediocre cup of Starbucks coffee taste the same. Whoever convinced the public that ‘burnt’ equaled ‘high quality’ was a marketing genius, but maybe the public’s waking up to the scam.
Espresso made using even using a moderately priced home espresso machine and high quality beans is far superior to anything Starbucks puts out IMO. The machine can pay for itself in well under a year too.
Links to cheap machines under 300$? Anything i shouldnt skimp out on?
Costco and Amazon usually have some sub $300 machines around Black Friday including super automatics that do everything for you including grind the beans. I’ve used both supers and manual machines and prefer the convenience of the super automatic even though manual machines produce better coffee, IMO even with moderately priced Costco beans it’s world’s better than what Starbucks puts out.
This is $300 right now. Would you consider this one? https://www.costco.com/philips-800-series-fully-automatic-espresso-machine-with-milk-frother.product.4000161076.html
This is absolutely the case. We love coffee here. For my partner especially, Starbucks used to be a daily habit. So I got a fancy expensive espresso machine, cost like $1,000. It has paid for itself many times over. Coffee is actually better IMHO- I like straight espresso and when the coffee isn’t burnt you get a much more complex flavor. Fresher too- we get our beans from a local roaster, so the first cup out of the bag is made with beans roasted days ago not months ago.