The world is drinking less coffee while office workers stay home • Hacker News Board

Re: The world is drinking less coffee while office workers stay home

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Post by elliekelly » Sat, Jul 11, 2020, 10:27 PM UTC

chrissnell wrote: post #8

seattle_spring wrote: post #3

Wow not me. Probably because my home coffee setup and beans are a lot better than my office.

This, absolutely. The 'Rona shutdown inspired me to buy an old commercial espresso machine (1964 FAEMA E.61) and build out a little home coffee shop in the garage, where I learned to pull shots. https://www.instagram.com/p/CCgeL3dsTzW/?igshid=u06d4u494zyq

Did you set out to buy that particular machine or did you just happen across it? If you don’t mind my asking, how much did it cost? I have so many questions!

Do you have a blog? I’d love to read how all of this came about. What an awesome project. It looks great!

Re: The world is drinking less coffee while office workers stay home

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Post by ubrpwnzr » Sat, Jul 11, 2020, 10:34 PM UTC

seattle_spring wrote: post #3

Wow not me. Probably because my home coffee setup and beans are a lot better than my office.

Right on my coffee game is so strong since the lockdown I think I might need to attend a Coffee Anonymous program right now.

Re: The world is drinking less coffee while office workers stay home

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Post by caymanjim » Sat, Jul 11, 2020, 10:46 PM UTC

Most workplaces have free coffee, but few have anything else to drink. I suspect if you looked at workplaces which stock a variety of free beverages, coffee consumption there would be much lower as well. I'm somewhat ambivalent about coffee; I'll drink it if someone else prepares it, but I almost never bother brewing a pot myself. Without an office where someone's always got a pot going, or where they have one of those horrible mini-cup instant brewers, I never drink it.

Re: The world is drinking less coffee while office workers stay home

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Post by ci5er » Sat, Jul 11, 2020, 10:57 PM UTC

colordrops wrote: post #37

ci5er wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I drink about 36-cups/day, so this sounds as if I would be really irate if I had that little...

Are you being ironic or do you actually drink that much?

Ummm. Pretty close. 3 pots of coffee - poured over ice - from about 4am ~ 10pm or so? I tend to pretty obsessively sip during coding sessions. Although as I have aged, I have noticed that it might be disrupting my aging sleep patterns, so I may need to start cutting it back. But, in Japan, in my youth, when I was working in semiconductor - people considered it excessive, but not extraordinarily, you know, extraordinary. (I didn't drink or smoke at the time - now I do - so I think the combo is ganging up on my biology's ability to support this scenario)

EDIT: I was thinking about this a bit more... The first pot is 4am~6am, the next is 6am~10am(or so), and the 3rd pot is nursed over the next 12-or-so hours). I guess I am bootstrapping the system pretty hard at the beginning of the day... I haven't done a cost-benefit analysis, or even thought about it much, but looking at this conversation, it might turn out to be more cost-effective to take up meth (just kidding, that stuff sucks. Coffee is smooth).

Re: The world is drinking less coffee while office workers stay home

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Post by sitzkrieg » Sat, Jul 11, 2020, 10:58 PM UTC

phonypc wrote: post #21

sitzkrieg wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

yup black coffee is calorie free

For practical purposes. If you want to get pedantic it's probably something like 2-5 calories per serving depending on brewing method.

im pretty sure plain drip coffee ends up way below 1. if you ate a bean how many kcal would that be? the amount of energy impregnated in the water is still way below

Re: The world is drinking less coffee while office workers stay home

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Post by rootsudo » Sat, Jul 11, 2020, 11:02 PM UTC

elliekelly wrote: post #41

chrissnell wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This, absolutely. The 'Rona shutdown inspired me to buy an old commercial espresso machine (1964 FAEMA E.61) and build out a little home coffee shop in the garage, where I learned to pull shots. https://www.instagram.com/p/CCgeL3dsTzW/?igshid=u06d4u494zyq

Did you set out to buy that particular machine or did you just happen across it? If you don’t mind my asking, how much did it cost? I have so many questions! Do you have a blog? I’d love to read how all of this came about. What an awesome project. It looks great!

This, I never am a coffee fan but to be able to buy one to experiment and to learn seems useful...

And forever be overqualified for working at Starbucks, lol.

Re: The world is drinking less coffee while office workers stay home

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Post by nabaraz » Sat, Jul 11, 2020, 11:03 PM UTC

I feel the same. I used to walk around the campus every couple of hours and grab a coffee on the way to my desk. For most days, it amounted to 4-5 cups of coffee.

At home, I barely go past 2 cups.

Re: The world is drinking less coffee while office workers stay home

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Post by padde » Sat, Jul 11, 2020, 11:17 PM UTC

I ordered more Nespresso capsules during the last four months than I had during the last four years.

Re: The world is drinking less coffee while office workers stay home

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Post by hinoki » Sat, Jul 11, 2020, 11:24 PM UTC

sitzkrieg wrote: post #45

phonypc wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For practical purposes. If you want to get pedantic it's probably something like 2-5 calories per serving depending on brewing method.

im pretty sure plain drip coffee ends up way below 1. if you ate a bean how many kcal would that be? the amount of energy impregnated in the water is still way below

When I brew with French press, there’s a rainbow oil slick. A web search reveals a lot of blog spam about French press being bad for you, but I couldn’t find any actual cholesterol numbers.

Re: The world is drinking less coffee while office workers stay home

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Post by simpsond » Sat, Jul 11, 2020, 11:32 PM UTC

elliekelly wrote: post #41

chrissnell wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This, absolutely. The 'Rona shutdown inspired me to buy an old commercial espresso machine (1964 FAEMA E.61) and build out a little home coffee shop in the garage, where I learned to pull shots. https://www.instagram.com/p/CCgeL3dsTzW/?igshid=u06d4u494zyq

Did you set out to buy that particular machine or did you just happen across it? If you don’t mind my asking, how much did it cost? I have so many questions! Do you have a blog? I’d love to read how all of this came about. What an awesome project. It looks great!

I would say espresso making at home is an expensive hobby unless you are willing to tolerate variability in the output. A decent stable machine is going to be close to 1k and the really nice home machines starting at 3k. A good grinder is also expensive. I got all the gear (buying stuff used where I could) and I have spent maybe $1500 on components. I love it, but I wouldn’t recommend it to someone who isn’t willing to put in time to learn and money for decent tools.