I’ve found an easy way to save $$$’s when making coffee. After making a pot of coffee, leave the filter with the grounds in the machine. When you’re ready to make your next pot, add half as much grounds as you normally would on top of the previously brewed grounds. For your third pot, add about a quarter the normal amount of grounds to the filter. Besides saving money on coffee, you’ll save on coffee filters and the time and energy it takes to dump and wash out the filter several times.
Tags: coffee
July 24th, 2009 at 3:18 pm
That’s a great idea! It’s something I used to do and will start to again. Sometimes you just need the right reminder and nudge. And maybe, with the money saved, I’ll go back to using shade grown coffee which is better on the environment but tends to cost more.
July 25th, 2009 at 10:40 am
Now that’s the way to think! Use the savings from one practice to fuel another planet saving move.
January 18th, 2010 at 4:11 pm
If you grind your beans or even just dump your ground coffee in the blender you can grind it down to a powder. It’s called “Turkish grind”. You get a lot more coffee out of your beans this way.