Reddit reviews SF Bay Coffee Breakfast Blend 80 Ct Medium Roast Compostable Coffee Pods, K Cup Compatible including Keurig 2.0

See, when I buy compostable k-cups I'm talking about these. Do they still have an issue breaking down? Seems like it's mostly just coffee and filter.

Your basis is somewhat flawed -- what matters to end consumers is the cost-per-serving.

So lets standardize on an 8oz serving, which is the recommended output from a single K-cup.

Basis:

• Amazon sells well-reviewed K-cups for $0.44 each; this is the cheapest K-cup supply I could find with positive reviews
  
  
• Locally-roasted coffee of a generally acceptable quality costs ~$15 for a 12-oz bag (based on survey of local coffee providers in my area); which is $20/lb.
  
  
• Water weighs about 29.574g per oz, making 8oz of water 236.592g
  
  
• Assume that the operational costs are comparable for all methods (cost of equipment, cost to heat water, etc. etc.). This is probably not perfectly accurate but is reasonable for our exercise.
  
  K-cup vs. Pour-over:
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  Pour-over recipes generally look for a 14:1 to 17:1 water:coffee ratio by weight; to make this comparison most favorable to the K-cup, we'll use the 17:1 ratio.
  
  With 236.592g of water, that means 13.91g of coffee, which is 32.6 servings per bag. To make the comparison as favorable as possible, we'll consider that you'll use that 0.6 servings somehow.
  
  
• $20(lb) / 32.6(servings) = ~$0.613 per serving
  
• $0.44(per serving) * 32.6(servings) = $14.344 per pound to match K-cup price
  
  K-cup vs. Autodrip:
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  Auto-drip recommends 60g of coffee per liter of water. A liter makes 4.22 eight-oz servings of coffee, meaning 14.21g of coffee per serving, which means 31.92 servings per pound of coffee.
  
  
• $20(lb) / 31.92(servings) = ~$0.626 per serving
  
• $0.44(per serving) * 31.92 = ~$14.045 per pound to match K-cup
  
  Conclusions:
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• If you're willing to buy inexpensive K-cups, it's cheaper than using premium coffee, but not by much; the quality difference exceeds the price difference.
  
  
• If you can reduce your coffee bean costs to around $14/lb or less, you're saving money vs. K-cups; since you can get better coffee at $14/lb that what you'll get in a K-cup, it's fair to say that K-cups are more expensive than decent coffee
  
  All in all, using premium coffee from a local roaster is a little more expensive than the cheapest reasonable K-cup option. However, you can get coffee of superior quality to the best K-cups for less money than you can buy the cheapest of the K-cups, which means that:
  
  

1. If money is the main concern, buy reasonably good beans and auto-drip
   
2. If convenience is the main concern, K-cup might be a reasonable choice
   
3. You can have outstanding quality coffee for not much more than crummy K-cup coffee
   
   tl;dr excellent coffee is more expensive than mediocre K-cup coffee, but not by much; decent coffee is cheaper than K-cups.

> I decided to see if prices are still similar, as the article is 3 years old. I found Black Silk on Amazon. Assuming they are still 8 grams per cup, the 24-pack, at $0.88 per cup, works out to $49.89/lb of coffee. If you buy the 72-pack, it's $0.62 per cup, which is $35.15/lb of coffee.
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I get these, that work out to about $0.36 per cup.

http://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B007TGDXMU/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

You can get 80 count K-Cups from San Francisco Bay Coffee It is 35 cents per k-cup, which isn't too bad. I did the math and found I'd be spending about $20 more a year than what I spent when using the typical ground coffee picked up at the grocery store.

Or you could just buy the 97% biodegradable ones - http://www.amazon.com/San-Francisco-Bay-Coffee-Breakfast/dp/B007TGDXMU/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1396251021&sr=8-1&keywords=san+francisco+bay+k+cups

K-Cups. Buy him a huge box of K-Cups.

Edit: these are the best price/taste ratio and are biodegradable.