Re: Whose Beans are you using for your espresso? Why?

On Jan 26, 9:34 pm, "Flasherly" <gjerr...@xxxxxx> wrote:

A dollar cost decision averaged process. You've got resources,
comparisons withal to make them, and followed the conclusions for a
judgement. How much more money do you have to spend to amplify a
perception of what already is experienced. A ramp, at some point, for
an higher rate of increased outlay on resources to exceed for some
marginal determination as taste perception. Hornall, Intelligencia, and
others, provide the ramp, and the Rocky & machine provide a comparison
baseline. I buy at $5 shipped locally 12lbs. over $3.30-3.90lb. from
selections of green bulk in 2lb. increments without tax (they must've
missed taxing my order). Conjecture says $12-$18 for your preroast
would roughly equate 3lbs. and some to my 12lbs., for a 400% return
less over respective outlays. Discount my roast time at a premium for
1/2lb. over 30min on an $80 roaster as an acceptable weekly consumption
bases. The assumption is convenient to say preparation is at par (had
I the same Rocky/Silvia), so a balance then exists at some point
between coffee that tastes ostensibly four-times better than mine, or
going nuts roasting 600% for four more than my present consumption with
squirrel-cage contraptions. A classic risk-on-return analogy, except
what may be suspect among rationale factoring psychological
motivations. What if, instead, at an outlay and means present for
either Rocky/Silvia, at, in additon, to a $400-500 roaster is accounted
viable to the instrument works. What I'd wonder is can, or when at
some point, will an increased roaster productivity from the investment
on a quality roaster be perceived as convenient to surmounting present
preroast costs, @$50 weekly, should, of course, the roaster then
present itself as an instrument capable to exceed a 'hobby aspect' at
cost savings advantage suitable to qualify taste moreover acceptably.

Just another venture variable set for another take.

Well, yeah, there's THAT.

I'm typically spending between $27 and $40 per week (usually closer to
the lower end), not $50. And, I'm sure I COULD theoretically roast my
own for less money over time. Could and would are different though,
and I know myself well enough to know that anything I get into like
that is going to cost waaaay MORE for long enough to push that break
even date well out into the future. By which time I'll surely be ready
to upgrade to an even better roaster, etc, etc, etc. And while I'm
sure I could learn to roast well enough, I doubt I'd ever get as good
as the best commercial stuff and certainly no better. Which would be
fine for milk drinks, but maybe not for shots, which usually I do well
enough to enjoy for a good percentage of my drinks. And, oh yeah,
roasting would require another level of obsession that I really don't
need right now :)

And Martin, I play guitar too, pretty badly and really badly compared
to the best LA has to offer, but well enough to enjoy. If I thought
roasting would bring me anything like the same amount of enjoyment,
I'd do it. But it doesn't sound particularly appealing to me, so I'm
not there.

-Ray

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