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$15 bucks at Costco? Yikes.
I've never ground any Costa Rican beans.
Costco Costa Rica French Roast jumped for $10 a couple months ago to $15.
$15 bucks at Costco? Yikes.
I've never ground any Costa Rican beans.
And now for something completely different:
http://makeyourfranklin.com/gallery.html
Some of them are pretty awesome.
This one gets my vote.
Although style points do need to be deducted for ing up DARTH Vader's name.
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Costa Rica French Roast is a 2 lb bag.
online they have 5 lb bags:
http://www.costco.com/Common/Search....rch&lang=en-US
I'm in real trouble if I'm drinking 5 pound bags of coffee before they go stale.
Although, my spousal unit can put down the joe too.
no love for illy?
keep the beans in the fridge and air tight to cut down oxidation, but 5 lb is a bunch.
Costco Costa Rican and others are roasted on site, in a torrefaction oven.
Have you been to Joey K's yet? IIRC, it's on Magazin St.I hardly go to Starbucks anymore. Too many good local places to choose from in New Orleans. Starbucks works when I'm really craving a frappuccino, but I don't really consider that to be coffee.
Living here has also broken me of the whole bean habit. Hooked on this stuff:
The problem is getting the green beans to roast. Let me know how it turns out, I would love to roast my own as well, and have been meaning to try at some point.Dammit! Home roasters are actually priced reasonably. I'm ing doomed.
http://www.roastmasters.com/behmor.html
Well, I found that DeCoty Coffee Co offers them when I was googling them to look at their recent history. They seem to have a fair offering of beans.
http://www.decoty.com/catalogItems/index/117
Another company with a bit better selection:
http://www.coffeebeandirect.com/index.php?cPath=63_67
Figuring out how to vett the quality of the beans is gonna present a learning curve.
I'm gonna give this a try, I think.
Just get a metal box, hook up a bulb socket and put a tray for the beans so that you can roast beans.... whoops never mind, you won't be able to roast beans with a light bulb after all of the mandates take effect.
Halogens, baby!
Boutons shops at Costco.
Just let that sink in for a moment.
Dfachen just helped me realize the mandates mean the end of the EZ bake Oven. Maybe thats why Darrin is so upset.
another less ankle-biter out himself.
Dfachen just helped me realize the mandates mean the end of the EZ bake Oven. Maybe thats why Darrin is so upset.
The larger issue is that the fed sometimes issues regulations that lead to inferior products. Washing machines are a good example.
On the other hand, sometimes the fed issues regulations that improve products and/or safety, e.g. NHTSA.
I think there will come a day when something like a Chevy Suburban will be illegal to own and operate.
I think there will come a day when something like a Chevy Suburban will have be able to achieve 35 miles per gallon city/40 highway. I also think that this fuel efficiency rating will still put it in the "gas guzzler" category (relative to the rest of the cars and trucks being sold)
lol washing machines
Do alpha males fluff and fold their own laundry, Darrin?
Lol ezbake ovens and washing machines. What an alpha male.
alpha males don't get owned this way. lol
I think you are wrong about that.
Long before then things like that will be so uneconomical to operate for most people, that it will become uneconomical to manufacture on any mass scale.
There were still always be grossly huge and/or fuel inefficient vehicles for those who want them, just as the light bulbs will still be made for those who want to spend ten times the money on electricity on lighting their houses.
This is where I will give credit to Republicans and libertarians for providing some checks on government to keep it from really going overboard on outright bans that unduly limit the economy. It is good to have people looking out for that, and that is why I think such things are less probable than you seem to.
A fundraising letter making the rounds from a conservative political action committee draws a political line in the sand over light bulbs.
The letter, circulated by AmeriPAC, a political action committee that largely supports conservative Republican candidates, claims President Barack Obama is "banning" incandescent light bulbs in favor of compact fluorescent lighting. It includes a lengthy letter purported to be written by Ron Arnold of the Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise Action Fund.
"A silly little light bulb is merely a small piece of the larger puzzle of global socialism that he feels is his agenda to enslave the American people -- and to choke Americans from a free enterprise system!" the letter states.
The letter seeks contributions and support for S.B. 395, the Better Use of Light Bulbs (BULB) Act, sponsored by Sen. Mike Enzi, R-Wyo., which seeks to repeal the light bulb efficiency standards included in the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007.
The claim that next year, "you will be mandated by federal law to get rid of your existing light bulbs," has no basis in fact. It amounts to a manufactured, baseless charge, and we rate it Pants on Fire.
--AmeriPAC on Monday, May 16th, 2011 in a fundraising letter"The new light bulbs will cost roughly six times the cost of the light bulbs we now use."
Conservative PAC claims new government regulations will force consumers to buy light bulbs that cost six times more
Not that this really adds anything to the thread. Just ran across it.Later in its letter, the CDFE claims that "the new light bulbs will cost roughly six times the cost of the light bulbs we now use."
The letter quotes a Dec. 19, 2007, study from US News and World Report which states, "Each cone-shaped spiral CFL [compact fluorescent light] costs about $3, compared with 50 cents for a standard bulb."
There are, however, two major problems with the claims in the letter. The first, said Jen Stutsman, a spokeswoman for the Department of Energy, is that there are two costs to a light bulb: the front-end cost of a light bulb at the store and the cost of electricity to operate it.
The CDFE letter only considers one side of the equation -- the up-front cost.
The curly-shaped compact fluorescent light bulbs use about 75 percent less electricity than comparable incandescent bulbs and last about 10 times longer, according to an analysis by the Department of Energy. As a result, the DOE concluded, "typical CFLs can pay for themselves in less than nine months and then start saving you money each month."
So they do cost 6x more. Ok. I'm pretty sure the common context, that being replacement of bulbs, refers to purchase.
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