There’s like 15 different communities for coffee! Nice!
Like many of us, I survive largely on the break room coffee pot. Our grounds are running low again and the hospital doesn’t stock it, so it’s on the employees.
Our taste in coffee is driven mostly by cost, so we go through a lot of Costco-sized buckets of Folgers, but Folgers famously tastes like dirt. Still, it’s cheap and it’s coffee, so that’s usually the winner.
I’m not a connoisseur by any means, but… any good options that taste less like dirt while still being cheap / available in large quantities?
Get beans! Preground is disgusting and also full of ground up roaches (no, really).
The bean version of anything ground fresh will be vastly superior than the preground version. That said, Coffee For Everyone has some decent bulk stuff that isn’t crazy expensive.
I used to stop by my former neighbour’s shop for flour ground right in front of me. Either the grinder discretely dispenses drugs in it or its just way better than whatever you buy in big stores.
If you have a local roaster, yeah, they’ll be better than grocery store beans. Still best if you get the beans and use a quality burr grinder though.