• OceanSoap@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Uh. Yeah, but you have to drink like 12 cups of tea to get to one cup of similar caffeine in coffee.

    So, it’s actually cheaper to make coffee at home.

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      1 year ago

      That’s not true. Depending on bean extraction and quantity, a standard “cup” of coffee will have 100-200mg of caffeine. Black tea bags have around 40-60. A good rule of thumb is about 4x. Getting shit tier coffee goes for about $8/lb and will make around 30 cups, so about 25c per cup. So compared to the meme, coffee is still more expensive per mg of caffeine.

      Edit: on Amazon you can get 200mg tablets for about 8c each. So that would be your best bang for the buck. Semi related, an old coworker would dissolve a caffeine pill in hot water and call it “Mormon coffee”; he was a character.

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      1 year ago

      Okay that probably depends on brands and like what you add to coffee/tea. But the true enemy is energy drinks.