offtop)) Do engineers drink coffee in Your country?

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Do engineers drink coffee in Your country?
What is averange cost for a cup?

[Siwastaja]

Yes. World #1 in coffee consumption per capita. It tastes like this: https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/9bqiil/macrons_reaction_to_finnish_coffee/  We drink a lot of it, perkele.

Thanks for reminding: it's time to boiling my cofemaker!

[0xdeadbeef]

Yes. A lot. Mix of keeping us awake and having a bit of social time.
We have a coffee machine sponsored by either our company or our boss (depends on the current financial situation ).
Regarding the beans, we live the dream of "real existing coffee communism" where nobody really pays for the cup/mug but just brings a pack of beans when they're empty.
Surprisingly, this works much better than our previous system of having one guy responsible to buy the coffee, calculate prices for the individual consumption etc.
Anyway, one 1kg pack of beans is usually around 7€ to 8€. So while I can't really say how many cups/mugs this makes due to the communism thing, I would guess around 100 which would mean around 7-8 Cent (Euro) per cup/mug.

[Dataforensics]

Lived on it when I was working but drink less now retired.
I use a (now discontinued in UK) Senseo pod machine and make a 450ml mug from a large pod.
Costs me around 20pence per mug. But it has been going up steeply for some time as the pods are getting so hard to source.
Guess I will need to get a bean to cup machine soon.

Of course if you buy it in coffee shops expect to pay nearly £4 for same amount.

[Rerouter]

The others do, I don't,

If the only reason your awake is due to coffee, your defiantly not giving your best and are being worked too hard.
If you cannot begin your day without coffee, that's pretty much addiction.

Then there is the cost factor, a cup of coffee where I live is $8-12, I have saved literally tens of thousands by preferring water to coffee.

[VK3DRB]

I am an engineer with over 30 years experience, but I have never had a cup of coffee in my life and have never even sipped coffee. I was forced to eat coffee jelly as a small kid - the vile, disgusting taste put me off for life. The money I have saved by not consuming coffee, assuming $4 for a cup per working day over 35 years is around $35,000. If I was an addict, it would be $70,000.

The only thing more disgusting than coffee is olives. You'd have to be sick in the head to like olives, IMO. But then again, I love Vegemite on toast, so it is all relative. As an Aussie, I were brought up on Vegemite, so the same thing can be said of southern Europeans and their olives.

So enjoy your food, whatever it may be .

[CJay]

Yes, if I buy from the coffee bar at work and bring my own mug it's 91p, if I use my machine in my office then it's about 6p per shot, same as at home.

[tszaboo]

Prefer a cappuccino TBH.

[GreyWoolfe]

I am an engineer with over 30 years experience, but I have never had a cup of coffee in my life and have never even sipped coffee. I was forced to eat coffee jelly as a small kid - the vile, disgusting taste put me off for life. The money I have saved by not consuming coffee, assuming $4 for a cup per working day over 35 years is around $35,000. If I was an addict, it would be $70,000.

The only thing more disgusting than coffee is olives. You'd have to be sick in the head to like olives, IMO. But then again, I love Vegemite on toast, so it is all relative. As an Aussie, I were brought up on Vegemite, so the same thing can be said of southern Europeans and their olives.

So enjoy your food, whatever it may be .

Mrs GreyWoolfe is addicted to her caffeine.  She has tried to quit the addiction several times over the years.  What typically happens after a couple of days is that her skull splits open and fire shoots out of her eyes at the slightest perceived provocation.  I encourage the addiction as I don't like my @ss on fire.

Olives are wonderful.  They go especially well in spaghetti sauce which we both love that way.  I would love to give Vegemite a try, I am willing to try anything once.  It seems like I might be able to get it from Amazon.  Hmmmmm.

[ebastler]

a cup of coffee where I live is $8-12

   Ouch!
Even if that's what you pay in a coffee shop, that's painfully expensive!

Thankfully, we get the plain black brew for free in the office, and espresso-and-milk-powder based varieties for a nominal 20 cent fee.

[schmitt trigger]

I drink two cups of coffee during the workdays only. Never on weekends or holidays.

The exception at home, only if I have some relatives/acquaintances visiting. Coffee is such a wonderful social drink. (Other than beer, of course).

And before anyone asks, I drink it completely black. I don't spoil it with sugar, Splenda, cream, milk, cinnamon or other foreign flavors.

During a trip to Istanbul, I discovered Turkish coffee......wonderful!

[BocaDev]

In my country years past, drinking coffee and carrying a calculator on your belt was a requirement in becoming an engineer, once you got out of school.

[coppercone2]

I try not to and stick to green tea. It actually tastes good.

I do love olives and olive oil though.

[Mr. Scram]

What an odd question.

[coppercone2]

What an odd question.

maybe he is factoring it into opening a coffee shop by a engineering park or something

[dr.diesel]

Most of the people I've worked with drink coffee, in all places I've worked the company has provided it for free.

[xrunner]

Do engineers drink coffee in Your country?

Absolutely.

What is averange cost for a cup?

You know I don't remember the cost I've been retired for about 8 years. But I do remember we had big coffee machines kinda like soft drink machines - they were Big Iron not like today's dainty K-Cup rigs. They would pop down a paper cup and run the brew into it. As I recall it really wasn't all that great but it was coffee, so we drank it. 

[EEVblog]

I am an engineer with over 30 years experience, but I have never had a cup of coffee in my life and have never even sipped coffee. I was forced to eat coffee jelly as a small kid - the vile, disgusting taste put me off for life.

Ditto.

[Wan Huang Luo]

These days I avoid coffee if possible because I get headaches the next day if I don’t have it again. Other engineers Ive worked with drink it by the carafe.

[Bud]

olives. You'd have to be sick in the head to like olives

Wow, quite substantial population of people on planet Earth must be sick in the head.  ....Unless it is the other way around.

[Rick Law]

Do engineers drink coffee in Your country?
What is averange cost for a cup?

Perhaps I am just lucky - average price 0.000 per cup.

Except for my first job (at a computer manufacturer), I've had the luck of working at places where an employer-supplied coffee pot is always available.  At two places I worked, coffee is the "single serving" type machines that also produce tea and chocolate types of drinks.  I can understand my first job at a computer manufacturer w/o free coffee, you probably don't want a readily available cup of liquid to spill.

I think it is as much company culture as job culture.  As far as I can recall (again, except my first job), when I worked at or visited the overseas branches in both Europe and Asia, free coffee pot is always available.  So that culture appears to cross nationality boundaries.

I should also note, even with free coffee at the employer's dime, some folks would prefer to buy their own Cola/pop-drinks at the vending machine.  While the drinker claims this is the way they get their caffeine, but I suspect they are just trying to fit in when everyone else has a cup of something-to-drink in their hands.

I've more to say, but I got to go fill my cup...  That is far more important than yapping to some strangers I've never met.

[Nusa]

I only drink coffee when there's absolutely no other version of caffeine available, and I need some. So while caffeine may be a habit, coffee isn't.

[beanflying]

Mmm YES but then I may have a slight addiction to Coffee 

Workbench one end a 3 group Lever Espresso machine (because I can) with a full sized commercial Grinder and on the other end my 'small' coffee Roaster and within the shack 500+kg of green beans........

I do make a fair chunk of my income from peddling Beans, Brews and repairs of machines  The tip that is my bench at present is the result of a repair and trying to shoehorn a fairly large CNC Router into the shack.

General price per cup in Oz is $4-6 AUD depending on location. x0.7 for USD

[ebastler]

Workbench one end a 3 group Lever Espresso machine (because I can) with a full sized commercial Grinder and on the other end my 'small' coffee Roaster and within the shack 500+kg of green beans........

I love how the area around the espresso machine is actually the only clear and usable desk space... One has to get ones priorities right! 

[JPortici]

a cup of coffee where I live is $8-12

 
1.50€ at most mate, more than 2€ is a robbery, unless you know... starbuck (or Piazza San Marco )

but it doesn't matter, i don't like coffee at all. My drug of choice is Tea. I can drink up to 8 or 10 cups a day, depending on the workload and/or the temperatures.

Don't drink coffee! Don't become an addict! I can live a day without tea, many people i know and most of my coworkers won't be fully responsive without that goddamn first coffee in the morning.