Aussies are saving big bucks by making their coffee at home, as the daily caffeine hit at their local cafes almost becomes too expensive to justify.
Research released this week by Canstar found that 71 per cent of Aussies have now become at-home baristas to save money.
A big contingent of the Yahoo Australia editorial team has hopped on the trend, and it’s led to some households pocketing as much as $1,560 per year.
Joe has been brewing coffee at home, like many Aussies, and said the savings are huge.
(Yahoo Australia)Yahoo News reporter Joe Attanasio said he’s “genuinely obsessed” with his $500 Nespresso Creatista Uno by Breville coffee machine, and now rarely buys from cafes.
“It gets used probably five to six times a day between the two of us,” he said.
If he bought that many coffees from a cafe, it would set him back nearly $2,200 per year.
Courtney Creatrex, Yahoo News editor, similarly gets multiple uses out of her machine that she’s had for seven years.
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“It’s absolutely helped me save money,” she said.
Yahoo Australia’s audience editor, Riah Matthews, has an old-fashioned European stovetop coffee maker that she bought from an op shop.
“We buy the Aldi Lazzio coffee beans, which lasts us a couple of weeks. It’s considerably cheaper than buying a coffee out every day,” she said.
Director of audience management, Garry Major, reckons his machine saves his household around $30 per week.
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Benefits of making your coffee at home
Your average coffee is edging close to $6 each, and while getting your fix at home still requires you to fork out for the beans and the machine, the savings are a no-brainer.
Aldi recently won an international prize for its 500g $18 bag of beans, which can make a brew for just 36 cents per cup.
It’s an especially good game-changer for those who have more than one coffee per day or use alternative milks or syrups.
You also don’t need to break the bank when it comes to machines.
You can get them for as little as $79, and those have either won awards or beaten competitors 55 times more expensive.
These coffee machines cost less than $100 each and they hold their own against more expensive competitors.
(Aldi/Kmart/Getty)Are there any downsides to a home brew?
It depends on how you look at it.
The trend will no doubt be putting pressure on cafes, with Yahoo Lifestyle revealing recently how small businesses are trying to pivot to not rely so much on daily coffee drinkers.
The machine of choice can also greatly influence whether you stick with it.
Working out the grind size and how to froth the milk can feel like getting a PhD, and getting it wrong can make your coffee undrinkable.
Not every coffee brewed at home will match a cafe.
(Getty)Yahoo Australia’s environment editor, Michael Dahlstrom, has this issue with his plunger.
“Every coffee I make is a disappointment,” he said.
There’s something about a proper barista-made coffee, in a cafe setting, that is also just inreplicable. Even if it’s a takeaway, it always feels…right.
This Yahoo Lifestyle reporter has made plenty of at-home coffees that are perfectly fine. Just fine. Nothing to write home about.
But sometimes that’s all you need in your day. Whereas other days you want the feeling to go along with the taste of your coffee.
Canstar’s research found that despite the majority of people making their lattes and cappucinos at home, they haven’t abandoned their local cafes.
An impressive 72 per cent still get their coffees out on occasion, with 18 per cent still doing it at least once a day.
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