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?
The biggest improvement would be to get your colleagues to agree to buy a grinder and write out a simple set of directions for the amount of beans to grind for each pot. Since this is just drip machine or a large percolator, the quality of the grinder is not hugely important like it would be for pour over or espresso. A basic Baratza Encore would be more than good enough.
Cafe Bustelo, Eight O’Clock Coffee, plus the Costco and Aldi brands mentioned by others should all be a big step up from pre-ground Folgers.
The key is to grind before each brew instead of using pre-ground.