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- I'm Liz Segran and I'm
a senior staff writer

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here at Fast Company and I gotta say

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I'm a little bit of a coffee addict.

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Before the pandemic, part
of my routine was going out

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for a nice craft coffee in the morning,

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but since the pandemic began,

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I've had to sort of figure out

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how to make my own coffee at home.

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Here are my top three recommendations

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for how to upgrade your
coffee drinking at home.

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A new brand on the
market called Terra Kaffe

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has a bean-to-cup coffee system
that is just extraordinary.

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What I love about the machine

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is that it was easy to set up

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and it's extremely streamlined to use.

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It automates the entire
process of making coffee.

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All you have to do is buy a
bag of high-quality beans,

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throw them in the top of the
machine, and press a button.

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30 seconds later,

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you're gonna get a perfectly
brewed cup of coffee.

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And what's really cool about the machine

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is that it comes with
a little milk canister

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that you can attach to the side,

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which means that you can create

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a coffee-shop quality cappuccino or latte

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from the comfort of your own home.

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And even though at $775
it seems like a little bit

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of sticker shock when you
think about buying it,

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I calculated that it would
take me about five months

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to pay it off if I stopped
going to the coffee shop.

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So then you gotta think about

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what kind of beans you're going to use

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and that's where Trade Coffee comes in.

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Trade is a really brilliant
coffee subscription program

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that I love.

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It is a matchmaking service for coffee.

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Using a quiz, they will
help you figure out

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what your personal taste in coffee is

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and every month they will
send you a bag of coffee

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that is perfectly calibrated to your taste

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from a coffee maker
somewhere in the country.

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And what's really cool about this

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is that many little roasters

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around the country are suffering right now

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because people can't find them

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and they're not selling
to local coffee shops,

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so this is a really great way
of supporting a coffee roaster

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in Topeka, Kansas or Upstate New York.

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So now I know what you're thinking.

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What about cold brew?

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And I'm with you there.

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I found an amazing startup called DripDash

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and it uses an interesting Japanese method

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of extracting the coffee in such a way

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that there is absolutely no bitterness

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and it's a very smooth-tasting beverage.

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And to show its Japanese origins,

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it serves the coffee in
little soy sauce bottles,

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which can get confusing
sometimes in your fridge,

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but is really cute.

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My favorite beverage in the line

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is this lavender-maple cold brew coffee

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that tastes a little bit
like an adult milkshake

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and it's been really getting me through

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these hot summer months.

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So if you're anything like me

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and you've been really
craving a wonderful cup

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of really beautifully-crafted coffee,

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here are some things that
you might wanna explore

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to get you through the
next couple of months.

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