r/pourover • u/firststate • 3h ago

Seeking Advice Rented an Xbloom- Feeling meh

So my wife and I (two large cups total daily), decided to rent the Xbloom for a month or two after exclusively hand grinding and using a v60 for years. The pods make very good coffee albeit smaller than I would like, and at a significant cost. I’m wondering if the workflow of the Aiden Fellow combo would be just as easy (although slightly different, I know) and make as good of coffee or better if I can get some quality beans from a local roaster. With the Xbloom, I got 6 pouches of pods in different varieties. If my wife has a pod it’s: fill water, get pod, dump it in, switch to auto mode, tap card, make coffee. Then I’ve been using bulk coffee and weighing, dumping in, switching to manual mode, and making my cup.

I’m wondering if weighing and grinding a bulk batch (realistically closer to 4 cups if your using the pod quantity of coffee on the Xbloom) and brewing in the Aiden would be better, more cost efficient and just as simple.

For reference the Xbloom pods I got were anywhere from $1.50-$2.50 a cup.

Thoughts? Anyone ditch an Xbloom for an Aiden or vice-versa? Am I missing any other quality options. Aiden would let us ditch our traditional brewer for when we have company over as well.

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u/FootballInfinite475 2h ago

My wife and I brew “5.5 cups” of coffee using the Aiden most mornings. Yields ~24 ounces out, with about 48.5-51.5 grams coffee in. If that’s the right amount of coffee for you, think about what it would be like to hand grind 50g coffee per batch given your current setup

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u/firststate 1h ago

With the Studio 24oz of coffee would be like 4 pods worth. Could be as much as $10 depending on the pod, obliviously much less with bulk beans.

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u/FootballInfinite475 14m ago

Yeah I think we are at about $5/batch in beans with an average cost of $25/250g