Coffee Maker

[TheBigDog]

The heating element in my coffee maker is broken. My wife wants to get a new one. I don't drink coffee and my wife ususally gets a cup at the local shop to sit and gossip with her friends. In the cabinet we have about 10 different types of coffee. All of them are old. In the freezer we have some open packages of her "good" coffee. She wants me to get an espresso machine, but only a model that heats the water to some ungodly temperature so she can make coffee just like at the shop. But she still won't make it at home because she really wants to drink it with her friends at the shop. Meanwhile the broken one is taking up countertop space, and the cabinets are full of old coffee that I don't drink. When she makes coffee at home, she makes a whole pot, pours herself one cup, and doesn't finish the cup she pours. I think she wanted me to get a new coffe maker for her for either Valentine's Day or her Birthday, but that is always risky. Too functinal leads to complaints. So I didn't get her anything at all. Now I am in the doghouse, my kitchen is filled with unusable coffee stuff, and I still cannot figure out what brought this thread back to life.

Bill

[Turtle]

___I keep an old coffee-maker basket which I use when camping or when coffee-maker dies. If I don't have filters, I use papaer towel. I prop the basket on my cup or thermous & slowly pour in boiling water. Drip coffee is the way to go; do they even make percolators anymore?
___Many of the drip makers have auto-clocks; I really see little difference among brands other than price.
___Pop quiz: where in the world did coffee originate?

[CraigD]

Originally Posted by Tormod

… the art and science of coffee drip machines is not something I ever thought would be relevant to Hypography but being a coffee addict myself I would be interested in why a particular brand would be considered better than another.

The guy who wrote this article got a PhD in Chemistry and studied biochemistry in order to “harness science to make a truly perfect cup of espresso”!

Folk this devoted likely wouldn’t consider the swill that dribbles from my Mr. Coffee to be worthy of the name, but I just sugar it nearly to the point of supersaturation and drink it for the stimulant effect.

As long as it isn’t malfunctioning – belching steam instead of nearly-boiling water - the only part of a drip coffee maker that actually has any effect on the coffee is the filter paper, supporting my experience that the cheapest ones work as well as the most expensive, especially if you follow the recommendations and clean ‘em once a month with dilute vinegar. I saw one with a clock/timer on sale for under US$20 the other day.

Don’t forget

old-style percolator coffee maker
old-style percolator coffee maker

s – you can run these things for 2 or 3 cycles, to get the most out of a limited supply of coffee, which, if you’re poor, is a great feature that drip makers can’t match.

[Turtle]

Originally Posted by CraigD

Don’t forget old-style percolator coffee makers – you can run these things for 2 or 3 cycles, to get the most out of a limited supply of coffee, which, if you’re poor, is a great feature that drip makers can’t match.

Originally Posted by advertisement copy

Plug in for brewing, unplug for easy serving and pouring

Translation: "Plug in for brewing, unplug to avoid scorching the brew into a bitter nasty swill unsuitable for a even a witches cauldron."

___I sometimes reuse the same coffee in my dripper to get as many as 3 pots (carafes?).

[InfiniteNow]

I don't care what type of machine you use, but boy howdy a fresh squeezed shot (or double) of espresso does me right every time...

Got me through college too.

[CraigD]

Originally Posted by Turtle

Translation: "Plug in for brewing, unplug to avoid scorching the brew into a bitter nasty swill unsuitable for a even a witches cauldron."

That’s what all that sugar was for!

___I sometimes reuse the same coffee in my dripper to get as many as 3 pots (carafes?).

I once had a coffee-junky houseguest who tried the “multiple perkings” trick with our drip coffee maker – she poured the brewed coffee from the carafe back into the machine, ran it again, repeated, etc. Though it did make some super-charged coffee, the machine never recovered. Even after being torn down and scrubbed with pipe cleaners and Grunge-out™, it still smelled and tasted of burnt coffee.

A final coffee trick: Though it’s increasingly hard to find, about a decade ago, you could buy little packets of coffee syrup with names like “liquid energy” and “rave” in many convenience stores. Thrown back as a straight shot, they were equivalent to chugging a good size cup of coffee. Putting a half dozen in a cup of coffee produces … ultra-mega coffee. Many people considered such drinks on a par with crack cocaine and methamphetamine. I considered it even beyond that. I once clocked my heart at about 180 beats/min while quietly sipping a cup of supercoffee in a very mellow bar.

Oh, one more final bit of coffee lore. At some time in prehistory, someone discovered that all that’s really needed for coffee is hot water, coffee, and something to combine them in. I met this stuff under the name “rainbow mud”. The coffee is ground extra-fine, and you stir it as you drink it, consuming it grounds and all. Even heavily honeyed, it’s harsh, but packs a powerful wallop.

[Anny]

Thankz!!! Neways, I’ll be buying a Presto Scandinavian
soon form Amazon!!! And thankz for helping me out

[TheBigDog]

Note to self. For next Scavenger Hunt include Hypographer who joined only to buy a coffee maker on Amazon...

[Tormod]

Is now the time for me to admit I drink instant coffee...

[Boerseun]

Originally Posted by Tormod

Is now the time for me to admit I drink instant coffee...

Yeah - as far as my caffeine dependency is concerned, I'm more of a 'quantity' than a 'quality' kinda guy.
I just can't be bothered to wait for a damn perculatin' machine!

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BRING ON THE CAFFEINE!!!
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