I used to own a little, single-button Mr Coffee machine. But it didn’t have an auto-turnoff feature, so every time I went somewhere, I had to go back home and make sure it was turned off. Most of the time it wasn’t.
I didn’t want to burn down the house, so I donated my Mr Coffee to Goodwill so someone else could burn down their house. I replaced it with a high-end machine. This one has an auto-brew feature where you add beans and water and hit the “Start” button. The machine grinds the coffee for you, shoots it through a tube into a basket, and then drips water. The brewed coffee ends up inside a windowless steel pot.
So here are my new problems:
1) I always forget to clean the coffee delivery tube. It plugs up, preventing fresh coffee from reaching the drip basket. So at least once a week I get warm, yellowish water instead of coffee.
2) I often add water but hit the “Grind Off” button by mistake before hitting the “Start” button. So, when I pour my first cup of coffee I get yellow water that has not encountered any freshly ground coffee. This happens roughly twice a week.
If you’re in the market for a machine that excels at brewing warm, yellow water, give me a call.
3) If the delivery tube is clean (ie my wife cleaned it) and I don’t hit the “Grind Off” button, I will surely have forgotten to empty the steel pot, which you can’t see into. It will still be half full from the previous day, so coffee and water will end up flooding the counter. Average occurrence: twice per week.
The three days when my morning coffee works perfectly are the days when I walk into the kitchen, take one look at the machine, and head out to a coffee shop. At these times, I just can’t handle the conflict and confusion. Making coffee is just too difficult when you’re tired.
So here’s what we need: a coffee utility. We need to have cities pipe the stuff into our houses, just like they do with natural gas and hot water. You’d walk into your kitchen, grab a cup, and twist a knob on a faucet. Problem solved.
Unless you’re out of creamer. That’s happens frequently as well.
But best of all, cities could make money on this. I’d pay a big monthly bill to avoid flooding the kitchen, and cities could raise the money they desperately need.
Who’s with me on this?
Or you could always get a Keurig. That solved my problem. I love it. Maybe too much. No but in a natural not weird or kinky way.
I agree Mario. I love my Keurig, but this plan of Thomas’ has a lot of merit! LOL
I think this proves that coffee is bad for you. For you now, not the rest of us!
You have just reminded me of my dearly departed Cuisinart coffeemaker. (May it rest in peace in whatever junkyard it is in now.) Being a woman, I actually remembered to clean the thing before trying to use it, although it would usually sit unwashed between uses. It made great, fresh-ground coffee, until it finally decided it was too old for that kind of thing and commenced a breakdown.
May we have a moment of silence, please.
I was pretty good at remembering to set the grinder on or off, too. I guess having been exposed to Home Economics in high school rubbed off and gave me at least a veneer of domesticity.
Yup, that’s mine. The cuisinart. Lol.
Separate pipe for creamer, too, then? I’m in.