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Zombified Augh! I woke up this morning wanting a cup of coffee so much! I stumbled out to the kitchen in my normal graceful  manner eyes half shut groaning a little bit at the fact that I was awake and had to be, got the filter down, put the grounds in it without spilling too much, filled the back with water, hit the start button... nothing.  Hit it again. Nothing.  Hit all the freaking buttons in random order a few times a little panicked. Nothing.  So I tried to fix my bed head.  Threw a hat on it.  Jumped in my van and cruised on to Wally world. Searched all the coffee makers. $100+ bucks for a machine that brews my brew?!?  I fucking think NOT!Grabbed the cheapest maker that makes 12 cups. It doesn't say what kind of filters it takes.  (I had an earlier mishap where I bought a bunch of the wrong sized filters for my coffee maker, then bought a bunch that did fit it. I have a TON of filters. )It's less than $10.  It will do.I get it home. Pull the filter full of grounds out of the broken coffee maker and try to shove it in the new maker. It's not the same shape as the filter basket. It will fall over if I put it in as is. So I look at it for a bit.  I figure out if I put a filter on top of the filter filled with grounds, AND squish it down to fit in the basket, that it will hold it in without spilling over. It worked. Kinda. I look at my sad little cheapo machine though and realize I will never want to get up and futz with the filter business, and that I don't want to buy yet more filters to fit the lil piece of caca.  So I put in an emergency order with Gevalia to get a real coffee maker that will fit my filters and make me happy to look at AND not cost me a small fortune. Pater Familias just got a refill and asked me why I didn't take the cardboard out from under the carafe.  I guess I need another cup too.   |
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6/3/2011 8:16 am |
 ♥Peeky♥ somehow I could visualise the whole event that you underwent this morning cos I know where you were while you were staring at the machine that refused to work,I love my filter coffee its more of a ritual to me, my filter is built into the filter machine its like a fine mesh cup I just attach or take it off to chuck away the coffee spoil and clean it. but these brown paper coffee filters they are the norm in Holland. Its just a little over 4 pm now so I will have my afternoon coffee early today as I`m salivating  C O F F E E  Bond James 700  The1tonyroneZone always to provoke  the pope on dope
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PB... Why not just revert to the days of yore? And here, I'm speakin' of... Cowboy Coffee. Ya take a pot, pan, or tin-can, and fill it up with water. Place that sucker on the stove, or range, or in a microwave... or on top of your wood-burnin' stove and throw a good-sized handfull of grounds into the vat. Let it boil for 10 minutes or so--or until a spoon will stand up on its own... and... Voila. Coffee. Let the grounds settle out before ya pour a cup, though--or use them filters to separate out them floaters.  Solar...
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Atomic... Them eggshells and baking soda are sorta interchangeable. Both nutralize the "acid" in the coffee. Just make sure the shells are clean--or you'll end up with coffee-flavored egg-flower soup. Solar...
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I've got a coffee maker that I've used twice! I just can't be arsed with all that, so I stick to instant.
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There is nothing worse to me than waking up to no coffee. I really am addicted and I get horrific headaches if I don't manage to get in two cups before I have to leave for work. Glad to see you came to your senses and invested in a good pot that makes you happy to look at lol. "Shall I tell you the secret of the true scholar? It is this: every man I meet is my master in some point, and in that I learn of him." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson  
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6/4/2011 10:07 am |
I`ll make you a coffee,how do you take it?
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♥Peeky♥ somehow I could visualise the whole event that you underwent this morning cos I know where you were while you were staring at the machine that refused to work,I love my filter coffee its more of a ritual to me, my filter is built into the filter machine its like a fine mesh cup I just attach or take it off to chuck away the coffee spoil and clean it. but these brown paper coffee filters they are the norm in Holland. Its just a little over 4 pm now so I will have my afternoon coffee early today as I`m salivating C O F F E E Anywho, I'm working on a cup now and it's afternoon. I needed the pick me up. 
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And often!
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Actually I'm getting the maker free and buying the coffee. It's where I've gotten my last 3 or 4 coffee makers from. The first two I left with the first ex. There was a 12 cupper and a 4 cupper. I left a TON of my stuff with him when I left. Should've taken the 12 cupper.  Anywho, I've never heard of the baking soda or egg shell thing. We do have a ton of egg shells, maybe I'll try it. It's always nice to be served. 
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PB... Why not just revert to the days of yore? And here, I'm speakin' of... Cowboy Coffee. Ya take a pot, pan, or tin-can, and fill it up with water. Place that sucker on the stove, or range, or in a microwave... or on top of your wood-burnin' stove and throw a good-sized handfull of grounds into the vat. Let it boil for 10 minutes or so--or until a spoon will stand up on its own... and... Voila. Coffee. Let the grounds settle out before ya pour a cup, though--or use them filters to separate out them floaters. Solar...  Even when we're at camp, there has to be a filter.
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I've got a coffee maker that I've used twice! I just can't be arsed with all that, so I stick to instant.
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It gives me good material. If I ever lost my sense of humor I might as well be dead. I can and have laughed at EVERYTHING in one way or another.
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There is nothing worse to me than waking up to no coffee. I really am addicted and I get horrific headaches if I don't manage to get in two cups before I have to leave for work. Glad to see you came to your senses and invested in a good pot that makes you happy to look at lol. Gotta have my coffee though. Some things are just THAT important.
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I`ll make you a coffee,how do you take it?
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There's one of those on one of the floors at work. It's almost painful to wait that long for a cup. It is good though.
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It looks/sounds interesting. If I ever make it out that way you'll have to make me a cup.
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Yepper, it's good for having fresh coffee though, you just have to keep making it after each 2 cupper. PF and I would probably end up all pissy though wanting more before it was done again.
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