It's raining, chilly and definitely coffee weather. Really all weather is coffee weather to me. My mother was Swedish and it was always coffee time at our house. In those days it was a percolator. I think coffee goes with writing, at least for me. I drink it straight full of caffeine.
So when my electric coffee pot died the other day, it was a big deal.
I had to pull out a French press pot I have to make coffee to think about how I was going to replace the electric one. It happened that Costco had a Ninja pot on sale that offered the best of everything. It could make a pot of coffee, a single cup with a filter and grounds and also had the option to make a single cup with a pod.
My dead pot was easy to use. A filter and some grounds. Push brew and that was it. A few minutes later there would be coffee in the pot. It didn't really work making a single cup and I had been making four cups at a time. Their four cups was more like two mugs.
I was warned online that the sale coffee pot at Costco was in low supply. I felt like a winner already. The box was big and cumbersome and I hoped that it was mostly packaging as there is always a battle for counter space with everybody here all the time and I'm the only one who coffee with a priority for coffee.
The size was okay and just a little wider than my dead coffee maker. And then I looked at the instructions. Like everything else, making coffee had gotten more complicated. It took a while to make sense of the instructions. There is a whole art to writing instructions. I know from writing the patterns for my books. The new coffee maker came with adapters to use when making coffee with grounds and something when pods were used. It had choices about cup sizes, brew strength and whether or not to have the warmer plate going. Then there were a lot of instructions about maintenance. Descaling and some tool that clears clogs.
And before any of that, the pot had to be primed. I always laugh when I think about how installing something used to mean plugging it in. After several readings of the instructions, I did the priming and left it ready to make my morning coffee the next day. It turned out not to be as complicated as the instructions made it seem and made sense when I actually saw how it worked.
And just like that I was back in business. I'll deal with the maintenance when I have to. But for now I can enjoy a nice mug of freshly brewed coffee. How nice on this rainy morning, then at midday and afternoon and maybe even later while I go through the galley pages of MURDER BY THE HOOK.
4 comments:
Good morning -- Happy Valentine's Day!!! It's damp and gray here -- raining very lightly but any is good news -- been months since we've had any moisture.
My daughter bought a new car a couple months ago -- the dealer has a school to teach new owners how to use all the gizmos on cars nowadays. I never even tried to figure out all the things on my Chevy -- I just want to turn on the key and go.
I rarely drink coffee -- have a jar of instant I use occasionally -- I like it with a bit of sugar and French vanilla creamer. One of my great-uncles was Swedish -- he would pour his cup of coffee into the saucer, then drink it -- is that a Swedish thing?
I'm working on a basketweave blanket, using an ombre yarn -- the subtle color changes are so pretty. A friend's requested a pink blanket for her new great-granddaughter so that's next -- I have a pink speckle yarn and a solid pink that work beautifully together. She wants a granny square so that will be a quicky.
Enjoy your day and your new coffee pot!!
I meant to tell you my granddaughter has another cat -- she adopts animals that have various problems. Her first cat has three legs, the second has only one eye, and the newest addition to the family is totally blind. She and her boyfriend have a big German shepherd -- most laid-back shepherd ever. He and the cats all sleep together -- the cats crawl all over him!!
Patty, I don't know if drinking coffee from the saucer is a Swedish thing. They are just really big coffee drinkers. How kind of your granddaughter to adopt those cats. It's nice to hear that they get along with the dog so well.
Enjoy your rain. Ours is over with and the sun is out. Happy Valentine's Day!
I asked Google and drinking coffee from a saucer is indeed a Swedish thing. It was done so the drink would cool faster and the drinker could get back to work. Waiting for it to cool in a cup was considered to be only for people who had time to dawdle. Uncle Bertil was indeed a hard-working man.
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