"The principal reason that caffeine is used around the world is to promote wakefulness. But the principal reason that people need that crutch is inadequate sleep. Think about it: We use caffeine to make-up for a sleep defecit that is largely the result of using caffeine." ~~T.R. Reid, National Geographic Jan 2005, p.16~~
Woke up this morning intending to have my customary 2 cups of morning coffee. But I think I needed the actual caffeine before I tried to make the coffee.
Normal routine--remove the permanent type-filter---just empty, rinse, replace in coffee maker and add coffee grounds. Simple right?
Next add water and hit *start* simple right?
Well, to start with I did empty and rinse the filter, I added coffee grounds, poured the water in and hit start. Now I only had just enough bottled water to make my customary two cups as I forgot to ask Pabo, the apartment caretaker, to bring me up a 5 gallon bottle yesterday.
I heard the pot sucking up the water and brewing my pot of coffee. The smell was *heavenly*---it was Starbuck's Verona blend that someone gave me this Summer. Imagine my surprise when I re-entered the kitchen and saw coffee and grounds streaming down the outside of the pot and across the counter!!! YIKES-O-RAMA!
It would appear in my haste to make coffee I forgot two key things---I didn't re-insert the permanent filter--I put the grounds right into the basket without the benefit of a filter. I also failed to screw the lid on properly on the Gevalia Thermos coffee pot! This tends to create problems!
I pulled out the pot thinking this would stop the coffee from flowing, NO! Fortunately, I had another Gevalia thermos coffee pot handy (gift from another missionary whose Gevalia coffeemaker bit the dust). Put that pot in place... and began the clean up process...12 paper towels later, I discovered I actually had 1 1/3 cups of coffee between the two pots!!! Really only 1 cup because when I tried to drink that final 1/3 in the pot, I discovered I had a mouth full of coffee grounds...BLECGK!
For all of those who have Broadway Joe or Montage in your plans today, drink a nice strong one for me!
~~"For a man to be away from his coffeemaker is a sorry state of affairs, Mrs Graves," he said..."Bring your nostrils over that and tell me it isn't the aroma of heaven." ~~
~~As if gazing upon aqua vitae itself, he grasped the container and held it up to the window. 'Ah, the hue of steaming coffee is a thing of beauty, is it not?' he exclaimed with wondrous pride in the liquid he had created. ~~Michael Phillips, *A Rift in Time* p. 214 & 215
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i'm headin to joe's this evening, so i'd be happy to enjoy a cuppa cafe carmella for you.
ReplyDeletetodd made a similar mess one morning when he forgot to put the carafe in the coffee maker. coffee overflowed all over the counter while he, blissfully unaware, took a shower.
and since he gets up at an ungodly 4:00am and i sleep until 5:00am, i wasn't aware of what happened in time to help :p
Joe's on a Friday night.....I'm so-o-o-o-o jealous....but enjoy yourself!!!! Friday night date night with Todd?
ReplyDeleteThis coffee falls into your stomach and straighaway there is a general commotion. Ideas begin to move like the battalions of the Grand Army on the battlefield, and the battle takes place. Things remembered arrive at full gallop, ensign to the wind. The light calvary of comparisons deliver a magnificent deploying charge, the artillery of logic hurry up with their train and ammumnition. Similes arise, the paper is covered with ink; for the struggle commences and is concluded with torrents of black water, just as a battle with powder.
ReplyDelete--Honore de Balzac, Treatise on Modern Stimulants(1852)
from:The Coffee Book:Anatomy of an Industry, by Gregory Dicum and Nina Luttinger
Ah, yes Lyndie...another quote on coffee to be stored away in my little book of quotes...good job!
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