I make terrible coffee. I admit it, no
taste test required.
It’s the reason I never drink coffee at
home, I’d have to make it. I can’t even blame the coffee makers; I’ve tried
plenty, drip, Melita, even old fashioned percolators, and bad, all bad. I switched to tea at home, and enjoyed my
coffee whenever and wherever it was made by someone else.
A few years ago I gave it another try and
bought a simple two cup drip coffee maker. I found a system that worked well
enough to provide me with a decent enough pot of coffee with acceptable
regularity.
I don’t drink milk, so I don’t keep it on
hand, or cream, yet I like my coffee light. I use a flavoured oil product as it
keeps longer, and I like the taste. So I was pleased with my coffee making
prowess, and was enjoying my daily cups of coffee, until I ran out of coffee
whitener.
This happened a few weeks ago, when I was
doing some baking for the holidays, and resorted to using the cream I had on
hand for a couple of specific recipes.
The coffee was terrible. What happened to
my system? I thought I finally had the coffee/water ratios right. What went
wrong?
I guess I had been fooling myself that I
could make a decent cup of coffee…I just disguised it with vanilla flavoured
coffee whitener.
I think I’ve found my solution. I had
coffee at my daughter’s over the holidays, coffee made on a Keurig coffee
maker. Since I seem to like flavoured coffees I tried a number of them, with
fancy names that I can’t remember now, but the one with caramel was particularly
good.
I’m toying with the idea of getting one for
myself. The reasons are twofold.
Since I moved I’ve had to adapt to a
smaller kitchen with very limited counter space. After the microwave and the
toaster oven, there’s no room for my coffee maker and my kettle. I like coffee
in the morning, but tea in the afternoon, and occasionally on a cold night, hot
chocolate.
Those other beverages require boiling
water, hence the kettle. I tried to nuke water but never seem to get the water
to the right temperature. I’ll admit I have a bit of microwave fear. I once
added something to microwave boiled water, only to have it explode in my face.
Okay, it was more of a pop, but scary still…it was hot.
So the first reason I want a Keurig is that
it makes coffee, tea and hot chocolate all from the one machine. I wouldn’t
have to keep switching the coffee maker and kettle, in and out of the cupboard,
in their constant battle for counter space. How convenient.
The other reason for getting a single cup
coffee maker? It’s like the commercials advertise, make your drink to suit what
you want, when you want. Sounds a bit self indulgent, but hell, why not?
Why not spoil myself; after all, I’m worth
it. I think those words are from another
commercial, hair colouring if I’m not mistaken.
Maybe this is all a subconscious message
that I should get rid of the gray, something else to think about.
My how the mind does wander. LOL
1 comment:
I've never been a coffee drinker. Ever. Yet I was raised by parents that could've been on the U.S. Olympic Coffee Drinking Team, had there been one. I drink tea.
When I was in the film business we'd meet in the theatre to look at the latest commercial we were working on. Pots of coffee, cups, sugar, milk, cream, stir sticks were brought in. Everyone would fix their own and we'd get down to the business at hand. I tried everything to be a coffee drinker: more sugar, more milk, cream etc. etc. I couldn't drink it!
So someone would ask if I'd like something else. If I said, "Tea," there'd be the rolling of the eyes and a sigh as the person left the room. That's when I decided that Diet Coke, no matter the time of day, was easier to request.
But I've always been a little jealous of coffee drinkers, they seem to get such enjoyment from their coffee. And they get so excited with the variety in the flavours available.
People will argue there are various flavours of tea available, but not for me. I'm strictly orange pekoe, and it's rare that I have a tea outside of my house. Most days it's one tea in the morning and one after dinner. I prefer MBY tea the best. MBY tea is "Made by Yvonne," my wife. Tea I make myself just doesn't taste as good as hers.
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