Mmm, coffee.

[rikibeth]

I just had a terrific cup of coffee that I made in my own kitchen.

No, this doesn't sound like a big deal.

But, for the past year or so, I have not been making coffee at home at ALL.

No need to on weekdays. I get my coffee at work, for free.

And, on weekends, it seemed like a giant hassle when I was the only coffee drinker. So I made myself get up and go out for my coffee.

Not having coffee was not an option, as I discovered. Withdrawal headaches, lassitude, and general brainlessness.

At the old place, there were several purveyors of caffeine within walking distance.

Here, not so much. Or, anyway, a longer walk, and not one I was eager to undertake in pursuit of coffee.

I was absolutely resisting buying an electric coffee maker, though. I'm the only regular coffee drinker in the house -- I let melovechocolate have decaf froofy coffee drinks, but she clearly only likes them for the caramel and whipped cream, a cup of regular coffee is not what she wants. And while there are single-cup electric brewers, it seemed awfully wasteful of resources and counter space to have a whole appliance for that one cup of coffee two days a week.

French press, you say? Nope. I don't like the coffee that they make. Too chewy.

What I wanted was a single-cup Melitta cup-top filter holder. I could have sworn that they carried them at Bed Bath & Beyond, but nope. Not at Target, either.

Grr. I went ahead and ordered online. Two, so if a coffee drinker were to visit, there wouldn't be any waiting. Red, to go with my new kitchen - a theme developed when we bought a red microwave. They came with sample packs of filters, too.

So. Cup-top filter, shiny red teakettle on the stove, coffee grinder unearthed yesterday when I unpacked the kitchen -- shadowflyer? are you lacking a coffee grinder? did we used to have two? If you need one, I'll give you the black one, and use the red one I bought at Target, otherwise I'm returning the new one.

Green Mountain fair trade organic breakfast blend, bought on last grocery run.

Verdict: tasty enough to drink black.

Comments

[ashbet]

Excellent!! :D

We do like French-press coffee, but there's something so nice about having coffee *your way* in your own kitchen. Nice to see you settling in to the new place, too :)

**hugs**

-- A <3

[mama-hogswatch.livejournal.com]

ame_chan was the one who turned me on to those.

Lurve mine!

[donnad.livejournal.com]

I got one of these for my birthday last year, it's perfect since I'm the only coffee drinker around here and I like a nice dark roast. I like the frou frou coffee as well so I have a bunch of the flavor syrups I can play with.

Nothing beats a good cup of coffee.

[tubin.livejournal.com]

Mmmmm.

I share your difficulty - only one of me in the house drinking coffee. But keep not one but two coffeemakers on hand. I do use a coffeemaker when my parents come into town, which happens at least twice a year.

Since my rule of thumb is that any device that gets used at least twice a year gets kept, I continue to allocate cupboard space for it.

The toaster we got as a wedding gift, on the other hand, will be leaving our kitchen soon. The bread I like doesn't fit in it, so I continue to make my toast with the gimpy toaster oven that Granddaddy bought back in 1985.

[shadowflyer.livejournal.com]

I've been grinding my beans at the store, so I haven't especially missed it. On the other hand, you might consider it useful to have a coffee grinder and a grinder that's never touched coffee for nuts and the like....

As for melovechocolate, she's developed a liking for iced coffee as well - though that does involve a hit of caramel flavoring. :-P

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

I have a Coffee Caddy from REI that I adore. I don't use it too often right now, but there was a time that I used it daily in the office. Makes it so, so easy to make fresh-brewed coffee for one.