I don’t like mornings. They’re often cold and dark and unwelcoming. Every resolution, every promise I made to myself the night before to get up early, to eat better, to work out suddenly pales in comparison to five more minutes of sleep. But, eventually, when the flame of snoozing burns too close to the end of the wick of reality, you have to get out of bed.
Panic at making coffee for other people? I have moments making my normal morning pot where I think I've had a mini-stroke. How many teaspoons have I put in? five...four...six? Did some of the grounds just slip past the filter? Am I going to be chewing this in a minute? A bad cup can feel like the first step on a day of disasters, but a good cup is like your guardian angel giving you a shoulder rub.
Will, like you I couldn't make a proper pot of coffee for anyone if my job depended on it. I drink espresso, ristretto. Easy beasy. I teeny little cup at a time. I don't think you can even call it Joe. Maybe Enzo. If you come to my house, that is what you will get because I don't even own a coffee pot. So I say, make YOUR coffee for anyone who comes chez vous. And then read them some of your stuff because it's great.
Getting a super expensive coffee/espresso maker solves all the problems -- from grinding beans to brewing in one easy step. But I'm too cheap to buy one. So I have a Mister Coffee that I never clean (ignoring the instructions) and thus have to replace every few months because the coffee begins to taste exotic (re: strange). So maybe it actually does cost me more. Who cares. Live for today!
It is amazing that coffee making has grown into an obsessive life-altering part of our daily lives. Maybe it's partly responsible for our dizzying pace of modern life? Only bread, in its' many forms has had as profound an effect on human life. Bread and coffee are a combination to be reckoned with. Thank goodness we have ways of cranking it out at lightning speed, or watching it slowly fill up our carafes. Drink up, enjoy the buzz, make it your own way. Just be sure you're near the potty when it's through with you.
The making coffee challenge for me is remembering to "put it up" the night before. Nothing worse than trying to count scoops in the morning while still bleary-eyed.
"if you’re a psychopath you rip open a can of Coke..." But what if I like to punish my stomach first thing in the morning? Kinda a carbonated kick to the head?
My formula is a heaping teaspoon for every cup of water and then one more for the pot. Sometimes I get fancy and add a sprinkle of cinnamon. It’s all about fresh ground beans for me. I don’t add any cream or sugar so it’s important that it’s full and robust. Ahhh… who am I kidding?, Cliff makes the coffee every morning😜
I'm no longer much of a coffee drinker but when I was a younger mother (and was helping to raise your cute girlfriend that hated going to bed like her mother), I would do the watered down version because I enjoyed many cups in the morning. Diet Coke kicked in at noon. Perhaps I would have met my lumberjack if I had gone hard core...
I hear ya, Will. That’s why my wife and I bought a 4 thousand dollar Jura Z10 coffee machine. Ya just can’t fuck up a good cup of coffee in that thing. So much better than the plastic coffee in our retired Keurig. Love your brain!!!
Panic at making coffee for other people? I have moments making my normal morning pot where I think I've had a mini-stroke. How many teaspoons have I put in? five...four...six? Did some of the grounds just slip past the filter? Am I going to be chewing this in a minute? A bad cup can feel like the first step on a day of disasters, but a good cup is like your guardian angel giving you a shoulder rub.
Will, like you I couldn't make a proper pot of coffee for anyone if my job depended on it. I drink espresso, ristretto. Easy beasy. I teeny little cup at a time. I don't think you can even call it Joe. Maybe Enzo. If you come to my house, that is what you will get because I don't even own a coffee pot. So I say, make YOUR coffee for anyone who comes chez vous. And then read them some of your stuff because it's great.
I was the same way—gave up and got a Keurig!
Getting a super expensive coffee/espresso maker solves all the problems -- from grinding beans to brewing in one easy step. But I'm too cheap to buy one. So I have a Mister Coffee that I never clean (ignoring the instructions) and thus have to replace every few months because the coffee begins to taste exotic (re: strange). So maybe it actually does cost me more. Who cares. Live for today!
It is amazing that coffee making has grown into an obsessive life-altering part of our daily lives. Maybe it's partly responsible for our dizzying pace of modern life? Only bread, in its' many forms has had as profound an effect on human life. Bread and coffee are a combination to be reckoned with. Thank goodness we have ways of cranking it out at lightning speed, or watching it slowly fill up our carafes. Drink up, enjoy the buzz, make it your own way. Just be sure you're near the potty when it's through with you.
🎶 The best part of waking up is Will's Dumb Brain in your cup! 🎶
The making coffee challenge for me is remembering to "put it up" the night before. Nothing worse than trying to count scoops in the morning while still bleary-eyed.
"if you’re a psychopath you rip open a can of Coke..." But what if I like to punish my stomach first thing in the morning? Kinda a carbonated kick to the head?
My formula is a heaping teaspoon for every cup of water and then one more for the pot. Sometimes I get fancy and add a sprinkle of cinnamon. It’s all about fresh ground beans for me. I don’t add any cream or sugar so it’s important that it’s full and robust. Ahhh… who am I kidding?, Cliff makes the coffee every morning😜
I'm no longer much of a coffee drinker but when I was a younger mother (and was helping to raise your cute girlfriend that hated going to bed like her mother), I would do the watered down version because I enjoyed many cups in the morning. Diet Coke kicked in at noon. Perhaps I would have met my lumberjack if I had gone hard core...
A good reason to drink tea - almost impossible to fail at making it
I hear ya, Will. That’s why my wife and I bought a 4 thousand dollar Jura Z10 coffee machine. Ya just can’t fuck up a good cup of coffee in that thing. So much better than the plastic coffee in our retired Keurig. Love your brain!!!