Coffee Break

Are you taking a late coffee break like I am? Pull up a chair and set on down… I’ve got the pot on. This afternoon it’s Trader Joe’s Costa Rican Tarrazu whole bean coffee in a nice, medium dark roast. It’s not the best coffee I’ve ever had, but it’s considerably better than most. It tastes even better because I discovered the problem with my coffee maker - a nice Melitta Mill & Serve that has a built-in coffee grinder. I picked it up for a very surprising $29 two years ago at - of all places - Stop&Shop. It was less than half the original price, and it was one of those cases of pure, unplanned serendipity. We were looking for a coffee maker. I wanted one with a built-in grinder. Roommate wanted one that wasn’t too expensive ( this is the roommate that will drink coffee run through yesterday’s coffee grounds, so you can see where our standards collide!). We wandered through Home Depot, Lowe’s, Target and Walmart and had two or three choices picked out in the $40-50 price range - more than he’d ever considered paying for a coffee maker before, but less than I’d really like to have spent. I suggested that we just take a wander down the Stop & Shop aisle to see if they happened to have anything worth bringing home. And surprise! All coffee makers were 25% off the listed price. So. The Melitta was a decent deal - still at the top end of our price range, but I managed to talk him into sprning for $10 more than he wanted to pay. And it really really paid off when we got to the checkout and I pulled out my credit card to pay and found that… they were taking an additional 50% off all card purchases accompanied by a Stop & Shop card.

And with all that said… here’s my pick of coffee reading over at eHow today!

How to Clean an Automatic Coffee Maker Carafe

by Miragi

I’ll bet you think you know how to clean your coffee maker’s carafe, but you’ve never tried this way. Miragi’s eHow on how to clean an automatic coffee maker carafe is fun to read (Step 4 is brought to you by the Letter L, for instance). Check her out, and leave her a nice comment!

How to Properly Clean Your Coffee Maker

by lanijo

So you think you know how to clean your coffee maker? If you’re feeling virtuous every time you run a pot full of vinegar through your automatic coffee maker, you need the information in this eHow. And if you know how to do more, you need to read this eHow just to enjoy the pictures taken from Roadside America. These are some of the best oversized coffee pots in the United States… too much fun!

How to Rescue a Plugged Coffee Maker

by  Gitaagami

What do you do when you wake up in the morning and your coffee maker barely sputters and delivers barely a cup of coffee? This eHow from member Gitaagami comes to your rescue with a different way to use vinegar to clean out the plugged up lines and mineral deposits in your automatic coffee maker. Give it a try next time your coffee maker doesn’t feel like getting up in the morning.

Howto Use Leftover Brewed Coffee

by  Susan H Pardoe

The title is deceptive. Sorta. Susan H. Pardoe DOES tell you how to use leftover, brewed coffee, but oooh, she leaves out the part about just how delicious her way of using up that coffee is! Hint: it involves chocolate ice cream! Really.

How to Drink Your Coffee and Use It Too

by  DY-TheMaintGuy

Just in case you thought that coffee was just for drinking, check out DY-The Maint-Guy’s eHow about household uses for coffee. Did you know that you can use coffee to freshen up your house? Pick up oil spills on your garage floor? Neither did I. Go find out what else your coffee is good for!

That’s it for today’s coffee break. Hope you learned something and discovered some fun new eHow members to read. See you tomorrow for another installment of Coffee@eHow!

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