Coffee Mishaps

[aggienaut]

   Every morning the first thing I do is make coffee. Because by definition I haven't had my coffee yet this is prone to mistakes. I grind the beans and use a percolator (as God intended), so I've accidentally put unground beans in the percolator filter before, or turned on the machine without adding the beans to result in just hot water, things like that. So I try to do every step in the exact same order so I won't forget. However today that worked against me to make a series of errors.

   I ran out of coffee beans yesterday. But I had one cup of coffee left from yesterday -- since I don't put milk or sugar in it it is generally fine the next day. I just pour it form the carafe into a mug so I can clean the carafe (grounds tend to accumulate if this isn't done every time. By muscle memory after washing the carafe I fill it with water and pour it into the percolator's holding tank -- I immediately realize this is unnecessary as I'm not about to make another cup of coffee but seems harmless enough, it'll be there when I have more coffee. Then I wash the filter and pour the coffee from my mug through the filter into the carafe (again to get rid of the grounds that tend to accumulate in the last cup), absent-mindedly hit the "on" button and walk away. Normally I'd do that because I'd have added new fresh grounds and making a new cup of coffee, or, if I hadn't put water in the cistern it would have done nothing ... but only when I came back did I realize that having put water in the cistern, it boiled this water up and passed it through the empty filter and now my last remaining cup of coffee that I was depending on is now watered down 4:1!!! Noooooooooooooooooooooooo

Comments

[gilda-elise.livejournal.com]

No matter how good a pot of coffee is, it's never been good the next day. We grind our own beans and use a percolator, but it doesn't seem to make a difference. So anything left over is thrown out.

[emo-snal.livejournal.com]

For whatever reason day old coffee doesn't bother me much, and I'm usually pretty sensitive to bad coffee. What's weird is the method of reheating shouldn't matter, but I recently read somewhere that microwaving coffee reduces its quality, and suspecting that might be true was one of the reasons I opted to reheat the coffee in the percolator rather than in the microwave.

[gilda-elise.livejournal.com]

Maybe I should go back to reheating my coffee the way my dad did. On the stove. I remember he had a little pot that was specifically for reheating his coffee. ☕