random truths – Day 1,038 (Thursday) – thick coffee

The new coffee maker arrived on Wednesday as promised by Amazon under the Prime two-day delivery that used to be next-day delivery. Big thanks to the delivery person for leaving the box inside the porch, out of view from the street and protected from the weather. If only the UPS and FedEx folks could follow suit.

There was a meeting after work. When I got home at close to 8:00, I wasn’t in the mood to unpack and setup the coffee maker, even knowing that it would create a time crunch for the morning.

This morning, the old coffee maker still sat on the counter. It was moved to the dining room where it will sit until I figure out what to do with its corpse. The new unit is “retro” teal and dainty compared to the bulkiness of the old machine. 

"Thick" coffee and a
dainty coffee maker.

The manual said to “brew water for several times without coffee powder.” I knew this would be a pre-usage step. It was run for one brew cycle with plain water. It took forever. Then it occurred to me that usually, I’m not standing there staring at the coffee machine while it does its thing. Normally, coffee would be started, I would brush my teeth, then go upstairs and get dressed. When I returned to the kitchen, there would be a pot of hot coffee.

The process was repeated with coffee, according to the amusing instructions in the manual with two oddly punctuated headers. The first is “How to Brew Normal Coffee?” The other is “How to Brew Thick Coffee?” Thick coffee involves turning “the knob to the STRENGTH setting" and “the coffee maker will brew thick coffee.” Six cups of “thick” coffee were brewed because normal is boring. Over the next couple hours, most of the coffee was drank (drunk?), and it was good. 

Now that the coffee maker situation is all set, it’s probably time to plan for the eventual demise of the toaster oven.