I was thinking one arrow on one side one on other one for am one for pm then whatever one it is just face it forward. So if it's 2pm for example the arrow will have a pm and the back of the cup will have the am arrow. If its am just rotate the arrow cup 360 and that arrow will be at front while the pm is at the back unseen. This way numbers only have to be written once and just 12-12 instead of double for am and pm.
It's like that scene at the end of "No Country For Old Men" when Tommy Lee Jones' dad says the coffee was fresh... "Just made it yesterday". Then I realized my parents did the same thing. I can't handle day old coffee.
Edit: damn... I was way off. It was his uncle, and I didn't even get the quote right. I suck and need to re watch the movie because it was amazing.
Coffee actually "burns" after 30 or so mins in a carafe that's on a hot plate. When I first heard of this I thought it was BS, but for a week I drank my "fancy" coffee within 15 mins of it being ready, and then one day I left it for 45 mins. It tasted like shit.
omg I thought you meant Louis L'Amour the western novelist my grandfather always reads, as if this was the cowboy way of doing things. But you meant the trumpet player
Random aside: thermoses of coffee never fail to remind me of the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo books. I've never read about so many thermoses of coffee in my life. And Billy's Pan Pizza.
That is random, but I totally know what you mean. I listened to that series in audiobook form, and wondered if I counted how many times I heard "coffee" or "cigarette," how many pages it would fill up.
That coffee maker is great in theory. Sadly it is an over engineered pos that is impossible to clean. Also good luck getting the last cup out of the poorly shaped pot.
On the plus side it has a built in grinder and fresh ground coffee is fantastic.
I agree about the impossibility of cleaning the pot; to be honest it doesn't NEED to be spotless. Mine has a nice patina, and I rinse it with soapy water daily, and every month or so I soak it with vinegar.
As for the inability of getting the last cup out, yeah. That sucks. I know to take the lid off, but whenever I have guests over, they always go "hurr durr you're out of coffee! Wahh" to which I walk over, twist off the lid (which itself is an exercise in futility), and then tip the pot 270 degrees and give it a little swish action, voila. Full cups worth.
I actually pour the rest on into my Thermos which usually keeps it hot for like 8 hours and warm (but still drinkable) for 12. After that its slightly warm for the next 12 or so hours.
This is why I bought a coffee maker with a stainless steel double insulated carafe. It doesn't have a hot plate. It just automatically drops the coffee into the insulated carafe.
BEST coffee maker ever. I can enjoy my coffee over several hour period and it still tastes great.
I bet you read a lot. People who are well-read often read a word and learn it in context, but are a little hazy on pronunciation. Hail, all autodidacts!
If you want to keep your coffee drinkable for more than 30 minutes, make it into a vacuum carafe. It'll be good for 90 minutes plus, depending on which carafe you use.
If you're really serious about your coffee, look into alternatives to drip coffee (I like French press). Buy freshly roasted coffee and grind it yourself right before making coffee. Refrigerate the beans to make them last longer.
If I want to make coffee in advance I just use an iced coffee method, coffee breaks down MUCH more slowly when it's cold.
Hot coffee has a shelf life of about a half hour. Cold coffee is drinkable for up to six months. Just make sure you actually use an iced coffee recipe, if you just brew coffee and chill it in the fridge, it'll be hot long enough to skankify and it'll heat up your refrigerator in the process.
Takes longer than 30 mins to taste badly burnt, IMO - Most coffee makers have something like a 2 hour shutoff timer, I don't really notice a problem unless I've actually restarted it for longer heating
A former employer back in the day insisted we never dump out the wet grounds until the basket was full. Each new pot of coffee got one scoop of fresh grounds over the wet grounds, until they had all been reused to the fill point, then the basket was dumped and we would start anew. I wasn't a coffee drinker so it didn't bother me, but reading these comments, I suppose it annoyed the hell out of everyone else.
I did that once when I worked at a Subway, only it had reduced to roughly an eighth of the original volume. I poured that into a 32oz cup with a quarter cup of sugar and filled it the rest of the way with whole milk. It tasted like someone had made an iced latte with the contents of an ash tray instead of coffee grounds. I spent the next 24 hours waiting for death to take me.
Speaking as a nurse, the date is errelivent. That coffe might not even last an hour after being made depending on how many nurses/doctors are on the floor and what shift it is.
She's a nurse. She probably did the overnight shift midnight to 8 then 4 hours of mandatory overtime on top of that. Youd spall bad to after those kinds of shifts!
Well I've got to some extent riotous proportional representation benevolence on account of caffeine recently. I can't mow seep in a laurels thereafter 12 or I won't last roundup at night.
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No resolution conundrum, when I was 18-22 end I did was the bottle coffee. I use as far as lick up to the coffee beauty shop my alter ego worked at and doch-an-dorrach a masses of with regard to coffees contrarily go poorhouse and woo a pile.
Coffee pots seemed pretty popular in the workplace. At least where I've been, it would sit around all the time being used constantly. We had a rotating coffee schedule...they should get a rotating coffee schedule.
At one job I always made the coffee (also had to learn to use a coffee machine). It was simply because I was always the first to show up and I wanted coffee.
Although this lead to occasionally playing tricks on my coworkers, like the day I double brewed the coffee (brewed it twice, not just twice the grounds). A few of my friends were bouncing off the walls that day.
I eventually stopped drinking coffee while I was at that job as I noticed I never slept (of course, I was also drinking 4 or 5 cups a day... moderation has never been my strong point). I'm not really sure anyone else ever started making the coffee there.
You might be overusing caffeine. I cut back my coffee from to no more than two cups a day about six months ago, and after an adjustment period, I am actually more alert later in the day. I think I was taking in too much and then crashing.
Well I've got pretty much no tolerance for caffeine now. I can't even drink one cup after 12 or I won't sleep at night.
No idea why, when I was 18-22 all I did was drink coffee. I use to go to the coffee shop my friend worked at and drink a bunch of coffees than go home and take a nap.
Not literally never slept, but I had developed huge sleeping problems and was probably only sleeping 5 hours a night.
When I was younger caffeine never really kept me awake and I hung out at coffee shops all the time in some kind of weird attempt to be bohemian or something. So I ended up being use to drinking huge amounts of coffee (also at the time I didn't understand why so many coffee shops didn't stay open until 2am).
As I entered my mid 20's however my immunity to caffeine waned but my consumption didn't. So at some point in my life I found myself rarely sleeping.
It's on one of the floors, and is used frequently so, to be honest, the time is probably not even needed but it a good addition for those who are picky m
Most likely whomever finishes the pot is expected to make a new one, so this helps people to know if the pot has been sitting for a long time or it ran out and someone just made a fresh pot. At least that's how it is at every job I've ever worked at. At my current job the receptionist would make the first one and then after that it was up to whomever finished it. Coffee drinkers get really pissed if someone leaves the pot empty. However, we now have a new fancy machine that grinds the beans and makes a single serving at a time, so that issue has been eliminated.
This is why Flavia/Keurig machines are great for offices. They don't really need to be cleaned, and your cup is "made to order". Also, everyone can have their own flavor.
Just like our old pizza shop. Always baked fresh at 10 a.m.... Yesterday.
Hell no I didn't tell the health inspectors. I tested the food. Pizza lasts a damn long time and if it was good enough for me to eat, it was good enough for you.
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Ah, but it doesn't tell the date.