re: #78 Anymouse

My wife was trying to figure out how to use a Shop-Vac to make coffee. I’ll fill her in on your solution.

You could also load a pot with water and coffee grounds into the oven (or on the range) and heat to near boiling. That doubles to heat the kitchen as well.

All this talk about using different machines to make coffee got me thinking we really don’t have a bunch of machinery in our kitchen. A couple of electric items like the microwave oven and the Cuisinart, and that’s about it. Very low-tech kitchen.

Mostly you need something to heat the water, something to introduce the water to the ground beans, and something to separate the grounds from the brewed coffee. My mom used an electric percolator, and when that died, she used her my grandma’s fancier silver-plated percolator with a little spigot until they got a Mr Coffee. I think we also had an aluminum percolator for camping or on-stove use.

My daughter and her husband got a Keurig as a wedding gift. Makes a great cup, but so wasteful with all the little Keurig cups going to the landfill. You also have to do things in just the right order, or it won’t recognize it has both water and grounds and is supposed to do something with them.

I’d never buy one for myself.