re: #79 wheat-dogg

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.

I read somewhere that the fellow who invented the little one-cup plastic-and-aluminum doohickeies (that is a technical term) now regrets doing so, because of the monumental waste involved.

You can also put coffee grounds into Everclear and let that sit for long enough for the alcohol to leach out coffee. (That’s really high-powered coffee liqueur though, and not coffee.)

I’m off to bed: Gotta wrestle with the snow tomorrow in the car so my wife can go to the doctor. I also have to finish shovelling the dirt back into my cellar so I can close the inner door before those really cold temperatures hit (I don’t want to shell out another thousand dollars for plumbing right after having done that a week ago).