Hubby and I actually got up at the same time this morning, which was kind of a change. He had walked Lili and turned on the coffee, and I was checking on the dackels.
We seemed to meet up at the coffee maker to get our morning brew, but the machine had stopped working. The lights were on, but the hot plate was cold and only about a quarter of an inch of cold brown water sat in the pot.
For those of you not familiar with our electrical problems, I will just say it straight out. I seem to have been super-charged in the galaxy and I kill electrical things. Everything from watches, to laptops, to coffee makers. Especially coffee makers.
Now this one is once again under warranty, so we will call on Monday morning, and speak to Kitchen Aid and go through the process of replacing another one. It is either #4 or #5.
Part of me wishes that it would just be out of warranty and we would be forced to buy a new one. But the other side of that situation is that there are not many 14 cup coffee makers out there. Hubby and I drink a lot of coffee!
Many people have said we should just get a Keurig machine, but as I said we do drink a lot of coffee, and would go broke buying the pods.
Anyway, we have this old (terrible) Proctor Silex machine that Hubby used in his Commuter Apartment when he was still flying. Folks, we are talking that this machine is about 30 years old! It is basically a danger to anyone not careful enough to pour a cup, while holding the coffee filter closed.
How do I know this? Well, I went to pour a cup for myself this morning, the filter arm swung out and threw coffee on me, the shelf and all over the place!
I’ve already loaded the water and coffee for the morning, and I took a small piece of duct tape and set it to hold the filter arm closed, but trust me, I will be really careful!
I sure do miss my coffee! I miss a really good cup. The old Proctor Silex just does not cut it. Keep your fingers crossed that we can get that new maker here quickly!
I always keep instant coffee in the house, in case of an electrical outage. (I use several of those small, flat “tea” candles under a trivet to boil the water). Thankfully, we hardly ever have outages. Gotta have coffee in the a.m.!
We have a Keurig, don’t always use it, but you can get a filter to use in place of the disposable pods. Just a back up thought;)
Oh, it’s the worst when you can’t make coffee in the morning…. I think Keurig coffeemakers (as convenient as they sound) are overrated and I don’t think Keurig pods coffee tastes good either. Why don’t you just buy a good old cone filter cone (or a French press) and brew into a carafe by hand? That won’t brake on you easily… 🙂
Isn’t it crazy that your coffee maker died the same time as mine…..