Coffee

[cjsmith]

I don't drink coffee, but I bet some of my friends do. What are all the ways coffee (made in one of those basic office machines) can be bad?

I have so far: it's too weak, it's too strong, it got cold, it's gritty.

Comments

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

A percolator's a speciic machine that boils coffee up through a central pipe, from which it drips down through grounds, over and over, until it's done. Smaller ones often have a glass handle on the lid, so one can watch the coffee squirt up into that knob. I don't think they make good coffee. Sometimes big versions of these are in office break rooms. I'm not sure if the giant ones have percolators inside.

The kinds that send hot water straight down through grounds, once, from which it collects in a coffee pot, are drip coffee makers, not percolators.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I think I may have seen a percolator in my life, but the drip coffee makers are the kind I'm most familiar with. I've even used one. (I once worked in an office where everyone was supposed to take turns making coffee, whether we drank it or not. That system lost popularity rapidly.)

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

"Backpacking" percolator (http://www.sportchalet.com/graphics/product_images/p208744nm.jpg)! My mom's was electric.

Almost every coffee break room I've known has had a drip maker, though.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

REI carries that! I've seen it in there! They also have "backpacking" espresso makers, with beautiful tiny little "backpacking" espresso cups!

(I love that cup. I'd buy it for its aesthetics alone, except, well, I have too many objects already purchased for silly reasons like that. But it's tempting. I think it would make a really pretty candle holder.)