How-to: Automatic Coffee Maker
- October 10th, 2007
- 4 Comments

Every morning, I need at least a couple cups of hot, black coffee. Normally I’d insert some joke about how my tastes in coffee and my women are similar, but I’m waiting for it to cool off a bit. Did you know though, that you can turn any old bullshit coffee maker into an automatic brewing machine? Allow me to explain how:
Take your Mr. Coffee, Melitta, whatever machine the night before and fill it up with water. Throw your filter and coffee in there. Then, you have two options: wait until the next day and hit the ON button when you wake up or plug it into a lamp timer. I chose the latter. Now at 8am, I have instant coffee - provided I remembered to throw coffee, water and a filter in that damn machine the night before.
You can thank me later. I know this tip will become a valuable asset to your day-to-day lifestyle.










Ricaldo (Who am I?)
1 year ago
What kind of stupid thing is that? who cares about your lifestyle, dude? Learn how to write tech articles and save your useless ideas for your girlfriend. This is not techie at all!!! Crunchgear people: you paid this guy for that????
DavidC (Who am I?)
1 year ago
is that a digital lamp timer or X10 system?
Paul Thompson (Who am I?)
1 year ago
Hey Vince - I really loved your article here. Kinda silly, but it made me laugh. Keep up the good work! :)
Rliebsch (Who am I?)
1 year ago
hrm. you could expand this to several.
Have coffemaker/laptimers set up in various steads about your digs. Set them to go off every couple of hours.
I think one the bedside table would work. It would likely get me out of bed faster than the alarm/snooze combo i have now.