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.
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????
is that a digital lamp timer or X10 system?
Hey Vince – I really loved your article here. Kinda silly, but it made me laugh. Keep up the good work! :)
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.
This comment is a year late- but no matter, this is a topic that spans a lot of time. People have been using the lamp timer/”analog” coffee maker pairing for perhaps as long as the invention of each intersected perpendicularly. I can remember dear old dads setup back when he was a med student (eons ago in a period known as “the late 70’s”- sometime after the Triassic). Back when lamp timers were these funky little things that used a peg system to flick the circuit. (if someone is asking about digital lamp timers vs x10’s, perhaps that old analog timer system has gone by the wayside). I guess in this digital age we forgot the simple ways to do things. And take it from a former barista w/ over 14 years exp- give Yuban a try (yes- cheap a** yuban). Many a coffee connoisseur have preferred Yuban in blind taste tests- and it goes great with just a dash of milk and sugar- not the coffee milkshakes that have been commonplace since Peets/Starbucks started burning (okay, second crack) coffee beens in their House blends so that they could provide a consistant product to all outlets (if its all burned- it all tastes the same)… shhhhh, its a secret. Or McD’s house blend is pretty nice and also saves a truckload of cash over a year- but I’ll bet those with adequate coffeemakers (get hot enough) would get more out of a freshly brewed cup of Yuban. give it a shot….