Anonymous Comments

To everyone who has recently commented on my blog as "Anonymous" and everyone who might in the future...I will not publish your comments.

Why?

Because you seem to be pushing websites of you own and I don't trust these sites to be reputable. I won't even open them myself, never mind make them available to followers of my blog.

I'm sorry if this doesn't sit well with you, but this is the deal.

If you want your comment to have a chance to be published, you MUST sign in with your NAME. Chances are I still won't open your web page because, quite frankly, some of them sound really kinky.

Thank you for your interest in my writings and I hope you will consider using your real name in the future.

Searching for the Perfect Cup of Coffee

I have been on a quest to find the consistently perfect cup of coffee. Using a KitchenAide automatic drip coffee maker, I would sometimes get that perfect taste. More often than not, I would achieve too strong or too weak. Blaaahhh! Plus, I had to make the minimum amount, which was twice what I would use. I was wasting water and coffee and money.

I vowed to buy a single cup coffee maker when my automatic pot went squat. The theory was: each K-cup would produce consistency. I just didn't expect it to go squat so soon. It happened one day as I was making my afternoon cup-o’. PANIC! Out I raced in search of a single serve. I bought a Keureg...and a couple of reusable filters. If you think I'm going to pay $.70 for a cup of coffee...

I tried the different coffees that came with the coffee maker and decided I liked the dark roasted, bold. The best was Newman's organic.

Now the craziness begins to find something in a canned coffee that was as good when using the reusable filter. The short version is: there isn't any.

Upon analyzing the coffee used in the K-cups, I found the coffee is ground so fine it's a powder, not grounds. You won't find that grind in a canned coffee. I'm not sure you could get that fine by grinding the beans yourself. Even if you ground beans twice on the fine setting, I don't think you could do it. Also, there are three tablespoons of coffer powder in each K-cup. You can get three tablespoons of regular grounds into a reusable filter, but not the flavor.

On top of that, when I put the coffee powder from a K-cup (of a strength I’m happy with) into a reusable filter, it's not the same as the K-cup alone. What?

What I have been doing is kind of bizarre, but here it is: I open a K-cup and empty it into a reusable filter. There’s room to spare and I fill the remainder with a bold, dark roast canned coffee. I told you it was bizarre. That gives me my consistent, good cup of coffee.

I will try one more approach to this problem of the perfect, cheap cup of coffee. I frequently get 20% off coupons from Bed Bath & Beyond. I will use these to buy the Newman's organic, which is perfect.

Eventually, I will have that perfect cup of coffee…cup after cup.