coffee pot caput!
By Lakota12
@Lakota12 (42600)
United States
June 8, 2008 8:41am CST
Coffee pot is only 6 months old and quit on me Friday fixed it and every thing went to get coffee none at all it had gone caput!
If ya didnt have an extra one how would you make coffe or would you go to 7-11 or star bucks?
I took a pan put the little net thing that hols the coffee in it and filled pot wit water put in the net thing and boled it helped keep the grounds out of the coffe but it is stouter than from the electric pot!
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13 responses
@polachicago (18716)
• United States
8 Jun 08
OH no.I would survive without coffee maker.
In the other hand, when I don't have coffee maker, I just put boiling water into cup with grind coffee, cover it and wait.
After 10 minutes I just filter coffee very gentle from the top 3/4 into new cup.
HUGS
@Darkwing (21583)
•
9 Jun 08
I always have a jar of instant and a kettle to fall back on, my friend. Much as I prefer fresh ground coffee, there is always the chance of a mishap. At least, with instant, if your kettle packs up, you can boil the water in a pan and fill the cup from there.
Brightest Blessings. I hope you get fixed up soon. xxx
@gabs8513 (48686)
• United Kingdom
12 Jun 08
Oh no that is not good for you
Do you have Guarantee on it I hope so
I use a Kettle anyway so I make instant Coffee and if the Kettle broke I would heat the water in a Pan
I do hope that you will soon get a new one as you can not go without your Coffee in the Mornings lol
Hugs
@Cajunhellcat (2073)
• United States
15 Jun 08
oh my so sorry i hae done that before to but i have one of the old coffe pots that ya set on the stove to brew it for a back up
@ShepherdSpy (8544)
• Omagh, Northern Ireland
9 Jun 08
I like my coffee too much to be stuck without some way of making more! I had a little 4 cup coffee filter machine for many years-it quit before Christmas..Asda here in the UK is owned by Walmart-I went there and bought a cheap full size one (12 cup)-if I took out the jug on the small one in midbrew,there was an antispill mechanism so the flow would stop until I replaced it (told You I liked my coffee-too impatient to wait until it had all brewed!) The new one didn't have this feature,so it was wait until it was all done,or try and be fast before I had to mop it up! and the Jug dribbled,no matter how carefully I poured..Well,It quit in March! I took it back and got a refund..I've Yet to replace it,but I have a stove percolator,a coffee press jug,and a little espresso/cappucino machine-mostly at present,I'll get out the Percolator if I need a brew..as another place has a filter machine for around £5 ($10),it might not be long,though..
@spectrum42 (393)
• United States
9 Jun 08
I have made coffee before by dumping the grounds into some nearly boiling water. I'd taste the coffee to see when it got to the flavor I liked. Then I poured it through the coffee filter to strain it. The taste you get from this method is similar to french press, so while it's not quite the same as drip, it is close.
@bdugas (3578)
• United States
8 Jun 08
Mine has also went caput, I have one that tells you when to clean it and I put vinegar in it with some water and turned it on and my husband told me to come see if it was suppose to be doing what it was doing and when I came to the kitchen it was so hot the steam was coming out all over it, we had to pull the plug, to get it off. I won't use it now because I read that a lot of the house fires are started by the coffee pots being left on or shorting out and I believe if it got that hot then it probably burnt out.
I have a little 2 cup pot that I dug out and now making me coffee in it, I don't use more than a couple cups a morning, so this is great as I get my 2 cups and nothing to waste, one big scoop and the coffee last a long time, my only problem with this is when friends come over, they want coffee, so what do I do make 2 cups at a time and tell them you have to wait on the second batch, lol. Coffee pot are so cheap, $8.oo at the local Dollar Store, and unless you want big fancy, which is what I paid for, and didn't last too long, then it is just as easy to go buy a new pot and throw the other away, the company won't take it back, the shipping would be more than the pot worth to send it back to be fixed, so I vote throw it out and go get a new one. This time I don't need fancy timers or clocks, just make the coffee.
@Lakota12 (42600)
• United States
8 Jun 08
thanks for input and yup it was just a cheapy nothing extra on it but my last one like it lasted 3-4 years and this one only 6 mnths grrrrrrr.
any way I have to now wait for payday to get new one untill then I wil use straier and pot to boil it hugs
@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
8 Jun 08
Hehe..first of all I don't have a coffee pot..LOL..I use instant coffee so just heat up water in a saucepan...I would LOVE to get a coffee pot as there are so many more delicious variety of coffees one can get when it's the ground kind..but I would prefer to get a stove top percolator..I've never had an electric one, nor never had a coffeemaker either..no particular reason, just never got one
@jtr115 (722)
• United States
9 Jun 08
The coffee pot at my workplace quit working last week. Another employee brought in a small percolator on Thursday to use until the regular one is fixed.
A while back, my co-worker brought in some cans of coffee which come in a self-heating can. Some chemicals inside the base of the can combine in order to keep the coffee warm. It's made by a company called Hillside Beverages. They also offer cocoa and soup in the same type of can.
@snowy22315 (183779)
• United States
9 Jun 08
I'd get meself a little old coffee pot as soon as possible.
They are pretty cheap at walmart. You could probably ge one for ten dollars or less. I'd go to a convenience store in the interim.
@celticeagle (169959)
• Boise, Idaho
9 Jun 08
This is what Maxie java, Starbucks and Dunkin' Donuts are for. I like maxie and dunkin best. Starbucks is more expensive and their coffee tastes burnt. Ugh!