Our Coffee Maker Crapped Out This Morning!!!

I'm glad that you had a backup coffee maker on hand. Here, my boyfriend is the daily coffee drinker. If he doesn't get his morning coffee, he tends to be sort of grumpy. I'm more of an iced coffee drinker than hot coffee. I was out at something the other day, and it was really chilly and dreary. I was eating spicy food and needed a drink; I was the first, and possibly only, person to go up to the one stand and order an iced coffee on that chilly day. I think that I just outdid the natives on that one--and they tend to be a rather hardy lot.

I have gone so far as to use paper towels when I did not have coffee filters. Not quite as good, but it works in a pinch. I drink cold coffee as iced coffee with some kind of yummy creamer. Of course I prefer mine fresh brewed and HOT, but there are reasons I have to compromise.

Iced coffee is becoming all the rage. Maybe you could pretend you're all special and you have decided to treat yourself to iced coffee. Seriously, I see iced coffee sold everywhere nowadays! McDonalds, and I saw it in great big cartons in the supermarket yesterday. I wonder if real coffee drinkers like it or if it's just a novelty with non regular coffee drinkers.

I had a neighbor who would make a full carafe of coffee but turn off the warmer plate to save electricity. When he wanted another cup, he poured it into a little pot and heated it up on the gas stove.

hi dainshcanadian good thing you had another coffee maker on hand.Just goes to show how good it is to have an inventive husband on hand always. I had to do the same thing when our coffe maker went kerflooey on us. filters were not cone shaped but my hubbie did make them work and we could use them up then getr the right kind for our new coffee maker. [em]happy[

hi there, absolutely. in life, there is always a way if we are really that eager to do the right thing. hence, in every situation, there is always a way, no matter how if we are really doing our best.

yep he sounds like a whiz at things like that.

Oooh, but iced coffee is soooo delicious--add milk and a few drops of vanilla extract, a little bit of Stevia and viola ... home made iced coffee! So good.

I have even used a paper towel in a pinch....they can be adapted to any coffee filter holder...there is a way when you really want something! LOL

I am sorry your old coffee maker went out on you. That can be really frustrating. I have actually had mine since before I got married, and people at my office used it, for a year before that, I have been married almost 23 years. It is just a basic Mr. Coffee model nothing fancy. We don't drink coffee every day though it really only gets used a few times a month and when we have company or parties, so I am sure it would have worn out by now if we used it more. I like it that you husband thinks outside of the box, I like when people can think on their fee like that.

SO glad to hear you weren't up coffee creak without a paddle!! I know how it is to wake up to a non-working coffee maker. NOTHING WORSE. I don't know if I've had coffee brew without the heating element.. Mine have just abruptly stop working completely. OR I almost always break or chip the carafe while washing it. In fact I have a perfectly fine expresso maker with a broken carafe. Then new Carafes are often as much as a whole new coffee maker. I used to use my coffee press as back up, but now I broke that too!lol But right now I've been using an oddly efficient 4 cup coffee maker I bought a few years back at Office Depot for 8.99. It came with a reusable filter, Its been a dream and I better go make my coffee for tomorrow morning so I don't have to make it sleepily in the morning (and possibly drop and break something (lol). Glad to hear your coffee emergency worked out!! Cheers!

I so agree! There's nothing worse than cold coffee. One time I made myself a cup and I suddenly got busy talking to my husband who is currently working offshore. Now when I remember my coffee, I "conveniently" forgot that it's been sitting out there for quite some time, took a big sip and oh my! I felt like my tummy protested lol! Good thing your husband managed to utilize whatever "resources" you have at the moment. Goes to prove that nothing gets in the way of a person who just woke up and her coffee lol!