Coffee, Old School Style.

So it is no secret that I am a coffee fanatic.  I love my coffee, not just for the boost, but the taste itself, and the smell is one of the best in the whole world.  The other day my coffee world almost came tumbling down, down, down.

The coffee maker has been acting up.  I am still in the age of the regular ole coffee maker, no Keurig craze here.  I drink Bustelo every morning, which is a great Spanish coffee.  It is strong, bold, and full of flavor, and so am I. Anywho, the coffee maker was brewing half the coffee for the water I put in the machine.  I put in 8 cups of water, and it would brew 4 cups of coffee.  While I enjoy my coffee strong, that is a bit ridiculous, even for me.  So for a day or two I just added extra water into the pot itself so that it would equal out as it brewed. 

Yesterday I took the whole machine apart, cleaned it, and found what I thought was the problem.  I found a small piece of broken off coffee filter in the water uptake compartment, and I surmised that this was blocking the flow, and meanwhile the heat was evaporating about half the water in the process.  So, I put it back together, and somewhere along the way I broke a piece.  Not just a piece, but a critical component.  I was mortified.  It was late, so I did not want to run out and buy another machine then, so I decided this morning to make coffee old school, because that is how I roll. 

I present this picture to you.  I put a filter into a strainer, boiled water, and then slowly poured it through the strainer/filter.  I then repeated the process so that the coffee would be a little stronger.  It was great!  But I had to laugh because the site of this reminded me of something I would be watching Wilma Flintstone do.  In this age of push button living, here I am standing over a make shift coffee machine, getting antsy when it takes 20 minutes to prepare my coffee at 5am. 

I savored every last drop....