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....
