F%##**&% Coffee Makers

[ClintonTyree]

Why is it that I have to make 6 cups of coffee in my coffee maker to get 3 cups I can drink? What do they use as a measure of a "cup"?
I don't use a large mug, it's a standard coffee cup. But I have to make 6 cups according to the coffee maker's standards, to get 3 drinkable cups.
I know that in the big scheme of things, this is trivial. But it pisses me off. What nimrod came up with these standards?

[Catch22Dem]

1. It's irritating, but

Most coffee cups aren't actual "cups" whereas the measurment on a coffee pot actually refers to a "cup."

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

2. A little known fact:

Mr. Coffee was only 42" tall! So there you have it.

[BiggJawn]

3. I'll BLIND you with SCIENCE!

An "Official Cup" is 8 ounces. My standard coffee cup hold 12 ounces. I just ran to the kitchen and got the measuring cup out to check....:7

I'll bet your cup is about the same size.



"It's SCIENCE, Kids!"

[DarkPhenyx]

7. I'm sorry, but we must kill you now.

It is unfortunate but necessary.

I can't believe you actually went and measured that. Though IMHO this is yet another fine example of why we need to completely convert to the metric system.

[BiggJawn]

9. Then he'd say "Why does it take more than 275 ml to fill my cup?

As for running out to the kitchen and measuring it, like I got anything ELSE to do on a Sunday morning?

[DarkPhenyx]

10. OK, you have a point.

Two actually. I really hope you didn't go measure 257 mL. :)

[BiggJawn]

13. Sure I did.

My measuring cup is "Bi", it swings both ways. And it may be off a little, it was made in Poland, not Corning.....:7

[DarkPhenyx]

14. Ha! I have you beat!

Mine swings both ways AND was made by Corning. So there ! :-P If I really wanted to be stupid about it I could take all this to the lab but that would just be silly. Um, ok, more silly.

I did use a 0.22 micron filter once to see if filtering coffee through it would make it clear again. We can sleep safely at night knowing that it will not clarify coffee.

For those who are curious a micron is also known as a micrometer, which is 1:1000th of a millimeter, which is 1:1000th of a meter. Ya'll can do the English converstions for that. Suffice it to say that it is really small. The filter is designed to steralize liquids w/o heating by catching bacteria and viri.

[BiggJawn]

18. That reminds me of an experiment I read aout once...

They were trying to see if they could filter the carbon out of used lubricating oil and make it greenish-tan again.
They couldn't. I recall something about "colloidal carbon" being the reason.

I have 2 filters that turn coffee clear...Well, at least kind of yellowish...:evilgrin:

[Ilsa]

4. Have you considered a French Press?

You can make coffee in smaller amounts, transfer to a carafe, and even piss off the chickenhawks with your use of something "French".

[Lefta Dissenter]

11. Excuse me....

that's a Freedom Press.

I just got a Cuisinart coffee maker that grinds the coffee and makes the coffee - and it does small amounts, too... all into an insulated carafe! The coffee is just as good as a freedom press, but quicker than boiling the water on my stove (takes forever) and pressing the coffee.

Once I didn't have a good hold of the freedom press while I was plunging it, and it slipped, and the hot coffee shot out the top all over my... well, my midsection! Had to be careful putting a bra on for a while after that! :o

edited for artistic expression

[DarkPhenyx]

15. I think we need pistures of your, um, midscetion...

...just to aleave our fears that you might have been damaged permenantly.

[Lefta Dissenter]

19. Your wish is my command...

[Dirty Hippie]

5. Simple solution

Take the cup you are going to drink out of and use that to pour in how many "cups" you want.

Works like a charm!

[DemBones DemBones]

6. Not only that, the carafes of coffee makers always

seem to leak/dribble/pour improperly. My daughter, who's waitressed a good bit, says that restaurant coffee maker's carafes are equally drippy. If we can send a mission to Mars and get photos back, why can't we get a better coffee maker on earth?

[SheilaT]

8. Make instant.

It's much easier.

[Lefta Dissenter]

12. ...

:puke:

[DarkPhenyx]

16. EEEWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!

That's not coffee! That's, like, a cheap coffee like substitute. Ya might as well melt down brown crayons.

[High Sierra Buck]

17. Have you ever done instant coffee chasers?

I used to work with this one guy who used to do what he called, "Instant Coffee Chasers"

Here is how it works:

1) Brew a regular pot of coffee
2) Pour a cup of your regular brewed coffee into a coffee mug
3) Take 1 large heaping tablespoon Folgers Instant Coffee into a spoon
4) Life heaping tablesppon of instant coffee to face level
5) Take one large gulp of brewed coffee from the mug
6) QUICKLY insert and deposit Folgers Coffee Crystals into mouth
7) Quickly take mouthfull of brewed coffee from mug
8) Swish mixture around in mouth
9) Swallow

[radwriter0555]

20. Single cup drip filter. Little cone shaped thing, sits on top of your cup.

Pour boiling water through it.

One cuppa cawfee.

Costs about $2.49



http://fantes.com/coffeemakers_manualdrip.htm#stainless

My $100.00 Cuisinart Grind N Brew has been gathering dust for about a year now.