Coffee always is a source of inspiration early in the morning, either directly or indirectly. My coffee maker is black, incidentally, for exactly the above reason. If you haven’t visited the site since Friday, you’ll notice the subtle link at the top of the page that will enable you to purchase the new A&J T shirts. I want to thank all those who have already bought a shirt. I know you’re wondering: most of the shirts that have been ordered to date will ship tomorrow.
Make Mine Black
By Jimmy Johnson
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80 responses to “Make Mine Black”
Coffee…never touch the stuff. I seem to be remarkably free of addictions, except possibly for…well, never mind. 😉
The key to a clean coffee pot is, place a second filter on top of the grounds. It is the water splashing onto the grounds that is the cause of coffee oil getting all over. First response ever, but have been following for more than ten years.
I wish I could say I was free of addictions, but the devil Caffeine still has me in it’s clutches. *sigh*
The easy way to clean the water tank of a coffee pot-and I am assuming that’s what Arlo and Janis are looking into-is to put a couple of cups of white vinegar in then finish filling the tank with water. Let it sit for about 15 minutes, then let it run a normal cycle. Of course, you will have to run a clear water cycle to rinse it, but you will have a clean coffee pot. 🙂
Aloha, AlohaCJ, and welcome!
Lurking for 10 years? Why wouldn’t one want to join the fray here? Oh, wait..I may have just answered my own question. 🙂
But yes, AlohaCJ, welcome. Better late than never.
Welcome Aloha CJ. Ten years without a word, strong silent type?
Mark, yes, egg-production regulations, like all regulations, have a ripple effect. Some people apparently do not realize that regs and unfunded mandates are not “free”; they all come with a cost to someone.
Not saying we shouldn’t have any, only that there is more to consider than how good something looks on paper, or how good it makes people “feel”, before implementing it. Regulations can, and do, have the effect of making businesses unprofitable to the point they close or move out of state, causing a loss of local jobs and tax revenue, and leaving some of those “feel good” people wondering why their good intentions led to…well, you know where that road leads.
My Ghost, no coffee drinker? You keep getting more attractive every day. But then there is that small addiction you have………
Good morning everyone it’s the witching hour when the witch gets out of bed. And gets dressed after an iced tea with limes because she doesn’t make coffee.
I will share a Facebook post of mine here since I have no idea how to put the photo here:
“Cuban coffee………..the reason Meth never caught on in
Miami”
Ghost, correlate the basic ideas behind what you said and the multiple news articles about how major grocery chains still have not opened in “food deserts”. Or had to close new stores in these areas because they cannot run indefinitely without making money (unlike government agencies).
I always suspected that methamphetamine was just “industrial-strength caffeine” with more bad side effects.
I think a better solution than a second filter or a black coffee pot is what I do. I don’t drink coffee!….OK OK I don’t want to see a mass of crazed people pounding on my door in Royal Oak. My wife drinks coffee, does that help?
Jimmy, can you check your orders and see if you have seen any orders with my last name? My wife and daughter (from Chicago) promised to order me one each. All right, I’m being naughty.
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I don’t like the taste and sweet tea will give me the caffeine. Which reminds me, why do some of the restaurants in Kentucky not have sweet tea? I know that the sugar is on the table, but if I wanted to do it myself would have stayed at home.
Indeed, there are two of us, one is sweet and the other isn’t so you can tell. That was my late mama’s joke she said every time the waitress asked “who’s sweet?”
It wasn’t me.
Jackie, and anyway, sugar won’t dissolve very well when the tea is already cold. It just collects as sediment in the bottom. By the way, it was Ruth in Winter Park who suggested Mindy make her own ornaments. For a bit yesterday I thought you were telepathic, since I was thinking about the bead kits, but I didn’t post it here! Then I backed up and reread the posts above that and found who really suggested it.
Perhaps Mindy could get some small acrylic rods, heat them gently and then twist them together and shape the crook at the top. Using heat resistant gloves, of course.
Why do some of the restaurants in Kentucky not have sweet tea? I blame Michael Bloomberg. 🙂
Re Friday’s baking strip; I had a near identical response to a failed custard for a chocolate silk pie last year. After a bit (lot?) of swearing, plus a beer or two, I devised a solution that ended up producing the best chocolate pie I have ever eaten. And I have been asked to reproduce it several times since.
Yes, I kept notes on my ‘fix’ so I have been able to recreate the pie.
Did you ever look inside a real English teapot? ewwwww – must be that’s what I look like inside too. I have a black coffee maker – for my friends who drink coffee – and I keep it clean with white vinegar. That doesn’t work for the teapot … but a spoonful of bleach does.
My grandmother boiled tea in an aluminum pan on stove. You cam imagine how tannic. And black. Everyone added their own sugar until their teaspoon stood up in glass.
Somehow none of this took on me. I don’t use sugar added to anything and never learned to like sweet beverages or fruit with sugar added.
I do use bath products and body products that smell like toasted sugar so I smell like cookies like the Archangel Michael as played by John Travolta.
Bryan: You poured the rest of the six-pack into the failed custard?
Archangel Michael, perhaps, but I’m pretty sure John Travolta doesn’t smell like cookies.
Discussion question: If you could smell like anything you wished, what would it be, and why?
Just received email notification tee shirts for this address have shipped. Even provided a USPS tracking number, now I can agonize watching the slow progress of my package.
Picked up the coffee addiction in the Army, already had the others 😉 Quit smoking for true love. Gave up alcohol for health reasons. Quadrupled down on coffee, thanks to Starbucks. While not into their syrupy drinks, those four shots of AM espresso are a must.
sand, in my experience, USPS updates their tracking feature so slowly that the parcel usually gets to me when tracking shows it’s still two or three states away. Perhaps that’s just here in the boondocks, and it works better in The Big City™.
Thought for the Day: “If you know your enemies and know yourself, you can win a hundred battles without a single loss.” – Sun Tzu
In The Big City™, the package arrives two days before it hits the doorstep. Takes that long to slather through the sub stations.