These days you can't swing a perking-percolator without hearing the words..."in this economy!" Boring, but true, I suppose.
Times are tough and this calls for making tough changes accordingly. Aren't we all making sacrifices and doing our part?
Personally, I know I am. I have never hung around Ross and TJ Maxx so much in my life. And, I think we ALL know I will probably never again clutch a revered, InCircle card (and if you are unaware of this card, all the better for you) in my semi-manicured hands.
But, even in a trying economy we find ways. Remember Jurassic Park? How about those lizards that lose and then grow new tails (I'm reaching, I know)? Yes, we make do with the tools around us. It's the American Way, kids. I'm sure other nations say the same thing about themselves, but I'm American, so I say it's our way.
Perfect example is Britt
and our sputtering and splattering Keurig brewing machines. It makes more than coffee, but we'll limit this blog to java-joe.
Around here, the coffee fans adore our Keurig pod brews. We've purchased four of them and even though they have some flaws, the end result keeps us loyal to this brand. Although our patience is now thinning with these latest pod-challenges. Hm, we may have pioneer spirit, but this blog about our continual Keurig addiction is making me wonder, seriously, about our common sense. Again, that's another blog (that will never come).
Keurig is simple enough. Hot water, a pod filled with ground up whatever, and that's it. Close the lid a needle penetrates the pod lid and moments later you are sipping something divine.
One problem though. Keurig tends to get clogs in their tiny internal lines and there is no effective method to, well, penetrate the clog.
Not that we haven't tried. Oh, we've tried all the suggestions we discovered on the 'net. My favorite is slapping it, hard, on the back. Now, that was just plain fun. It didn't work for us, but it was good for a laugh.
Dragging out the old French Press is always an option, but that means buying MORE coffee and then what do we do with all the pods?
See, in this economy we can't simply toss out perfectly-perfect-pods. I think the Karma-of-the-Coffee-Wasters would rain down upon our caffeine-soaked heads. Not so pretty I'm guessing.
So, here's where Britt enters the scenario with her true grit and genuine pioneer spirit (she comes from good pioneer stock don't ya know). In goes a pod, malfunction time...coffee grinds slide from pod into the coffee. Ugh. But, wait. Britt whips out the strainer!
Strained-pod-coffee! Genius.
Who cares if it sounds like nothing more than a variation of an old-fashioned percolator? We know and we don't care. To quote that guy, you know the one...she made it work.
Living large and glam, huh?
Now, she's trying to figure out how to put those darned pods inside the other types of coffee makers. She's nothing if not adaptable.
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