MY COFFEE MAKER BROKE

[John_P_WI]

We have excellent water here(well) it has a lot of calcium in it though and have to clean the maker often.
Perhaps I should try some snow. I saw some that was lemon flavored might be good

Cbass, Zappa had a great song about "yellow snow"... thanks for the memory.

[Teleguy61]

I still swear by the one-cup-at-a-time filter paper funnel method. Less is more. Kinda like a Fender Champ!

Fresh ground beans are a must for the best flavor and aroma.

I agree about the water, Leo, I tried using rain water for a while, and thought I could tell a difference, but not enough to bother with. About the same as the small difference between tone caps.

Yes!
Filter your water, grind, brew.

[cbass]

We have excellent water here(well) it has a lot of calcium in it though and have to clean the maker often.
Perhaps I should try some snow. I saw some that was lemon flavored might be good

Cbass, Zappa had a great song about "yellow snow"... thanks for the memory.

Watch out where the huskies go .Don't get it in your eyes

[Leo_Gnardo]

We have excellent water here(well) it has a lot of calcium in it though and have to clean the maker often.
Perhaps I should try some snow. I saw some that was lemon flavored might be good

Cbass, Zappa had a great song about "yellow snow"... thanks for the memory.

Watch out where the huskies go .Don't get it in your eyes

Goes good with Saint Alfonzo's Pancake Breakfast - where I stole the margareen...

Rain water, all depending what's upwind of you. My distiller was only @ $100 and has lasted me well, so far so good. Really should replace by now. Just have to soak it with vinegar every couple weeks - dissolve all the crud that builds up in the boiler. It was suggested to me by a cancer survivor, and he's lasted too, so it's all to the good. His doc told him, the first thing you're gonna do, is stop drinking tap water and using it for cooking. Well or "city" water - doesn't matter. Leave out everything & distill until it's just H2O, don't ingest mystery chemicals. First thing I noticed, coffee and tea tasted better. Also no calcium/mystery chemical buildup in the kettle.

[skyboltone]

Years ago I had a home on a hillside in Washington. There wasn't anybody uphill of me. My well was 285' deep and produced the best water I've ever tasted. It was cold too.

People would visit us and stand at the sink with a glass sipping water. I think being off the grid on water is a great thing, but in Alaska the shit that came up out of the ground was horrible. Bottled water only for us in those days.

As for my experience, I just don't understand the broken coffee maker syndrome. I've not had problems with any of them. That's why I have 5 coffee makers. The damn things don't quit, I just get bored with the flavor and go for the next big thing.

I don't have, nor will I ever have a Keurig or any other pod thingy.

[Leo_Gnardo]

Years ago I had a home on a hillside in Washington. There wasn't anybody uphill of me. My well was 285' deep and produced the best water I've ever tasted. It was cold too.

Good well water is a blessing. Place I used to live @ 30 years ago, water was so good friends would bring gallon jugs to fill.

However, sometimes there are things you can't taste. Some places you get arsenic in the water. Lovely. Poor people in Bangla Desh get that - as if they don't have enough problems. Some places get iron in high concentrations. Or hydrogen sulfide. Stinky water I wouldn't even use to wash the car. A bit further north in Saratoga some wells have radium. Mmmm, drink and you'll glow in the dark.

Back to my ol' country home. One day the painters arrived, sent by the landlord. While they were working, the well water started to get milky-white. They told me "don't worry it's just air mixed in the water." Then they painted the garage-barn red. Water turned pink. Air bubbles HELL! These morons figured out how to get the runoff from their brush cleaning sucked back down the well air intake. Ruined a perfectly good well. That's the moment I went to bottled water. And started looking for another place to live.

[cbass]

Water comes out of the ground cold and tastey here though people are working real hard to fuck that up.

[Leo_Gnardo]

Water comes out of the ground cold and tastey here though people are working real hard to fuck that up.

Not far from my ol' country home, a private contractor for IBM was slinging all sorts of nice chemicals down an old well to dispose of them. Lots of acetone, perchloroethylene and trichlorethylene. Fucked up the wells for miles around. And if that wasn't enough, local politicians allowed a dump to set up shop, up the hill a ways. Oh it was "lined with 6 mil polyethylene" per requrements but it didn't take long for all the goodies to start leaking into the water table. Soon as I saw the bulldozers I knew what was about to happen. It will take tens of thousands of years for the water to clear up, if ever. Thank you, politicians. Oops I mean moron criminals.

Here's a link to a NY Times article. Those who are interested just follow Shenandoah Road links wherever you please.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/14/nyreg ... all&src=pm

[cbass]

The used to use sinkholes for dumps here.real smart a direct pathway to ground water.

I wish a big sinkhole would swallow branson maybe people will forget about this place again.they done fucked up my favorite creek people paying 200 grand an acre so they can directly polute my creek with with theyre lawn fertilizer and septic systems.thank god the best parts are in the national forest still ain't no fish anymore . MO conservation spends no telling how much to manage trout that's not even indigionus. Mean while you can't hardly find a small mouth .wtf is city folks fascination with trout.they taste like butt.bass are funner to catch

[cbass]

Water comes out of the ground cold and tastey here though people are working real hard to fuck that up.

Not far from my ol' country home, a private contractor for IBM was slinging all sorts of nice chemicals down an old well to dispose of them. Lots of acetone, perchloroethylene and trichlorethylene. Fucked up the wells for miles around. And if that wasn't enough, local politicians allowed a dump to set up shop, up the hill a ways. Oh it was "lined with 6 mil polyethylene" per requrements but it didn't take long for all the goodies to start leaking into the water table. Soon as I saw the bulldozers I knew what was about to happen. It will take tens of thousands of years for the water to clear up, if ever. Thank you, politicians. Oops I mean moron criminals.

Here's a link to a NY Times article. Those who are interested just follow Shenandoah Road links wherever you please.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/14/nyreg ... all&src=pm

That's terrible they should hang that SOB

I often wonder how long we can keep going till the seas are to polluted to support life.

[drew]

I have a Nespresso machine, and am pretty happy with it. I got it as a gift; I probably would have been too cheap and Nestle-averse to ever actually go out and buy one. They have a retail store not too far from me where I can drop off the used pods for recycling (they're aluminum, not plastic) and buy new ones and not have to pay shipping. For 60 or 65 cents a shot, it produces a pretty decent espresso shot, and my machine also has a milk heater/frother so I can make caffe latte or cappuccino for a few pennies more.

[boots]

I've never seen such disregard for the environment, and hatred of "greenies", as I have since I moved to the oil & gas producing area in NM. The petroleum industry does as it pleases, and many environmental catastrphies are just overlooked.

It was very much the opposite when I lived in the Pacific NW.

[skyboltone]

Here you go. If you are a tea drinker or a pod snob......


http://www.youtube.com/embed/4BMUC4Yb4z4?rel=0

[Reeltarded]

today my snot is clear and sticky.. and all over my monitor.

[Teleguy61]

TMI, man TMI.