Within America and Canada, today is International Coffee Day. While other nations spanning the globe choose other days to pay tribute to the life blood beverage of a goodly portion of the human race, I don’t think the Coffee Cops would bust anyone who is found guilty of being in violation of their own homeland’s Temporal Prime Directive (by celebrating today). Anyway… to do my part in adding to the festivities, how about a little coffee talk? I’m now brewing up a second cup… uh… a second posting of my May 25, 2019 blog…
Eschewing French Press Brewing…
An Average Joe Jury-Rigs the Perfect Cup of Joe
Several mornings ago… for the 3rd time in 15 years… I broke my glass and metal framework French Press. Since it had been [1] far too early in the a.m. to hit my local mall ISO either an entirely new brewer (or… preferably… the replaceable, highly specialized glass beaker) and [2] this average joe’s breakfast could never be complete sans my usual cup of joe, I had to improvise.
My light bulb over the noggin moment… hauling out one of my 0.95 Liter / 1-Quart lidded saucepans, spooning out the coffee and then guesstimating (btw, correctly) how much boiling water to pour from my kettle, I was in biz.
15 minutes later… employing my rock steady hand and eagle eye, (ever so carefully) I poured…
Imagine my surprise when, by breakfast’s end, I discovered zero coffee grounds at the bottom of my mug! Indeed, in one mere morning, my jury-rigged java maker and cautiousness had succeeded where a poorly designed device had repeatedly failed for a decade and a half!
As is true for any run experiment… the question then became, was my success repeatable? Well… after many morns of groundless coffee, I know this to be grounds for eschewing French Press brewing.
Beyond that…
1. Is settling for / sticking with the unsatisfactory status quo… year in / year out… any way to go through life?
2. Considering how for eons, coffee consumers, worldwide, have been resorting to brewing methods involving methodologies and technologies even more complicated than that of a French Press, one has to wonder why we needlessly clutter our lives with contraptions and make so much extra work for ourselves?
3. Were we to truly apply ourselves, how many other areas of our lives could we successfully simplify?
CommonSenseTom 