Anyway, if you've tried to buy a coffee pot lately, you know that most of them are made with an automatic 2 hour shutoff, I suppose to protect us from ourselves. That way you can't leave it on and burn anything down with it. The problem is, if I get up at 6:00 am on a Saturday or Sunday, I'm not ready to quit drinking coffee at 8:00 am. And I'm not really that fond of re-heated, nuked coffee. I buy coffee from Gevalia, and periodically they gift me with a coffee maker, but they always have the 2 hour shut off. So when my old decrepit white coffee maker (with no automatic shutoff, that's how old it is) began to look really bad I searched around until I found a coffee maker that you can program not to shut off until after 4 hours. Cuisinart. The Cuisinart and I have been coexisting happily for a couple of years.
About a month ago I was sitting here working on my computer about 4 hours after I started the coffee, and all of a sudden I heard the sound of something frying. That's a little startling given I don't used any appliances in my kitchen beside the microwave and the coffee maker. I thought, "What the hell is frying?" and walked into the kitchen tracing the sound of popping and crackling. Lo and behold, I discovered the coating on the heating plate on the coffee maker was frying!! I jerked the pot off and the coating was popping and crackling and literally frying off the heating plate. I jerked the cord out of the wall, but it was so hot it just kept frying. So I dumped water on it, and created a huge steam cloud in the kitchen. Then I submersed the whole coffee maker in water in the sink, just in case anything was burning inside it also. As near as I can figure, the heating plate began heating up instead of shutting off at 4 hours. I'm glad I was home. Well, I never leave it to shut of automatically anyway. I'm too type A. I turn it off if I'm leaving the house, but who knows if it would have shut off?
Anyway, I dug around in my garage and found one of the Gevalia coffee makers. Yes, it shuts off at 2 hours but I figured I could make 2 small pots if I was going to want coffee all morning. Or I could be really radical and drink less coffee. That coffee maker and I have been getting used to each other. This morning, I got it ready and when I pushed the 'on' button, nothing happened! "Don't tell me!" I tried another outlet. Nope. I tried a third outlet, just in case. Nope. So I dug around in the garage and unearthed my old white decrepit coffee maker and made coffee, so I could get going this morning. And I thought about the first coffee maker Gevalia ever sent me, that grew a swarm of ants, and I began to wonder if I'm some sort of a jinx on coffee makers.
I dropped by Bed, Bath and Beyond when I was out running errands today and picked up a new coffee maker that can be programmed to stay on for 4 hours. That's the shiny new thing in this picture. It's the first silver coffee maker I've ever owned, but hey, I'm trying to break a jinx here. I decided to try something different. And you can bet I'm not throwing the old white coffee maker away. It's lovingly packed away in my garage, waiting for the next coffee emergency.
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