On Wednesday, February 20, 2019 at 2:58:49 PM UTC-6, Sheldon wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Feb 2019 11:16:42 -0800 (PST), Cindy Hamilton
> > wrote:
>
> >On Wednesday, February 20, 2019 at 2:11:35 PM UTC-5, Dave Smith wrote:
> >> I thought that after replacing four major appliances in 6 weeks I was
> >> pretty well set for a while. Now it is the small appliances. The other
> >> day I went to make my morning espresso and my machine would not work on
> >> steam mode. The coffee mode worked fine and I had to tough it and drink
> >> the espresso straight. I immediately went on line to check out espresso
> >> makers. When my wife got back from walking the dogs I warned her about
> >> the problem and advised her that Canadian Tire had a great sale on them
> >> so I was going to order a replacement. Next thing I know, she is making
> >> her latte and the machine is working fine. Phew.
> >
> >We keep a spare Mr. Coffee in the basement. The last time one died, I
> >hated organizing pour-over at 4 am so I bought two: one as a replacement
> >and one as a spare. I consider it $15 well spent.
> >
> >Cindy Hamilton
>
> We have an ancient Mr. Coffee in the basement too, forgot where it was
> bought or the cost but it's more than 30 years old so it couldn't have
> cost much, and it has no extras, no timer, nothing. We also have a
> stove top percolater for power outages, a SS Farberware... produces
> far better coffee than any ADC... we'd use it all the time but it's a
> PIA to clean.
> Our everyday coffee maker is a Cusinart, has to be 20 years old, still
> works okay but the plastic part of the glass caraffe is rotting away.
> It's removeable with one screw but Cousinart only sells the entire
> caraffe and that's $40. I'd much rather put the $40 towards a new
> coffee maker... if I bought the new caraffe it won't be long the
> coffee maker would die.

Mr Coffee makes a one button does one thing well coffee maker, and I bought TWO of them and use one, and have the second as backup!

And I bought a 1940's Kitchen Aid Coffee Mill off Ebay a while back for GRINDING MY OWN BEANS!

And I'm having right now yet another Cuppa Plus! :-)

John Kuthe, RN, BSN, Cannabis Nurse!