You know you have a caffeine addiction when you stumble into the kitchen without

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marilynfl

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turning on the lights because dawn is breaking and the birds are chirping and a magenta haze has begun creeping over the mountain. You grab the coffee pot, its lid, the mesh strainer and its basket from the draining rack and start prepping what is essentially an IV drip for your brain.

Measure out the water, dump it in, grab the coffee, measure it out, add that, turn on the coffee pot and start making toast.

Then you see it.

OH SH*T!

There, on the counter, sits not only the coffee mesh filter, but the basket for the mesh filter. Which means...which means....

SH*T! SH*T! SH*T!

Then you hear it.

Mr. Coffee is making aggressive sounds unlike any you've heard before. Hot water is spewing out of the coffee maker and over the top of the pot where a pile of grinds sits after falling through the large hole at the base of the reservoir. The hole that is meant to hold the brew basket which is meant to hold the mesh basket which is meant to hold the coffee grinds which contains the caffeine so near and dear.

No one in need of caffeine should have to go through this.

 
I feel your pain

go with the pour over method. better coffee and less mechanical complications to deal with when your brain hasn't started yet - every morning for me.

 
The worst was when we had the big "brew into a twelve cup thermos carafe dispenser" at work

It was plumbed into the water line to dispense the potful of water. People would think the carafe was empty when it wasn't. They'd hit the brew button & walk out of the kitchen. There would be oceans of cascading coffee over the counter, in the drawers & cabinets & all over the floor. It takes a lot of paper towels to soak up that much liquid.

 
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