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March 05, 2006
Helpful Hints from joe–eeze: Coffee Management
A tale of woe emailed to me two weeks ago from down Mississippi way, in which the contents of a very hot to–go cup of coffee, its lid not firmly fixed atop the lip of the cup, exploded all over the front of my crack research team head researcher's outfit just before she was to go on the air for a live broadcast, disturbing the careful arranged chi and inner feng shui she'd labored over so meticulously, leads me to offer a few tips to help you manage your coffee space.
1) Before leaving the cash register area with your coffee, place the cup down firmly on the countertop. Press the lid down. Then carefully and deliberately rotate the lid a full 360° before taking a single step. That will eliminate events such as the one related above.
2) When you get out to your car, do not place your coffee — or, for that matter, your pocketbook, packages or anything else you happen to be carrying — on the roof of your car. Instead, place them on the driver's side of the car's hood. No more driving away and getting a free window wash or — even more refreshing — coffee shampoo from the overturned container you forgot was on the roof above you.
3) This one might push your envelope: consider using a drinking straw placed through the opening in the lid to drink your coffee instead of repeatedly trying to get a perfect fit of your lips over the little hole. I mean, aren't you tired of coffee dribbling down your cup and your chin onto your clothing?
Trust me — it's unorthodox but it works.
And no, your coffee won't taste of plastic — at least, not any more than it reeks of the cardboard container it's already in.
[via Shawn Lea and everythingandnothing]
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Flutist, at least you haven't left a baby on the car. Have the pleasure of reading about that now and then.
Treppenwitz, I make a pot every two days, let the leftovers cool down and nuke them the next day. I think it tastes better than keeping it in a sealed caraffe. Of course if I had any taste, I wouldn't drink two day old coffee. Can you microwave on the Sabbath?
Posted by: Ria | Mar 17, 2006 12:39:13 PM
THis post reminded me of a coffee-related problem that I threw out to my own readership... but I'd like to challenge your crack team of researchers as well:
I am looking for the very best thermos/vacuum bottle on the planet. As an observant Jew there are numerous obstacles prohibiting me from brewing fresh coffee on the sabbath. Instead I have been brewing a pot right before sundown on Friday and putting it in a thermal carafe for consumption on Saturday morning.
The only problem is that the coffee is, at best, lukewarm after 12 - 15 hours in the thermal carafe.
Well... whatayagot?
Posted by: treppenwitz | Mar 6, 2006 10:10:50 AM
Heavens, there's so much home improvement household gadgetry get-off-your-ass-and-get-outside-and-pressure-wash-the-house-type stuff here today, my head is reeling. I got so inspired, I went to Home Depot and bought a whole bunch of 9 volt batteries so I could re-up all my smoke alarms. And I actually changed eight of the thirteen today.
The coffee thing, excellent advice, as usual. But am I to believe I'm not the onliest one who sets coffee on the roof of my car and then drives off? I figured only maroons like me did that. Repeatedly. See, I'd drive off with it on the hood, too, probably. But at least I'd SEE it, maybe, and have half a chance. Let me tell you some of the items I have placed on the roof of my vehicle and then driven off with:
Hundreds of cups of coffee & Coke, Moon Pies, hamburgers, bagels, several entire Chinese dinners, pizzas, fruits, vegetables
Cannisters of film, exposed & fresh (lost)
A couple of manuscripts (recovered, at risk of life & limb)
A piccolo (in its case, therefore undamaged, and not my best one, thank God - recovered)
Two brassieres
And this one is truly unbelievable -- a Rolex Oyster Perpetual watch with a radium dial that my father got in Europe after WWII and I was taking to a jeweler (lost)
A huge cat bed, anchored down with some removable sticky stuff, without the cat in it, that was still there when I got to my destination
But. The last time I was guilty of one of these atrocities was ten years ago, so maybe I have learned. The Rolex was the last incident and seemed to get my attention, finally. Things will go on the hood from now on, if at all. I think I've figured out what the trunk is for.
Posted by: Flutist | Mar 5, 2006 6:09:18 PM
And I can attest to the fact that his coffee management technique does work. I tried it on Friday morning before a PTA meeting...nary a drop of coffee on my shirt this time. (But when he e-mailed his tip to the me on the day that this event happened - instructing me on the proper coffee management technique that he's always thought he should share one day on his blog, maybe in the immediate future now that he could see there was a need - I will admit I e-mailed back via Blackberry something along the lines of "Thank you, Dr. Stirt. But yesterday would have been much better for me.") ;)
Small and petty, I admit. I should have been much more appreciative for this shared wisdom. Please accept my apology.
I have always used those litte coffee stirrer straws as a straw in my coffee at work, with a real cup of coffee. But they wouldn't work on my XL cafe latte with sugar-free vanilla - not long enough. (Next time I'm at the coffee shop I'll have to ask for a regular soda straw and try it out.)
I get some strange looks in staff meeting when I'm sipping my coffee this way, but I read somewhere a long time ago that drinking coffee through a straw also helps with caffeinne stains on your teeth as the coffee is not passing through your teeth to reach your throat. I'm sure that this has been disproved over the years by someone but I'm already in the habit now so it doesn't really matter.
Posted by: Shawn Lea | Mar 5, 2006 4:51:34 PM
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