Gourmet Coffee Beans

I became disenchanted with my recent Mr. Coffee pot. It worked fine, had nice features and brewed a decent cup of coffee but the glass carafe broke easily.

The first carafe broke after we had it for three weeks. I found the original replacement on the Mr. Coffee website which cost $20 with shipping. Then that one broke after just two weeks. Upon closer inspection I noticed that the glass was much thinner than my previous coffee pots.

Now I calculated that the original price of the Mr. Coffee machine was $39 plus the replacement put me at $59. Add on another replacement and then I would be at $79 and counting for future breaks! I decided to take it back to the store and get a refund and invest in a quality coffee maker. I will write about in one a future post but the one I bought was a  Capresso MT500 with stainless steel thermal carafe. I love it so far.

Update: I have owned this now for 5 years and still love it. It makes great coffee and also looks nice on the kitchen counter.

The world famous Lloyd’s of London started in 1688 as Edward Lloyd’s Coffee House. Mr. Lloyd’s coffeehouse attracted ship owners, merchants and captains because he provided reliable shipping information.

Mr. Lloyd was not in the insurance business but was just a coffeehouse owner until he died in 1713. Over the years Lloyd’s became a formal society of marine underwriters. The first non-marine policy was issued in late 1880s and became the world leader in the insurance industry at turn of the century.

The most famous insurance loss was The Titanic which sank on April 16, 1912.

I became disenchanted with my recent Mr. Coffee pot. It worked fine, had nice features and brewed a decent cup of coffee but the glass carafe broke easily.

The first carafe broke after we had it for three weeks. I found the original replacement on the Mr. Coffee website which cost $20 with shipping. Then that one broke after just two weeks. Upon closer inspection I noticed that the glass was much thinner than my previous coffee pots.

Now I calculated that the original price of the Mr. Coffee machine was $39 plus the replacement put me at $59. Add on another replacement and then I would be at $79 and counting for future breaks! I decided to take it back to the store and get a refund and invest in a quality coffee maker. I will write about in one a future post but the one I bought is a Capresso 440.05 MT-500 10-Cup Electronic Coffeemaker with Thermal Carafe that stainless steel. I love it so far.

To produce one pound of roasted coffee beans about 2,000 hand-picked coffee cherries are needed. There are two beans per cherry. A coffee picker harvests about 150 pounds of coffee cherries or about 30 pounds of roasted beans per day.

Here is a quick tip for cone shaped coffee machine filters.  Before you place the filter in the receptacle fold over the bottom lip of the filter. This will allow the filter to seat snugly in the receptacle and allow the coffee to flow easier.

Here is a quick tip for cone shaped coffee machine filters.  Before you place the filter in the receptacle fold over the bottom lip of the filter. This will allow the filter to seat snugly in the receptacle and allow the coffee to flow easier.

No it can’t and this is just a myth. Coffee will not sober you up. The only thing it can do is make you a more alert drunk.

Coffee can help reverse the effects caused by tranquilizers or valium.

The morning cup of coffee has an exhilaration about it which the cheering influence of the afternoon or evening cup of  tea cannot be expected to reproduce.

Oliver Wendell Holmes
Over the Teacups, 1891

The word comes from the Port of Mocha in Yemen, formerly known as Arabia. This is where the first coffee plants in cultivation originated. From Java they were smuggled to the Dutch islands.

During prohibition coffee sales were boosted as people found a substitute drug. Today coffee is the most popular unregulated and legal drug consumed in the United States.