I had a coffee maker with a timer. One morning it looked like it started to have a fire in the back. Got rid of it by turning into the Consumer Product Safety Commission. They actually came out to my house to pick it up, and paid me for it, so they could test it. Since then I will not use the timer function when I’m asleep. Better safe than sorry.
I may need coffee just to be able to make coffee, but no auto-start timer and no alarm clocks. I will get up when I feel like it and that depends on my plans for the morning.
When we had to replace our coffee pot we had simple requirements: simple. No timer, no settings, no wifi, no clock, no radio. Cone filters, one button. It does shut the hot plate off after an hour, but that’s a safety thing. Makes great coffee.
NO PROBLEM for me. My OJ is already ready in the fridge. I haven’t drunk coffee in forever.Unfortunately my wife is a coffee addict and we have to schedule our lives around that need.
Well, not a coffee drinker, BUT, I get up and put fresh water in the kettle. Take my relatively fresh custom blended loose leaf tea out of it’s hermetically sealed container and fill my tea ball. Then I apply hot water to my double walled insulated tea carafe and allow it to steep for precisely 6 minutes. That is of course 6 minutes, ‘metric’. Then I add three teaspoons of raw sugar to the carafe and gently stir it in. Then I enjoy my 1.5 liters of tea in the back garden. And, yes, I do occasionally think about all the people who are not retired.
But really folks, what is the significant other for? You kick him/her out of bed, they close the bedroom door (softly!), go to the kitchen, grind the beans, put in the filter, add the water and press start. Then when you’re good and ready the coffee awaits.
C over 1 year ago
Oh woe is you
alasko over 1 year ago
Time to wake up and smell..oh, oh.
SpacedInvader Premium Member over 1 year ago
Man, that just sucks. However I can check it and set it one of the other times I’m up at night.
Tyge Premium Member over 1 year ago
Don’t you just hate when that happens?!
Maizing over 1 year ago
Since I don’t drink coffee and avoid all caffeine, this is outside my experience.
charliefarmrhere over 1 year ago
I don’t set a coffee maker timer, as I don’t have a set time for getting up & out of bed. Depends on how late I stay up reading the new comics.
desvarzil over 1 year ago
Flip the dang switch on and go back to bed.
Its just me over 1 year ago
What’s coffee, it’s that long since I had the stuff I forget. Even then it was instant.
DW Premium Member over 1 year ago
I had a coffee maker with a timer. One morning it looked like it started to have a fire in the back. Got rid of it by turning into the Consumer Product Safety Commission. They actually came out to my house to pick it up, and paid me for it, so they could test it. Since then I will not use the timer function when I’m asleep. Better safe than sorry.
PeaceWouldBeNice over 1 year ago
I may need coffee just to be able to make coffee, but no auto-start timer and no alarm clocks. I will get up when I feel like it and that depends on my plans for the morning.
ne143west over 1 year ago
ONE WORD…..KUERIG
Chris over 1 year ago
I didn’t set the coffee maker ready and boy did I get chowed out the coming morning.
NeedaChuckle Premium Member over 1 year ago
Got an urn an make a gallon or more of the stuff. Just reheat in the microwave. Not a conisewer just want a cuppa or three.
Gandalf over 1 year ago
And he ought to have realised earlier… No coffee aroma…
david_42 over 1 year ago
When we had to replace our coffee pot we had simple requirements: simple. No timer, no settings, no wifi, no clock, no radio. Cone filters, one button. It does shut the hot plate off after an hour, but that’s a safety thing. Makes great coffee.
[Traveler] Premium Member over 1 year ago
K-cups are quick
ScullyUFO over 1 year ago
Not as bad as setting the timer and forgetting to put in the water or coffee. Of course that would never happen to ME.
joe.altmaier over 1 year ago
So you have to wait 10 minutes.
Oclvroadbikerider over 1 year ago
NO PROBLEM for me. My OJ is already ready in the fridge. I haven’t drunk coffee in forever.Unfortunately my wife is a coffee addict and we have to schedule our lives around that need.
dv1093 over 1 year ago
Big deal. 5 minutes.
ChessPirate over 1 year ago
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flagmichael over 1 year ago
First thing in the morning I get a Diet Coke out of the fridge. No timer for me!
MuddyUSA over 1 year ago
Yes indeed…but it happens!
formathe over 1 year ago
Well, not a coffee drinker, BUT, I get up and put fresh water in the kettle. Take my relatively fresh custom blended loose leaf tea out of it’s hermetically sealed container and fill my tea ball. Then I apply hot water to my double walled insulated tea carafe and allow it to steep for precisely 6 minutes. That is of course 6 minutes, ‘metric’. Then I add three teaspoons of raw sugar to the carafe and gently stir it in. Then I enjoy my 1.5 liters of tea in the back garden. And, yes, I do occasionally think about all the people who are not retired.
PoodleGroomer over 1 year ago
I set it up, push the button and read the first half of GoComics while I’m waiting.
Dr. Whom over 1 year ago
See, that’s the advantage of waking up with caffeine delivered by a piece of chocolate.
Cincoflex over 1 year ago
The pain is real.
fencie over 1 year ago
Ugh. The smell of coffee makes me ill.
curtlyon19 over 1 year ago
life is SO hard
assrdood over 1 year ago
Arlo’s face is the face I make when I’ve forgotten to take out the trash on trash day. I finally set a weekly alarm on my phone.
snowedin, now known as Missy's mom over 1 year ago
DANG it!
Bambihunter6 over 1 year ago
First World Problem
martinman8 Premium Member over 1 year ago
did that this morning. Arrrrrrrrg
raybarb44 over 1 year ago
Press the button and come back in 5 minutes. It will be fresher….
Treehggr87 Premium Member over 1 year ago
We were quite the partiers in high school. We always knew to clear out when the house coffee pot came on… those were the days!!!
ScullyUFO over 1 year ago
But really folks, what is the significant other for? You kick him/her out of bed, they close the bedroom door (softly!), go to the kitchen, grind the beans, put in the filter, add the water and press start. Then when you’re good and ready the coffee awaits.
It’s so obvious.
flushed over 1 year ago
Yup! Set the timer forgot the grounds. <};o)
David Huie Green PrepareBeforeOrRegretLater over 1 year ago
The day is shot ere it even begins
RuSerious? Premium Member over 1 year ago
The WORST way to start the day!
SnuffyG over 1 year ago
My US Kuerig makes a cup in less than a minute. Start it, go take a leak and scratch your balls and voila, there you have it…