Yesterday my daughter was sick so I was working from home. I was completely cool with this because I had a lot of writing to do for work and working from home meant I could do that writing in my pajamas. YEAH! PAJAMA DAY!
The only downside to pajama days is the inevitable dilemma after diner of, “Do I put on new pajamas now or just go to bed?”
To start a pajama day off right one must brew a fresh pot of coffee. Coffee left over from the night before and heated in the microwave, my usual morning beverage of choice, will just not do on a pajama day. No. No. No. New coffee. Fresh brew.
So yesterday I go to fill my pot with water and tragedy struck. The pot slipped from my hand, crashed into the sink, and shattered into a gazillion pieces. The horror! The agony! The pain! What is a pajama day with no coffee! It’s death. That’s what. Pure death. Naturally I stomped over to the laptop and jumped on Facebook to publicly morn the ruin of my day. Thanks to a comment from my friend Rachel from high school all was not lost. She suggested that I make coffee without a coffee maker.
“What?!?!? Is that even possible?!?!” I thought. ”Well, I have seen cooks do it over a camp fire in Westerns…so I guess it is possible.” That is when my adventure began.
First I set up a filter with a glass bowl, the inside of my vegetable steamer, and a paper coffee filter.
Then I soaked the coffee grounds in boiling water.
Then I poured the thick brown sludge through my homemade filter.
And the end result?
Success! An awesome cup of coffee!
Work from home pajama day is saved!
Oh, by the way, Mr. Coffee, I don’t need you. I’m a survivor. I’m like a warrior cave man living in the wild with only a sharp rock and a stick makin’ fire with twigs! Oh yeah baby! When the end of the world comes, we loose all electricity, and everything goes all Book of Eli, just come on over to the Elkins’. Coffee for everyone!
I’ve contacted the Nobel committee and told them I will not be attending the award ceremony, but they may ship my award for chemistry to my home address.
not Chemistry… you should get a peace prize b/c lack of coffee can cause world war.
I’m open to both.
Yeah! BUT where will you get the boiling water? Oh, yeah, from rubbing together those sticks. Right? good luck. Edith
What a sissy!
In college, we had and old pot without the percolator. We just simmered the grounds in the pot … Then we would drop one drop of cold water in to make grounds sink to the bottom and pour into our cup. No filter needed. Just don’t drink the last swallow unless you’re prepared to chew. If its just to bitter for you, a drop of hot sauce will take off the edge.
Crazy … But hey, it was college!