No, this is not another post about losing a friend - it's about our coffeemaker!
Although we hadn't brought our BonaVida coffeemaker to Mexico with us initially, we'd had it a good long time. Of course, it made 8 cups of coffee at a whack, and we seldom had that many people for dinner.
So it was time to start looking for a replacement. We'd keep the BonaVida in the bodega as a back-up.
We had narrowed the choice down to a) a smaller 5-cup BonaVida with a stainless steel pot or b) a 5-cup Zojirushi (the Zutto) glass pot with the grounds funnel inside the pot, a removable water tank, a filter to improve the taste of the coffee, and the 5-cup level which would make enough coffee for 2 12-oz mugs which we use for our breakfast cuppa, et cetera.
We had arranged to use my brother's home for the delivery of whichever coffeemaker we decided upon. Although he lives in Kentucky, we were going to be visiting in mid-August and thought we could tuck the pachage into our suitcase, saving nearly 20% of it's value that our package delivery service would charge.
Dithered about over whiech coffeemaker to order with a deadline of July 'cuz I'd just get verklempt about the decision if we waited longer. Once purchased the die would be cast.
So this morning - July 1st - we started the day making coffee - but there was no coffee to drink! The light on the maker illuminated, but water wasn't heated, nothing came out, blah, blah, blah.
A decision was made that rather than wait 6 weeks by using my brother's address, we'd bite the bullet and order it from Amazon and use our Texas address for delivery. If it costs us more, at least we'd have it sooner and we wouldn't have to rely on an electric kettle to heat the water and pouring it over the grounds every morning.
So the order was placed, a note was sent to my brother, and now we wait. At least there's a way to make coffee in the meanwhile - and we've already scrubbed the outside of the kettle clean!
Have we told you about our new scrubber???
