Oh Sunday, how I love thee. Today is a rest/stretch day in Round 4 of the P90Xing, so I started the morning with StretchX, followed by making myself an eggs breakfast… because really, is there anything better than that on a Sunday? I suddenly felt like breaking free from my routine. Yes, I was feeling a bit adventurous. So what did I do? I decided to try something that had the potential to be an epic disaster: Make my own coffee… GASP! Now, I may be awesome at a lot of things, but for some reason, I can’t seem to make myself a good cup of coffee. I’m a huge Starbucks fan and their Pike Place coffee never disappoints. But my own cup of coffee never has the same caffeine drop-kick to the face the way I like it. Nevertheless, armed with my FÖRSTÅ coffee/tea maker, I was ready to go. A quick note: my coffee/tea maker was recently recalled by Ikea due to potential pressure from the metal holder causing the glass to break, but I haven’t taken mine back as yet… read about it here. In retrospect, perhaps the key to making a good pot of coffee is a good coffee maker, but golly, back off and get out of my face! It’s not like I’m rich or anything- so maybe one day I’ll splurge and get one. Sadly, for this humble analyst, today is not that day. Now onto the story! I’ve taken photos to document the process… and of course, to show off my photogeneticism (a real word?), which I’m taking to mean: the genetic predisposition to showcase my awesome photogenic ability and appear aesthetically pleasing in at least 95% of all photographs … and cue smile.
The coffee of choice comes from my recent trip to Hawaii: Ground 100% Kona Coffee, Gourmet Roast from the Mulvadi Corporation. Kona coffee was oh so good while I was there, and I miss it so. Naturally, I’d be able to brew my own to the standards it deserves. Yes, naturally. It has been a couple of months since that trip and I still had not opened the package. When I opened it, it smelled so good…
As the photo at the top of this posting shows, I had everything I needed. Apparently, in order to make coffee, you need hot water. So I boiled myself some (watching intently to make sure nothing went wrong… it’s a delicate science), and then I poured the boiling water into my FÖRSTÅ coffee/tea maker, which had about 2.5 spoonfuls of coffee. Oh yeah, I knew what I was doing.
And then I waited for a few minutes while I ate breakfast. I believe it was ‘brewing’… brewing a pot of awesome!
And THEN… I poured myself a cup of coffee. The anticipation was killing me- could this be the best home brewed coffee in the history of ever!? I was hopeful that it would be.
The verdict? I wouldn’t go as far as to say that my attempt was an epic fail of global proportions. The quality of the coffee is so good that making an undrinkable cup of coffee would be very difficult, even for someone as inept as me. But here’s a reenactment of the initial sip of my coffee…
But alas, I was being too harsh on my first cup. After the initial sip, I actually liked what I had created! And I’ve been drinking it the whole time I’ve written this post. It may not have been the best coffee ever in the history of ever, but I’d say I’m well on my way to becoming quite the coffee connoisseur! Don’t get me wrong, I’ll still be buying my Pike Place coffee, but now there’s a special place in my black heart for my home brewed variety.
It’s Monday morning. I woke up very late. And all I wanted was coffee. Which got me thinking of a quick post…
HIKES & HAMSTRINGS 