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Default The high cost of single brew coffee.

On Feb 9, 1:33*pm, John Kuthe > wrote:
> On Feb 9, 11:18*am, Bryan > wrote:
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> > On Feb 9, 10:09*am, John Kuthe > wrote:

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> > > On Feb 9, 9:58*am, Bryan > wrote:

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> > > > On Feb 9, 9:17*am, George > wrote:

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> > > > > On 2/9/2012 6:06 AM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:

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> > > > > > On Thu, 09 Feb 2012 09:18:30 GMT, Alan >
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> > > > > >> There's also other considerations. *I live alone. *So making a pot of
> > > > > >> coffee usually means I pour about half the pot down the drain before I go
> > > > > >> to bed. *So using K-cups and making only what I'm going to drink makes
> > > > > >> the cost much more tolerable.

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> > > > > > My wife makes a pot and has one cup. *She reheated it in the microwave
> > > > > > then next two days. *I don't drink it so I have no idea how good it is
> > > > > > reheated.

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> > > > > I think leaving the heater on is what destroys the taste. We turn it off
> > > > > immediately after brewed. I don't notice any difference when heated
> > > > > later. If you leave the heater on you might as well dump it if you don't
> > > > > use it in a short time.

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> > > > Exactly. *If I was more motivated I'd get in there and cut the wire to
> > > > the hot plate.
> > > > People who are way pickier about coffee than me refrigerate and
> > > > microwave. *We just let it sit at room temp and microwave.

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> > > > --Bryan

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> > > Turning the pot off after the brew has the same effect. And if you
> > > keep your kitchen cool enough it's almost like refrigerating!

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> > Turning it off requires being there right when it finishes brewing,
> > when there might be somewhere else I'd prefer to be.

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> Or shortly thereafter. Why are you brewing a pot if you are not there
> to enjoy the first cup?
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Do you two have to turn every thread into a cringe fest for the rest
of us? Someone put it best on another thread: creepy.