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The Convenience of a Kitchen Aid coffee maker





In most respects, my kitchen has had all of the most up-to-date conveniences for a long time. We have a kitchen food processor, a kitchen grinder, and several of the idyllic knives that money can purchase. The one thing that we haven't had until in recent times is a Kitchen Aid coffee maker. In its place, we have gotten by with an old Bunn coffee maker that we hardly use at all.

You see, my wife is sort of peculiar about coffee. She calls herself a connoisseur, but her definition of the idiom is kind of strange. As far as I can tell, to her a connoisseur is somebody who takes the backwards way to do something. She has no want for Kitchen Aid coffee makers, or other latest conveniences. She likes to roast her own coffee beans, but she persists on doing this in a pan. She likes to brew her own coffee, but she does this without the help of a Kitchen Aid coffee maker. She enjoys straining the beans herself instead.

She insists that this gives her a greater degree of control over the entire process of design coffee. Personally, I am unconvinced. When she asks me how her coffee tastes, I repeatedly say that it tastes cool. In fact, it does taste extraordinary. Even so, when she uses the Kitchen Aid coffeemaker, it tastes good the same and it takes less time to prepare. I discern that she has ground the beans herself in the coffee grinder, but I in actual fact can't tell the difference between those and store-bought, pre-ground coffee beans. The beans that she roasts are tasty, but they are not that much better than other freshly roasted beans. I appreciate how frantic she works, but I judge that she should resign herself to the Kitchen Aid coffee maker. After all, it is more handy.

On the other hand, I know that she likes coffee the way that she does and there is no harm to it. I suppose it is something like a hobby for her. Hot devices like the Kitchen Aid coffee maker, our state of the art refrigerator, and our microwave have a propensity of making people lazy. You in actuality do not have to work at all to put together food nowadays, it seems. If she gets joy by the use of avoiding the Kitchen Aid coffee maker in favor of doing everything by means of hand, I say more power to her. After all, it is her preference to formulate. I always do enjoy the cups of coffee that she brews for me, and I can taste the fervor in them. You can't capture that fervor with a kitchen aid coffee maker.