Back in April, I lamented the lack of coffee makers in the city where I live. It turns out I may or may not have been wrong, depending on a single factor. How's that for being ambiguous? I and the wife looked through the appliance stores in the city, but we didn't look anywhere at [...] Read more »
The Cuisinart DCC-1100 Coffeemaker
The Cuisinart DCC-1100 coffee maker is has a little more red on it than I care for, but red is what the wife likes so I have to consider it. It's an older model than the Cuisinart DCC-1150 Coffee Maker I virtually reviewed almost two years ago, but it holds 12 cups vs. 10 cups. [...] Read more »
Red Coffee Makers
I don't know how she did it, but my wife weaseled the facts about red coffee makers at Amazon out of me. It had to be a Jedi mind trick or something. That's my story and I'm sticking to it. Actually, I think she cheated and read my article on the Hamilton Beach 43253 Ensemble [...] Read more »
Hamilton Beach 43253 Ensemble 12-Cup Coffeemaker
If I buy this red coffee maker, it will only be because I'm trying to please the wife. You see, she has this thing about the color red. If she had her way, everything we own would be one shade of red or another. We had a 1990 Toyota Corolla once and, as you can [...] Read more »
It's Time to Get a New Iced Tea Maker and other Appliances
I need a new iced tea maker because a few weeks ago, my local electric company did something stupid and overloaded the 110v line coming into my house. The end result is that everything using 110v (that was plugged in at the time) no longer works. I know how to make iced tea the old-fashioned [...] Read more »
Sweet Tea Southern Fried Chicken
If there's anything I like better than the beverages of coffee and tea, it's the food that's prepared with either of them. Now, rather than try to convince you that I know anything about cooking more than the average household food, here's a video from SmashMouthonTV: Read more »
Iced Coffee Recipes
A friend of mine sent me these iced coffee recipes. If you like them, you should check out Cathy's website, The Frazzled Homemaker, as well as her Keurig B40 review. I haven't had a chance to try either one yet, but it's definitely going to happen. Here we go: Read more »
Drinking Hot Tea vs. Hot Coffee
One of the things I've noticed about myself lately is that I drink way too much coffee. It's not really a bad thing, in my opinion, because what I consider too much isn't what others might consider too much. I don't like cold coffee (iced coffee or anything like that) because then I drink more [...] Read more »
Hot Coffee in a Can?
I recently received an e-mail message from a visitor concerning "ready-to-drink" coffee and tea. I didn't know he was talking about self-heating cans. I thought he was talking about iced coffee, or cold coffee in a can. I plead ignorance – innovations like hot coffee in a can wouldn't appear as quickly in my neck [...] Read more »