How to brew coffee... NOT!

[dalesys]

How to brew coffee... NOT! or outsmarted by Mr. Carafe.

• Double filter
• No filter at all
  
• Leave used grounds
  
• Dump fresh on top of used
  
• No coffee at all
  
• Leave spout over reservoir instead of filter cup
  
• Put carafe of fresh water on hot plate instead of into reservoir
  
• Leave carafe on counter while brewing
• Don't turn on heat
  

[Chromatix]

* Leave full (or partially full) carafe under spout while brewing.

(A reasonable mistake in this case, since there are two machines next to each other, but it makes just as big a mess on the floor. And no, it wasn't me.)

[MoonCat]

Put carafe of fresh water on hot plate instead of into reservoir

I actually did that once. I have no idea why.

[ellie]

I once forgot to dump the old coffee and put in fresh when I went to make a pot. So essentially I made a pot of hot caramel colored water.

[dalesys]

I almost scored a new one this morning:

• Pour fresh water in filter cup

[garth1]

Quoth dalesys

How to brew coffee... NOT! or outsmarted by Mr. Carafe.

• Double filter
• No filter at all
  
• Leave used grounds
  
• Dump fresh on top of used
  
• No coffee at all
  
• Leave spout over reservoir instead of filter cup
  
• Put carafe of fresh water on hot plate instead of into reservoir
  
• Leave carafe on counter while brewing
• Don't turn on heat
  

In my 12 years of working for 7-11, I have done all this and more. If it involved brewing coffee or tea the wrong way, I did it.

[Merriweather]

Quoth Chromatix

* Leave full (or partially full) carafe under spout while brewing.

(A reasonable mistake in this case, since there are two machines next to each other, but it makes just as big a mess on the floor. And no, it wasn't me.)

Ummm, that would be me...

I did that with a basic old Mr. Coffee machine, at an office, leaving some coffee in the pot when I set up a new pot to brew.

In my defense -

It was one of my very first temp office jobs.
I was all of 18 years old.
I had never brewed coffee in my life.
Neither me nor my parents had ever owned a coffee maker like that.

I still remember grabbing massive amounts of paper towels and stopping th emess before it got down into the drawers in the file cabinet it was sitting on....

Luckily, everyone was very nice, probably because few people can yell at a girl who's 18 (and looked about 14) and is obviously about ready to cry.

[ZumZum]

Quoth dalesys

I almost scored a new one this morning:

• Pour fresh water in filter cup

Guilty of doing that one. In my defense, I was very tired and hadn't had my coffee yet......

[MoonCat]

I brewed a pot of hot water once. Forgot to put coffee in the filter, poured in the water, turned it on...voila, nice pot of hot water. Not as tasty as coffee, though!

[Food Lady]

I only have an espresso maker, not a regular coffee maker. So I can't do any of those.