Cook Monkeys

Last Thursday, cook monkey Nick purchased a coffee maker which now fuels my newly acquired daily caffeine addiction. This is his story originally posted on his Livejournal.

So today I bought a coffee maker, which was much more difficult than it should have been. There are not a large number of stores near my apartment, so I chose to go the closest (read: my roommate would only drive me to the closest place). At Target, I found an aisle of coffee makers from many companies. They ranged from four-cup machines with a simple on-off switch ($15) to massive sixteen-cup monsters with complex, programmable controls and a built-in grinder($90). After considering my options for a few minutes, I noticed one that had a button marked “I/O”. The moment I saw it, I knew I had to have a coffee maker with an IO button on the front. Yes, I am a geek.

My dreams of IO-geek coffee were dashed, however, when I found that Target did not actually have any makers of this model in stock. The IO coffee maker is made my Philips, in case anyone cares. I don’t really need to have an IO coffee maker, so I grabbed a box for my second choice-It had the same features, minus the IO button. RB, my roommate, suggested that we check BestBuy (which is right next door to Target) for coffee makers–maybe they would have the one I wanted.

We walked to BestBuy-on the way in, the security guard said “Hi.” I guess that being a security is a pretty lonely job because they always say “hi” to me. I wonder if they ever consider finding a more social job, like being a bus driver.

Anyway, back on topic, we found the coffee maker aisle in BestBuy, which is pretty much like the coffee maker aisle in Target except that the coffee makers are about 37.4% more expensive. BestBuy did not have the coffee maker I wanted (even on display). They didn’t have any other models with an IO button. BestBuy did have my second choice from Target, though. I almost bought one before I realized that it was several dollars more than at Target, and that it was not the color I wanted (more expensive, not the color I wanted, AND it didn’t have an IO button). We walked back to Target. I bought my second-choice coffee maker (without an IO button) from Target and brought it home.

Overall, I am very happy with my coffee maker. It has a clock and an auto-start feature so that I can have fresh coffee waiting when I wake up. My coffee maker can brew up to twelve cups of coffee at once and it will turn the decanter heater off after a set time interval. I am currently drinking a cup of coffee that I just brewed (Wegman’s brand Traditional Ground with milk and sugar), and I must say that it is excellent. I think that I will glue an IO button to the side.

And this is his follow-up about the coffee maker.

Yea….it didn’t occur to me before the the “I/O” button on the one coffee maker I wanted was a power button not something that activated special features….yea.