This year for Christmas, Mr. Husband and I gave one another kitchen appliances. I received a Kitchen Aid Artisan mixer. I am still holding on to my humble, proletariat hand mixer for short mixing chores, but Mr. Husband is awed that, with the Kitchen Aid, you dont need to spend 99 cents at the grocery store for noodles, but rather can spend $20 and many hours making your own. Ha ha. Just kidding. Im extremely pleased with my Christmas gift, and I am even more pleased that it appears relatively simple to use. Mr. Husbands gift from me is another story. Mr. Husband drinks coffee, although not much of it. I hate the stuff, but I love tea. I am addicted to tea. While no one in memory has ever entered our home and demanded a cup of coffee, Mr. Husband was going to get a new coffee maker--the kind that makes enough for an entire town at one time--because, he says, he is tired of paying exorbitant prices for coffee at the gas station. So there on TV appeared the Keurig 2.0--the one that makes either a cup or a carafe! It also makes tea and hot chocolate, or even just hot water if your tastes are simple. So I decided to purchase a Keurig 2.0 for Mr. Husband. Yesterday I got around to setting it up. Its a very nice, yet rather weird, machine. The owners manual is roughly the same size as the owners manual for the Prius, which was a bit disconcerting. But the instructions were easy to understand, so I scrolled through the options to see what it could do. First I had to select a wallpaper. These wallpapers werent actual computer-type wallpapers. They were just different background colors you can select for the little rectangle that shows the time and the various functions of the coffee maker. I selected black, because, well, the machine itself is black, and black made the time and functions stand out very well. I also set it on Energy Saver and got the clock set for the correct time of day. (I tried to coordinate the clock with the clock on the microwave, which sits right next to the coffee maker, but try as I might, one of them would change over to the next minute a nanosecond before the other, which drives me crazy. So now I avert my eyes when using either the coffee maker or the microwave. If you hear that I have somehow manage to vaporize my hand in a microwave oven, this is how it happened.) Anyway, the weirdest function on the Keurig 2.0 is the one that allows you to chose the color of the light that illuminates your water reservoir. You have a choice of white (which is actually clear), green, blue, or red. I tried them all. Green is nice if youre a back-to-nature sort of person and want your water to look like its fresh from the algae pond. Blue is very tranquil-looking. It reminded me of the water off south Florida. In fact, as soon as I saw it, the first thing that popped into my head was, He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream, and he had gone 84 days now without taking a fish. Which is my all-time favorite first sentence of any novel, ever. But I didnt really want to think of Hemingway every time I looked at the water reservoir, so I nixed blue. The final color selection was red. I am not really sure who would want his water to look red, unless his name is Lestat or Dracula, in which case coffee would probably not be on the menu anyway. So I decided to go with clear, so that the water in the water reservoir is the boring shade of, well, water. So I am very happy with our new appliances, and I must say the Keurig was reared well, because it has excellent manners. When the water reservoir is low, it says, More water, please in the little rectangle. Obviously this machine isnt from this area, or it would say, Yo, gimme more water! My new Kitchen Aid mixer is candy apple red, and there is nothing that will change that. What a relief!
Posted on: Tue, 30 Dec 2014 14:35:33 +0000
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