I just dont seem to ever learn
Now how am I supposed to get this to my desk without either spilling it all over or burning my lips trying to slurp it here. I've been drinking coffee for at least 25 years and I still do this to myself at least 3 times a week.
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Get a BIGGER cup.
If they're anything like my they're just gonna fill it anyway and have an even bigger problem. I actually got a smaller cup to make the problem smaller.
Carry the coffee maker. It's your mug now.
that's how I started, now I drive a cement mixer to work
Fill your stomach for life with this one weird trick!
The pictured coffee machine appears to have a 40 fluid ounce carafe.
https://us.moccamaster.com/collections/glass-carafe-brewers/products/kbgv-select?variant=41498100367523
This mug holds 52 fluid ounces:
https://www.amazon.com/Bubba-Classic-Insulated-Desk-Black/dp/B00YG9SQM0
EDIT: (52 fluid ounces == 1.53 liters)
That’s not the cup, as it says on it the brand is Yeti. I have one, it is larger than average but not anything like 1.5L.
Here it is:
https://au.yeti.com/products/rambler-14-oz-2-0-414-ml-mug?variant=41262301053062
14oz / 414ml
They were proposing that the OP buy the linked cup as it can contain more coffee than the machine can brew.
Now you can be like every annoying American tourist at an all inclusive resort.
I've never gone to one of those all-inclusive resorts, but if I did, I'd come properly equipped with this 64-fluid-ounce mug in one hand and this 64-fluid-ounce mug in the other.
I remember when sublime’s 40oz to freedom was about alcoholism and buying a malt liquor drink, but turns out, there’s a possible different interpretation
This is the same approach as "add one more lane" to a congested highway. You know it's not gonna work.
Just get a saucer.
The induced demand theory of coffee cup size.
My favorite every morning moment: bow down and SLURP
Bow down before the one you serve
You’re going to get what you deserve
(It’s coffee. You deserve coffee.)
Got coffee- I'll do anything for you...
Gotta blow on it first though
The coffee pot isn't set properly.
Put it back put it back put it back
It's intentional. Leaves an air gap between the pot and the hotplate.
Yes, which is exactly why it shouldn't be like that. I know you probably did it so that the hotplate won't heat up the glass for nothing, which is fine, albeit unnecessary and slightly disturbing to my psyche. Unnecessary insofar that the hotplate won't crack the glass, it's not exactly that hot, the pot's good glass and usually cracking happens when you suddenly cool a hot glass object, not just by heating it.
I can't tell you the times that people have left it like that while there still is coffee, and then it's gotten awkwardly room temperature. Which is why I'm sort of sore about that.
It’s not to protect it from cracking - it’s to stop the leftover coffee from burning onto it, since I only rinse it after use.
I feared as much. People used to do that a lot instead of rinsing the pot out and making a new pan. Everyone just like "no no there's still enough for someone to probably want the last bit".
Dad used to do it at home as well back when I still lived with him like 20 years ago. I'm not much of a perfectionist, but this somehow gets to me idk why.
Dude it's fine lol
Surface tension porn
Oh fuck yeah spread that meniscus
I love how surface tension is the only thing still keeping liquid inside the cup...
When I saw the photo and this wonderful surface tension I thought this was a science meme
Well, it's a template for some future meme for sure.
gravity too
If the pathway from your coffee maker to your desk has sufficient width and structural support to accommodate a 70 ton tracked armored fighting vehicle, tank gun stabilizers can maintain pretty stable beverage platforms.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGzRfvgnS_s
You've learned plenty. Mostly about the surface tension of coffee.
This is eminently slurpable. The clue is in the name, it makes the sound because you're not pressing your lips against the rim of the cup in the same way as a sip. You're more sucking in air towards you over the cup and it happens to lap up a few little waves of coffee that are thoroughly cooled on their way to your mouth.
This guy slurps.
In case you still need help: If you're reading this now, your coffee will be cold so you can finally slurp it.
You do know your coffee makers 👌
Moccamaster is relatively popular brand where I live. Most people know about it. It always boggles my mind when I see a middle class family with a 35€ coffee maker. Why cheap out on something you're using multiple times a day for the rest of your life? These things are not that expensive and spare parts are widely available.
Nice moccamaster, I have one in Burgundy, they make really good drip coffee
I was gonna say. Super legit masheen and crazy expensive.
It's worth the price, trust me.
I also heard these things last forever, and they sell spare parts.
Buy once cry once ehh? In a world of enshitification i like this.
An Aeropress is almost certainly less expensive and makes better coffee. No moving parts to break either. Granted it's more involved, the ritual is part of a cup of coffee.
The best coffee I've ever drank was from Aeropress but honestly, if you use freshly ground beans on a Moccamaster they're quite difficult to tell apart.
When it comes to machines the Moccamaster is definitely top tier, especially when you're moving up from a Mr coffee like we had when I was young lol.
Put it on a plate. You'll spill, but it'll stay on the plate.
Easy: redefine your "desk" to be that counter. Problem solved.
Others have posted longer term solutions (bigger cup, skill issue, etc). In the immediate situation you have some options:
Surface tension at its best. And its max.
Little sips Brüder, little sips
you're gonna need a bigger cup
You don't need solution when you have the best coffee maker ever built!
(True)
What? I don't see an Aeropress anywhere 😋
Solvable problem. You just need a turkey baster.
Use a straw if available...
Get another cup an only fill them both halfway full. You will now be known as "2 cup larry".
All you need is a Pythagoras greedy cup
True! Then instead of spilling my coffee on the counter I could spill it on the counter instead.
So that you practice stopping it just before the siphon trigger
straw
Mockamaster machine, nice 👌
ADHD?
Blow!
Top-notch meniscus
Let it there for 5 min. Then slurp it. Then move it.
This is the way. Also if its too hot, that means your coffee is over 80 degrees Celsius. Which is not good
Scoop some out with a metal spoon. The liquid in the spoon should cool quickly so you can still drink it without wasting any. Repeat until the level is low enough to carry.
You need a cup with an expandable section, sort of like luggage has
Or maybe I just need to start drinking straight from the jug.
That could work too, spare yourself washing mugs
Pour some into the nearby sink.
I don't waste good coffee.
Wick it. Carefully touch the corner of a paper towel to the coffee, and let the coffee draw up into the paper towel. Repeat until the coffee is low enough for you to have a good chance at passing an agility check.
Pour milk first
Move your coffee machine to your desk so you can make and pour coffee without having to move the mug!
I live in a small granny cottage and "my desk" means the kitchen table 2.5 meters away. I technically could move it to my desk and it would still remain in the kitchen.
Sounds very cozy! I suppose you could also simply carry the carafe to your coffee mug and pour it there, as though you were working at a diner with you as your favourite customer!
A very long straw!
I've tweaked my coffee machine (okay, a simple Senseo) so it always gives exactly the right amount so something like this won't happen every.
When I make coffee just for myself, I always measure out the same amount of water and this never happens. But my SO is slightly less autistic about it than I am and makes inconsistent amounts when brewing for the two of us - and I just can’t stand the thought of pouring even a drop of coffee down the drain. So, I spill it on the table and floor instead.
this is your fault lmao
I'd probably nurse it a little until it was safe enough to transport. Although youd have to wait for it to cool first.
When this happens to me, I sip it right then and there, burning my lips as punishment for letting it get to that point. I no longer have lips, but now it rarely gets to that point for me anymore.
Mostly /s but coffee is usually not so hot that I can't take a few sips of shame to get it to a more manageable level.
Clearly, just put the yeti top on.
There’s a scene at the beginning of Friendship that seems made for you.
You sip from the edge, duh. I figured this out in grade school, jeez.