You help yourself to tea and make nothing for me

[venta]

The trouble with reality is that you have to be capable of making your first cup of tea of the morning before you've had your first cup of tea of the morning.

A colleague maintains that coffee (he's talking instant) is at least easier to make, because you don't have to worry about taking the teabag out. I reckon this is wrong: with coffee you have to measure or judge the quantity of instant granules, which is much more difficult than counting up to one (as you would with a teabag).

All this is taking place in the work environment, where one is not easily able to bother with niceties like teapots or looseleaf tea.

Comments

[mister-jack.livejournal.com]

I make real coffee, from freshly ground beans, each morning.

This means that everyday I have to: clean the coffee maker, put the correct amount of water in, measure out the correct quantity of beans, grind them to the correct consistency, put the grinds in the coffee maker and switch it on.

I reckon I fail to do at least one of these steps about one day in ten...

[venta.livejournal.com]

Just supposing you had an outbreak of late-night activity... how many of those steps do you reckon could be done in advance the night before without compromising your coffee-quality? Presumably everything up to the "grind" stage, at least...

[mister-jack.livejournal.com]

Yeah, if I was like organised and shit, I could do everything but grind the beans the night before.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Also, oooh, get you and your sophisticated morning routine ;)

[serpentstar.livejournal.com]

I pretty much always have to have a cup of instant before I can bring myself to grind the beans and generally sort out my cup of proper coffee.