{"id":10636,"date":"2015-10-16T09:14:03","date_gmt":"2015-10-16T16:14:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michellejolin.com\/wordpress\/?p=10636"},"modified":"2015-10-16T09:14:03","modified_gmt":"2015-10-16T16:14:03","slug":"was-it-too-much-to-ask","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michellejolin.com\/?p=10636","title":{"rendered":"Was it too much to ask?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just one batch of ground beans so I could make a pot of coffee. My fatal error? Thinking that I could grind the beans before actually having had a cup of coffee first. <\/p>\n

A few months ago, I dropped the glass carafe to my coffee grinder. After searching for another one, but not finding one, I complained to Rocky the Roaster about it. <\/p>\n

“Jolin,” he said, “you are going to have to just buy a new grinder.”<\/p>\n

But the old grinder worked! Really well! And I had the settings that gave me perfect coffee! And it was stupid to spend all that money to replace a working grinder when the only thing it needed was a five dollar piece of glass. <\/p>\n

I used a plastic container, but none of them fit perfectly. Coffee chaff flew all over the kitchen. Ground coffee fell all over the counter. <\/p>\n

Today I tried to make a simple adjustment and the top of the grinder fell off, taking the grinding assembly with it. Since it was in the midst of grinding beans, there was a pretty epic mess. <\/p>\n

So I did the rational thing. 
\nI went and got my phone to take a picture of the mess. <\/p>\n

Then I tossed it all into the trash and sat down to post about it so everyone would know this:<\/p>\n

I should have listened to Rocky. 
\nAfter I have some coffee, I will order a new grinder. <\/p>\n

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