Hammer Coffee

When you think of the KGB, you might have visions of the Hammer and Sickle. When you think of KGBlend coffee from Daz Bog, you probably don’t think of a hammer and Zip Loc bag.

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If you were up with me at 4 am this morning, your would have seen me smacking KGBlend coffee beans with a 16 ounce hammer. The unfortunate beans didn’t have the dignity of spinning around in a coffee grinder (that’s in storage while we build our house). Instead, the beans were dropped into a Zip Loc bag, sealed shut, and pounded for ten minutes with a rubber handled Eastwing.

If I had paid more attention to what coffee bag I was grabbing as I flew down the grocery isle in pseudo-shopping spree winner mode, I would have had an actual cup of coffee this morning.

Instead, I sat in the dark and lingered over a hot cup of “coffee-flavored water beverage.” And that’s after I poured the water back and forth through the strainer 10 times.

If you plan on living 30 miles from the grocery store, I have one piece of advice, buy a bigger hammer.

2 thoughts on “Hammer Coffee

  1. Hahahaha! I received a bag of Starbucks beans from one of my well-meaning children on Mother’s Day, I don’t own a bean grinder. So I sent it along home with my mother, who happened to be visiting, as she does own a grinder. On my last visit home I brought the ground ” knock your socks off ” French Roast back with me. It is stashed in the freezer and a spoonful is added to my regular cheap (?!- is there such a thing?) coffee to give it a hint of the gourmet Oh what we won’t do for a cup o’ joe in the mornings!

    p.s. the last time I tried to “grind” something, peanuts I think, for lack of a grinder , I made the mistake of using a pleated sandwich bag, therefore requiring my finger to be placed to close to the whamming of the hammer resulting in a black ened fingernail.

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