I do lots of different things with coffee. I make pots of it and refrigerate it. I make ice cubes. I make Vietnamese coffee. I drink hot coffee and cold coffee. I drink Starbuck instant Via - not my favorite, but it's a decent way to get the caffeine in.
Recently I started making Iced Coffee in a different manner. I mix one metal jar - the 10 ounce can of the strongest coffee that I can find - in a 2 gallon pitcher full of water. I let it sit overnight and then drain it into a pitcher and store it in the refrigerator. I have seen the recipe in tons of places, but actually had a friend show me how to do it first. I couldn't figure out why he always had such delicious coffee, and badgered him until he shared the secret with me. It's really easy. In the moring, I toss in a couple of ice cubes (usually coffee ones), add a splash of simple syrup and a bit more milk, and go.
Last night, I mixed the coffee and let it sit. Today, I set the colander inside the sink, lined it with cheesecloth (the BEST kitchen purchase I ever made, I use it at least three times a week) and started to pour the coffee "mud" into the strainer.
Go back and read that paragraph and see if you can figure out what important step I missed.
The answer is in the comment section.
<Sigh.>
I neglected to put the empty pitcher underneath the colander. I didn't catch it until I had poured close to one GALLON of coffee straight down the drain.
Posted by: Carmen | July 30, 2011 at 09:07 AM
Happens to the best of us!!! Hope your day goes better than your morning began!
Posted by: Erin | July 30, 2011 at 09:24 AM
ugh. that sounds like something i would do when just waking up:(
Posted by: Mari | July 30, 2011 at 09:53 AM
you needed coffee to make your coffee :)
Posted by: beth | July 30, 2011 at 10:08 AM
sounds exactly like something I would do!
Posted by: Jodie in MN | July 30, 2011 at 10:40 AM
Coffee went down the sink: ( I once threw mop water down a sink with no drain attached, sigh.
Posted by: Gina | July 30, 2011 at 11:05 AM
Oops! I once put the colander on the counter to drain something...got water ALL over the counter, floor, myself.
Posted by: Karen | July 30, 2011 at 11:14 AM
See? You almost need to have coffee before you have coffee so you're alert and able to catch errors like that. Maybe you could set up an intravenous drip.... Oops - it just happens but it is a heartbreak when it does.
Posted by: bama Cheryl | July 30, 2011 at 11:21 AM
Look on the bright side, it was in the sink...
I've made coffee and forgot to put the pot in and it poured all over the counter...no coffee, just a big mess
Posted by: KAREN | July 30, 2011 at 12:34 PM
Oh my lol says the woman who cracked eggs into the garbage instead of the bowl. Lol
Posted by: Jenn | July 30, 2011 at 04:06 PM
I did the same thing the first time I made chicken stock.
Posted by: Wookie | July 30, 2011 at 09:51 PM
Everyone has done something similar to that at least once. I need dumb-dumb proof coffee in the am. No thinking required. Cuz I will mess it up!
Posted by: addy | July 31, 2011 at 07:16 PM
Been there done that with homemade chicken stock. I felt so bad, but what's done is done.
Hope you were able to get your caffeine anyway!
Posted by: Brandy | August 01, 2011 at 02:16 PM
Darn! As I was reading it I thought to myself, "I hope she put another pitcher under that cheese cloth!" Ten bucks says that won't happen again. :)
Posted by: Iowamom | August 01, 2011 at 08:48 PM
Been there done that!! :)
Posted by: Carly | August 02, 2011 at 12:11 PM