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Coffee French Press

We just talked about thermos coffee, and the only reason I now include a similar product is because I can read the future of 99% of my readers, their palm bespeaking of angst and denial.  “Ain’t no damn way I’m having some trashy looking piece of crap thermos in my beautiful kitchen, no sir no how”.  How am I doing?  Five bucks and I’ll guess your year of death.  Look, I’m not judging.  If you want to put most of your treasure into good looking dust catchers, who am I to say anything?  You want good looking, go with the French press to make your coffee.  They are all fancy and bespeak of elegance and all that rot.  And why would you want one?  Less energy to brew the elixir of life, coffee.  Coffee is like the adults version of mothers milk to an infant. A gift from the gods.  And, a very good reason to NOT hate the Arabs.  Sure, a few of them are disagreeable when it comes to beheading infidels and what not, but those mother humpers domesticated the coffee bean!  That is like why you have to love the French-mayonnaise.  To you city slicker grid sucklers, coffee brewing might seem a very small deal.  But for those of us off-grid, the sad fact is that besides the refrigerator, very few things use as much electricity as a coffee brewer ( if you said clothes dryer, Wrong Answer.  Your clothes dryer is a piece of rope out back ).  When in the future every watt counts because of brown-outs or rate hikes, you will be pleased as punch you listened to me and de-electrified your elixir brewing.

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You still need gas or wood to bring water to a boil, but flame to water is much more efficient than flame to boiler to electric line to transformer to electric brewer.  Every step of the way, energy is lost.  And that is even before you waste electricity keeping the hot plate under the carafe going.  A french press coffee maker is to a brewer as a moped is to modern US Army tank ( something like twelve hundred feet to the gallon ).  You might think $30-$50 bucks for a coffee maker is silly, but how many people do you know that bought a $120 maker to brew single serving eighty cent cups of specialty coffee?  Buy the all metal press, not the glass one.  They break too easy, and you both don’t want the replacement cost nor do you want your flesh close to broken glass.  I had a wonderfully generous minion send me a metal one after I’d broken my second or third glass unit, but you don’t write like Baby Jesus’ personal scribe like I do, so you will have to spend a bit extra.  It will be worth it, as it is almost a lifetime tool ( try to send away to the company for the internal replacement parts if possible, just in case ).

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Pressure Cooker

A pressure cooker is just like a pressure canner, except it is for quick cooking raw foods, not to seal foods in canning jars.  For instance, cut potatoes cook in five minutes.  All it is is a steamer, really, but highly efficient.  Just like a coffee brewer that does not use electricity, a pressure cooker is there to really shave off the energy you need.  It claims to tenderize meat, so in theory you could buy really crappy cuts of cheap meat and not be offended by them, but I was doing something wrong and had little luck.  Perhaps it works best for thick, large chunks.  Just Wiki the darn things if you need convincing.  The potato cook time sold me on them ( of course, I could also use the thermos to basically almost do the same thing, but a cooker is cheap enough to be good insurance.  The thermos won’t do meat, or at least it won’t do portions above bachelor size-if I ever find myself needing to cook for more than two, I’d feel stupid only having the thermos.  Each tool is practical even if they sometimes overlap  ).

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