Hi all! I can’t tell you how excited I am to be writing here
for We Know Products! I love writing in my free time, so when the guys at We
Know Products reached out to me, I jumped at the chance to have my work
featured in a real life website.
In the future I’m told I’ll be given specific products to review,
but to start you will get a peek at some of the products I already own and
recommend to you, dear reader.
First up, as I take a long look around my apartment, is the kitchen appliance that is most dear to my heart. Nope, I am not talking about the Instant Pot! I mean my coffee maker. I know there are dozens and dozens of fancy-schmancy coffee makers out there, but for me old reliable is a $20 machine I have had since my sophomore year of college.
My Mr. Coffee 12-cup coffee maker (or Hazel, as I call her, since I like to add hazelnut creamer to my morning joe) has gotten me through many late night study sessions and gotten me to work on time after too many too lit Thirsty Thursdays. Hazel doesn’t come with many bells and whistles. Actually, I wouldn’t say she comes with any bells and whistles. All she does is one thing: make coffee. Before I go to bed every night, I pre-load 8 scoops of coffee. Then, I get up every morning at 6 a.m. and press “on.” After I take my daily 6 to 6:15 nap, Hazel greets me with a freshly brewed pot. Depending on how sleepy I am, she usually has some left for my roomie too.
This past December, my roommate and I debated asking for a new coffeepot from one of our sets of parents for Christmas. The conversation didn’t last very long. We just couldn’t come up with any reason why Hazel wasn’t sufficient. We input how much coffee we want, and Hazel delivers that much joe. The only semi-plausible point for upgrading we could come up with was that we might want to be able to preset a brew time the night before. That hardly seemed like enough to justify making our parents spend over $100. (I ended up asking for the Instant Pot instead).
The Mr. Coffee 12-cup coffee maker is for people like us who love coffee. It is definitely good for people on a budget, but you don’t have to be on a budget to see the value in a no-frills pot. Next time you are considering an upgrade on your coffee machine, consider a “downgrade” instead. Trust me, you won’t regret it!
