Coffee Maker

     I found an article in the local newspaper that introduced the most up-to-date and popular electric coffee makers. As I grew eager to look at it with my own eyes, I dropped in at the nearest electrical appliance shop.
     I've used a few coffee makers before and I have one now. I like coffee made from beans rather than instant coffee. I'd like to always have the former, but it takes more time to make coffee from beans. That's why I don't have a coffee maker in my office. Naturally I know almost all coffee makers can keep coffee hot for a long time and if I make enough coffee for a whole day in the morning, I can sip it whenever I like. However the coffee will boil down and if I was called for something urgent and forgot to turn it off, the coffee server would be burnt dry. I haven't used an electric coffee maker in my office on this account.
     The coffee maker that I saw in the paper didn't have a heater for the coffee, but the freshly-extracted coffee is gathered into a thermos bottle. The coffee server has the structure of a thermos bottle. After the extraction is finished, the coffee maker will be turned off automatically and the coffee will be kept hot for a few hours without any electricity. I bought it and am showing it below.

(Vocabulary)
electrical appliance 電気器具
on this account  このようなわけで
thermos bottle  魔法瓶

 

Comments

[mochi]

Sure, fresh drip coffee is better than instant, but I don't like old drip coffee. It smells like soy sauce and I heard that it possibly causes cancer -- I don't know whether it's true or not. I often drink instant coffee when I'm busy. It's not so bad, at least better than hours old drip coffee.