Are you a messy coffee opener?
By shelagh77
@shelagh77 (3643)
April 14, 2007 4:02am CST
When you open a new jar of coffee do you pop the spoon through to make the seal ping and then shovel out the coffee, catching the spoon on the tattered seal, thus making a mess for the next lucky person to clear up?
Or do you remove the whole seal, thus making spill free transfer of coffee easy?
Yes, I do HATE it when people make a little hole and a lot of mess, guess what I am doing now - uh-huh, clearing up spilled coffee grrrrrr.
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7 responses
@rainbow (6761)
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14 Apr 07
I have white work surfaces so goodness help anyone doing that. The coffee arrives, is opened by all of the seal being removed and instantly popped into the coffee pot. The jar, seal and lid all go for recycling. It's very rare to have a jar in the cupboard even.
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@rainbow (6761)
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26 Jun 07
Last year I made plum jam in little plastic boxes, but jars look nicer as presents. The reason there's rarely a jar in the cupboard is that we drink a jar a week so it never gets stocked up really. I sometimes save my honey jars to reuse for jam, then Shrek finds them and puts them in the box for recycling, lol. Not organised really, gowsh thought you k new me better than that, hee-hee!
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@shelagh77 (3643)
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26 Jun 07
It really annoys me, Other Half does that as well. Try putting your foot down. I keep buying plastic boxes with lids, which are expensive but they last for a very long time, and I have stacked my jars in them and placed them in the shed myself and heaven help him if he gets rid of this lot. We have elderberries and blackberries in the garden and sometimes we get given fruit by a farmer friend, and it can't all be eaten at once so I make jam.
Then I find out he has got rid of the jars . . .
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@shelagh77 (3643)
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26 Jun 07
Wow! I envy the organisation there! I don't put my jars out for recycling, I hoard them in case I get any fruit or other goodies I can make into jam or pickles, and the jars are very useful then.
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@krislouiebaby (2346)
• Philippines
26 Jun 07
well i do not experience that because i buy coffee in sachet.
i am not into buying coffee in a jar.
buying coffee in sachet is more convenient. you just have to transfer in a dry container.
@shelagh77 (3643)
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26 Jun 07
That is certainly a final solution to that problem :-)
Do you find that buying sachets is very expensive though, it is where I live, I can buy about five times as much good quality coffee in a jar as I can in sachets.
@shelagh77 (3643)
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26 Jun 07
So we both remove the lot then. Yes, you don't have to guess very hard to know who makes the mess and generally mucks up my kitchen system, do you, and now I have it in duo!
@Lakota12 (42600)
• United States
14 Apr 07
I get the canned kind of coffee that has a seal that you pull all the way off but every oncein awhile if I am in a hurry I hit the spoon on side of pot and spill some grounds but they are easy o clean up . Just wipe them off the counter .
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@shelagh77 (3643)
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26 Jun 07
You don't have the problems I have then, not at all. You see, when my partner and his family are let loose in the kitchen the surface will also be wet from water from the kettle, so the grounds make a horrible mess!
@kathy77 (7485)
• Australia
14 Apr 07
When I open a new jar of coffee I take the whole seal off so that when I need a cup of coffee the spoon will not get caught in the foil, as this has happened to me before and I ended up spilling the coffee so that is why I remove it so that it will not happen to me again.
@shelagh77 (3643)
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26 Jun 07
Yup, we all learn eventually if we have enough mess to clean up, don't we? I usually manage to be the first one to open the jar as I am the one who makes the most drinks for everyone else, but if I don't you can bet there will be one mess there for me to clear up the next time I make a drink!
@shelagh77 (3643)
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26 Jun 07
Well, there is that to things. If you are the one who has to clean up you are going to be that much more careful. Maybe I should go on strike and let them clean up themselves?
@shelagh77 (3643)
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26 Jun 07
I wish you could train my visitors to be more like you then. They are mostly builders and mechanics and they should be called "mess is us"!
