But even the sexy red coffee maker (which, PS, matches her sexy red mixer), can not make up for this little tid bit I learned.  When they say "12 cup coffee maker", or "10 cup coffee maker", they are only talking 5 OZ CUPS!!!  They are gypping me out of 3oz every cup.  That's 37.5%!!!!

Is that legal? 

It's kind of like when I realized they'd decreased the size of ice cream cartons from 1/2 gallon to 1.5 qts.  Very sneaky. 

I feel somewhat betrayed by my loyal coffee maker companies.  Why bother to call it a cup when it's got nothing to do with a cup?  "Makes 12 5oz cups" is a totally useless statement!  I don't even know that there are 5oz cups available should someone want to pour one.  Aside from that, who makes coffee at home, and drinks it 5oz at a time?  No one, that's who.  People pour big mugs, or travels mugs, and go back for seconds, and EVERYONE wonders why, on their second cup of the morning, the pot is down to 8 cups. 

I wonder how many people have thought they consumed too much coffee as they watched the hashes tick by on the side of the carafe, feeling guilty because drinking 8 cups of coffee a day just seems excessive.  Well, fear not multiple-cups-of-coffee-a-day-drinking-people.  You've just earned yourselves 37.5% more coffee each morning.

So, go ahead and brew that second pot.  If my math is correct (8*12=96oz you THOUGHT you were drinking, 12*5=60oz you really were drinking, 96-60=36oz you still CAN drink, 36/5=7.2 cups you can drink extra!).  You've got another 7.2 cups to drink if you really want to be a pot-a-day coffee drinker.  Which I know you do.

Maybe this turned out better than I thought...

I'm off to make some coffee. 

Cheers,

Kari