Declares national state of emergency

[JRTomlin]

My coffee grinder just stopped working!!! *panics* *runs back and forth*

This is drastic. No one wants to be in the same country with me when I don't have coffee.

What to do? What to do? Would a hammer work?

[Post-Doctorate D]

Pepper mill?

Food processor?

Mortar and pestle?

[JRTomlin]

A pepper mill is a bit small but in an emergency a food processor might make something kind of like ground coffee. (Coffee is supposed to be ground not chopped up with blades so it won't be good coffee, but this is an emergency after all)

[She-la-te-da]

*quietly looks into moving to Mars to avoid messy coffee withdrawal situation*

[JRTomlin]

Everyone is temporarily safe. The blender chopped up coffee that is acceptable if not great. 

[Shoe]

When I run out of coffee there's always black tea in the cupboard. Every time I have a cup I wonder why I don't drink it more (well, because I always have coffee on hand). It's tasty and seems to work better than coffee at clearing my head.

I hear meth also makes one feel perky but I've never tried it.

[JRTomlin]

i drink tea just about every day but it is not really a satisfactory substitute for my morning coffee.

[LilyBLily]

You're all drug addicts. 

[Simon Haynes]

I drink instant ;-)

[VisitasKeat]

It's all your fault! You have multiple backup devices for your manuscript but not invested in a backup coffee grinder?

I have heard that coffee beans were first discovered in Africa. Suddenly the dull grazing goats became super active! And that's when the farmers found out that the fellas were happily munching something new which we now know as the coffee beans.

We had cats vs dogs debate here. How about coffee vs tea? 

[JRTomlin]

I drink instant ;-)

There is no face I could make that would be bad enough!

EEEeeeeeeewwww...

[notthatamanda]

I drink instant ;-)

Oh, oh god no.

Tomlin, I feel you.  No way I could deal with a coffee related emergency without having had coffee first. I had the pot crack once.
I suggest keeping a bag of grounds in the freezer from now on.

I try to limit my caffeine but somedays after my one cup of coffee I make a pot of Earl Grey.  In the coffee pot.

[VanessaC]

That is a real crisis - my equivalent is running out of tea bags (never, ever, happens) or discovering my milk is off - cannot drink black tea.

Glad it's sorted - I was wondering if a heavy rolling pin would have produced some coffee bits small enough to brew with? Coffee beans into a plastic bag, and smash the rolling pin on the bag - well, it works for digestive biscuits for cheesecake bases ...

[notthatamanda]

I used the rolling pin to smash peppermints for the kids to make peppermint bark last night. I kept smashing my fingers. But that may be because I am an idiot.

[David VanDyke]

I drink instant ;-)

There is no face I could make that would be bad enough!

EEEeeeeeeewwww...

Oddly, there are a few specialty instants that are decent. Google them.

[David VanDyke]

I used the rolling pin to smash peppermints for the kids to make peppermint bark last night. I kept smashing my fingers. But that may be because I am an idiot.

Put them in a thick plastic bag like a heavy-duty ziploc, then gently crush or smash. This keeps the flying shrapnel contained and the fingers out of the way.

[Lynn]

Instant is my coffee of last resort. On the other hand, I regularly drink an offbrand cheap preground coffee that most of the rest of my family can't stand. I like it better than the expensive beans I used to buy and grind myself. :D

I like to think I lucked up when a relative was trying to get rid of it and gave it to me. I've saved a lot of money on coffee this last year since I discovered how much I like it.

[notthatamanda]

I used the rolling pin to smash peppermints for the kids to make peppermint bark last night. I kept smashing my fingers. But that may be because I am an idiot.

Put them in a thick plastic bag like a heavy-duty ziploc, then gently crush or smash. This keeps the flying shrapnel contained and the fingers out of the way.

I had them wrapped in a silicon baking mat.  For the most part they stayed in there, I'm just kind of a clutz. These were the big round peppermints, and I don't really have a heavy duty rolling pin. I've always wanted a marble one.  I could ask my husband to get me one for Christmas but it is December 19th. If he does to the mall now we may never see him again.
Bonus - the finished product looks like snowed on dog poop.

[JRTomlin]

That is a real crisis - my equivalent is running out of tea bags (never, ever, happens) or discovering my milk is off - cannot drink black tea.

Glad it's sorted - I was wondering if a heavy rolling pin would have produced some coffee bits small enough to brew with? Coffee beans into a plastic bag, and smash the rolling pin on the bag - well, it works for digestive biscuits for cheesecake bases ...

I did a Google search and yes, a rolling pin would work. I'm waiting on the delivery of a new burr grinder now. 

[cecilia_writer]

I drink instant because I'm too impatient to wait for 'real' coffee/too lazy to make it. It's easier to manage at my day job too. You get used to it!
I have 4 jars and a refill packet in the Brexit cupboard

[notthatamanda]

Brexit cupboard?
We have a stash for the zombie apocalypse.  Is that similar?  We have bigger houses here. Way bigger than a cupboard. We could survive for months.

[cecilia_writer]

Brexit cupboard?
We have a stash for the zombie apocalypse.  Is that similar?  We have bigger houses here. Way bigger than a cupboard. We could survive for months.

It's similar except that Brexit's a bit more certain to happen, sadly. I had used some of stash earlier as deadlines came and went but I'm building it up again now.

[Mark Gardner]

For my regular coffee, I get cafe justo from Mexico, and make sure that it was roasted, ground, and packaged less than 1-2 weeks prior. I use a keurig metal K-cup for my cafe justo, and keep extra K-cups as a backup of coffee, tea, and hot cocoa.