[Green] new coffee pots

[Linda Lewis]

Hi, 
Since you are twiddling your thumbs Here is something else to keep you busy.   Ha Ha.  

Sunday at coffee hour the new coffee pots were put to use.  Tori took on the challenge of figuring out how to use them.  There was some success and some need for improvements.  

What worked: 
we were able to make 50 cups of regular coffee in the new pots. 
(I do not know how much coffee she put in, I believe it was a guess that worked out.)  

Needs improved:  
She tried to make 25 cups of decaf.  It did not turn on and her best guess was that it needed more water.  so she added some water and some coffee - but it turned into tea and was dumped out later.  

I went to the old system and started making decaf.   I also made more regular since we ran out in the big pot. 

Needs 
A decision about how much coffee to make in the big Pots.  it is always a guess about how much is needed and how many people will attend coffee hour, so monitoring is needed and coffee crew needs to be ready and able to make more coffee if needed.  I made about 2 more pots of reg. coffee. 

How much water needs to be in the large pot for it to work?  was there some other thing that caused the pot not to turn on, if so what was it?   

In my opinion, the coffee crew needs to be alerted to how long it will take the coffee to brew.  - 100 cups will take about 1.5 hours - according to the directions.  

How much coffee to put in
100 cups water = 6 cups coffee grounds
50 cups = 3 cups coffee grounds
25 cups = 1.5 cups of coffee grounds if the pot will turn on

Filters are not needed as long as the grounds purchased are not a fine ground. 

Rinsing out the big pots in the sink is challenging.  You have to put it on its side  and spray water in.  

For some reason, members pulled the pots to the edge of the counter to put the coffee cup under it and get coffee.  This is not needed.  a coffee cup fits under the spout.  we may need a sign ? 

Also we need some tag or sign to indicate which one is regular and which is decaf.  - we used post-it notes this week. 

Hope that helps, 
Linda Lewis