Turns out, electricity can be used to create heat. When I decided to stop using fire to heat food and water last week, it didn’t take long to solve the problem. I now have a continuously changing and re-spicing crockpot full of cod, tilapia (only delicious when slow-cooked), and every vegetable that can be kept on a counter or refrigerator (not to mention an overripe peach or two).
I’ve retired my teapot as well – turns out rice cookers can also just heat water by itself, and pyrex measuring cups are an effective scooper to pour over my mason-jar-pour-over setup.
Natural gas coffee method, retired.
All this brings me to the point: inventions are often a case of adding technically unnecessary requirements to life and creatively adapting. No natural gas stove use, rice cooker electric kettle. Gave away my coffee maker? Mason jar pour-overs. I’m not grinding my coffee with a mortar & pestle yet, because that would require having a mostly useless mortar & pestle around. Maybe I’ll chuck the grinder and slow cook the beans for three days, whole. Then I wouldn’t even have to drink the coffee, I would just get to breathe it in across the entire apartment. Caffeine inhalation dreams, either a band name or the name of a book of poetry I must write in a single morning (after putting espresso beans in the rice cooker).
Caffeine Inhalation Dreams (the title poem) Meditate deep Heavy breather Alight the steps Coffee fever Breach the clouds Icarus wingman Carry the shrouds Turin mortician Buddhist practice Leads to Voltairite highness Gradual focus Escalates anxious lioness Grapple fury Tends to apple drury Capital Yuri Map tall noori Rhymes back off As darkest fades Body goes soft Coffee breath trades
Roman Ryan 