For all those cof­fee addicts out there, there is no worse feel­ing than break­ing your cof­fee pot and being unable to have that cru­cial early morn­ing cup. Non-coffee drinkers may see that as an exag­ger­a­tion, but hon­estly, if one of them had to deal with me first thing with­out a cup of cof­fee, they would be run­ning out them­selves to buy me a new pot! I can cope with break­ing my hairdryer, for that mat­ter I can get into work with­out a shower if absolutely nec­es­sary, but deprive me of my cof­fee and you might just find me in tears on the kitchen floor.

A few years ago it was sur­pris­ingly tricky to find a replace­ment cof­fee pot. I tried it once and was aston­ished at how few of the major stores actu­ally kept them in stock even though they sold com­plete cof­fee mak­ers. I finally tracked down my prize in the sixth shop I tried, an out of the way fam­ily run store, kind of a last resort but evi­dently the place I should have started my search. Luck­ily my boss accepted my excuse that the car had bro­ken down on the way to the office. Even with my known cof­fee addic­tion I didn’t think a cof­fee pot hunt jus­ti­fied turn­ing up to work at nearly lunchtime.

At the time there was no inter­net, or at least I hadn’t heard of it, never mind bought a com­puter to access it. Now search­ing for your replace­ment cof­fee pot is a much eas­ier exer­cise as you can pur­chase one directly from the sup­plier of your cof­fee machine, or another rep­utable website.

There are just a few things to bear in mind. Firstly your pot will take some time to arrive, so pre­pare a con­tin­gency plan for that period; there really are some good instant vari­eties out there you know.

Sec­ondly, cof­fee pots have a nasty habit of get­ting bro­ken dur­ing ship­ping if they are not prop­erly packed, so do make sure you get it from the sup­plier, or pre­pare for a dis­ap­point­ment when you open the pack­age and can’t get a refund.

Thirdly be sure that the pot you order is exactly the right one for your cof­fee machine, par­tic­u­larly if you have spe­cific func­tions such as a pause fea­ture. If your orig­i­nal pot is dis­con­tin­ued ask the advice of your sup­plier, and if you pur­chase a slightly dif­fer­ent pot make sure you super­vise the first brew to make sure there are no problems.

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