My morning coffee. It’s a ritual.
This, my 2026 AD AE Mother’s Day Edition.
At Christmas Santa brought me a new blue Nespresso Vertuo machine. I adore it but must admit every time I use the thing I feel a bit like the mom standing in the Peltzer Family Kitchen trying to work a new gadget nervously and a little bit unsure what’s going to happen. Which, of course, is part of why I am here writing this particular endorsement of their machine for producing fabulous coffee but a side note to those seeking a machine for decaffeinated coffee. This one’s not going to be your favorite if you like your coffee’s flavor to vary. Nespresso only makes one decaf pod for an American size cup of unleaded. I drink four cups of coffee made a day with their pods a day with Oatmilk, soy milk, coconut milk, skim milk, half and half… whatever. The pods cost at the point of price break for consumption adding cost of the machine over a year to account for cost of purchase stops adding up as Starbucks or local coffee shop decaf beverage delivery via Ubereats or Grubhub starts to sound whipped cream dreamy and more tempting.
I thought I could get by with a single cup Keurig machine to save counter space. I was incredibly wrong… and have resigned myself to the internal new label of Coffee Snob. Which — for the record as a bio ancestral Folgers and Maxwell — I shall forever find thusly contemporaneously amusing. The best part of waking up is petting puppies? I think that is the quote my quietly famous cousin Maxwell does know the Yards were Scouting.
At any rate, I digress. Pi curse, a blessing…
For Mother’s Day we replaced our old giant black cased but otherwise wonderful with a new contraption.
It arrived early because I couldn’t take it minus decent coffee. Thank you husband for noting my coffee vexation.
Process of arrival? Use driven analysis.
The old machine, gifted second hand to a friend and her family Keurig (KDP) — happy I had it to gift but so miss it! But my poor husband who drinks coffee basically by the gallon… he was so stoic but clearly equally (arguably more) vexed by the additional time swallowed by the smaller coffee maker used to process Keurig cartridges during Prep.
A hero was necessary to convince me it was okay to buy a different unit that was fit for our needs and lifestyle. Once I did my product research, I texted him this photo with a Bink Bink attached to it.
[If I don’t say Bink Bink I can like anything I WANT ENTHUSIASTICALLY without my love interest fearing that he needs to buy it. A Bink Bink was indicated with the photo sent — and voilá he ordered the gift requested for my mom’s day reminder.]
The outcome?
After deciding that my single serve Keurig travel machine just was not working well enough at home to be our daily coffee prep machine, we bought a Ninja.
Reread that all you PBS Scholars.
Epic foreshadowing.
Long story short… it’s sitting in its box.
IT is.
It, however, is on my kitchen counter sitting in it’s box no matter where one puts the apostrophe per Marx.
Ideal coffee Organic Unflavored Oat Milk + Half N Half + Hershey’s Carmel Syrup or Hershey’s Chocolate Syrup or Agave.
Ask Aunt Sally.
Will likely post again on Mother’s Day with a thank you to my husband and to Ninja.
By the way, we have the fancy Ninja Air Fryer with the double oven and the foldy top door feature and we love it. We bought your new coffee making contraption to make hot coffee using fresh ground coffee beans, a variety of decaf Keurig flavors (morose Guy Fieri stop making Unleaded decaf Keurig coffee pods noting it was the best decaffeinated coffee on the market), and because I like to live dangerously*.
Translation * = it says it has a milk frother.
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