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Biggest mystery haven't been solved yet: why coffee makers are still complicated?

• pbhjpbhj 8y ago
  Well you can have instant coffee, or an air-press, or ... addicts get a bigger hit when they establish a religious experience through ritualising their consumption. One of the difficult things about giving up cigarettes is giving up the paraphernalia, the sense of occasion, the ritualised actions that start the happy hormones as Pavlov's bell initiates salivation. Your hands themselves are almost separately addicted to the actions, unwrapping a packet, sliding out a cigarette, tamping the tobacco, wheeling the flint on the lighter; each action a stepping up of the anticipation of drug-satiation. Now, with coffee one can do the same: the steam and coffee-incense rise like the smoke from a thurible; beans clink, machines whirr, chrome shines in the bright halogen light of the kitchen. All subtle sensory inputs hailing the ever-closer hit of caffeine.